I made the worst airline seat choice of my life. Flew from Tetouan to Madrid and rather than seeing the coast of Morocco, Ceuta, Gibraltar, and the Strait, I saw… boat.
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Space. Travel. Not yet space travel.
But once we got over land I did see Saturday pleasure boats off Benalmádena, and construction on a new Spanish high speed rail line.
Texas ObserverNew from Gaige Davila: Even before its first workplace death, #SpaceX saw 427 injuries and 9 respiratory illnesses between 2022 and 2025. These injuries included concussions, second-degree burns, partial finger amputations, hernias, dislocations, crushed hands, and broken ribs, legs, and ankles.
https://www.texasobserver.org/worker-death-starbase-spacex-osha-elon-musk/
I don't know if I've ever plugged Kiva on here, but it's a thing I've been doing for many years now. I've made 780 loans of ~$25 each, for a total over $20k.
It's almost certainly not as good as UBI, but it's a thing anyone can do. https://www.kiva.org
Was trying to search for the date of the first programmable electronic computer and made the usual iPhone error of hitting the period part of the spacebar, which led to finding that https://programmable.computer is a valid domain. Solid work on that registration, Mr. Whitaker.
This is 20 years old, but remember the fake fat Olestra that just shoots straight through your system? Turns out that because it's very similar to fat and doesn't get absorbed, a daily dose of it washes fat-soluble toxicants out of your body, like dioxin.
Ars TechnicaA Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation
The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/a-chinese-rocket-breaks-apart-dangerously-close-to-the-starlink-constellation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
A long paper on an account of finding bones representing portions of mammoths in ancient North American lake bottoms, deciding that it must have been a food storage technique, and eventually butchering a draft horse (that died of old age) and stowing it in a lake over the winter. Turns out you get algae on the surface and lactofermentation inside. Months later the meat smells like blue cheese and has no detected pathogens.
I’m on cell data only at the moment (and with expensive data) and the Mastodon app has used over 1GB in less than three days. I don’t follow very many people or check it very often, I guess it’s just re-downloading the entire timeline every time I open it?
Pavel A. Samsonov"arctic char" sounds like a powerful attack that deals both fire and frost damage but it's actually just a medium sized fish