The last time there were two human rated vehicles on the launch pads simultaneously at Kennedy was in 2008 when Shuttles Endeavour (STS-126) was on pad 39A and Atlantis (STS-127) was on pad 39B.
EU-Förderungen in der #Cybersicherheit - Bewerbungsfrist März 2026!
Mit vier Ausschreibungen bietet die #EU an, #Cybersicherheitsprojekte zu fördern, die u.a. zur Umsetzung der EU-Regulierungen wie #CSA und #CRA für KMU oder des EU-Aktionsplans zur Sicherung von Unterseekabeln beitragen können.
Sikke en skøn dag at være bonde. Solen skinner og vi har verdens bedste grund til at være udenfor, høst til alle vores søde andelshavere i København.
Ugens pose byder på sæsonens første rosenkål. En rigtig vintergrøntsag det smager skønt hvis ellers den ikke koges til smat. Fx stegt på panden med lidt soja og sirup og ristede mandler. Vi lader de små rosenkål sidde på stokken når vi leverer, da vi syntes det er fedt at at forstå hvordan planten rent faktisk ser ud. Og så kan stænglen faktisk også spises hvis man lige tager det yderste lag af.
Vi har været på en masse skønne gårdbesøg på det sidste. Tak til alle jer søde kollegaer der har haft tid og lyst til at vise jeres sted frem. På Brinkholm fik vi nye perspektiver på dyrkningssystemer og fik lyst til at kaste os ud i endnu flere græskarsorter. På den lille mark fik vi inspiration til nye måder at formidle og en masse praktiske tips og ideer til nye sorter at prøve af. På Alnarp Agroecology farm blev vi blæst bagover af deres sociale engagement, og af hvordan de formår at have så mange frivillige hænder med i marken. Hurra for at være en del af en bevægelse med så mange kloge og inspirerende mennesker som gladeligt deler ud af erfaring og visdom.
Vi har også haft tid til at evaluere lidt på denne sæsons produktion. Det er jordnære spørgsmål som, effekten af øget planteafstand i hvidløgen eller gødning i løbet af sæsonen for at modvirke meldug i bladbeden der diskuteres. Vi tager os altid god tid til den praktiske evaluering, så vi allesammen kan blive lidt bedre til at dyrke i fremtiden. #regenerativ#alnarpagroecologyfarm#brinkholm#denlillemark#agroecology#communitysupportedagriculture#csa
Picture shows this week’s CSA from the Eastie Farms group. The vegetables this week are three butternut squash, four years of corn, a large pile of short baby carrots, a variety of both red and orange peppers, small Roma tomatoes, and some leafy green item that was not identified
The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.
This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: "because of the children". As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.
An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating:
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence
The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence.
Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.
Ok fedifolk, hit me with your best recipes for celeriac and/or turnip. Our farm share included both (2 medium celeriac, 1 big turnip) and I've never cooked them before. Recipe search is an AI wasteland these days so I turn to the real people of Mastodon.
Given the horrifying nature of the DOGE (you have no idea how much I loathe typing that) cuts by which Musk is effectively conduction a rolling shutdown of the US government, the Trump administration's attempts to either take control of, or bankrupt prominent American universities for blatantly ideological reasons, and news that Trump intends to sign an executive order to shut down the Department of Education, there's a conversation we have to start having now that I've run out of time to avoid.
I don't know how to say this without sounding like I'm employing conspiratorial hyperbole to at least some portion of the people reading this, but there really are a whole bunch of obscenely wealthy, mostly-white, mostly-Anglo nazis working together to transform our world into a dystopian fascist hellscape to increase their own power over us and preserve their way of life in the face of anticipated uprisings. And a lot of these guys, particularly those concentrated in the American tech sector, are extremely weird Bond movie villain types with horrifying ideas about how to run a society, but enough money to give them a try anyway. I get that to some of you that sounds exactly like a conspiracy theory, but let me assure you that these are all established facts, discussed sporadically in mainstream media outlets; even if those outlets are rarely willing to criticize rich people, or use the word "fascism" in order to explain what those facts mean.
These guys meet in the open to talk about shaping the future of our species in places like Davos and Aspen, they buy elections on live television, and then they go on podcasts to openly admit they want to end democratic rights, destroy regulatory authority over their activities, and transform the places we live into various types of dictatorships run by guys like them. I get that this is a lot to take in, but I should hope that watching a weird little nazi freak like Elon Musk spend $300M to elect Trump, immediately join the government, and start taking a chainsaw to every department that isn't the military or the fascist police state, might make it easier to consider the evidence in retrospect.
