"Iran offers to reopen Strait of Hormuz if US lifts its blockade and the war ends, officials say"

#USA #News #War #EU #NATO #UN #Politics #Oil #incompetence #Cost #DisTrust #Dishonesty #OilShock #Crash #Inflation #Finance #CostofLiving #Hormuz

https://apnews.com/article/us-iran-war-hormuz-april-27-2026-374d81d1aac6d8f19c21e1d1e10ab103

RE: https://mastodon.world/@nlnews/116476339530745904

Step 1: turn off the ai machines.
Result: instant power saving

If the "AI" bubble never properly pops I am sure there will be people that will opt to try and find unknown/hidden gem pre-pandemic music. Others will try to find pre-pandemic novels that aren't well known.

Every song ever made before "AI" will be listened to. Every book ever made before "AI" will be read. If they haven't been lost every piece of art will have an audience.

Or mayb not, and I'll root then, for global warming...

Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails
Image Credit & Copyright: Uli Fehr

Explanation: Can you find the comet? Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System. Now, the orbiting satellites themselves only appear as streaks because of the long camera exposure, over 10 minutes in this case. On the contrary, to the eye, satellites appear as points that drift slowly across the night sky and shine by reflecting sunlight -- primarily just after sunset and before sunrise. The featured image was taken just before sunrise two weeks ago from Bavaria, Germany. Presently, Comet R3 PanSTARRS is hard to see for even another reason -- because it is so (angularly) close to the Sun. As the comet rounds the Sun, it will be best seen in coming weeks from southern hemispheree skies, although then it will be heading out to interstellar space and fading. If you haven't yet found the comet, don't despair; please take a closer look just above the image center.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html #apod

Tired of the platypus being framed as "weird".

All we hear is speciesist anti-platypus bias: "Oh haha, they have a duck's bill and feet, a beaver's tail, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes. Ridiculous!"

It's well past time we started describing ducks as having webbed feet and bills like a platypus, beavers as having platypus tails, that reptiles lay eggs just like the platypus, and snakes can inflict venom like, you guessed it, a platypus.

#TeamPlatypus

Capos are not cheating. They're a creative tool.

Same shapes, different voicings. A capo on 2nd fret turns G-C-D shapes into A-D-E sounds with open string resonance you can't get from barre chords.

#guitar #music #songwriting #acoustic

FOI confirms Donald Trump’s grab of Australians’ biometric data is even bigger than feared

www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/donald-trump-australians-biometric-data-ice-homeland-security-home-affairs

Well, it's confirmed: government documents show we're negotiating to hand access to every Australian travellers' biometric data to the United States. And it's worse than we thought. The post FOI confirms Donald Trump’s grab of Australians’ biometric data…