✈️ #Aurora will be capable of flying at very high speeds (of up to Mach 3.5 km/h) and of reaching suborbital altitudes beyond the #Karman line 🌌. #DawnAerospace stated that it expects commercial deliveries of the ‘Aurora’ to start in 📆 2027 https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/dawn-aerospace-starts-accepting-orders-for-aurora-suborbital-aircraft

#spaceplane

🇫🇷 French #spaceplane startup #AndroMach announced that it had received a #CNES contract to begin testing an early prototype of its Banger v1 rocket engine. Test flights will begin in early 📆 2027 https://europeanspaceflight.com/cnes-awards-contract-to-french-spaceplane-startup

@paspro

Scientist: "We've detected an asteroid heading towards us that has a 98.7% probability of colliding with Earth in 28 days. In the event of an asteroid strike, the probability of life on Earth becoming extinct within a century is 100%."

Engineer: "Here's a plan on how we can quickly manufacture and launch a series of missiles to deflect the asteroid."

Democrat: "But how will we pay for it?"

Republican: "Asteroids aren't real."

This is indeed what they are going to do if we don’t stop them.

#Politics #USPolitics

Ο καραγκιόζης Μασκ έπεισε τους ηλίθιους που εργάζονται για αυτόν να αποκτήσει νομική εξουσία στα σπίτια τους.
Μια νέα Φορντλάντια ξεπροβάλλει.
Καλή τύχη ανεγκέφαλοι..

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/04/world/politics/elon-musk-texas-city/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/the-fbis-arrest-of-judge-hannah-dugan-is-a-bid-to-silence-dissent
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully

*The FBI's arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan is a bid to silence dissent.* What's more, the FBI agents went there to break up a court hearing and it was the judge's responsibility to enable the hearing to finish. Her action was in service to the legal system; the bully's henchmen, as usual, were acting to make it collapse.

Russell Brand granted conditional bail after appearing in London court on rape and assault charges
https://apnews.com/article/russell-brand-sexual-assault-charges-court-6b7187e8bd82fba282a29d9f78945069?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress

Αριστούργημα. #δεν_σας_έχουν_για_ηλίθιους_είστε

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if every four years you must vote to keep out fascism, you’re not living in a democracy, you’re living under siege.

Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. Either democracies have constitutional protections (and a system of democratic institutions to enforce them) to ensure fascism can never be voted into power or they are just fascisms in waiting.

Giving credit where credit is due.

Hey Donold, Joe Biden brought Brittney Griner home from a Russian gulag, but you can’t bring home Kilmar Abrego García? You gonna let Joe be a better dealmaker than you?

On Tuesday night, Judge Susan Crawford was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a decisive 10-point margin, a rebuke of Elon Musk, who spent $20 million in an attempt to buy the seat. And that's just the beginning. For more progressive victories, don't miss this edition of the Week In Wins. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-april-6

The Greek Orthodox Church always on the side of evil.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/03/25/archbishop-elpidophoros-of-america-gifts-president-trump-holy-cross-compares-him-to-constantine-the-great/

"Retain users with convenience, honesty, and kindness."
This is at the core of what we do at @thunderbird and it drives our features implementation.
Sometimes we fail at that, we're aware of it, but we're human and we always try to do better.

Check the whole open session about our roadmap process here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfUO9C_6tw

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/vladimir-putin-accept-ceasefire-ukraine-kremlin-russia-donald-trump

Ukraine has accepted the bully's demand for a temporary cease-fire with Russia. If Putin accepts that, it will put Ukraine in an even worse situation. It would be easy for a cease-fire to extend slowly into annexation of the territory already conquered. However, Ukraine's control of Russian territory in Kursk may help

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-america-stands-with-ukraine?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg

US citizens: tell Congress that America stands with Ukraine.

An ancient Greek statue destroyed and marked with a cross by the Christians responsible for the end of the ancient Greek civilisation, Philosophy, Science, Medicine and democratic ideology. Greece never recovered from this invasion.
#Christianity #Greece