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  It looks like #Ukraine used (for the first time) the domestically manufactured Pelican (FP-7) ballistic missile against #Russia last night. The Russian best defence for a ballistic attack is the S-400 Triumf but these systems depend heavily on a widespread radar detection and control network. It's expensive and #Putin does not see oil refineries as really worth it! Interception success rate for ballistic missiles is a closely guarded secret but it is difficult to get better than 80% and tar...

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  Most of the #Russian oil fleet (not false flag shadow) comes through the Strait of Dover unescorted. From UST-LUGA near the Estonian border shipping oil to Turkey and Egypt. This route is now under attack by #Ukraine

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  Comedy paintball must be a new thing - bot explains to her 2 followers - blobked

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  #russia #ukraine Extraordinary analysis from Sam Kiley https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-ukraine-peace-talks-europe-uk-trump-b3002175.html

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  Many years ago at Lockheed we developed a technology called "decision support system under stress". It was designed to share out targets between a fighter wing. #russia has discovered that air defence has similar problems - MANPAD operators all attack the same incoming drone - sometimes with disastrous results. Fixed installations do work but the air defence missiles deployed are many more times as expensive as the drone swarms they target. The new "treetop approa...

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  @TheDailyBurble So you burnt the house down when burnt toast got out of hand?

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  Tom Hanks production- "The American Experiment" 5 part docu-series on Netflix is a really good watch. It it is so even handed about the evolution of the war of independence up to the modern day that it is presented more in sorrow than in triumph. There is a "it should have worked out better" feel. I wonder if Californis is getting tired of rule from Washington? #usa #history

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  #Trump promises to open the reflecting pool to shipping in 2 days

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  Scorchio! This super El Niño is frightening. It's an unpredictable cycle between 3 and 7 years. We have only just passed a solar maximum (an 11 year cycle) in 2025. That in conjunction with global warming is enough to make conditions here in the UK 'orrible. The strange thing this year is the sea breeze seems to have stalled (I am right on the beach in SE England) The temperature of the North Sea is about 17.6°C here i.e. freezing! What caused the jet stream to split and the...

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  #labour coup and #climate change Heat dome thought to be made worse by SE England doing to too much worrying about what Andy #Burnham might do. .. he spent much of the weekend trying to suck in his gut whilst maintaining a standard English accent

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  HS2 - ate the UK's lunch. As of March 2026, over £46.8 billion has been spent on the HS2 programme Current hot shambles Chiltern Tunnel - Spoil Crisis as soil polluted by toxic Tory concentration St James's Gardens Exhumed 20,000+ bodies normally kept in cupboards. Fox and Grapes Pub demolished to prevent Farage infiltration Curzon Street Station restoration paused because of uncertainty of purpose Keep 1km bat tunnel that cost £119m, Andy Burnham will need it! Each blob c...

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  Using Google Maps AR "Live View" to augment GPS navigation (it recognises shop fronts and street landscapes) to give you a fine grain position is clever. My VW Golf GPS went home to Wolfsburg in the recent London thunderstorms but this new technology got me fixed just by taking a picture of a building I wonder if the #Russians regret letting Google into Moscow?

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  #russia #putin yacht spotted off Denmark as it leaves the Baltic escorted by Danish warship Freya. Published destination unlikely to be true. Heading through the English Channel??

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  Why not cut #HS2 ?

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  Whenever a doom scrolling intro' starts with the words "We ask if . . ." Don't bother clicking through - the answer is always - "we don't have any more ideas than you"

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  There is no doubt that #Russia can match the technical competence of #Ukraine when it comes to making sinister missiles but surely #Putin must now accept that, in the context of modern weapons, it is not possible to march into a rival capital and install a new regime. Even if an economy is ruined, clever weapons don't cost much and don't require huge factories. The difference between the two factions is 1) Ukraine knows it is at war 2) Russia is just finding out This surel...

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  Final frontier $2,100,000,000,000 SpaceX's IPO raised $75 billion at an offer price of $135 per share, valuing the company at over $2.1 trillion Now trading at $188.36 - still a large increase on the IPO price of $150. Profit taking on what is (in fact) a loss making company is not as large as you might expect. This has little to do with a belief in the sunlit uplands but more to do with an expectation that another "bubble" will happen when the stock qualifies as first class pen...

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  It would be a good extension to smart central heating controls if you could attach a complaints and locations sensor to the wife and and adjust the temperature accordingly

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  Clever messaging "Go take a running jump!" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpwl0zgd2o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

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  Excellent article https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n08/paul-taylor/diary

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  Poor hair quality danger to health

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  Everybody in the #iran Revolutionary Guard feel they can make statements on behalf of the country - hence the confusing messages. #Trump cannot believe that threats of bombing are met with indifference but Iran's vestigial leadership care nothing about the general population. It is much easier to enrich Uranium from 60% to weapons grade (than starting from scratch) and saving a few missiles would not be so hard. Even in the "stone age", resources will be concentrated b...

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  I am not sure we can trust this man. Green behind the ears - "pile on" politics is never a good look.

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  Seeing Red Vladimir Solovyov (long time Evening show Russian TV presenter) completely lost it #Trump style and (lapsing into Italian) called Italian PM Giorgia Meloni a “fascist” and a “certified idiot”. I think he still stuffed about his "retirement plan" villas on Lake Como being confiscated and vandalised in 2022 Now the Cyprus Moscow on Sea and Crimea beachfronts has been closed out, elderly Russian fat cats are getting increasingly impatient. Do they actually know wha...

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  A**e licking tasks for King Charles extended as #Trump rethinks U.S. position on #Falklands (On list of beastly revenge strategies for countries that step put of line) https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/04/24/pentagon-email-floats-suspending-spain-from-nato-other-steps-over-iran-rift-source-says

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  Unsafe pair of hands? She is a bit like a Russian historian - main responsibility is accurately predicting the past

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  The UK government's job is to 1) Argue about #mandelson 2) Allow (pop-up) banks like Revolut 3) Give us 4p off a pint off beer 4) Flood the country with cars you have never heard of 5) Build unnecessary railways. 6) Ignore potholes 8) Pay taxes to the USA for useless defence equipment 9) Reverse #brexit without gammon finding out 10) Fund Mastercard and Visa Did I mention Madelson

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  First, #FITBIT refuses to install on my aged Samsung Galaxy S8 - because the S8 cannot do better than Android v. 9. Now I get threatening emails from #HSBC saying I must upgrade or no more APP! Bah

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  Incoming LPG tanker in #straitOfHormuz on inshore route. Interesting "CHINA OWNER AND CREW" listed instead of destination port -seems to be the new normal. Clear warning to the US Navy #iran

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  When Zack Polanski blogs about how UK homes are poorly insulated I get frightened. A lifelong asthmatic, the thought of living in a #GreenParty airless thermos flask fills me with horror. I don't trust the Greens to do anything pragmatic - If you can't breathe - get on your bike etc. etc. Better you die choking rather than the planet