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Saturday, March 23, 2024
RECOMMENDED VIDEO: NEUTRON STARS ARE MORE BIZARRE THAN YOU THINK.
They are called neutron stars because, well, their gravitational pressure is so gigantic that atomic nuclei and their electrons are forced onto one another and combine to form neutrons. Further collapse is prevented by a phenomenon called neutron degeneracy pressure.
Nite.
MFBB.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
THE UNITED KINGDOM IS LOST AND GONE FOR GOOD.
An adhan in the Houses of Parliament:
England is lost.
— Fr Calvin Robinson (@calvinrobinson) March 14, 2024
Not by defeat in battle. Nor by a strong conquering force. But by cowardly men.
Weak and feeble politicians, and a traitorous metropolitan liberal elite.
Shame.https://t.co/7zqxEj3jQR
Cambridge University warns visitors to the Fitzwilliam Museum that viewing 200-year old paintings of bucolic "Ur-British landscapes", among them works by Constable, may inspire 'dark nationalistic feelings'.
The citizens of the United Kingdom are under a full-scale siege by forces that seek to cut off any remaining avenue of dignity or pride in one's country.
— Western Exile (@westernexile) March 15, 2024
The University of Cambridge is now attacking depictions of the British countryside itself as 'dark nationalism'.
Now why… pic.twitter.com/2fdkhSwlH5
There's about 500 mosques in London, yet they feel they have to pray in the streets. It's a signal, it's intimidation. When you want to sing gospel songs, however...
While Muslim immigrants in London can do whatever they want, Christians are persecuted by British police. https://t.co/B3THcL7z9z pic.twitter.com/NeahvR0Lfp
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 9, 2024
There are many more signs that Great Britain has effectively become Small Britain - think of Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, setting up a 100 million £ fund for reparations for the sin of slavery (never mind that the UK actually ABOLISHED the slave trade), the guy who was arrested for putting up stickers warning of White Britons becoming a minority by 2060 etc... but let's leave it at this for today. It's too depressing.
At some point we will have to take up arms. And use them.
MFBB.
Saturday, March 16, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND, LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM.
English rock band which formed in 1971 and still around, despite a hiatus between 1987 and 1991. Lead man Manfred Mann (real name Manfred Sepse Lubowitz) was born in South Africa.
Lindsey Buckingham with Trouble. From his debut solo album Law and Order (1981).
Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1977, together with his then partner Stevie Nicks, and it's impossible to imagine Rumours (1977) and its success without them.
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
Saturday, March 02, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT FOO FIGHTERS, ABC.
In the elevator, Grohl hears a muzak version (i.e. lift music) of the FF hit Big Me, performed by The Moog Cookbook, some kind of US version of Daft Punk.
ABC with All Of My Heart. From their debut album The Lexicon of Love (1982). You read that right, 42 years old already. And still good!
English pop band, ex Vice Versa, which formed in Sheffield in 1980. The classic line-up consisted of lead vocalist Martin Fry, guitarist/keyboardist Mark White, saxophonist Stephen Singleton, and drummer David Palmer.
Bonne nuit.
MFBB.
Friday, March 01, 2024
RECOMMENDED VIDEO: INSIDE THE ME262 JET FIGHTER.
And while I'm at it, you might want to check out Dan Sharp's "ME262 - Development and Politics":
Nite.
MFBB.
Saturday, February 24, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT MAC DEMARCO, EDITORS.
Canadian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, known for his preference for vintage guitars and synthesizers.
Editors with Munich. From their 2005 debut album The Back Room.
Indie rock band from Brum. Tom Smith is lead singer, songwriter, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist.
Dobranoc.
MFBB.
Friday, February 23, 2024
INTUITIVE MACHINES' ODYSSEUS LANDER TOUCHES DOWN ON MOON.
Today, for the first time in half a century, America has returned to the Moon 🇺🇸.
— Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) February 23, 2024
On the eighth day of a quarter-million-mile voyage, @Int_Machines aced the landing of a lifetime.
What a feat for IM, @SpaceX & @NASA.
What a triumph for humanity.
Odysseus has taken the Moon. pic.twitter.com/JwtCQmMS2K
Intuitive Machines is a participant in NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Programme, another contender being Astrobotic, which in January launched Peregrine, an attempt to reach the Moon that unfortunately failed due to an anomaly shortly after launch. Astrobotic will do a follow up later this year though with a second lander, Griffin.
After IM's confirmation that Odysseus was standing upright and sending data...
After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data.
— Intuitive Machines (@Int_Machines) February 23, 2024
Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.
