France plans to test homemade HIMARS alternative by mid-2026 French officials have tasked two industry teams with developing options, while a foreign purchase is also still in the cards.

On en est encore au niveau du prototype.
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« Normal people » as seen by big tech's billionaires.

#Communiqué 🗞️ Une équipe de chimistes franco-chinoise a réussi à identifier une stratégie oxydative/réductrice permettant de rendre inactifs les acides trifluoroacétiques (TFA), ces #PFAS réputés comme étant quasiment indestructibles. 🔬

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This painting, titled Dos Mujeres (Two Women) or Portrait of Two Women, was created by Mexican artist Diego Rivera in 1914. It is an important early work from Rivera in Paris, where he explored Cubism alongside Picasso and Braque.

This painting, titled Dos Mujeres (Two Women) or Portrait of Two Women, was created by Mexican artist Diego Rivera in 1914. It is an important early work from Rivera in Paris, where he engaged with Cubism alongside Picasso and Braque.

FBI
Rob Rogers cartoon.
April 21, 2026

Autographed 1922 portrait photo of stage and film actress, writer, and director Dorothy Gish (1898 – 1968), a prominent American actress of both the silent film era and the stage. Dorothy and her older sister, Lillian, were major stars who began their careers at Biograph Studios under director D.W. Griffith in 1912. While Lillian was best known for playing dramatic leads, Dorothy was widely celebrated as a talented comedian, appearing in more than 100 film and television productions throughout her 50-year career. In this close-up portrait, Ms. Gish is wearing a black dress, accented by a two-string pearl necklace. Her wavy brown hair, parted from her left, falls just below her ears. Her lips slightly pursed, she is looking directly into the camera with an intensely serious expression. The photo, autographed diagonally along her collar bone, reads “Sincerely yours, Dorothy Gish.” In a 1987 interview, Lillian said of her: “𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺'𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦. 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘳𝘺 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴.”

Stage and film actress, writer, and director Dorothy Gish (1898 – 1968), c. 1922

Over a career spanning 50 years, Ms. Gish appeared in more than 100 films and stage productions.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏

To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.

Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform.

Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut

📹 Sen

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions When Tesla released its annual report for U.S. regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025.

Tesla's annual report revealed an estimated federal tax bill of $0 for 2025. A Reuters analysis shows a common corporate tactic, known as profit shifting, likely saved the company more than $400 million in US taxes reut.rs/48wd21x

Thank you Ministers Benjamin Haddad and Alice Rufo for the insightful visit to @mbdafrance.bsky.social and @safran-group.com on my #MissileTour.

European defence industry is ramping up missile production, and the EU is stepping in with financial support and simplification.

#ProtectWhatMatters

We should repeat this every day: russia is intentionally, deliberately, murdering Ukrainian children, day after day, for the sheer pleasure of it.
We can never forgive this—and above all, we have no right to forgive it.
These crimes will haunt the russians—all russians—for as long as they exist.

Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion was released 13 years ago today.

"One man's confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind."

With a really cool Bubbleship, but here there's only the cockpit. 😁

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
~ Anaïs Nin

The Blue Door (1927)
🎨 Raymond Wintz

It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more.

75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path.

One of unity over division, of peace over war.

Contrairement à ce qu'on pourrait penser de prime abord, « Metaphor: ReFantazio » n'est pas un album de Spirou.

Concierto de Aranjuez // Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Rafael de Burgos & Pepe Romero (Live) YouTube video by DR Koncerthuset

Le « Concerto d'Aranjuez » joué par le Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
🎶🪈🎸🎻🎵
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Russia once again deliberately targeted and killed Ukrainian civilians last night. With its army stalled on the battlefield, Moscow keeps falling back on terror against the innocent. (1/4)

ESA and Canada sign agreement on the exchange of classified information The European Space Agency (ESA) and Canada have signed a General Security of Information Agreement (GSOIA), which will establish a legally binding framework for the exchange of classified information.

With this agreement ESA and Canada are together unlocking new opportunities to advance critical technologies, strengthen our industrial ecosystems and reinforce our collective capabilities.
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Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

This luminous oil-on-canvas self-portrait, painted in 1782 by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842), captures the artist at the height of her early fame. The 27-year-old Vigée Le Brun — already a sought-after portraitist to the French court — presents herself with confident grace against a dramatic sky of soft blue clouds. She wears an elaborate wide-brimmed straw hat decorated with a large white feather and a garland of red, white, and blue flowers, her curly hair cascading over one shoulder. Her gown is a soft pink silk with a low neckline framed by a voluminous white ruffled fichu, accented by satin sleeves with lace cuffs, a black sash, and delicate earrings. In her left hand she holds a wooden painter’s palette laden with vivid pigments and several brushes. Her expression is direct, intelligent, and subtly smiling, conveying warmth, poise, and professional pride. The composition places her figure prominently against the atmospheric background, emphasizing her identity as both elegant woman and working artist. This celebrated self-portrait, one of several she created, underscores her key achievements as a trailblazing female painter who escaped the French Revolution to continue her career across Europe, painting royalty from Russia to Italy. It stands as a powerful declaration of her talent and independence in an era when women artists faced significant barriers.

