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Massif by Garth Nix It's business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonising planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars. But the big questions are always there, behind every battle, every new colony, every new star system discovery. Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars? Why do they help us export our wars? What's in it for the Massifs? Ship crews aren't supposed to ask these questions, they aren't supposed to think about these questions, and they definitely aren't supposed to go deep and talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his tight-knit crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.

"Balancing act" = craven book-licking by Micheál Martin. Trump & his imperialist administration have been funding & arming Israel's genocide in Gaza, & the Taoiseach praises his 'peace plan' that sets Gaza up as a colonial outpost under Tony Blair... #NoWelcomeForTrump https://t.co/zY1ytzxPWK #NoWelcomeForTrump #Gaza #Colony #IE #US #IL #PS

The slow but inexorable vassalisation of Russia. China will take over Russia but Putin's increasingly desperate war against Ukraine has hastened Russia's future as a vast colony for natural resource exploitation. Great going Putin. Gift link: https://t.co/CYjrILm7ZM #Russia #Putin #UkraineWar #RU #CN #UA

At @VivaTech in Paris supporting « One Europe One Market » plan. Definitely integrating the EU 🇪🇺 Single Market is the only option for a true European way. If we keep fragmented at 27 we will only have the choice soon to be a colony, US 🇺🇸 or 🇨🇳 China. @DelorsInstitute @iespega https://t.co/5w3U1woJNh #OneEuropeOneMarket #EUSingleMarket #VivaTech #EU #US #CN

The closer you are to Russia, the more you spend on defence. Poland is determined not to become a Russian colony ever again. The US is our ally but for the American defence industry it is impossible to deliver everything we need because production capacity is not there. https://t.co/OBmZ2FYR6M #Poland #Defence #Russia #RU #PL #US

Two Russian physicists, Valery Zvegintsev and Vladislav Galkin, were sentenced to 12.5 years in a penal colony after being found guilty of treason for their research on hypersonic missile technology, amidst a growing trend of treason cases against scientists in Russia’s hypersonics field. #Treason #Hypersonics #Science #RU #UA

Two Russian physicists, Valery Zvegintsev and Vladislav Galkin, have been sentenced to 12.5 years in a penal colony for treason due to their involvement in hypersonic missile research, amidst a broader pattern of treason cases against scientists in the field, raising concerns about the impact on Russian scientific progress. #Treason #Hypersonics #SciencePolicy #RU #UA

Two Russian physicists, Valery Zvegintsev and Vladislav Galkin, have been sentenced to 12 and a half years in a penal colony for treason in connection with their research on hypersonic missiles, amid a series of similar cases against scientists in the field as Russia aims to assert its dominance in advanced military technology. #Hypersonics #Treason #RussianScience #RU #UA

Elon Musk will only receive a new stock package from SpaceX if the company reaches a market value of R$ 37.5 trillion and establishes a permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million people, as approved by the board, which significantly changes his compensation structure to a performance-based system with no stipulated deadlines and includes additional goals related to energy production and data centers in space. #ElonMusk #SpaceX #CorporateIncentives #US #BR