...photos failed to come through though. Apparently the camera didn't deploy during descent. I suppose IM's engineer right now are hard at work to solve that problem though. In any case, with this successful landing on the heels of Japans and India's lunar landers, it's clear that interest for our celestial neighbor is finally back to late 60s/early 70s levels, and hopefully we will finally see a Moon Base in the very near future!
MFBB.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
THE RESULT OF MULTICULTI INSANITY: MASSIVE RIOTS IN THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS.
Here's who devastated The Hague yesterday. We hope that this video can contribute to identification and deportation. pic.twitter.com/46Z9f1okxa
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) February 18, 2024
Het open grenzen-beleid heeft ons land totaal verwoest. Grenzen dicht en dit tuig uitzetten. Nu.
— Raisa Blommestijn (@rblommestijn) February 17, 2024
pic.twitter.com/vHmflh8slr
The Hague - Last night, foreign paramilitaries burned down the city. Deportations must start today 🇳🇱🥷 pic.twitter.com/zRQnJ23Okt
— 🇬🇧RonEnglish🇬🇧🏴 (@RonEng1ish) February 18, 2024
UPDATE: o.a. door het brandende politiebusje tegen de gevel is ook in het pand van de #Opera brand ontstaan. De brandweer heeft opgeschaald naar 'zeer grote brand'. #Grip2 #Fruitweg https://t.co/aG13e1Al7b pic.twitter.com/ucFUUeX8Qh
— Regio15.nl (@regio15) February 17, 2024
Relschoppers uit Eritrea dringen het Opera gebouw in Den Haag binnen. Ramen worden vernield.pic.twitter.com/CxHFMJOaTg
— Kees (@Kees71234) February 17, 2024
Oorlogsgebied met dank aan de ongelimiteerde import van de derde wereld. pic.twitter.com/5Fz79anZPu
— Symphony (@Symphony_res) February 17, 2024
Multiculturalism is a LIE, invented by leftists after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was the grand bankruptcy of all their delusional ideas, but every time they are proven wrong, they start looking for another cause to sow unrest and hatred, another group of purported victims they can claim to protect. That group was quickly found, had in fact already been on their radar for decades: the Third World. The only reason most of the Third World is a shithole is because WE keep them there, according to socialists, greens, democrats or whatever you want to call these lowlives. And the grand operation to sluice the downtrodden of the Earth towards the West began. Here at last they could benefit from all the riches we had stolen from them.
Not content with the speed of the influx, even after Madwoman Merkel's throwing open the borders of Germany, they doctored the 'UN Global Compact for Safe and Regulated Migration', which went into effect in 2018. The results are appalling. Europe is being flooded day and night with thousands of welfare seekers who can't, and won't, contribute anything of value to our continent.
It is in fact a naked power grab by Europe's leftists and greens, aimed at neutralizing the votes of autochton electorates which vote more an more rightwing - not unlike the Biden government letting some 150,000 Latin Americans in each month with the aim of keeping the GOP from power eternally.
The results of such insane policies were on full display in The Hague yesterday. Politicians who allow and facilitate the import of this scum... actually deserve to be shot.
MFBB.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
WEEKEND MOVIE TIP: DONNIE DARKO (2001).
And the soundtrack comprising material from Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Tears for Fears, INXS et al was just the icing on the cake!
Go watch it, you won't be disappointed. Nite.
MFBB.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
WEEKEND MOVIE TIP: MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001).
And then I didn't.
And lucky me.
Mulholland Drive tells the story of Betty Elms, an aspiring young actress who arrives in LA only to find an amnesiac woman calling herself Rita in her apartment. I am not going to say more but remember, get past that 3/4 treshold. Besides, Rita has great tits.
Let's say I give it an 8.5/10 score. See it. Nite.
MFBB.
Friday, February 09, 2024
RECOMMENDED VIDEO: INSIDE THE VOUGHT F4U-4 CORSAIR.
...that, thanks to the movie Devotion (such a shame it tanked), finds itself in the spotlights again!
Some more info here. Good night.
MFBB.
Saturday, February 03, 2024
WEEKEND MOVIE TIP: TRACK 29 (1988).
It's a psychological drama directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring a.o. the beautiful Theresa Russell (at the time Roegs spouse) and Gary Oldman. Russell plays Linda Henry, a doctor's wife in rural Wilmington, North Carolina, who leads a dispiriting life and feels neglected by her husband, a doctor in a local hospital. Then a young drifter shows up, Martin, who claims to be her son, separated at birth from her since as a teen mom she was judged incapable of caring for her baby; and she never had children afterwards.
All rather intriguing and then there's the final Shyamalan twist at the end. See it if you can, it's okay.
Nite.
MFBB.