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🇫🇷/🇺🇸 in Toulouse, FR Nerdisms are: Aerospace, science, gamer (Destiny PVE/solo), history, and I like my science-fiction with more science than fiction 🤓 Athiest 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺😽 Massive consumer of scifi short stories and good journalism.
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Sometimes you don't need a family office. You need a FAMILY office ... www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

HOLY SHIT. You need to read this in its entirety. Way too much to even begin to summarize but it's really, REALLY bad. It's just one agency, NLRB, but it's likely happening at others. We are under attack, seemingly from the inside. What's happening here should put folks in prison

Artist Marharyta Polovinko could have spent her life creating art that challenged, provoked, and illuminated viewers. On April 5, at just 31, she was killed in the Kharkiv direction of the front.

#ROSETTA INTERNATIONAL MISSION COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO Date 05 sep 2014 Distance to Target 43.1 km OSINAC 2x Ir Orange Green filters rosetta-osiris.eu/image/NAC_20... ESA/Rosetta/OSIRIS/j. Roger 🔭

Thanks to entanglement, the outcome of a joint measurement on multiple systems can be replicated even if the systems are far apart. This “localization” requires sharing some extra entanglement beforehand. Now researchers have determined how much of this shared entanglement is needed.

Best thread I’ve seen all day 🤓

Combattants chinois capturés en Ukraine : Pékin met en garde contre toute « manipulation » 🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/CBw

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

the President firing the two Democratic FTC officials was like a forty second news cycle

Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. "The text was a transcript of the conversation she'd just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend's place."

💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

*Heffers, the venerable Cambridge bookshop is selling greetings cards, of which this one is going to be at the top of my sending list.

How a penguin caused helicopter crash in South Africa

Aviation “experts” are really out in force this weekend. Just wait for the damn Preliminary Report, please. We know practically nothing about the Hudson River crash. We need the Preliminary Report and it will take a few weeks. This is how investigations work.

Race to save British Steel factory after Chinese firm’s ‘sabotage’ Dozens of businesses have rallied to help British Steel with offers of managerial support and raw materials Fk China, this should be a lesson to all governments... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

"Uh, Houston, we've had a problem." #OTD in 1970, Jim Lovell reported that Apollo 13 was experiencing a loss of operating voltage after a "pretty large bang." Overcoming their precarious situation, the crew safely splashed down on April 17 and were recovered by USS Iwo Jima.

14th April 1944: The Bombay Explosion. In the harbour of what is today the city of Mumbai, the cargo ship Fort Stikene blew up with tremendous force, causing severe damage and many deaths. #NavalHistory 🧵1/7

The answer to this is yes, along with not putting it in airplane mode or on silent in the cinema or theater too.

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

It's hard for us to imagine climbing *one* 4000-metre peak in the Alps, let alone paraglide back down. However, last summer Chrigel Maurer and Peter von Känel not only did *that* but did it for *all* 82 peaks over 4000 metres in the Alps, and in just fifty-one days. What. A. Story. | 🛩️ 📹 🪽 🥇

Great thread, but 100% of these problems do not exist here in my country where healthcare is a right and not a business.

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

Gear down. Blue skies up. ✈️ #planes #aviationlovers #avgeek #planespotters #avgeeks #spotter #planespotter #shotoncanon #photography #airplane #planespotting #deltaairlines #b737 #boeing #boeing737 #saltlakeairport

Re: its social media surveillance program “to find anything online that poses a threat to our nation & our way of life,” USCIS says “EVERYONE should be on notice.”

L’éphéméride du 12 avril : en 1975, le décès de l’artiste et résistante franco-américaine Joséphine Baker 🔗https://l.sudouest.fr/7fn

“The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying ‘anti-Christian bias’ as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new order on supporting employees of Christian faith.”

Rep. Mary Miller says that "climate change is a sham": "God controls the climate because he controls the sun and the sun controls the weather, primarily."

"The bond market is not like the Supreme Court, or Paul Weiss, or Columbia University, or any of the other institutions Trump has conquered, co-opted, or corrupted." "He cannot scare it into submission. He cannot bribe it." from @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-fina...

Watching Dr. McLaughlin rip apart this preprint piece by piece is my Super Bowl.

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.