black cats don't give you bad luck but hating black cats does in the form of my fists
... The newly discovered black-widow binary, designated ZTF J1406+1222 (the numbers refer to its coordinates on the sky), is the tightest black-widow binary known, with the pulsar and the companion locked in an orbital dance with a period of just 62 minutes. There's also a third star in the system on a very wide orbit of 10,000 years. ...
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An immigration raid has been told to fuck off in Edinburgh tonight. Well done everyone.
if we send this up on one of our spacecraft the aliens are gonna be so fuckin confused
goddamn her voice is gorgeous
black cats don't give you bad luck but hating black cats does in the form of my fists
Should I ever visit Japan, I’m sure I’d have a hard time learning much of the language beforehand. Tonight I decided the above would have to be one of the phrases I’d master, as an apology for my being yet another typical Western non-speaker of Japanese. I figure it’s archaic enough in its self-deprecation to be amusing, esp comin’ outta an old lady’s mouth XD
MPFC S03E01 - Whicker’s World
The premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested in a sting operation in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and money laundering.
The BVI governor, John Rankin, confirmed in a statement that Andrew Fahie had been arrested on Thursday morning, saying: “I realise this will be shocking news for people in the territory. And I would call for calm at this time.”
Court papers filed in Florida alleged Fahie, who was also referred to as “head coach”, was involved in conspiracy to import at least 5kg of cocaine and money laundering between 16 October last year and 28 April 2022.
DEA agents allege in the documents that Oleanvine and Kadeem Maynard agreed with undercover agents – who were posing as members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel – to set up a meeting between Lebanese Hezbollah operatives and Fahie in order to establish a place to store thousands of kilograms of drugs arriving from Colombia.
The plan offered by the agents was to store the drug, bundled inside 5kg buckets of paint, in the BVI for one or two days before shipment to Miami or New York, the papers said.
Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard were arrested at a Miami airport after being invited by undercover agents to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash that BVI officials expected to receive for their part in the alleged plot, the court papers alleged. ...