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When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton (Narrator) (2025) is a science fiction what-if story that asks what would happen if the moon suddenly turned to cheese — excuse me, an organic matrix that resembles cheese. Like the classic disaster novels of the 1970s this one plays out over a month and from multiple perspectives.

pussreboots.com/blog/2025/comm…

@bookstodon

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Naval gazing

Australia must respond with clarity to China’s growing naval capabilities and take control of the region’s strategic future in partnership with its allies, lest it cede the seas to a hostile foreign power intent on asserting dominance. #Defence

openforum.com.au/naval-gazing/


in reply to AI6YR Ben

"They’re reselling for hundreds of dollars or more."

I have to think that a lot of these are asking prices, or at best, "winning bids" that are never delivered.

It would shake my belief in humanity, to have people actually paying so much.

in reply to John Socks

I just looked up the bag I have and the asking price is 19 dollars, so I agree with your assessment.


Tornado Trump

Trump seems determined to take the “Hugo Chavez” option in wrecking a national economy through ideological zeal while holding on to power through a combination of repression and targeted patronage for loyalists. #Trump

openforum.com.au/tornado-trump…


in reply to how to do anything

closing a business deal is a good antidote to owning a broken object


CampEasy and the Joy of Saying “Yes, And” to Iceland byteseu.com/925588/ #Iceland


Someone flew a drone over this whistleblower's house and left a threat letter with photos on his door.
npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-53558…



Depot After Dark: Keisel Going To Ireland, Chubb Working Out, Tomlins With Caitlin Clark And Serena Williams byteseu.com/925586/ #BrettKeisel #CaitlinClark #CLEVELANDBROWNS #DepotAfterDark #Ireland #KiyaTomlin #MikeTomlin #NickChubb #PittsburghSteelers #SerenaWilliams



DOGE sought to assign a team to an independent nonprofit group (Perry Stein/Washington Post)

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memeorandum.com/250415/p151#a2…




Animal poaching

A policeman holds a water bottle with a yellow-crested cockatoo put inside for illegal trade, at the customs office of Tanjung Perak port in Surabaya, East Java province, #Indonesia, May 4, 2015. Police arrested one man traveling by ship from Makassar, Sulawesi with 22 of the endangered cockatoos held inside water bottles. REUTERS/Antara Foto/Risyal Hidayat

@photography
#AnimalPoaching
#birds
#cockatoos

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in reply to earthling

A three-month old white-cheeked gibbon looks from inside a cage. Thai police arrested a UAE citizen as he was preparing to fly first class from Bangkok to Dubai with various rare and endangered animals in his suitcases, which included four leopards, one Malayan sun bear, one white-cheeked gibbon, one black-tufted marmoset, an Asiatic black bear and two macaque monkeys. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

#AnimalPoaching
#AnimalRescue
#Thailand
#gibbon

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A serpent eagle sits inside its cage at Manila's police district August 18, 2011. Police seized 69 mynah, 17 assorted turtles and a serpent eagle from illegal traders and turned them over to the Manila zoo, according to authorities. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo

#AnimalPoaching
#AnimalRescue
#birds
#eagle

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Latvia to equip over 500 bomb shelters using EU funding / Article byteseu.com/925578/ #Latvia


Umm, no.

DOGE reps told leaders of a [nongovernmental] #nonprofit group Tues that it wants to assign members of its team to work at all institutes or agencies that receive federal funds….

A 20-min phone call involved 2 members of DOGE & attorneys for the Vera Institute of Justice, w/DOGE reps revealing plans to potentially attach its team members to more organizations & institutes that receive govt funding….

#law #Trump #ElonMusk #Dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
washingtonpost.com/national-se…

in reply to Nonilex

Aren't these basically just soviet style political commissars?


Remains of Joliet soldier Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., who died in Lithuania, return home; flags at half-staff in Illinois byteseu.com/925576/ #16181554 #Lithuania


🤦🏻 White Americans in areas with higher Black poverty more likely to attribute racial disparities to lack of effort: Study

phys.org/news/2025-04-white-am…

#racism #culture #inequality #black #survey #publicopinion #socialscience #politics



Je viens de remettre la main sur une relique...
Qui se rappelle de Super Bug ? série allemande toute pourrie en 12 épisodes de Rudolf Zehetgruber, parue sur Antenne 2 vers 1980. J'avais 5 ou 6 ans, et je me rappellais encore du générique, de la coccinelles qui sait tout faire, et du doublage des 2 cascadeurs par les voix exceptionnelles de Jacques Balutin et Gérard Hernández (toujours vivants !)
Mon petit de 7 ans adore 😂
in reply to Richard ☠️ Monvoisin

Diantre ça réveille des souvenirs Oo

Le générique m'est revenu aux premières notes aussi.

youtube.com/watch?v=dWdGAO-7gS…



I made a dragon pot for @zmeyche
The body and the lid are wheel thrown. All the other details are sculpted by hand. I fired the dragon in my wood kiln at 1250°C.
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#dragon #handmade #pottery #sculpture #stoneware #ceramics