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Main audience: everyone Starting this evening, northern high latitudes have a good chance of seeing the aurora borealis. After the solar storm passes, ham radio operators have a chance at good conditions for DXing. (This is a strong solar storm … Continued

Main audience: everyone If you have been feeling relaxed about COVID, now is a good time to be less relaxed & renew your protective measures. Variant NB.1.8.1 is shaping up as a global problem. A clue about what it does—doubled … Continued

Main audience: everyone It can feel absurd & pointless to do everyday humdrum while it seems like the world is falling apart. However, it can also be an expression of hope. If I think there’s no hope, I won’t do … Continued

Main audience: USA people What should a team do when it’s losing A Big Game? Change strategy? Send in substitutes for players who are performing especially badly? How about change the rules in mid-game so the outcome can only go … Continued

Main audience: USA people In its downgrade of the USA’s credit rating, Moody’s essentially told American voters to speak up now, loudly, because unless voter outrage stops them, Republicans are accelerating the country into an economic brick wall. Click here … Continued

Main audience: anyone who ever flies in or to the USA FAA has been quick to blame aging infrastructure for recent outages at airports. There weren’t so many problems with it before 20 January. It was already old. Did it … Continued

Main audience: everyone Many seeds have barely sprouted so there isn’t much to see yet, not enough for a proper spring tour of our garden, but I yearn to post something light anyway… so I’m going to show you a … Continued

Main audience: USA people Last Friday Stephen Miller publicly said DJT is considering suspension of habeas corpus in the USA. Nothing is happening that even approaches a situation where that should be so much as a fleeting thought. They’re grabbing … Continued

Main audience: everyone We now know more about the recent major power outage in Portugal and Spain 28 April 2025. It looks like renewable energy didn’t trigger it. In this post I translate from nerd to English for you as … Continued

Main audience: USA people and anyone planning to visit the USA Amid all the distress imposed on people DJT targets, remember that he cares the most about getting more money and property. What happens to the belongings of people he … Continued