the second body
same stripes, no sting
second bodies
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On 20 October 2026 Gellert Global Group, a New Jersey importer of Canadian cheese, asked the U.S. Court of International Trade to block 50% tariffs on Canadian goods. No ruling is reported.
AP: “The president’s Section 338 tariff authority had never been used in a trade dispute, let alone tested in court.”
source: liberty justice center source: ap -
On 20 October 2026 Vulture quoted Romain Gavras on AI remakes of the Storm video: “It made me sad for all the people who put in so much work on our video.”
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NASA Earth Observatory published on 21 October 2026 an image, taken on 14 October, of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias as an extratropical cyclone: “These low-pressure systems often feature asymmetrical, comma-shaped cloud patterns.”
source: nasa earth observatory -
NASA’s 14 October 2026 release says a black-hole outburst, then two galaxy clusters colliding, likely re-energised an old radio cloud, the “Treble Clef”. NASA calls its musical shape “a case of pareidolia”.
source: nasa chandra -
On 21 October 2026 AP quoted Jenny Escolastico: “Childcare is another rent, another car note.”
source: ap, via abc news -
The hoverfly has no sting. Its stripes borrow a wasp’s warning. The picture of the day, 21 October 2026, is a hoverfly photographed in October 2007.
source: wikimedia commons
the red storm is a moire of two sets of stripes. like the treble clef, it lives in the eye of the one who looks.
credits
NOAA SWPC, USGS, USNO, NASA Earth Observatory, NASA Chandra, Alvesgaspar (Hoverfly October 2007-21, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, idea source only), Liberty Justice Center, AP, Vulture, ABC News.
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