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The whole article is very worth it.

Musk may have read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, but he missed two crucial things: 1. a Mars colony is only viable in the long term if you can terraform Mars (even if only partially), and 2. KSR vastly compressed the timescale of that terraforming to make the trilogy readable.

We're in an age when the mightiest of machines can be laid low by a cheap drone. If it comes to war, Musk will have a hard time getting those spaceships off the ground.

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Happy Juneteenth to all who celebrate it!

The hard-working Red-tailed Hawk single mom who recently fledged two chicks on her own, flying high over Central Park South with sunny wings as she watches over her nearby youngsters.

"All You Fascists Bound to Lose" performed by the Piedmont Raging Grannies. Rock on! 🤘🤘🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARPs...

Burnham wins Makerfield. All else aside, I can't see how this deposit-losing result is anything but utterly humiliating for the Conservatives.

An excellent piece: a clear explanation of a shocking mess. Some pretty malicious people have pushed us here, but it’s the cowardice and incompetence of politicians and the EHRC that have really stuffed it up. This is unworkable, undignified, and unnecessary. We should just cancel the whole thing.

Just fyi, Private Eye has this story in its current edition, published last week

In case you missed it, the England fans at the world cup are enthusiastically chanting: "He's fat, with piles He's in the Epstein files Trump the Cuunt Trump the Cuuuuuntt!!!" I want to know how the pearl-clutching republican senators are going to handle it if they win.

Accurate.

9. It wouldn’t be awful to tell X, Meta, Google & company to tidy their damn room. ”Move fast and break things” is bullshit, and a government that visibly quails at enforcing existing law on large companies - let alone creating new law to regulate new situations - is sending a message that sucks.

Australian World Cup fans: “Aussie boys are on a bender – Donald Trump is a sex offender” Friday should be fun 🇦🇺 vs 🇺🇸

Wrong by 700 years "At the time that the Book of Kells was made domestic cats were a high-status possession ... a cat was worth three cows if able to purr and keep its owner’s house, grain store and kiln free of mice, but only half that if was just good at purring."

I'm not going to repeat what he said, but UFC fighter Hokit is a despicable piece of shit. The sponsors, Monster energy drink, Bud Lite, Dodge Ram, and Jose Cuervo have not said a word. I say boycott them.

The EHRC trans code explained: What it does, how it works and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...

Valentina Tereshova was the first woman in space in 1963, but the space bros have never stopped giving her a hard time. In this post I analyse the misogyny and double standards which persist to this day. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM #ValentinasDay

Even more disturbing is what happened at Woolwich Crown Court last week, where the Crown prosecutors chose not to try Palestine Action protesters as terrorists, as the jury would be unlikely to convict. They were convicted as ordinary criminals. But then the judge *sentenced* them as terrorists.

Saul Goodman on America's 250th (No. It's no AI) www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

Trans Pride Notts 2026! Join us throughout the day for events to celebrate the day. We will be kicking off the day with a Protest at Sneinton Market at 11am. Then join us for protest speeches at 12 in Nottingham's Old Market Square

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

I'm becoming convinced that, like Haggis, golf is a joke by the Scots that got way out of hand.

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NIGEL FARAGE - AN APOLOGY. thecritic.co.uk/once...

During a ballet performance of “Romeo and Juliet” in Izmir, Turkey, a cat unexpectedly joined the actors in the final scene of the show and completely stole the show with its antics.

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But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

Polanski accused the Telegraph of misrepresenting his remarks and crossing the line from spin into outright fabrication.

Scientists with their cats:* Edwin Hubble Rachel Carson George Gamow Joy Adamson *Schrödinger had a collie, not a cat! #Science #Cats #ScienceSky

A reminder: Strange Horizons has no external funding, and runs entirely on community funding, through the fund-drive. Quite literally, our future is in your hands. We hope to be with you for our 27th year. Support us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

A since-deleted tweet by UFC commentator Daniel Cormier, showing DM's he recieved from Eric Trump in which Eric asks about insider info on the UFC Freedom 250 fights and alludes to doing insider trading betting

We don't half know how to crack down on protests when it suits us

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

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Apropos of nothing in particular... 1 thousand seconds is about 17 minutes; 1 million seconds is about 29 days; 1 billion seconds is about 79 years; 1 TRILLION seconds is a little less than 80,000 years.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

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EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LOOK AT BREAD ROLL

www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve... Friends once again stating Facts and standing up for what is right. "That which is morally wrong cannot be politically right" - Quakers, 1822 #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️

let it sink in: AI is ruining cats on the internet. is God dead?

NION Women are proud to support this essential video campaign #SomeoneIKnew, in which survivors speak up for trans+ inclusion and against the EHRC Code of Practice. Trigger Warning for the video: narratives of abuse and SA — please watch with care

Apropos of nothing in particular... 1 thousand seconds is about 17 minutes; 1 million seconds is about 29 days; 1 billion seconds is about 79 years; 1 TRILLION seconds is a little less than 80,000 years.

As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant. I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

If your main concern is not upsetting a single South African billionaire rather than the safety and security of the country you're supposed to lead, then you're unfit for the job. Shameful weakness

Friendless knob-jockey realises his entire 'career' has been a failure