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Snug as a bug in a rug

Pookie's #TongueOutTuesday moment (and yes, she was trying to sleep while this annoying chap was taking her picture)

These are some of my favourite things🎶

Way to go-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!

In which the Chalopede puts it together: making a working legged vehicle (many, really, why stop at one?) is barely more complex than a rudimentary workshop job: open.substack.com/pub/chaloped... The power plant, of course, is probably best assembled in a factory, if the vehicle isn't an HPV

(I Can Get So Much) SatisfactionThis Rolling Stone gathers moreopen.substack.com

Aadhaar is India's most unsightly brand, burned through the flesh of people's identity, flaying off their skin forever. Originally claimed to restrict its use only to residents, it was quickly illicitly adopted by migrants to avoid losing their inheritances.

handwiki.org/wiki/Enginee... Quite a fascinating review of real and concept soft terrain vehicles. Hare-brained, maybe? Yes, given that actual hares have legs that allow them to scoot impressively over powder soft snow. And so does the Chalopede substack.com/@chalopede

open.substack.com/pub/chaloped... Walking or running, the human world needs to get over rolling along.

The Sole of A New Machine(with apologies, and grateful thanks, to Tracy Kidder)open.substack.com

New age mosquitoes are part of the jet set. Oh, for the good old days, when it was only rats aboard sailing ships bringing the plague.

Naughty, naughty, lightning. Quite shocking what these little ones will do.

However, firing a torpedo from a submarine in the open seas, at an unarmed ship leaving a multinational naval exercises meeting, killing 87 crew, is called murder. Doesn't need West Point to figure that out, not even the graduates who were present at the meeting.