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To see an Einstein Ring like no other, check out this thread for an amazing image by the venerable NASA Webb Space Telescope.🤩 https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1142373341203620544/n

"Moreover, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act willfully.Defendants knowingly contradicted their own training materials, which listed 12 functions that the Posse Comitatus Act bars the military from performing.And they “coach[ed]” federal law enforcement agencies as to what language to use when submitting requests for assistance in an attempt to circumvent the Act."https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26080338-breyer-ruling-on-national-guard/3/n

The COVID-19 virus strain that is dominating infections is known as XFG, aka Stratus.It is a recombinant of two existing SARS-CoV-2 lineages LF.7 and LP.8.1.2.According to WHO, "the additional public health risk posed by XFG is evaluated as low at the global level. Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines are expected to remain effective to this variant against symptomatic and severe disease."https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/variants/variants-and-genomic-surveillance.htmlhttps://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6mhttps://www.aussiepharmadirect.com.au/blogs/news/new-covid-variant-xfg-what-makes-stratus-different-and-what-to-expecthttps://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/25062025_xfg_ire.pdf2/n

There are good chances for observing bright auroras tonight.The current geomagnetic storm is caused by a long-duration M2.7 flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) belched out by the Sun on Sep 30, 20:02 UTC.Of course, this is mild compared to the Carrington Event of 1859.https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/2/n

According to ESA, "the root cause was traced to a software timing bug. The function that switches the signal amplifier on and off uses an internal timer, which increments and restarts from zero every 16 months. If the function happens to be using the timer at the exact moment it restarts, the amp remains switched off."Sounds like an unsigned 32-bit counter that counts every 10 ms and rolls over in 497.1 days (~16 months) and some faulty logic like t1 > t0 + delta?https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Juice_team_resolves_anomaly_on_approach_to_Venus2/n

Map of COVID-19 vaccine availability at CVS pharmacies across states.https://www.axios.com/2025/08/29/cvs-covid-vaccines-kennedy-rfk5/n