Happy launch anniversary to ESA's Hera mission! 🎂🥳 One year ago ESA's first planetary defence mission was stranded on Earth, its launcher grounded, as a hurricane closed in on its launch site. What a difference a year makes! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

It’s that time of year again. #WestAuckland #Duck #Duckling #Rescue

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This #Nestville single barrel is pretty decent. First time trying out a #whisky from #Slovakia. Stopped by their distillery on our road trip back in August.

An Atlas Air Boeing 747-443 (N482MC/MSN 32340) as CMB530 from 57th Air Base, Constanța, Romania to Ämari Air Base, Estonia. #AvGeek #EasternSentry #WeAreNATO

#Białystok #Poland #RoadTrip

Not a bad view to wake up to. #KúpelePieniny #Smerdžonka #ČervenýKláštor #Slovakia

Happy Independence Day, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Ukraine will defeat the terrorists and emerge victorious. Our history will never be rewritten, our identity cannot be erased, and Ukraine will never bow to tyrants. Слава Україні 💙💛

Zamek Pieskowa Skała #Poland #RoadTrip #castle

#EspressoMacchiato The National Museum in #Kielce (Muzeum Narodowe w Kielcach)

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz called the recent incident involving a Russian drone crashing on Polish soil “another Russian provocation.”

LAUNCH and FAILURE of Gilmour Space Eris flight 1 from Bowen Spaceport, Australia at about 2235 UTC Jul 29. Rocket ascended about 50 metres while maintaining vertical attitude but translating sideways, and impacted near pad after a 20 second flight. Image from Aussienaut youtube coverage.

Still somewhat bummed by yesterday's announcement of the cancellation/postponement of the Baltic International Airshow in #Rīga. We'll still drive down to #Latvia for the weekend, but will need to find another family friendly main event to attend. #AvGeek #airshow #Riga

Just 1️⃣ day to go until our project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski is set to launch aboard #Ax4!🚀 🎧 While you wait, explore his journey to space in two @esa.int Explores podcast episodes: 🎙️ When it all began: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vzgp3-... 🎙️ Ready for launch: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2hmqv-...

We’re all tuned in to see if ispace manage to land on the Moon tonight right? Here’s wishing for soft landings! www.youtube.com/live/BVSMXQP...

One hour to go for #Hakuto-R Mission 2. www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/06/haku...

Oh no! will he, uh... bomb us or something?

"Data from the European Union's statistics agency, #Eurostat, shows #Estonia had the highest inflation rate in the Euro area last month." 😐 news.err.ee/1609712163/c...

There are slight variations depending on upgrades/repairs but the lineup this morning was Tu-22M 60x Tu-95 60x Tu-142 22x Tu-160 16x We have visual destruction of 8. We haven't seen any close up video from 3 bases. So 20-30 is very realistic. 40-50 would be optimistic but feasible

Unless these decisions are reversed, this will be remembered as a disastrous week for @NASA. First, I am not optimistic that whomever this administration nominates next for NASA Administrator will be nearly as qualified or enthusiastic about the agency’s mission as Jared. 1/

#Hooandja www.hooandja.ee/projekt/b1-k...

This year's Hedgehog Hike sure was the longest on record and also had the most challenging weather with a steady drizzle interrupted by actual rain. #outdoors #hiking #Põlvamaa

"Finland is interested in hosting the base and has offered the use of its air force airfields to Nato. Pirkkala is thought to be the most suitable site for this purpose. Norway and Poland are also reportedly interested. Construction would be a large and expensive project." yle.fi/a/74-20163632

Katya is Ukraine’s only female helicopter pilot. Her blond hair, she says, isn’t the story Katya has flown more than 30 combat missions since September 2024. Not one was about how she looked. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/18/k...

news.err.ee/1609697907/r... #Estonia #ruzzia #shipping

Quote post with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe.

This makes me livid. My son is alive today and will turn 10 years old tomorrow because of this type of research. Trump, Musk and DOGE are beyond evil and grotesque.

Narva Museum, which is an Estonian museum located in Narva and which ia located directly opposite Russia has put out today this banner towards Russian border

The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University. This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.

"Onnettomuudessa tuhoutui lentoasemainfrastruktuurin kuuluva Rovaniemen VOR/DME-radionavigointimajakka." #Ilmailu #Ilmavoimat #Hornet #Rovaniemi www.lentoposti.fi/uutiset/esit...

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce an Estonian lawyer, social activist, politician, and useful idiot for the Kremlin, Varro Vooglaid. He’s best-known for promoting pro-Kremlin viewpoints under the guise of “traditional family values.” 1/20

In 2011, Varro established the Foundation for the Protection of Family and Tradition (SAPTK), with an ideology allegedly “based on Christian teaching,” basically opposing Estonian progressive legislation (“Kooseluseadus”) which allowed same sex marriage. 4/20

#estonia #photography #kingfisher

Two years ago, #OnThisDay, I fulfilled a serious #BucketList item of mine by renting a 1970 Alfa Romeo 1750 Spider Veloce for a day and driving around the #Sorrento peninsula and the #Amalfi coast together with A.

Once the rain stopped, I went for a little trundle in "my backyard*". * #Astangu mets

There's a wide range of variation in the quality of the bridges in Harku mets. Besides birds, I also saw lots of butterflies along the trail.

This little #hike of mine has turned into a two-stopper. Not that I mind in the slightest 🤠

#Coffee sure tastes (even) better #outdoors 🥾☕🌲

Progress in #Lithuania. Not quite #MarriageEquality just yet, but nudging in the right direction. www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

In light of MITRE’s CVE database news, ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, has gone live with its own European Vulnerability Database. Though it is currently in beta phase. euvd.enisa.europa.eu #cybersecurity

~11 months of lifeline for CVE at MITRE, but nothing is known about what happens after that. Likely it would require a lot more than the $57+ million USD yearly to run CVE privately (outside of the access to skilled professionals at the public sector organisations). therecord.media/cisa-extends...

Dear world, Finland has voted in the local elections and the far-right populist party is losing seats everywhere. Half of the votes have been counted so far, and after too many years of dark times, HOPE for more humane politics has returned. ❤️

Q3 results: 1. Piastri 2. Russell 3. Leclerc 4. Antonelli 5. Gasly 6. Norris 7. Verstappen 8. Sainz 9. Hamilton 10. Tsunoda #F1 #Qualifying #BahrainGP

Out after Q2: 11. Doohan 12. Hadjar 13. Hülkenberg 14. Alonso 15. Ocon #F1 #Qualifying #BahrainGP

That onboard replay showed that Ocon scrubbed off a lot of speed while spinning out. The initial shot of the car, with the rear wing missing, suggested a much more violent contact with the wall. #F1 #Qualifying #BahrainGP

Out after Q1: 16. Albon 17. Lawson 18. Bortoleto 19. Stroll 20. Bearman #F1 #Qualifying #BahrainGP

To say that this proposal would be a colossal blunder would be quite an understatement. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Not quite a #blizzard here in #Tallinn either. A fair amount of sideways sleet, however. This concludes my #travel and #weather reporting for the day. Good night!

Alas, not even the slightest whiff of any #blizzard while I was in #Helsinki today. Tallink's MyStar just left port and the #weather front appears to still be about an hour away.