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Figure 74 - a distorted view of the craft that makes it look like it has an oval structure and the lid didn't fit properly. I mean, fair enough, both were probably true. But not like this!

And on a purely presentational level some of this is disappointing. There's a fair few spelling errors, and I'm not just being salty about the American disdain for the letter U. A couple of paragraphs are repeated. Images are distorted as if somebody was medically addicted to the 4:3 aspect ratio.

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie has a caption that says sighs in british * Alt: Mr Bean, rather depressingly one of our bigger cultural exports, sighing in British.

It's also worth adding that I'm a Brit, and have more experience reading MAIB reports then their US equivalents. The comments I'm about to make about the report itself ought to be read in that vein.

I had quite the culture shock.

a cat is playing a game of chess on a checkered board Alt: A cat watches his opponent's opening move. Wipes the pieces of the board with a swipe of the paw. The cat has never built a really badly advised submersible either. Stockton's really racking up the Ls here...

And before we go any further, let me declare my relevant expertise: none. I have never built a successful submersible.

In this I am quite the equal of Stockton Rush.

I've never built an absolute catastroship out of the wrong material either. Checkmate, Mr Rush.

If you're strapped for time you can get most of the essentials from the Executive Summary, an Executive Executive Summary of which would read "holy fuck!".

The whole thing is available via the press release, at least until Scrote Face or Big Balls or some other pimply perma-adolescent deletes it:

Part of the wreckage of the failed submersible.

So by now I'd expect everybody knows the story...

Rich idiot builds a crewed submersible out of the worst material possible, pops off to see the Titanic, the laws of physics violently reassert themselves and he ends up wallpapered across the inside of his sub along with his four victims.

ICE Barbie Accused of Trying to Deport Dead People to Hit Quotas Government lawyers are trying to reopen old immigration cases for people who are no longer living.

ICE Barbie is so desperate to boost its deportation numbers that it’s asking judges to revive cases that are decades old—including cases in which the person has died.

J'ai été arrêté et placé en garde à vue hier.

Je documentais la chasse des oiseaux d’eau en baie de Somme.

A photo looking up, at the back of the Michelangelo's David cast, showing his prominent bum and muscled back in high relief

Did you know @jackshoulder.bsky.social (half of Museum Bums) does free LGBTQ+ tours of the V&A museum in London? It's impossible not to talk about the Michelangelo's David cast on them! 😁
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Find out more, last Saturday of every month at 4pm at the V&A

I’m Not panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

Believe me, there are people on this very website who act like I'm the literal actual devil because I speak out about this. They're shocked - SHOCKED - to find out that a woman who runs cat accounts and is heavily involved in animal rescue, uh, cares about cat health and welfare. How awful of me! 🤷‍♀️

YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say Any YouTuber wrongly labeled a teen must provide an ID, credit card, or selfie.

Throughout the first half of August, YouTube says it will begin interpreting "a variety of signals" to determine if certain users are under 18.

La chance! On est coincé à Albi à cause d'un garage auto incompétent sous 30 ou un truc comme ça 🙃. On a quand même trouvé une boisson "kireveille™" qui s'appelle "Ragnarok" 😂.

Bay Area companies skewered over false tsunami information Amid active tsunami warnings, Grok said they'd been cancelled.

‼️ The time to determine who to trust IS NOT during an emergency.

NOW is the time to find trustworthy sources for scientific and emergency response information.

www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

🙃 "Grok, the chatbot made by Elon Musk’s Bay Area-based xAI and embedded in the social media site X, repeatedly told the site’s users that Hawaii’s tsunami warning had been canceled when it actually hadn’t .... Social media users reported similar problems with Google Search’s AI overviews."

Kherson regional authorities have shown the aftermath of the Russian strike on the bridge and are urging residents of the Korabel district to evacuate. Logistical challenges will make it difficult to deliver food, and the gas pipeline was damaged, leaving the neighborhood without gas supply.

Vaccines save lives.

That’s it. That’s the post.

A very soft and dreamy edit of a little street in Antibes, triangular flags waving over light yellow houses with wooden blinds, heat practically radiating from the sky.

July Fundraiser: 0/3000

Trying to climb out of the hole we dug ourselves!

pp in bio - ko-fi in linktree in bio - etsy at standplaatskrakow.etsy.com

Art theme: Southern Europe! Landscapes, architecture, sun!

The lovely moustache of the Mirage ‘Milan’.
It was a prototype developed in 1967. The small retractable front surfaces were designed to reduce take-off and approach distances for use in Switzerland. It made its first flight in 1970, but the project was cancelled.

A Little Blue Heron in its 'calico' phase, where the white feathers it is born with are transitioning into the adult feathers, stretches its neck out searching for prey. The heron is standing in deep blue water with a perfection reflection.

Here's another long neck stretch along with a perfect reflection. This time its an immature Little Blue Heron in its 'calico' phase, where the white feathers it is born with are transitioning into the adult feathers. © Sandra Blair
#birds #photography #heron #littleblueheron #birdphotography

A Great Blue Heron stands in shallow water reflecting the blue sky, and stretches its long neck out as it spots prey in the water.

A Great Blue Heron has its eye on the prize in New Jersey. © Sandra Blair

And yet another grim update on Russia’s missile and drone attacks on Kyiv yesterday: President Zelensky reports 31 people have been confirmed dead, including 5 children. The youngest was just two years old.

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks AGENCY SAYS WHAT LIES UNDER BALACLAVAS UNSPEAKABLE WASHINGTON - In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their masks, agents do not have faces. Tom Homan, the U.S. border czar and chief enforcer of Presi dent Donald Trump's immigration policy, warned that Democrats *may get more than they bargained for" with transparency initiatives like the Senate's VISIBLE Act. because the agency's more than 20,000 members wear neck gaiters hats, and sunglasses to cover a terrifying void where their eyes. nose, and mouth should be "The truth is, just underneath their masks lies an infinite abyss of total and complete darkness,"

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their masks, agents do not have faces.”

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

All the arguments justifying why he has been kidnapped seem to revolve around "he should have applied to be a citizen."

He is a LEGAL PERMANENT RESIDENT.
He's a graduate student.
He's a scientist, a researcher.
He's lived in the US since he was 5. This is his home.
He's a Texan.

This is WRONG.

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

Lancia Delta S4

Lancia Delta S4

I think I saw this car in person at Monza back in May.

I spent months shooting a specific part of the Milky Way to reveal all the hidden nebulae. I call it “Above the Rift”, a 337 megapixel, 140 hour exposure. My deepest look at the Milky Way yet.

Available in print until tomorrow night at the link in my bio.

this one goes out to all the "politics are beneath me, I only care about the important stuff like outer space, just like Elon" bros

DMV asks Nowlis if he understands that Teslas are not autonomous, and he agrees. DMV asks if he understands they are Level 2 driver assistance, and he agrees. Looking at the SAE J3016 know, from the name alone, that Full Self-Driving Capability is a Level 2 driver assistance system, DMV asks?

Nowlis has located the relevant record, and clarifies that the survey language says that it was in fact possible to watch the video that was on that website.

So he just wasted a whole lot of time by saying they couldn't and then figuring out that they could. On his own survey. Cool, cool.