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Polar King, an occasional visitor to the test site at Severny, Novaya Zemlya (but not for a few years) may transit the Irish sea in the coming weeks, en route to Turkey.

It's no Geolog Pechkurov, but still, I'm kind of tempted to try and get a look.
January 25, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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NUKEMAP is apparently making guest appearances on the London metro, to the surprise of many (including me — but I explicitly make it clear people can use its imagery for whatever without asking me!)
Sympa la version londonienne des p'tits poèmes du métro
January 24, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Experts who have followed authoritarian regimes abroad can tell you a lot about day-after reprisals to mass movements, which look a hell of a lot like today's killing
January 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Defence Forces retires ‘disastrous’ armoured fleet as it looks to French replacements

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Defence Forces retires ‘disastrous’ armoured fleet as it looks to French replacements
South African-made Light Armoured Tactical Vehicles saw minimal operational use since they were acquired in 2010
www.irishtimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 AM
USAF C-17 up from Shannon, RAF Rivet Joint across Irish airspace, US C130J possibly on the way to Shannon.

Guesses: C17 movement might be related to Trumps stopover last night, C130 making a fuel stop & RAF Rivet Joint (ZZ664) is going to the US for servicing/training, so not an operational sortie.
January 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Plenty for C285 to look at today.
January 23, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Watched this yesterday and it cheered me right up; completely absurd and insane - but in a good way - as opposed to *gestures at world*
I know the world seems terrible, but also, this happened www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJx...
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 AM
🎶Over the dumps
Over the docks
There is a sun
There is a sun🎶
January 22, 2026 at 10:12 PM
I wonder what is behind this track of the Progress (273278840) in the Med - went north yesterday and current status is "Drifting". Initially slowed off Algeria, before going north.
January 22, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Based on pictures by the French Armed Forces, it looks like at least two warships were present when the GRINCH was boarded.
January 22, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Kind of interesting that it's the French are the first to choose a harder approach.

Seems the tanker in question is Grinch. If her AIS is correct this happened in the Western Mediterranean.

www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
January 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
January 22, 2026 at 2:55 PM
IRL286 Returning to Ramstein again today
January 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM
An interesting detour, but presumably just another case of waiting out the deteriorating conditions in the Bay of Biscay - not a sanctioned vessel itself, but staying outside Irish 12NM limit perhaps because the cargo aboard may be subject to sanctions.
January 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Another visit to Ramstein by IRL286.
January 21, 2026 at 8:19 PM
January 20, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
January 20, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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He was a Communist, Elmo.
January 19, 2026 at 9:59 PM
If Trump sees Aurora Borealis tonight and posts something about it being a sign from god that the United States (he) must possess Greenland, I am leaving this planet.
January 19, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Orion and the Pleiades in the green bands, again, this is looking south from my latitude.
January 19, 2026 at 9:53 PM
GO OUTSIDE!!!!!
January 19, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Initial green bands dissipated, reds showing up now
January 19, 2026 at 9:28 PM