hesgen @hesgen@social.cleverlibre.org

Behold the Brexit Santa, delivering gammon to all the good little British boys.

A large By-the-Wind Sailor (Velella velella) washed ashore by Westerly winds. Lots of these Ocean surface dwellers, of varying sizes, along the beach today. They use their sails to scoot about on the sea surface while their blue tentacles dangle below catching prey.
County Clare, Ireland.

Who knew? RTE news : Cats like to play fetch too, study suggests.

http://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2023/1215/1422139-cats-fetch/

The IDF has uncovered a 4 km Hamas tunnel with a section reaching a depth of 50 meters underground.

The giant tunnel allows the passage of vehicles and was built under the leadership of Sinwar, and is equipped with electricity, communication and sewage infrastructure, and it has the blast doors.
#AureFreePress #News #Israel #gaza #Hamas

Constance Clara Garnett English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature died #OTD in 1946. She was the first English translator to render numerous volumes of Anton Chekhov's work into English and the first to translate almost all of Fyodor Dostoevsky's fiction into English. She also rendered works by Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Goncharov, Alexander Ostrovsky, and Alexander Herzen into English.

Constance Garnett at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2858

#books #literature

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

The real reason Zuckerberg and Musk never had their cage match was that John Mastodon said he would fight the winner.

#JohnMastodonDay

@EugeneMcParland Hungary is the asshole of Europe. I’m in the UK and we’re probably the dick or ballbag, but Hungary is definitely the asshole.

🤣 Der Geheime Plan der Grünen gegen Weihnachten! 🙃

Bombshell from CNN. Let’s connect the dots:

In the last days of his presidency, Trump personally ordered a super-sensitive classified binder of intelligence—about Russia interfering in the election on his behalf—to be delivered to him.

On his way out the door, Trump absconded with boxes of classified material.

The binder contained raw intelligence on Russian agents, including sources and methods. It was never returned. It is still missing.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-russia-intelligence-trump-dg/?cid=ios_app

"Tea was taken during the trouble."

#cricket

Six months in prison for walking slowly along a road? Civic life in the UK has taken a Draconian turn. #protest #UKPolitics #CivicSpace

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is one of the most fascinating places in the Solar System to explore. It has a vast sub-ice ocean of liquid water, and observations from Cassini have found hydrogen gas and organic compounds in its southern plumes erupting into space. Further analysis of data from Cassini has revealed hydrogen cyanide, a key molecule for the origin of life on Earth, and serves as a fuel source for many organisms.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/nasa-study-finds-life-sparking-energy-source-and-molecule-at-enceladus/