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Southern Tasmania. 10 shot stack.

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date stamped on slide, July 1982

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date stamped on slide September 1963

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Hakuba Goryu Alpine Botanical Garden
白馬五竜高山植物園・ニッコウキスゲ

Summer is finally in full swing! I’m starting to long for the refreshing air of the highlands.

いよいよ夏本番ですね！爽やかな高原が恋しくなって来ました。

Hakuba-mura, Nagano pref, Japan

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date stamped on slide, June 1986

Er stroomt de komende dagen opvallend weinig water door de Rijn. Dat vergroot de kans op watertekorten en verzilting.

De tropische storm veroorzaakte eerder dodelijke aardverschuivingen op de Filippijnen en zorgde voor schade in Japan en Taiwan. Nu zet de Chinese kustprovincie Zhejiang zich schrap voor hevige regenval en windstoten.

Illustrations inspired by Wuthering Heights (2026), written and directed by Emerald Fennell.

So yesterday the Bayeux tapestry was transported, and because of the chatter about it I learned a couple of things. The best being that there exists a replica in Reading. https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/breaking-bayeux-code-fine-details-britains-bayeux-tapestry so all you Brits, skip the lines and stroll at leisure.
Second I had forgotten all about it, but online you can zoom in and explore also at your liesure:
https://www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-tapestry/discover-the-bayeux-tapestry/explore-online/
Third is the most funny bit and is about penises. The replica in Reading, being sown by Victorian women has the human penises neatly covered by pants.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/15/never-mind-the-norman-bollocks-readings-replica-bayeux-tapestry-is-a-prudish-triumph
#bayeux #tapestry #penises #replica #reading #bayeuxtapestry

Electricity used by datacenters in Ireland increased by 10 percent during 2025, despite an effective moratorium on most new datacenter grid connections in the Dublin area. The latest figures from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that giant server farms now account for nearly a quarter of the country's metered electricity consumption. Their share rose to 23 percent in 2025 after passing 20 percent in 2023 and 14 percent in 2021 – up from just 5 percent way back in 2015. According to the CSO, the energy sucked up by massive bit barns increased by 10 percent last year, expanding from 6,973 gigawatt hours (GWh) in 2024 to 7,663 GWh in 2025. All other customers consumed just 2 percent more electricity over the same period. In fact, datacenters used more electricity than urban households, which accounted for 18 percent of metered use, and more than twice the rural-household share of 9 percent. "Datacenter consumption has grown every single year without exception, more than doubling between 2015 and 2019 from 1,240 GWh to 2,490 GWh, and tripling again between 2019 and 2025, reaching 7,663 GWh," commented Grzegorz Głaczyński, statistician in the CSO's Climate and Energy Division. Things got so bad in Ireland that at one point there were fears that the ever-expanding data dormitories might eat up as much as a third of the Emerald Isle's electricity by now. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) put an effective moratorium on connecting new server farms to the electricity grid, at least in the Dublin area, where much of the activity tends to concentrate. This was lifted in December of last year, meaning electricity consumption still rose by a tenth while the moratorium was in place for nearly all of 2025. Under stricter new regulations, server farm operators seeking a grid connection of more than 10 MW must also now provide generators or battery systems capable of providing the same power. They will be required to feed power back to the national grid, if and when required, a system already pioneered by Microsoft and Digital Realty. Like a growing number of places, Ireland has also seen protests against datacenters, which perhaps isn't surprising given that there are understood to be more than 80 of them for a relatively small country of just over 5 million people. Even in the US, the Trump administration is having to work to defuse public opposition to datacenters, asking the tech giants to commit that their expanding server farm estates won't spike energy bills or drain local water supplies across the US. ®