Look, this is a big subject; in my studies I've found the overt, direct influence of ideologically reactionary billionaires with fascist, dystopian, and religious agendas intersecting with topics like climate catastrophe, mass surveillance, reproductive rights and the natalism movement, what I would describe as a literally fucking cult for rich people in the TESCREAL movement, the anti-trans pogrom, the carceral state and forced labor, the assault on protest rights in the Pig Empire, climate change denialism, fascist internet influencers and "independent" media sources on the right, and of course elections and fascist political parties in the Pig Empire - that list is by no means exhaustive, these rich freaks have a lotta fingers in a lotta pies. If you want to understand what's going on with the Trump regime right now, why they're destroying what the right calls "the administrative state," why they're seizing control of higher education, and why expanding the powers of the fascist police state in case you get any ideas about stopping them however, then the conversation about weird fascist billionaires with horrible tech-nazi plans has to start somewhere. Let's start with the 2024 election, and the specific group of fascist tech bro billionaires that got Trump into power, and how their stated agendas line up perfectly with Project 2025 and match what we've seen the Trump regime do so far in disturbing ways.
This thirty minute video is a few months old now, and was produced after Trump was elected, but before Der Führer took office. The video is fast paced, and informative; focusing on the activities and recorded statements of hyper-reactionary tech billionaires in the Trump regime's immediate orbit, and how those actions and stated intentions are expressed in Trump's fascist agenda. The presenter names names too, including Trump, JD Vance, Peter Thiel, Marc Andresson, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Brian Armstrong, Ben Horowitz, Balaji Srivisan, and an absolute freak named Curtis Yarvin, who extremely online folks may know as Mencius Moldbug. What the producer of the video couldn't possibly have known, but we know now, is how much of Trump's destructive, authoritarian, and quite frankly illegal attempts to reshape America into his personal fascist autocracy would align perfectly with a plan written by Peter Thiel's pet fascist "philosopher" and a man these right wing extremist, weirdo billionaires literally call "the prophet." No, I am not making that up. Like I said, it's a big conversation and one we're going to keep having on an ongoing basis now that Trump appears to be speedrunning Yarvin's how to build a dictatorship checklist. This should get you started:
Dark Gothic MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America by Blonde Politics
I confess I've avoided writing about the re-emergence of the Jeff Epstein child sexual assault/elite pedophile ring scandal, even as it appears to be crashing down on President Trump's head; I'll try to explain why later on in this post. Crucially however, I don't want anyone to think the reason I'm not writing about it, is because I don't think there's anything to the scandal, or Der Leader is not involved. On the contrary, as someone who began investigating the larger Jeffrey Epstein elite pedophile ring roughly a decade ago, and has continued to follow the unfolding evidence as it pertains to Trump himself, I am quite certain it's both the most damning scandal in US political history, and that the President is guilty of things that go beyond even sexually assaulting minors and veer into something that more closely resembles human trafficking.
As I've noted on the other account - considering the preponderance of publicly available evidence, witness testimony, and a wide variety of published stories in credible mainstream media outlets, I believe and have no problem saying:
That President Donald Trump is both a pedophile, and a rapist. I believe he directly engaged in these hobbies with Jeff Epstein, as well as Prince Andrew; there is victim testimony to that effect available on the record. Epstein had many other famous clients, but I am unsure how many of them Trump did teen rapes with.
Additionally I believe Trump engaged in a trafficking operation to help supply Epstein's pedophile sex slaver right with underage victims as young as 13 years old; this was accomplished both through his Mar-A-Lago club, and a sham modeling agency he created for this purpose. Trump wasn't the only billionaire to do this, but we're talking about him now and this scandal is so big we'd be here for days if I listed every suspect.
I believe Trump is, and has been, working to cover up his involvement with the scandal; first as a rich private citizen, and then during each of his terms as President. I don't think that's even a controversial opinion anymore after Bondi's "move along, nothing to see here" statement, but it was true before now too.
Finally, and this will be a controversial point, I believe that Epstein's suicide is fishy enough, full of enough alarming coincidences, and questionable enough under the laws of physics, to be virtually impossible. Furthermore, while I do not have evidence the President killed him, if I were a fed trying to figure out who did do the deed, Trump would be my prime suspect - given his deep involvement with the Epstein minor sex trafficking ring, his prior efforts to cover up that involvement, the mysterious circumstances of Epstein's death, and his unique power as President to arrange for that kind of convenient suicide inside of a federal detention facility.
Naturally, some of you will be reaching for the close browser button at this point, and I confess that's probably part of why I'm not covering the story. The truth is I think points 1-3 at least can be easily demonstrated by referencing public mainstream reporting on the scandal, or even just perusing Epstein's Wikipedia page and following links. We'll come back to that point, but in the meantime as a show of good faith, please allow me to share two videos by credible left-leaning journalists who are absolutely not nazi conspiracy theorists - Mehdi Hasan, and Kyle Kulinksi. The first video touches on Trump's intimate relationship with Epstein, and the second video delves into the human trafficking operation I think Trump engaged in to supply "models" for Epstein's pedo rape parties.
