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Russia’s war against Ukraine

Psychologists aid residents in a yard of an apartment building hit by a Russian drone strike on Oct. 26, 2025 in Kyiv. A nighttime Russian drone attack on Kyiv damaged apartment buildings, injured residents, including children, and killed three people. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian drone attack targets residential buildings in Kyiv, killing civilians. Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv overnight Oct. 26, killing three people and injuring at least 32, including seven children, in strikes on residential buildings.

Ukraine retakes 2 villages in Donetsk Oblast near Dobropillia. Ukrainian forces liberated two villages in eastern Donetsk Oblast about 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of embattled Pokrovsk, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on Oct. 26.

Ukrainian drones target Moscow in overnight attack, mayor says. Moscow’s Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports temporarily suspended operations in response to the drone threat.

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‘More to come,’ HUR says, as sabotage fires spread across Russia. Russia faces an increase in the arson and “spontaneous combustion” of electrical panels, railway relay cabinets, and other infrastructure helping Moscow wage its war against Ukraine over the past week, a source at Ukraine’s military intelligence told the Kyiv Independent.

Russia says it tested nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile. “It’s a unique product that no one else in the world possesses,” Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed.

Ukraine destroys Russian Buk air defense system worth $45 million, military says. Ukraine’s “Black Forest” brigade detected and struck a Russian Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system at an unspecified location.

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Ukraine war latest: 3 killed, 32 injured in Kyiv amid Russian drone attack on residential buildings

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 26 that Russia had launched more than 50 missiles, nearly 1,200 strike drones, and more than 1,360 guided bombs against Ukraine this week.

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At least 9 killed, 45 injured in Russian strikes across Ukraine over the past day. At least nine civilians were killed and 44 others injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day, regional authorities reported on Oct. 26.

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Lithuania closes border with Belarus indefinitely after balloons violate airspace for 3rd night in row. “Contraband” balloons launched from Belarus have disrupted air traffic four times in the last week. Lithuania has closed border crossings with Belarus for “an indefinite period” in response.

Ukraine Action Summit meets in Washington, calls for return of abducted children, security guarantees. “We bring people together to learn… to educate themselves and to use their voices to speak to their elected officials to support Ukraine,” Marianna Tretiak, Chair of the American Coalition for Ukraine (ACU) Board, told the Kyiv Independent.

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Se fa troppo freddo, o è troppo umido, o è troppo caldo per andare in bicicletta, allora è generalmente troppo freddo, o è troppo umido, o è troppo caldo per uscire. Quando le strade sono ben progettate, non si è più in balia delle intemperie quando si va in bicicletta di quanto lo si sia quando si cammina.

I Paesi Bassi e la Danimarca sono abitualmente caratterizzati da inverni molto freddi, ma una buona gestione delle condizioni, inclusa la rimozione della neve dalle principali piste ciclabili, garantisce che la bicicletta rimanga un mezzo di trasporto pratico per la maggior parte delle persone. Le persone continuano a camminare quando piove, fa freddo o fa caldo, e continuano anche ad andare in bicicletta. Le ricerche suggeriscono che nelle città con infrastrutture ciclabili di alta qualità, le persone continuano ad andare in bicicletta regolarmente anche in caso di maltempo. È solo nelle località con reti ciclabili scadenti o assenti che i livelli di ciclabilità diminuiscono in caso di maltempo.

Anche se in alcuni luoghi le condizioni sono talmente estreme che andare in bicicletta risulta davvero difficile, per la maggior parte dei luoghi questo non è vero e non giustifica in alcun modo la mancanza di un ambiente sicuro e piacevole per andare in bicicletta.

Cycling Fallacies - the weather isnt right

This article explain why the weather count or not when cycling

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“I don’t know where to begin”. Difficile immaginare una confessione più disarmata, per uno che di mestiere fa il cantastorie. Scoprirsi così sopraffatti da aver perso le parole. Da aver paura persino di affrontare il silenzio... Leggi e ascolta...

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Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (2015)

“I don’t know where to begin”. Difficile immaginare una confessione più disarmata, per uno che di mestiere fa il cantastorie. Scoprirsi così sopraffatti da aver perso le parole. Da aver paura persino di affrontare il silenzio. Difficile immaginarlo soprattutto per uno come Sufjan l’eclettico, quello del giro dell’America in cinquanta album e delle lettere aperte a Miley Cyrus su Tumblr. Ma in “Carrie & Lowell” le cose sono diverse: “Questo non è il mio progetto artistico. Questa è la mia vita”. E il gioco dei trasformismi lascia il posto alla carne e al sangue dell’esperienza... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/04…

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di Gabriele Benzing “I don’t know where to begin”. Difficile immaginare una confessione più disarmata, per uno che di mestiere fa il can...

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Food and farming companies will claim agriculture is the solution to the climate crisis at the Brazil summit — even though food drives a third of global warming.

