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..and the right hand's a lot bigger!

Don't lock up. Tell the locals you aren't locking up.
Lions eat tonight's thieves; security problem solved!

46N, very bright Aurora here all night, right across the sky in a wide band from east to west. Almost all white, with very faint hints of colour on the edges of the flickery bits. The wavy bits were only distinguishable almost directly overhead, and the rest was a solid sheet of white. There didn't ...

It's a Greenland keyboard, which automatically triples 'Q's,'I's,'K's and 'U's

Easy way to speak Greenland, swear like a Glaswegian whilst drinking a pint of 80/- at the same time.

What's the First Rule? - No Headwinds!

They are going to have to go a long way up the west coast of Greenland to find a 300 mile crossing - Sisimiut-Qikiqtarjuaq?

Thanks for the heads-up. Skies are clear to the north right now, so I shall have a look. I'm further south than the others.

If he fell asleep and had a throttle failure, then that would explain the final path.
In any event, I think it shows a significant manpower shortage in Russia.

Updates. St Petersburg Police say at least 5 dead now in the bus ditching. Vovchansk has been hit, reportedly by a glide bomb. Video of aftermath https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1788918485630001489 Looks like they've taken out a chemists, a cafe, and another shop. Looks like some damage to the a...

Russian nukes in Belarus. The NYT, from MAXAR satellite imagery, reckons they have located the storage depot https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112418007900740918 But FAS already found it 2 months ago https://fas.org/publication/depot-in-belarus-shows-new-upgrades-possibly-for-russian-nuclear-warhead...

Bird Flu - says man from the FDA claiming to be a diseased bird expert. Looks more like a shift manager from KFC....so probably is said expert. Must see hundreds every day!

I've seen better dives from Christiano Ronaldo.

..of himself, via vodka, by the looks of it.

To continue like that must have been full throttle - whether that's the driver or a stuck/broken throttle is a question, but if the driver was compos mentis I would have expected the use of the other vehicles and the railings to stop the bus.

Well, this lot liked it!

A Just Stop Oil spokesman said: “Clause 39 of the Magna Carta is one of four clauses still enshrined in UK common law, a so-called ‘golden passage’ that states: ‘No free man is to be arrested, or imprisoned, or in any other way ruined, except by the lawful judgement (sic) of his peers or by the law...

Speak of the Devil, the RVC are at the border right now.. https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112416597980510662 Unclear where though.. First pics of Russian armour destroyed across the Ukrainian border, by about 3 klicks. https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112416352968730190 Claimed to be here. I can'...

It's nuisance actions. The Russians don't have the troops to occupy any meaningful area of Ukraine near Kharkiv, nevermind the impossibility of shifting significant troops and armour there covertly. Indeed, Zelenskyi has just made a statement confirming they were well aware of Russian preparations. ...

Canada's Navy is in a worse state, and it still recruits directly, so Crapita on its own is not the major part of the problem (although it isn't achieving anything at great expense). https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-navy-doesnt-just-have-a-recruitment-crisis-it-also-has-a/ I d...

My classic was having the Weapons (including nuclear) Employment Course, NBC Instructor, and a Physics degree, and I'd done some work at Harwell, but still having to do the one day school radiation source supervisor course. Utter waste of everyone's time. But that's box-ticking (or not) for you! ..a...

Cold layer just below the surface this time of year, I would have thought.

Now over to our reporter in Senegal, Anna Nutherwun.



Looks like an aborted takeoff and overrun. No deaths, 11 injuries, 4 serious including one pilot.