#NowPlaying: “In Spring (Julian Winter Remix)” by Humanworkshop
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Waiting for a mod to install by opening up my other heavily modded backup game on a second device
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Spun Special by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts
Via Flickr:
Panned shot of Polish F-16 4055 arriving back at Beja following an afternoon sortie during the 2025 NATO Tiger Meet exercise. The aircraft’s special scheme is to commemorate Polish Air Force F-16 Tiger Demo Team pilot Major Maciej “Slab” Krakowian, who had died in a crash the previous month.
Aircraft: Polish Air Force Lockheed Martin (General Dynamics) F-16C Fighting Falcon 4055.
Location: Base Aérea Nº 11 (BA11/BYJ/LPBJ), Beja, Portugal.
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No dream boats, grand sloops, ghostly galleons, if you please. As for me, and I’m doing the writing here, I have long confessed to being a tugboat: slow, rather stubby, persistent, functional, an estuarine creature that avoids open water.
— Jim Harrison, from “The Tugboats of Costa Rica” in “The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand (Grove/Atlantic. Inc, 2001) (via The Hammock Papers)
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Zuckerberg tells jury he regrets slow progress on spotting under-13s on Instagram: ‘Wish we could have gotten there sooner’
Zuckerberg Tells Jury He Regrets Slow Progress on Spotting Under-13s on Instagram: ‘Wish We Could Have Gotten There Sooner’
In a pivotal moment for tech accountability, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified under oath that he regrets his company’s delayed efforts to identify and remove children under 13 from Instagram. His testimony occurred during the opening weeks of a landmark trial in Los…
