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The most lethal species of every kind of predator, cyclones, and death by hyperthermia?

Your sacrifice in checking is appreciated by those of us who avoided it, thinking it would still be a load of rubbish.

As some had predicted Shoigu has been given the boot as Russian Defence Minister. In his place is a complete and utter banker, who like Shoigu knows sweet FA about the military. Which probably means putin is moving his little toy soldiers around a tabletop in his bunker and issuing stupid orders him...

Hello from Canada. No polar bears today. No snow either.

A witch is what is missing, PHX.

Rossian has it. The Inklings were a group of literary types, including CS Lewis ('The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe') and JRR Tolkein ('The Lord of the Rings'), who met in said Oxford pub.

OH declared.

I thank you.

What links a lion, a wardrobe, a ring, an eagle, and a child?

Well, I only follow hockey, but are the NBA finals also running about now and they are still in those also?

The only US hockey teams still in the playoffs?

Hockey teams still in the playoffs.

Instant coffee??? Are they trying to put you back in the ICU??

Seriously, glad you're out!

..and the right hand's a lot bigger!

Don't lock up. Tell the locals you aren't locking up.
Lions eat tonight's thieves; security problem solved!

46N, very bright Aurora here all night, right across the sky in a wide band from east to west. Almost all white, with very faint hints of colour on the edges of the flickery bits. The wavy bits were only distinguishable almost directly overhead, and the rest was a solid sheet of white. There didn't ...

It's a Greenland keyboard, which automatically triples 'Q's,'I's,'K's and 'U's

Easy way to speak Greenland, swear like a Glaswegian whilst drinking a pint of 80/- at the same time.

What's the First Rule? - No Headwinds!

They are going to have to go a long way up the west coast of Greenland to find a 300 mile crossing - Sisimiut-Qikiqtarjuaq?

Thanks for the heads-up. Skies are clear to the north right now, so I shall have a look. I'm further south than the others.

If he fell asleep and had a throttle failure, then that would explain the final path.
In any event, I think it shows a significant manpower shortage in Russia.

Updates. St Petersburg Police say at least 5 dead now in the bus ditching. Vovchansk has been hit, reportedly by a glide bomb. Video of aftermath https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1788918485630001489 Looks like they've taken out a chemists, a cafe, and another shop. Looks like some damage to the a...

Russian nukes in Belarus. The NYT, from MAXAR satellite imagery, reckons they have located the storage depot https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/112418007900740918 But FAS already found it 2 months ago https://fas.org/publication/depot-in-belarus-shows-new-upgrades-possibly-for-russian-nuclear-warhead...

Bird Flu - says man from the FDA claiming to be a diseased bird expert. Looks more like a shift manager from KFC....so probably is said expert. Must see hundreds every day!