Del - Martian Observer

"Where is Strait of Hormuz?"

"Strait of Hormuz how get around?"

"Strait of Hormuz, alternative?"

could be a big breasted albino turkey?

Firefighters lining up a ladder ready to install nesting boxes

Firefighter on a ladder installing house martin nesting boxes

Firefighters in Charlbury have installed house martin nesting boxes as part of ladder practice. The boxes were fixed below eaves awaiting the arrival of the birds later this month. Charlbury Wildlife Society reports the martins are already regulars at (the eaves of) the nearby Rose & Crown pub.

Fox from the bronx, fox from the shires, they don't get on at first, but… much to the chagrin of her long time wannabe-boyfriend and leader of the local gang who keeps bugging her

Oooh? Might there be a local lady fox involved?

No one wants this but the people who want to squeeze money out of you every moment of your life. No one.

😁 Just trying to complete his story arc and work in a bunch of characters he meets at the Bronx Zoo

They said they weren't going, yesterday

I like to think maybe he was doing a runner after some scam involving a dodgy crow mafia family went TITSUP and he decided to bin it all for a new life in the Americas

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

Star Wars descends on North East town to celebrate museum's toy exhibition The costumed volunteers were there to promote the touring exhibition, which comes to Alnwick from March until May

Lord Vader of Cheam marches to Alnwick police station after his TIE fighter was clamped while he was shopping in Barter Books, only to be told that “it’s a civil matter, sir”.

“Do you know who I am?” he asks the desk sergeant.

“Also sir, this is not the Death Star canteen sketch”.

image alt-text: A red fox hovers near a bowl of food in a promotional image distributed by the Wildlife Conservation Society Story-text: Sly fox sneaks onto cargo ship in Southampton and arrives in New York By Brandon Drenon A red fox that sneaked onto a cargo ship off the coast of Southampton has successfully made it thousands of miles across the Atlantic and is now in the care of the Bronx Zoo in New York. The zoo said on Wednesday that the fox - a two-year-old male weighing roughly 11lb (5kg) - is currently in the Animal Health Center with animal and veterinary teams. "Once the veterinary team determines that the fox is healthy, the zoo will work with wildlife experts to identify an appropriate long-term home for the animal," the zoo said in a press release. The fox was detected among the ship's cargo by US officials at the Port of New York and New Jersey, and was brought to the Bronx Zoo on 19 February. It is not clear how the animal managed to gain access to the ship while it was docked at the English port city. The zoo said initial examinations suggested the fox appeared to be in good health and that additional results from a separate routine health screening were pending. "He seems to be settling in well," Keith Lovett, the zoo's director of animal programs, told the Associated Press. "It's gone through a lot."

A spokesperson for Associated British Ports (ABP) Southampton said: "The Port of Southampton handles everything from cars to containers to cruises, but even we were surprised to find a fox had booked itself a transatlantic crossing. "Clearly it fancied swapping the Solent for the Staten Island Ferry. Though next time we'd recommend it considers the Queen Mary 2, which offers the Southampton to New York route with considerably more comfort!" According to the Bronx Zoo, red foxes are among the most widespread carnivorous mammals in the world. Known for their reddish coat and white-tipped bushy tail, they are found across Europe, Asia, North America, and parts of Africa. The red fox's remarkable adaptability allows them to thrive in environments ranging from forests and grasslands to urban areas, the zoo said, feeding off everything from fruits to rodents.

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Sly fox sneaks onto cargo ship in Southampton and arrives in New York The animal that stowed away on the vessel is now in the care of the Bronx Zoo with veterinary staff.

A Southampton city fox managed to sneak aboard a cargo ship docked in the port and stay undetected until the ship arrived at the Port of New York and New Jersey, where he was detained by officials and sent to the Bronx Zoo

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Apple patches older iPhones and iPads against Coruna exploits ​Apple has released security updates to patch older iPhones and iPads against a set of vulnerabilities targeted in cyberespionage and crypto-theft attacks using the Coruna exploit kit.

​Apple has released security updates to patch older iPhones and iPads against a set of vulnerabilities targeted in cyberespionage and crypto-theft attacks using the Coruna exploit kit.

Some stars and some background clouds.

Another random field in NGC 1977 with #JWST MIRI (F560W, F770W, F1000W)
www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

JNCE_2019202_21C00017_V01 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Jupiter - PJ21-17 - Detail - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2gFmvSi

A cometary globule extends in front of a field of stars, showing what seems like an open mouth towards a distant galaxy in the background. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 CG 4: The Globule and the Galaxy

Image Credit & Copyright: William Vrbasso

Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

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Colder air marches south over the next 18 hours 📉

This air is coming from the Arctic, so the temperatures will plummet🌡️

Whilst snow will mostly be restricted to hills in the north, some showers of snow, sleet or hail will be more widespread, perhaps even in the south ❄️

Good. By the time someone discusses mental health with their GP, they are inevitably in a pretty bad place. Many people have responsibly over other’s lives at work. Do you really someone making critical decisions when they desperately need help themselves?

Thank you for always having my back

- me, to a monkey

From Morrissey: Valencia March 12 2026 Tonight scheduled show in Valencia has been rendered impossible due to sleep deprivation. Morrissey drive from Milan to Valencia but has been unable to rest in Valencia due to noise. The show is not cancelled. Circumstances render the show impossible

Have a fucking nanna nap, you daft racist old bitch.

A colorful nebula with clouds of gas in shades of orange, yellow, and blue, dotted with bright stars against the dark background of space

Meet the Medusa Nebula!

As the star at its heart reached the end of its life, it shed its outer layers into space, forming this colourful cloud. The image foreshadows the final fate of the Sun, which will also become an object of this kind.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1520/

🔭
📷 ESO

Star Trek: The Prime Directive says we must not interfere whatsoever, except maybe this one time...

Stargate:

It's darkly funny that the reaction to the most weaksauce #TimeToTalk esque Mental Health Awareness has been a societal reaction against people actually taking their mental health seriously.

I bet 😬

A closer view featuring the rock abrasion, a shallow disc ground into the surface to reveal the underlying granular structure.

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Sol 1,797 (11th March, 2026)

A closer look at the abrasion

MastCam-Z (left) @ 11:49 lmst
S/d: 87/0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS / Martian-Observer

A large outcrop of rock, overshadowed by part of the rover, exhibits a fresh abrasion on one of its dark uneven sloping surfaces - light toned debris dust has fallen across the rock surface beneath it.

NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Sol 1,796 (10th March, 2026)

Crop from a navcam showing the rover's latest rock abrasion

NavCam (right) @ 12:32 lmst - cropped
S/d: 87/0
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Martian-Observer

Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.

It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

The selfie mosaic captured yesterday by Perseverance can also be explored on marslife.org

#Mars 🧪🔭