Zero shots fired. Total destruction. 🇺🇦💪

A Ukrainian MiG-29 just took down a Russian Shahed drone using nothing but pure physics. By weaponizing its wingtip vortices, the pilot forced the UAV into a terminal spiral. High-stakes, high-precision, and absolutely legendary airmanship.

#Ukraine #Aviation #MiG29Crash

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Ukrainenews/117133377760121069

The RAF destroyed several V-1 rockets using similar physics. History does not repeat, but it echoes.

Secondly, I give a lot of these away to local chefs and my friends (as well as people whom I want to get to know). They don’t all really understand what I do. Many of them wonder if perhaps I’m trying to sell them something. I explain that it’s leftover work swag and then explain briefly what I do and I’m not sure they all get it, but they do get that I’m not trying to sell them weird pickles.

I guess they're going to take the bourbon back off the shelves. #ElbowsUp #ElbowsWayUp

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/midnight-deadline-trump-tariffs-trade-deal-leblanc-greer-9.7310605

@mia Look at Parker beating that poor bike and car with a bat!

@stshank @jalefkowit that actually laster longer than I expected

#OtD 22 Aug 1944 Polish revolutionary Maria Oneker died during the Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation. She was the leader of the women's unit of the 104th Company of Syndicalists which fought under the red and black flag of anarcho-syndicalism https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9451/maria-ryszard%C4%99-oneker-killed

#OtD 22 Aug 2016 Mapuche Indigenous eco-activist Macarena Valdés was found dead by hanging in rural Chile by her 11-year-old son. Police ruled it a suicide, but forensic pathologists found that she was already dead by the time her body was hanged https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9453/macarena-vald%C3%A9s-died

@refactoredd It is.

Good morning from Samara Oblast, Russia, where both the refinery in Novokuybyshevsk (1), and the Ozon e-commerce warehouse in Chapaevsk (2) are wondering if war with Ukraine was a good idea…

Because it is coming home.
🚀💥

Have an excellent day in the free world. 🌞

@SRDas there’s actually two reasons for the branding. First, I send a lot of these to my donors, pro bono lawyers, contractors and volunteers. I was declaring $0 in fundraising expense on my form 990, so asked my board if I could spend a little money on pickles.

Huge US Study Shows Living Near Dry Cleaners Is Linked to Major Disease Risk
https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-us-study-shows-living-near-dry-cleaners-is-linked-to-major-disease-risk?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-ScienceAlert

@NunavutBirder booo

China is mulling a bid to host U.N. climate talks in 2028, two sources familiar with the matter said Friday, as it seeks to burnish its reputation as a leader in the fight against global warming. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/08/22/climate-change/china-host-2028-un-climate-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #climatechange #un #china #us #donaldtrump

@healyn Although old-fashioned ideas of hospitality were a bit wild. For instance: should the angry mob outside wish to force themselves on your honored guests, offer the mob your daughters to placate them instead.