Albo is actually working class though, whereas Kevvo failed miserably at trying to talk like a bogan.

What’s the over/under on how long a Baneblade tank would survive on a modern battlefield?

Odd question someone might be able to help me with: Does the Soyuz capsule have a whipple shield, and if hypothetically it was shot at, say in a museum, would it stop a bullet?

I love the smell of unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine in the morning

I thought for a second that the ESA's budget was now higher than that of NASA, until I realised it was a three-year budget. Still, a very welcome move for European space sovereignty. www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

I can't be the only one who grew up thinking that Tiramisu was a Japanese dish, can I? (In my defence, I was raised in Queensland, which is beyond the event horizon of sophisticated culture)

With the ceasefire in Gaza fraying, I did a quick and dirty land cover classification of the area, showing the areas of complete devastation and refugee tent camps.

If European leaders accept this deal, rather than make a counteroffer to Zelensky in the event that the US pulls support, they also need to be honest to their publics that the next war will be fought within EU borders.

Looks to be a serious fire at the COP30 climate conference. If this was a movie, critics would decry the metaphor as too on-the-nose.

I'm getting better with the frost effects

I'll give you a hint. This is in France. Which should narrow the search down to *checks notes* all continents on Earth.

Geolocation Challenge (Nightmare Difficulty): Where on Earth is this dam? If you can find it, I will be legit impressed.

One of my favourite dinner party stories is the fact that there is a random temple in Southern India with at least $22bn in gold and precious gems chilling in its vaults. It's technically owned by the state, but no one will touch it because of local superstitions. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

This is really cool - someone made a historically accurate interactive 3D map of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan. retratodetenochtitlan.mx

Map of radio frequency interference mapped from space (via SMAP) overlaid with GPSJAM data.

Had a lot of feedback that it was hard to keep track of all the characters and groups in my novel, so I finally got around to adding a glossary. Also, formalised the grammar of the devolved pseudo-Slavic spoken in the setting.

Looks like he has officially killed more people than Von Braun.

Nothing like making retroactive edits to retroactive edits in a fictional editorial, that make it look like someone isn't editing anything at all. This metafiction will be the death of me.

A new Bellingcat investigation geolocates the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Darfur. More than eighty bodies were found beside destroyed vehicles along an earthen berm built around the city. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

If you know, you know.

Honestly can't think of a more confusingly named feature on Earth aside from Lake Vostok. Vostok (восток) just means 'east' in Russian. East of what, tovarish? East of what???

The EU needs to treat the United States of America as a hostile enemy in the same way it treats Russia.

Both are genocide. Next question?

The Sentinel-2C satellite managed to capture an amazing image looking right down the eye of Hurricane Melissa just before it made landfall earlier today:

Hurricane Melissa could now easily come to be the strongest landfalling Atlantic Hurricane in history. A potent reminder that the climate crisis doesn't care about our feckless politicians' attempts to pretend it doesn't exist.

To be fair, there is a very strong argument that can be made that military classification delayed the acceptance of Plate Tectonics by several decades.

Hurricane Melissa has now reached Cat 5, and rainfall exceeding 1000mm is expected in some areas of Jamaica. This will be truly catastrophic. I hope the US military assets in the region are prepared to render assistance - they'll absolutely need it.

Would dressing as the 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 on Ash Tree Lane be too niche a costume for Halloween?

First the Congo, then the Blood Diamonds, and now this blatant greed at the expense of others.

Looks to be a pretty dire situation that will unfold in Jamaica and around its capital, Kingston, over the next 48 hours. In a near-worst-case scenario, the area will take a direct hit from a Category 5 hurricane and experience over half a metre of rainfall.

If any of my followers know more about how Dead Hand/«Периметр» works, can you let me know if this excerpt from my novel describes it correctly?

And like clockwork, 24 hours later the US announces it is deploying the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the area. They are absolutely going in.

This hurricane is probably one of the few things stopping the US from attempting to topple Maduro right now.

The way they spell 'Ai' with a lower case 'i' makes me immediately assume this Saab Gripen jet is powered by love (爱/Ài)

ARPA: By creating a dense network with decentralised nodes, we can make a resilient communications system. AWS: What if we used that same system to centralise all the nodes?

Made some logos for some of the fictional government departments as well, because, why not?

I really should spend less time creating in-universe maps for the sci-fi novel I'm working on and more time finishing writing it, but I digress...

I really should spend less time creating in-universe maps for the sci-fi novel I'm working on and more time finishing writing it, but I digress...

Some images from today’s outing on Ilha das Flores.

Paid a visit to the westernmost point of Europe* today. So far west it's actually geologically in North America. *Yes, I am aware of French Guyana/St Pierre and Miquelon.

Managed to find Saturn 🪐 on my first attempt at amateur astronomy. Had no idea you’d be able to see the rings - thought it would just be a point of light.

Managed to make my dependency network structures for my critical infrastructure model look pretty a e s t h e t i c.

The Russian Orthodox Church had to issue a ban on priests blessing WMDs. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02...

Looks like the FIRMS satellite fire detection system is offline due to the US government shutdown. Just one more reminder that anyone involved in OSINT or disaster response cannot rely on US space-based assets in any critical role, given the current state of the governing regime in the country.

Had a great time at Geomob Berlin last night, and it's reassuring to hear that a fair few people think what I'm working on is important. anthropoceneanalytics.eu

My personal favourite from the genre.

Who decided to call it “Fiat Currency” and not “Manifested Money”?

Tomorrow evening, I'm going to be giving a talk at Geomob Berlin about my 'Anthropocene Analytics' project, where I am building interdependent network models of critical infrastructure to assess risk from climate disasters. If you're in Berlin, feel free to stop by! thegeomob.com/post/sept-25...

This map that appeared in the Guardian today implies that either France or Portugal have annexed the Falkland Islands.

Absolutely bizarre that Al-Sharaa has, in less than a year, transitioned from Jihadi leader to Francis Fukuyama's strongest soldier. Just shows that within every Islamist is a Davos-pilled neoliberal waiting for his moment to shine.