🇺🇳🇺🇦 UN's independent international commission of inquiry into violations in Ukraine has recognized targeted Russian attacks on Ukraine's civilian energy infrastructure as war crimes, and large-scale and systematic strikes as causing severe suffering to civilians, - Ukraine MFA
Oh, honey . . . your own mother shipped you off to a reform school (with cute little military costumes) after you were caught throwing rocks into a baby carriage and she realized you were too twisted to deal with.
The Ukrainian defense forces are detecting Starlink systems being restored at speeds exceeding 400 km/h, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhen Khmara.
I hope this marks the end of this whole story.
"Currently, we are not observing any removal of restrictions on Starlink. There are occasional instances where Starlink may operate slightly faster, but this is likely a result of the Space X algorithm not the removal of the restriction."
-Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, advisor to President Zelensky
Judge Denise Cote ruled Tuesday that OPM violated federal privacy law and bypassed established cybersecurity practices when it shared records on millions of past, current and aspiring federal employees with DOGE. Impeach Russ Vought
Elon must pay! Ukraine Lost Strike Drones Worth Over $1 Million Due to Sudden Restrictions on U.S. Starshield NYT
They were losing contact with their operators and starting to fall during attacks on Russian targets. His units were forced to almost completely cease combat operations for three days.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Kyiv Independent:
📍Pete Hegseth has not yet agreed to the transfer of a significant batch of Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine.
📍The missiles have already been paid for by Ukraine's international partners, but the documents for their delivery aren’t signed
Kyiv sent several vehicles equipped with its Starlink devices to the EU for testing, where they exceeded the speed limit in place in Ukraine, he explained.
The president added that European partners are already working on a possible alternative to Starlink
The preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature for October 13 just broke 30°C for the third time, and is now 3.3°C above the 1991-2020 baseline.
This marks the 22nd consecutive daily temperature above the previous all-time record high of 29.815°C. set on Nov. 17, 2015.
Elon is screwing Ukraine again 🛰️🇺🇦 Serhiy "Flash":
Starlink is used in the most effective solution (interceptors drones) to protect our skies from jet Shaheds. Now it doesn’t work
Elon and donOLD are depriving Ukraine of one of the few chances to protect the country from Russian jet drones.
🤬 The operation of Starlink terminals was limited tonight, - Sternenko
Communication began to disappear while traveling at speeds over 70 km/h. This disrupted a number of drone important missions.
SpaceX is likely to have taken such measures at the request of donOLD
In mid-September 2026, NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported Antarctic sea ice reached its annual maximum extent -- the third-lowest maximum on record -- as global warming from #climate change continues to reduce polar ice.
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
😄 Alcoholic collapse in Russia...
Due to the damage to Yandex data centers in Russia, the labeling and electronic document management system has completely collapsed.
Shipments of alcoholic beverages have stopped, and new deliveries to stores have been blocked, manufacturers report.
On Tuesday, PJM's system could face one of its highest stress moments of the year, as system-wide capacity saturation is forecast to exceed 170 GW
Forecast demand is well below summer highs, but demand alone is not enough to assess overall risk amidst ~60 GW of shoulder season outages
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
We’re grateful for Indigenous ppls' knowledge, leadership & contributions to public health & the world
We honor your strength, courage & resilience, and are ashamed of how US government has failed Indigenous communities
You deserve better
And we’re grateful for you
📉 Bot traffic from Yandex’s network has dropped to almost zero after an Ukrainian attack on a data center in Vladimir. This is the third attack on Yandex’s data centers since October 8.
Bot traffic is automatic requests to websites from programs — search crawlers, services, parsers.
Lawmakers afraid the Trump will cancel protections for Ukrainian refugees in the United States want the president to consider another option: Do nothing, - Politico
The administration has until Oct. 19 to renew or cancel temporary protected status for more than 100,000 Ukrainians in the U.S.
Well, actual sea surface temperatures have now passed 30°C (86°F) in the key Niño 3.4 monitoring region for the first time in this data record... 😱
Sign up for next week's state of the climate briefing: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... Bring your questions, like on this historic El Niño!
‘Sales of gas-engine vehicles fell 10% on the year to 20.25 million units…global share fell to 49%…was 73% in 2021’
‘EVs up 12% to 6.87 million units…accounted for 17% of sales…Global hybrid sales up 10%, 7.27 million units, accounting for 18%’
Other 15% diesel?
A proposed Canadian law would penalize social media platforms for failing to crack down on content that promotes self-harm and disordered eating to a child.
But what if that child went elsewhere on the internet, and found a pro-suicide forum offering advice on how to take their own life?
Map of 23 suspicious deaths and suicides linked to the Epstein files after Simon Andriesz, a whistleblower tied to Howard Lutnick is found dead. Follow the connections. Search visually, name or by category bottom left "Dead".
embed.kumu.io/7c3609c5e4eb...@gailwaldby.bsky.social#epsteinfiles
🔥 "Down with the Tsar!"
Communists in Moscow chanted anti-Putin slogans at a permitted march… leading to ~20 arrests.
Why is Putin arresting his rubber-stamping controlled-opposition??
Check out the live today at 15:30 Kyiv time to see what’s going down in Russia.
"But the handicapped need cars!"
No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
Russian officials said a researcher working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after contracting “pneumonia of unknown etiology.”
NEW: In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and services, 404 Media has learned.
If LeBron or Taylor Swift posted this most recent El Niño historical temperature graph (current one in red) 500 million people would be in the streets.
(And a hundred million lives would likely be saved in the next 20 months)
#ClimateCrisis