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The steep descent of the UK towards a totalitarian 1984-like society is both astounding and frightening. Grandmothers and 11 year olds ar...

Did you ever hear about the Lavochkin-250 Anakonda? Well, I didn't - until this evening. Here is its story: It was quite a beas...

On X, formerly twitter, I discovered Fermilabs (very) short educational videos, all the more reason to follow Fermilab's account! Firs...

Donna Summer with Lady of the Night . From the eponymous 1974 album, actually her debut. Iconic American singer/songwriter from Bosto...

Dominik Tarczyński is a Polish politician for the Law and Justice Party (PiS) and a journalist, who is making a name for himself as a firebr...

Don McLean with Castles in the Air . From the 1981 album Believers , although it was actually released a decade earlier as a single. ...

The Starmer government has been in power for about two months, and it shows. Boys are being arrested for waving a British flag and grandmoth...

Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow - Land Warfare, Military Sciences, posits that Ukraine, fearing a not so unlikely scenario of a 2nd Tr...

A truly frightening evolution in the UK, where you can now be ARRESTED and IMPRISONED over social media posts deemed 'offensive' by ...

Wendy and Bonnie with I realized you . From their sole album Genesis (1969). Wendy and Bonnie Flower were Californian singing sister...

Per @cdrsalamander, our longtime ally, this appalling stat which sheds light on US women's fertility: I don't have similar stat...

The UK elections are over. As expected, the Tories got - rightly so - a clobbering, and Farage's Reform did well. However, the UK electo...

Fine-Structure Constant (approx. 1/137) is a dimensionless constant that characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction betwe...

With 33% of the vote, Marine Le Pen's rightwing Rassemblement National (RN) seems to have won the first round of France's parliamen...

Chris Rea with Shamrock Diaries . From the eponymous 1985 album. The least one can say about Rea is that he's a survivor. The man...

Shocking ending to the Trump vs Biden debate, what most people didn't see. This says it all. pic.twitter.com/ryE6qEIdpt — Alex Jones (@R...

First The Human League with Life On Your Own . From their 1984 album Hysteria . English synth pop band which formed in 1977 in Sheffiel...

One of the best technological accounts on X is Jordan Taylor's. In this thread, which dates from two years ago already, he focuses on th...

I am against EVs for several reasons, and the most obvious ones are in all likelihood the ones that spring to mind right away: limited auton...

It's been 13 years since my father died. I visited my father's grave a couple of hours ago. It was overcast, cold, windy, and ...