De wandelende Komrijcyclopedie Arie Pos is bezig met zijn magnum opus over Onze Gerrit: de ultieme en definitieve biografie. Zo'n boek heeft een Stempel van de Tijd maar bij de uitgever zit een 'zeer sensitive reader' te schrapen en te schrappen in woorden als 'homokroeg' en 'homoschrijvers'. Vraagt die knakker van de Gelderlander ook nog aan Arie: "Homokroeg en homoschrijvers of kroeg en schrijvers, wat is het verschil?" Die is zeker nog nooit met schrijvers in een kroeg geweest! Welnu, Arie brengt z'n definitieve Komrij-bio onder bij een andere uitgever (Prometheus), en z'n oude uitgever (Bezige Bij) komt met een sussende verklaring over 'suggesties die worden gedaan en spiegelende vragen die worden gesteld over teksten'. En zonder kant te kiezen in dit specifieke conflict (toch wel: Team Arie) is het gebeuren tekenend voor de zouteloze staat van de Nederlandse lieteratuuurrrr, dat grandioos ten onder gaat in het schuim van een helse golf aan Chabotisme (homoschrijver!) en Smithuijsificatie.

China successfully recovered an orbital rocket booster for the first time, landing the Long March 10B's first stage into a net-equipped sea platform after its maiden launch. "This mission marks my country's first successful controlled recovery of a launch vehicle and the world's first network-based recovery of a launch vehicle," the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced via social media shortly after the launch. (Translation by Google.) "It signifies a historic breakthrough for my country in the field of reusable rocket technology and will lay a solid foundation for accelerating the improvement of my country's space access capabilities." Space.com reports: The Long March 10B is a two-stage rocket that stands about 207 feet (63 meters) tall, according to the state-owned CASC, the main contractor for China's space program. The vehicle's first stage burns kerosene and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellants, whereas the second stage uses LOX and liquid methane. In reusable mode, the Long March 10B can loft about 16 tons of payload to low Earth orbit.

And the rocket flew with a payload on its debut liftoff -- a satellite that successfully reached "its predetermined orbit," according to the CASC update. That post did not provide any details about the spacecraft or its orbit. It did give a brief rundown of the first-stage recovery, however. "Approximately 6 minutes after the first and second stages separated, the first stage returned vertically and was successfully recovered at a sea-based recovery platform using a net system," CASC officials wrote, noting that launch occurred from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site on Friday at 12:15 a.m. EDT (0415 GMT; 12:15 p.m. Beijing time.) "The launch and first-stage recovery missions were a complete success."

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For the past few days, he has been unsubtly trying to write this story, the Tom Junod profile. Perhaps that explains why he steered his sensible midsize SUV to an eerie graveyard. (He knows texture.) And, of course, he quickly finds the most dramatic detail, the headstone of a dead infant. "Huh," Tom says. "Looks like Clara had one day." [Esquire; ungated]

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Dat voetballers er niet vies van zijn om af en toe een sneer uit te delen aan hun tegenstander mag als bekend verondersteld worden. De hilarische beelden die opduiken na de kwartfinale tussen Spanje en België onderstrepen dat eens te meer. Op de beelden is te zien hoe de Spanjaarden plagerig de Kabouterdans doen, een verwijzing naar een van de meest invloedrijke personen in België: Kabouter Plop.

Na de wedstrijd werd direct duidelijk dat de Spaanse spelers het dansje goed hadden ingestudeerd, toen direct na het laatste fluitsignaal de spelers bij de achterlijn in een choreografie uitbarstten. In de kleedkamer ging het nog eens onverminderd verder, zo is te zien op beelden die vandaag op social media rondgaan en waarop is te zien hoe middenvelders Rodri en Pedri vrolijk rondstappen als een gans.

Het toppunt van vertier wordt bereikt wanneer trainer Luis de la Fuente, die speciaal voor de gelegenheid zijn lichtgrijze baard wat langer heeft laten staan, de kleedkamer binnenkomt en Lamine Yamal een Kabouter Plopmuts op zijn hoofd zet. “Plopperdeplopperdeplop”, kraait Marc Cucurella het hartstochtelijk uit. Alsof ze het al jaren doen gaat de voltallige selectie en staf in perfecte synchronisatie zitten met een zucht.

Het mag dan allemaal bedoeld zijn als plagerijtje, de Belgen kunnen er niet mee lachen. “Dat bij ons een mallotige Kabouter de scepter zwaait, daar kunnen wij niets aan doen”, moppert Kevin de Bruyne.

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Regional authorities said more than one and a half dozen drones were destroyed during the attack.