This week in clouds.
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Just someone. #MDANT #Music #Nature #GlobalCitizen #OneWorld #RejoinEU #ScottishIndependence #Antifa #BLM #UBI #ClimateChange #Orkney LMcRory on ๐ฆ and ๐. No DMs unless we interact.
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.
Explained: Zelenskyy is using strategic amplification and selective validation, publicly endorsing a prominent Trump loyalist's dissent on Ukraine to exploit an existing MAGA factional divide. The tactic creates internal friction, potentially triggering infighting without directly confronting Trump.
This week in clouds.
#MentalHealthMatters ๐
That's really nice with the plough in the photo too. I'm very lucky to see them quite often in Orkney, but I've never lost the sense of wonder.
Wow. That's not something you want to be finding in your home.
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Between Water and Wings.
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A grey heron glides just above the water, its wings almost touching the reflections below.
@whatbirds.bsky.social
#GreyHeron #Heron #Birds #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Flight #Nature
โThere's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.โ
โ J. R. R. Tolkien
#scape
#landscape
#mountainscape
#colorado
#yankeeboybasin
#nature
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#eck
Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) - Cockney Rebel Family Affair - Sly and The Family Stone
'Taxing wealth is important and popular. Taxing land is one way to do that in Scotland. How to get there is up to us.'
Dr Craig Dalศell, via Common Weal
'Attacking electrical infrastructure over the winter is nothing new. Targeting water infrastructure, however, is new. Crossing that line represents an escalation that could have broader global implications.'
Brynn Tannehill, via Byline Times
NELSON MANDELA โWhile we were physically denied our freedom in the country of our birth, a city 6,000 miles away, and as renowned as Glasgow, refused to accept the legitimacy of the apartheid system, and declared us to be free.โ
#Mandela
The far right are poisoning our well. Their actions affect us all.
That the British government is happy to allow a world first highly risky nuclear plant dismantling process like this ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐ from our capital city says it all. Imagine if this was proposed for Dartford near London.
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
The head of the Trump crime family made a deal with Putin-Kremlin crime syndicate โ betraying Ukraine, every U.S. ally and his duty to defend American national security. Trump is a filthy traitor โ the worst Quisling who has ever lived.
Trump: "Zelensky could have settled this war many, many times, but he chooses not to." Sick liar! This rant is full-on Russian propaganda straight from the mouth of the US president. There is no deal on the table that Ukraine could have accepted.
Russian ballistic missiles are flying at Kyiv. They hit a residential area. Again. Earlier, President Trump thanked Putin for the deal.
20 people is the death toll in Zaporizhzhia from the Russian strike today. Three of them are kids. 18 more people injured, three of them kids, as well. Russia killed about 70 Ukrainian civilians within the past several days. Heartbreaking and painful.
Russian missiles are attacking Kyiv. Trump thanks Putin for the deal. Buying Russian diesel will not solve the US fuel problems. It is at most a short-term psychological tactic aimed at easing gas station prices ahead of the elections. The main beneficiary of this deal is Russia.
Russia and Putin, terrorist state and terrorist.