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Drone Attack Claim on Putin’s Residence
Drone Attack Claim on Putin’s Residence: What We Know and What Remains Unproven In recent days, headlines around the world have reported claims from the Russian government that a drone attack targeted the residence of President Vladimir Putin. According to Moscow, Ukrainian drones attempted to strike a location connected to the Russian leader, raising fears of a dramatic escalation in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. However, as with many events in this conflict, the truth is more complex than the initial claims suggest.
By Wings of Time 10 days ago in Fiction
Creature Comfort
"...12, 13, 14, 15, 16...dammit!" "You hadn't planned on failing to kill me, so you're short on food rations?" "--" "Yeah, well, you're not the only one with plans that went to shit."
By Guia Nocon10 days ago in Fiction
Ukrainian Strikes Inside Russia and the Putin Controversy
Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Ukrainian Strikes Inside Russia and the Putin Controversy In late December 2025, tension rose once more in the long-running Russia-Ukraine war after Russia claimed that Ukrainian forces had carried out a drone attack targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod region of Russia. This accusation quickly became a headline in many countries, but independent information and U.S. intelligence assessments show there is no evidence Ukraine targeted Putin’s home. Reuters+1
By Wings of Time 10 days ago in Fiction
Atarah’s Crown
There I am. Motionless. I make a pretty corpse. There goes my agent standing over me crying. I wonder if they are crying because I’m dead or because I can’t make them anymore money. The sirens. They can’t save me. Was all of this worth selling my soul for? There are no concepts of temperature for where I stand but some how behind me I can feel a fire making my soul sweat; and the tapping on my shoulder in the form of a hoof. Do I pray for reincarnation or am I damned for all eternity; or am I even allowed to pray at all after all I have done.
By Cadma10 days ago in Fiction
Gav and Bob: Sanguinala Redux
This is the 7th fan story in the Gav and Bob series. Links to previous stories can be found at the end of this entry. The original Gav and Bob stories can be found here, and the sequels by Neal Litherland are linked below:
By Neal Litherland10 days ago in Fiction
unseen unnoticed
They stared right through me. It used to bother me. Now, it’s essential. I uncoupled the mag-links while Symplex’s security personnel looked past me. I didn’t fit their profiles, didn’t merit a glance. That’s what it is to be me.
By majoki10 days ago in Fiction
explain yourself
Tatiana crossed the snowfield as if on a ballet stage. She leapt and spun and gracefully bowed when a snowshoe hare crossed her path and stopped. She then encouraged a few curious minks by waving them towards her racing heart. Glorious. All glorious.
By majoki10 days ago in Fiction
In Case of Emergency
Captain's Manual, Page 247, Emergency Procedures World Tech would like to remind the crew of the SS-73 that we depend on your success. The stars. The sun. The moon. All planets and every ounce of life on the planets. Everything within our galaxy depends on your success.
By Hope Martin11 days ago in Fiction
Panoptimized
“A solution to our problem requires a certain amount of ordered chaos,” Hsiang explained to his cellmate as they used the guard’s severed head to gain entry into DeadPan’s nerve center. “To find a workable answer we need to invite a wide range of possible solutions. Early on, this requires a certain amount of randomness in our search. Eventually, this turbulence has to be controllable in a way that allows us to turn disorder into a deterministic system. Does that make sense?”
By majoki11 days ago in Fiction
hungry
I fancy myself quite a reader. I mean, I read everything. Everything. Even “Know your 8-inch Howitzer” published in 1984 by the Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Armament, Munitions and Chemical Command.
By majoki11 days ago in Fiction
THE COSMIC REVERSAL: IS THE UNIVERSE PREPARING TO CRUSH ITSELF?
Deep in the silence of the Arizona desert, a mechanical eye is staring into the abyss of time, and for the first time in history, the abyss is blinking. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has been tracking millions of distant galaxies to determine the ultimate fate of our reality. For twenty-seven years, the scientific consensus has been absolute: The universe is expanding, fueled by a mysterious, invisible force called "Dark Energy." We were told that this expansion would accelerate forever, eventually tearing stars and galaxies apart until the cosmos became a cold, dark, and empty void. But a new, terrifying signal has emerged from the noise. The Engine is Sputtering A team of researchers from South Korea, led by Professor Yang-Wook Lee of Yonsei University, has shattered the standard model of cosmology. Their analysis suggests that the "constant" force of Dark Energy isn't constant at all. It is weakening. Imagine a car speeding down a highway with the gas pedal stuck to the floor. That was our understanding of the universe since 1998. But Professor Lee’s data indicates that the foot is coming off the pedal. The acceleration is slowing down. If this trend continues, the universe won't end in a "Big Freeze." Instead, gravity—the patient, relentless force that binds us—will eventually win the tug-of-war. The expansion will stop. And then, the horror begins: The Reversal. The "Big Crunch" Returns Astronomers call it the "Big Crunch." It is the moment when the universe stops growing and starts shrinking. Galaxies will be pulled back together. Stars will collide. The fabric of space-time itself will fold inward, compressing 13.8 billion years of history back into a single, super-heated point of singularity. "If Dark Energy is not constant and is fading," Professor Lee told reporters, "then the destiny of the universe changes completely. It overturns everything we thought we knew." The implications are chilling. We aren't living in a stable, infinite void. We are living inside a balloon that is slowly running out of air. And while mainstream critics from Cambridge and the Royal Astronomical Society are scrambling to dismiss the findings as "statistical errors," the data refuses to go away. The universe is whispering a secret, and it’s not a peaceful one.
By Wellova 11 days ago in Fiction
Game Over
“Are the results in?” “We’ve analysed the data, and I believe the results are quite conclusive.” “And?” “They’re cleaner than I expected.”
By Cristal S.11 days ago in Fiction