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Matthew Green

A lie can go halfway round the world while the truth has a paywall.

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Today's flight is a big test of the whole system. This is still a prototype and the next inerations already have significant upgrades.
A variant of this vehicle will take astronauts to the Moon's surface, and possibly take several civilians on a lunar flyby towards the end of 2023.

Astro Dad  
Another stream for watching the #SpaceX #Starship flight test is Everyday Astronaut, Tim Dodd. This enthusiast turned broadcaster has built a reput...
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CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Columbus Ohio and becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time makes much of her being a “housewife”. 🙄

Watch a newsreel from the time: youtube.com/watch?v=55Pz2zGZ3T

#WomenInHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons #AmericanHistory

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Astro Dad

It's launch day my dudes! Only a few hours to go until #SpaceX #Starship orbital flight test.

The @NASASpaceflight crew are live already, so you can watch the preparations leading up, as well as excellent views from ground cameras during the ascent phase and (maybe) booster return.

youtube.com/live/eN57x2a_waw?f

SpaceX webcast is here: youtube.com/live/L5QXreqOrTA?f

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Russian army can't sink any lower... oh wait.

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1/ Female Russian soldiers are reportedly being subjected to sexual abuse and violence, and are being pressured into becoming the "field wives" of ...
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ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian warehouse manager has been jailed for stealing and reselling over 20,000 items of military clothing from a warehouse in Chechnya. The case highlights how corruption in Russia's military logistics system has hampered its war effort in Ukraine. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki

2/ The VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reports that Ivan Popov, head of the clothing depot of a military unit in Khankala, Chechnya, stole and sold 12.6 million rubles ($153,733) worth of uniforms and ammunition, as part of an organised criminal enterprise.

Popov "systematically loaded the articles from the warehouse into military transport and freely took them out of the territory of the unit for their subsequent resale." He is reported to have stolen:

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SellaTheChemist

My response to a rather sneery FT opinion piece about terrible airports (“oh darling…”). Everyone should read Ivan Illich’s Energy and Equity. He said it all back in 19704.

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Jen Sorensen

Latest cartoon: Tips for Dems to avoid expulsion

(Fortunately Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been reinstated.)

#democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #racism

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Astro Dad

Good news: looks like the preparations for Starship's orbital flight test are proceeding.
Ship being lifted onto the booster.
twitter.com/SpmtTracker/status

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Dave

I want this as a shirt

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Astro Dad

#ESAJuice is now live, webcast starting in about 10 mins.
youtube.com/watch?v=MvHcGmQPcs

Gotta say, clouds don't look great, but perhaps they're the right sort of clouds? Hoping they don't have to scrub again because of lightning.

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Jon Worth

So some months ago I applied to be a "Independent Expert" on SERAF - the Single European Railway Area Forum organised by the European Commission

And was rejected

Now the list of those approved has been published - here ec.europa.eu/transparency/expe

27 EU Member States
30 Rail companies and associations
7 "other public entity"

and JUST 2 "Independent Expert" - and the European Passengers' Federation is not included either...

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Mark Ruffalo

When you have lost NPR, the most benign and fair member-funded news organization in the USA, you know you are making bad choices. Get off Twitter; save Tesla.

npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/

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SellaTheChemist

More from Substack CEO on BBC World Service this morning saying that he does not want to restrict freedom of speech and that he is ok with people on his platform expressing racist, antisemitic and homophobic views because he doesn’t like “topdown censorship” and takes a “broad view of free speech”. he wants the writers on his platform to take responsibility for their own community of subscribers rather than having moderation. Another case of #enshittification @pluralistic ?

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Astro Dad

#ESAJuice also have a #Spotify playlist:
open.spotify.com/playlist/6Q8D

Missing some obvious ones:
Pulp - Space
Lou Reed - Satellite of Love
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
The Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon
and let's hope that it doesn't become...
Devo - Space Junk

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ChrisO_wiki

1/ CONQUERING CRIMEA: PART 5

In this fifth and penultimate part of a short series of threads on the military history of Crimea, I'll cover the most recent invasion of Crimea – the 1943-44 Soviet reconquest of the peninsula, which had been conquered by Nazi Germany in 1941-42.

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Phil M0OFX

Why do they spell it "Colour", "Honour" and "Favour" in the United Kingdom?

Because Rick Astley is British.

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Tim Mak

As an organization, NPR will no longer use Twitter. This was announced in an internal memo this morning, and comes after Twitter insisted on putting an untrue statement on NPR’s profile.

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Jeff Jarvis

If Substack were a decent company, it would have federated its Notes with ActivityPub. The last thing we need is another conversational platform controlled by one company known for promoting questionable opinions.
on.substack.com/p/introducing-

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