Mehdi Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts
Please keep in mind that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and there's more evidence that Trump is every bit the monster he appears to be in this story. Which brings me back to why I really don't want to write about Der Leader's "Epstein Scandal" even if it's the first time I've legitimately seen him on the defensive in this second presidency.
The truth is there are no real secrets in the entire Epstein scandal; a lot of it is even on Wikipedia. Everything you need to know to bring down lawyers, billionaires, CEOs, political figures, multiple former and current world leaders including Trump, perhaps whole intelligence agencies has been publicly reported, and purposely ignored by a bipartisan ruling class that protects the powerful and would lose friends and allies if the guilty ever came to justice for all this monstrous bullshit.
I don't think I'd survive staring into that abyss again, knowing that nobody will ever be held accountable for the obvious reason that this has all been publicly reported and nobody has done anything at all about it. I can't.
I think I'm still pretty much out on covering the twists and turns of Trump's re-emerging Epstein scandal; despite, as I noted above being certain the President is guilty of far more than child sexual assault. Rather I believe in addition to being a pedophile rapist, Trump was actually part of the trafficking operation that supplied young girls for Epstein to victimize. However, I remain very skeptical that anyone rich or powerful is going to be held accountable for atrocious crimes against minors as young as thirteen years old; given that a solid 95% of the scandal, including names of powerful pedophiles and folks who covered up the rape island guy's operation, has been in the public sphere for years and literally nobody has gotten into a significant amount of hot water for it except Epstein himself, and his former-girlfriend turned partner in (child sex) crime(s) Ghislaine Maxwell.
Something very interesting happened last night however, that has the potential to change my mind about where this story ends. While noted fundie fascist freak Mike Johnson was literally trying to end the congressional session just to avoid a vote on releasing the "Epstein files," Democrats serving on a subcommittee that's part of the House Oversight Committee ambushed their Republican counterparts with a motion to subpoena the Epstein files; all of them, with names of victims redacted. Astonishingly, three GOP members of the subcommittee then voted with them to pass the motion.
House Subcommittee Votes To Subpoena Justice Department For Epstein Files
"Meanwhile, Democrats on a subcommittee of the powerful House Oversight Committee made a motion for the subpoena Wednesday afternoon. Three Republicans on the panel voted with Democrats for the subpoena, sending it through on an 8-2 vote tally.
The Republican subcommittee chairman, Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, said that work was beginning to draft the subpoena but did not give a timeline for when it would be issued.
“I’ve never handled a subpoena like this. This is some fascinating stuff,” said Higgins, who voted against the motion.
Democrats cheered the action as proof that their push for disclosures in the Epstein investigation was growing stronger. The committee agreed to redact information on victims, yet Democrats successfully blocked a push by Republicans to only subpoena information that was deemed to be “credible” — language that Trump has also used when discussing what he would support releasing."
So, let me start by saying that I have no idea if this means anything at all. Given the behavior of the fascist Trumpenreich, and the lengths the Swine Emperor's minions have already gone to try and hide criminal activities by various members of the executive branch, including of course Trump, I strongly suspect Bondi has a minion somewhere shredding files as we speak. Furthermore, and speaking of Bondi, I actually have no idea if the Trump regime is going to honor a subpoena at all; none of the folks working for the Justice Department are immune to consequences for ignoring a Congressional subpoena, but I have a hard time imaging Trump won't do whatever it takes to protect anyone close to him, who could also leak what they know about his double life as a pedo rapist human trafficker.
That having been said, for once Democrats actually sealed the deal and meaningfully targeted our fascist would-be Furher in the White House. The subpoena is on record, and if the government spits back obscenely redacted material, or refuses to obey Congress's order, the President and his sick nazi fuckhead enablers are going to have to explain why. I'm still not sure what hope there is for justice when an elite pedo sex ring with over a thousand (that is not a typo, I said "a thousand") victims is more or less totally exposed and not only does nobody particularly rich or powerful involved go to jail, but the US government tries to cut a sweetheart deal with the pedo rapist human trafficking blackmailer running the whole operation, just to cover it up. This shit goes deep, and it touches on so many powerful people and even institutions in our society that the ruling class establishment seems to regard it as "too big to prosecute" at best.
But I will tip my hat to Democrats for at least trying to expose the coverup, even if only to hinder our fascist president; I sure wish they felt like playing hardball this way to stop an anti-trans pogrom in progress, and our ongoing ethnic cleansing operation (now with bespoke concentration camps!). I'm too jaded for hope, but the dream of, after all these years, seeing rich and powerful people who brazenly destroyed the lives of so many girls, literal children, suffer consequences for what they have done, is not quite dead yet.