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30 - DeSmog

^{Hazel Healy (DeSmog)}

The decision follows mounting evidence that wild animals are not just passengers in climate discussions but are powerful actors. From elephants dispersing the seeds of carbon-dense trees, to whales enhancing oceanic carbon pumps, wild animals shape the health and carbon-storage capacity of ecosystems across land and sea.

Wild animals officially recognised as solutions to climate change - Oceanographic

The role of wild animals as enablers of natural solutions to climate change was recognised at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

^{Rob Hutchins (Oceanographic Magazine)}

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/its-not-about-security-its-about-control-how-eu-governments-want-to-encrypt-their-own-comms-but-break-our-private-chats

Specifically, Teams will detect if the user has connected to the company's own Wi-Fi and automatically set the work location accordingly to the respective building.

Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December

Microsoft Teams makes presence fiction in home office more difficult: With an update, the platform will track an employee's location via the office Wi-Fi.

^{Stefan Krempl (heise online)}

I cannot believe the incredible sarcasm put forth by city services. I hope I managed to capture it in this photograph.

I mean, if there was barbed wire on top of an exclusionary plywood wall that said "compassion" in some movie somewhere, it would be rightly criticized as being heavy-handed.

Thanks for seeing my work.

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First off, I have already installed and am happy with (I don't need any suggestions for these):
- Fennec (browser)
- Heliboard (keyboard, it's awesome!)
- Aves (image gallery)
- AntennaPod (podcasts)
- DAVx^5^ + Etar (calendar)
- Fossify Calendar looks nice, but is less functional in my opinion (you can't see the full name of events in month view!)
- Joplin (notes)
- CalcYou (calculator)
- Breezy Weather
- CoMaps
- Thunderbird (email)
- Material Files (file manager)
- Chrono (alarms, timers, etc.)
- ConnectYou (contacts)
- Fossify Messages (SMS)
- also considering Quik SMS, does it have any advantages over Fossify?
- Moshidon (Mastodon)
- RSS feed reader (Feeder + CapyReader, one of the two probably, both are great)
- Image Toolbox
- My self-hosted stuff (Nextcloud and Immich)
- KeePassDX (password manager)
- Ente Auth (2FA)

I currently need:
- music player (Metro and Vanilla Music are both unmaintained, so those are out. I've also found Auxio, CuteMusic, Lotus, and Phocid as options. Are there any other good ones? I want local playback, not stuff using YT Music)
- Lemmy client (Jerboa crashes when trying to log in for some reason, I've heard Thunder might be good?)
- are there any other apps I should look at?

Another thing, is there a guide to what all the settings in Heliboard do? It's kind of overwhelming. One thing I have changed is the "bottom padding" to make the space bar a bit up, since I accidentally press "c" and "v" way too often when trying to hit space. Also, being able to enable the number row is pretty cool!

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2 years of posting Haaretz articles about how Al Aqsa Flood was part of Netanyahu's master plan without self-reflection has me doubting their motives

Fun looking at China and seeing plans for the future, while here, it's nothing but grift for the foreseeable future.

Port electrification follows a predictable sequence. The first stage replaces diesel cranes, trucks, and yard equipment with electric systems. The second extends to tugs and harbor craft. The third, which is now underway in China, reaches inland and short-sea vessels. The fourth will see ports functioning as full energy hubs, feeding deep-sea hybrids and stabilizing regional grids. Every stage builds on the one before it. Once the ground vehicles and cranes switch to electric drive, high-capacity chargers and energy management systems are already in place. Those same assets can serve harbor craft and ships. Electrification propagates by infrastructure reuse.

The Yangtze River has become a living demonstration of this process. It connects the interior manufacturing centers of Chongqing, Wuhan, and Yichang with the export hubs of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Ningbo. Along its length, the physical river has been matched by a set of electrical arteries. Two of them, the Changji–Guquan and Hami–Chongqing UHVDC transmission lines, deliver more than 30 TWh of renewable power each year from the deserts and plateaus of the west to the dense industrial east. Together they provide up to 8 GW of clean capacity directly into the Yangtze corridor. These ultra-high-voltage direct current lines are the spine of a new energy geography, making clean electrons available where cargo and industry already cluster. Without that grid backbone, even the most efficient electric ship would be an isolated experiment.

There's tremendous irony regarding one point ...

This is against a backdrop of radical change in shipping volumes. 40% of all tonnage is of fossil fuels and all are in structural decline. Another 15% is raw iron ore, also in structure decline. Population growth is slowing and the global population is expected to peak between 2050 and 2070. While container shipping will continue to grow, it won’t be growing nearly as fast as bulks decline.

The Yangtze River Is Becoming the World’s Largest Electrified Trade Corridor - CleanTechnica

The Yangtze corridor is emerging as the world’s largest clean-energy trade route, powered by HVDC, solar, and battery-electric vessels.

^{Michael Barnard (CleanTechnica)}