This grand oil-on-canvas portrait, titled Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787), was painted by the celebrated French artist Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842). One of the most accomplished women painters of the 18th century, Vigée Le Brun served as official portraitist to Queen Marie Antoinette, produced over 600 portraits, and became one of the first women admitted to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. In this monumental composition, the queen sits regally yet maternally at center in a sumptuous crimson gown edged in gold, a towering powdered wig adorned with a dramatic red velvet hat trimmed in white ostrich plumes and gauze. She gazes calmly outward with poised serenity, cradling the infant Duc de Normandie (future Louis XVII) in white on her lap while her eldest daughter, Madame Royale (Marie Thérèse), leans affectionately against her in a rich red dress with lace cuffs. To the right, the young Dauphin Louis Joseph stands in an elegant blue-and-gold suit, pointing toward the large, draped empty cradle swathed in black fabric — a subtle reference to the recent loss of an earlier child. The opulent Versailles setting features heavy brocade curtains, marble columns, a gilded cabinet topped with a crown, and an ornate floral carpet. The overall mood is one of tender domesticity and royal dignity, yet it carries poignant historical significance: completed just two years before the French Revolution, the painting was intended to humanize the queen as a devoted mother but became a symbol of the monarchy’s final years. It remains one of Vigée Le Brun’s most famous works, blending Rococo elegance with emerging Neoclassical restraint.

French painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: one of the most successful/sought-after portraitists of the late 1700s. Easy to see why.

She was the official court painter to Marie Antoinette, producing ~30 portraits of the Queen over 6 years. Born #OTD in 1755. #art #artsky

Left: Self-portrait, 1782

Médias en ligne et fausses informations YouTube video by Sénat

Très intéressantes auditions de Gérald Bronner (Pr de sociologie), Aude Favre (Pdte de Fake Off) et Thomas Huchon (journaliste) par la mission d’information sénatoriale #ZonesGrisesInformation (Agnès Evren, Sylvie Robert, Laurent Lafon).
#FakeNews #Désinformation
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N'importe quel appareil à hélice permettant une vitesse entre 400 et 600 km/h entre 100 et 1.000 mètres d'altitude et un tir latéral ferait un excellent chasseur de Shahed. Même le célèbre Boulton-Paul Defiant ferait là aisément aussi bien que le Rafale pour un coût extrêmement bas.

Longtemps menacé, le Palais de la découverte, musée consacré aux sciences, va finalement rouvrir en 2027 après 7 ans de fermeture Le Palais de la découverte rouvrira ses portes en mars 2027, au terme de sept années de flottement, au cours desquelles sa fermeture définitive avait été envisagée.

Longtemps menacé, le Palais de la découverte va finalement rouvrir en 2027 après sept ans de fermeture.
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The bronze ram of an #AncientGreek warship, made for naval warfare more than 2300 years ago #AncientBlueSky

I just realize that it represents Poseidon's trident. 🔱🌊🏛️

On ne tire pas sur un Shahed au canon. Déjà que certains pilotes de la RAF se sont essayés à çà avec des V1 en 1944 et ne se jms revenus à lr base. Les Ukrainiens ont perdu un MiG29 et son pilote comme çà.
Un Shahed est trop lent en rapport du Rafale qui alors se prendrait l'explosion en plein nez.

Protégez votre cerveau ! Surveillez votre tension !

Un AVC toutes les 3 à 4 minutes en France !
Un sur cinq (1/5) sera mortel d'emblée, soit un mort toutes les 15-20 minutes en France à cause d'un AVC !

Les séquelles peuvent être terribles.

I just spoke again with Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar.

Hungary has returned to the very heart of Europe, where it has always belonged.

This is, above all, a moment for the Hungarian people. For their voice, their dignity, and their future in a safe, prosperous Hungary inside a strong Europe.

'EU Will Continue To Reject...': Kaja Kallas Issues Stern Warning To Trump Over Strait Of Hormuz YouTube video by Hook Global

Intervention de @kajakallas.bsky.social 🇪🇺au Nations Unies 🇺🇳demandant à l'institution d'évoluer afin de perdurer dans un monde où des États membres puissants 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇷🇺 passent outre le droit international et s'assoient ouvertement sur la charte des Nations Unies.
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