🚨 BREAKING: Russia launched a massive overnight drone and missile strike on Ukraine. Explosions rocked Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, and cities across Ukraine. Parts of Lviv and Zaporizhzhia lost power, while Poland scrambled jets.

Pretty close and you can smell the smoke! 🔥 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Red-faced, outdated, and (once primed) designed to explode on the slightest shock, this thing here is a Gammon. I hope it's survived hearing about the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin continued to threaten Europe as part of a multi-pronged informational effort to deter the West from responding to hostile Russian actions. Read the October 2, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UKrWar100225 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️ (1/5)

Have you heard offshore windfarms kill whales? (They don’t.) Or that electric vehicles catch fire more often than petrol cars? (It’s the opposite.) Perhaps you’ve heard “natural” gas is clean? (It can be worse than coal.) theconversation.com/pr-firms-are...

Southern and Central Queensland local government areas that are now under total fire ban (toban). The area is larger than Tasmania, over 68,401 km2. About 30 fires currently with temperature & wind to increase. Take care, more info at the link. #qldpol www.fire.qld.gov.au/safety-educa...

Pretty grim stuff, but not surprising... specifically designed to target civilians!

⚡️Ukraine has cleared over 1 million explosive devices since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

ISW is seeking motivated & experienced students or recent grads committed to ISW's core mission to join our spring 2026 intern cohort. ISW offers internships in Russia, China, Middle East, & cognitive warfare research; geospatial intelligence; & communications. Apply here: understandingwar.org...

Don’t do this. There’s a lot of ways this can go badly wrong

Perfect!

Junkie Jesus Freeloading Heroin is the weirdest Christian propaganda ever.

I have successfully soaked my fruit in lots of alcohol (not a euphemism)...in prep for my Caribbean Xmas cake! 🙌🍪

On a similar topic, a reminder that James Blunt (yes, that one) and General Sir Mike Jackson (using creative politics and a bottle of whisky) completely fouled up direct orders to be stupid in Kosovo. It can be done!

🔴 Russian forces conducted a massive attack against Ukraine, primarily targeting Kyiv. Preliminary estimates suggest at least 500 drones were deployed, as well as at least 50 missiles.

🐕 We are excited that FSD’s #MineDetectionDogs have officially started their work in the field in #Ukraine! Trained for months, these skilled #workingdogs together with their handlers are now supporting our teams to detect #explosives and make land #safe again. Supported by 🇨🇭 @swissfa.bsky.social

Ahead of #WorldTourismDay on September 27, discover MAG's Visitor Centres in #Laos and the teams ready to welcome you! #WTD2025 Learn more: buff.ly/iiEbEmD www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZi7...

NEW: Gasoline shortages continue in Russia and occupied Ukraine due to repeated Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. 🧵(1/4) Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 27, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar092725

Call of Duty: Black Ops ICE, coming soon.

Deffo getting warmer here in the Brisbane area! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

A really cold breeze up on Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise. The sun it rising behind me. Gloves weather soon but not coat time just yet 🥶😂

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Our new and improved Bellingcat Toolkit is one-year-old today! If you haven't used it yet its a one-stop shop for discovering useful open source tools, maintained by an amazing group of volunteers. You can find use cases, guidance and honest reviews for each tool. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Ahead of the AFL grand final, national violence prevention organisation Our Watch is calling for the sporting community to address the increased risk of violence facing women during football finals.

This is what a newly launched batch of Starlink satellites looks like on our #MeteorCameras. All night stacked images are from 21 Sept '25, Oxfordshire, UK. Behind the crud the cameras captured 127 & 160 meteors respectively. Fortunately RMS software is good at filtering out junk

Went out tonight to see the Rapture... Yeah, nah...not much going on really! 🙄

Mine action saves lives & enables progress towards #2030Agenda. From food security to climate resilience, clearing explosive ordnance unlocks land, livelihoods & peace across #SDGs. See how it transforms communities in #Angola #Cambodia #Colombia & more🌍 link.gichd.org/MA2030Insights

The Australian Media and Communications Authority has begun its investigation into an Optus triple-0 outage that has been potentially linked to four deaths.

Time for some laughs... youtu.be/rREgXJw1AsM?...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Roblox is selling extremist content to children: neo-Nazi shirts, ICE uniforms, and far-right party merch—all purchasable with real money and accessible to users under 13. Millions of kids are exposed to hate and radicalization every day.

It was embarrassing, from the few shots I saw, made me feel physically ill. Not that I have any time for the British royals, a seedier, more narcissistic inbred clan you'll never find, but it's why I am *desperate* for us to get out of #AUKUS - I want no part of either of them. #auspol

System Of A Down - Spiders. youtu.be/SqZNMvIEHhs?...

Linkin Park - Crawling... open.spotify.com/track/0w4ZwK...

Trajectory of Russian missiles and drones during the overnight attack. Main focus of the attack was Dnipro, Zaporizhzia, Mykolaiv, Odesa and front line positions.

NEW: Russian MiG-31 interceptor jets violated Estonian airspace on September 19. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 19, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar091925 Other Key Takeaways: ⬇️ 🧵(1/7)

Use Signal! english.elpais.com/technology/2...

NEW | The Russian military command continues to signal its commitment to Russian President Vladimir Putin's theory of victory that posits that Russia can win a war of attrition against Ukraine. Read more from CTP and @thestudyofwar.bsky.social www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Some great stuff here to enjoy...

Worth a watch when it comes out...and for anybody who's thinking of a career change in becoming a deminer! 👌

Ukrainian reconnaissance unit “Tur” of the 225th Assault Regiment claims to have found detonators at a Russian ammo depot, marked with Nazi swastikas. They date back to Soviet-Nazi cooperation of 1939–40, when the USSR imported German military tech.

Mandelson Crisis Starmer Acts! The new Private Eye is out now.

I use Signal, and it's far the best one out there, so this is worrying.

✨ Photo Exhibition “Women in Demining” ✨ We are pleased to introduce our female colleagues showcased in the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Kyiv. 🌱 Valeriia Osyka – FSD #Deminer. Once a university lecturer in #safety engineering, she now clears mines in Kharkiv, #Ukraine.

2025 Cluster Munition Monitor is out now 📣 Civilians – especially children – continue to suffer the deadly legacy of cluster munitions. Every single recorded casualty in 2024 was a civilian. Read the report: buff.ly/jBvHE3I ⬇️ See the key findings @banclusterbombs.bsky.social

It is here. McCarthyism 2.0. Wrongthink now gets you on a list that is openly trying to liaison with the government (which has already said it will be doing similar work in the weeks to come). The list referenced below now exceeds 100,000 people. People on the list are already getting death threats.

Bloody brilliant...😅