On this day in 2004 Keith Moon's five-piece drum kit, custom-made for The Who drummer in 1968, sold for £120,000 pounds ($215,772) to an American collector. (The Who -- Who Are You, see above.)

Mike the Mad Biologist on Literacy and Voting.

Spocko's Brain: Do the threats keep coming because the RW is too cunning or we don’t have a strategy to stop them?

Strangely Blogged: The Far-Right in Europe is a Global Mess.

Attention space nerds! Launched delayed due to weather. Whether it's a 254 mile trip to the ISS or a 10-month, 6.7 million mile journey to slam a spacecraft into the tiny moon of a tiny asteroid, the hardest part is often just getting the vehicle safely above our restive planet's wild weather. NASA adjusted Crew-5 launch date due to Hurricane Ian.

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University.

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