I'm so glad I get to live in a time where hummingbirds exist. It's awesome to me how these hummingbirds and jewelweed have evolved together. Both are truly magnificent and perfectly compliment each other.

I'm surprised hummers are still around it's dipping into the 50s at night. I spotted two here. I'm sure they'll soon make their journey to Central America.

Source: https://www.gocomics.com/super-fun-pak-comix/2026/09/19

It's so fluffy I'm gonna die

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Rogue drones are targeting Britain’s military bases almost daily, leaving the UK vulnerable to growing threats from Russia and Iran, The Independent can reveal.

Some 340 security incidents involving drones were reported at or near Ministry of Defence [MoD] sites in the year to August 2026, data obtained under freedom of information laws show. In 2025, there were a total of 250 incidents recorded – double the 126 recorded the year before.

Experts warn the alarming increase reflects the government’s woeful lack of security and unreadiness to combat hostile threats at a time of intense escalation from Vladimir Putin, as well as aggression from Iran.

The MoD would not give details of who it suspected was behind the threats, but experts say hostile actors working on behalf of Moscow or Tehran were the obvious culprits. The stark figures, obtained under freedom of information laws, come as Poland warned that Putin is planning a drone attack on a Nato country.

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Former Tory defence minister and former Army captain Tobias Ellwood said the large sharp uptick in detected drone incidents in the UK showed that the British military is viewed “as a target” and said the government is “asleep” to such threats.

He added: “Here in the UK we are doing nothing about protecting our critical national infrastructure, as well as military bases, and it’s such an easy way to disrupt.

“At the moment these are just rogue drones, and they’re passive, but it’s not a huge step to then add a kinetic dimension to them to make them introduce lethality.

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Polish prime minister Donald Tusk warned on Friday that Moscow was planning hybrid strikes with drones or missiles targeting Nato countries supporting Ukraine.

“There is a real risk that drones or other types of projectiles will enter the territory of one or several countries on the eastern flank and even cause destruction,” he added.

UK chief of the defence staff, Sir Richard Knighton, cautioned earlier this year that the UK is facing the highest level of threat from Russia since the Cold War. And security minister Angela Eagle also warned of the dangers posed by Iran after the UK “identified activity linked to the IRGC involving threats to life and intimidation on UK soil”.

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Susy Aponte, a journalist and candidate for the regional government of the Socios por Áncash movement, known as “la China Polo,” was killed Saturday in a market in the Andean city of Caraz during an electoral campaign tour, days after publicly denouncing death threats against her.

The attack was carried out by an alleged hitman who shot her in the head, according to local media, which reported that several people accompanying her were wounded. Peru’s National Police detained an armed man as a suspect in the shooting.

In recent days, Aponte circulated a message on her social media in which she accused the director of Criminal Investigation of Peru’s National Police, General Víctor Revoredo Farfán, of allegedly having “ordered an attack” against her after she exposed links between police commanders and the criminal organization Los Pulpos. She said she had received the warning from three prison facilities in the country.

Aponte had scheduled for Sunday the publication of an investigation into Lalo Villa, candidate for Mayor of Huaraz for the Alianza para el Progreso party (APP, center-right), led by businessman and former governor César Acuña.

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In response to the attack against the candidate in the October 4 elections, the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Violence against Women and Members of the Family Group of Huaylas opened a preliminary investigation under the crime of femicide. Provincial prosecutor Dina Ramos, along with four deputy prosecutors and the National Police, took charge of collecting evidence at the crime scene, ordered the removal of the body, and instructed the review of video surveillance cameras to clarify the cause.

🚨 #LoÚltimo | Fiscalia Especializada en Violencia contra la Mujer y los Integrantes del Grupo Familiar de Huaylas inició investigación preliminar contra los que resulten responsables del delito de feminicidio en agravio de Susy Aponte, candidata al Gobierno Regional, quien… pic.twitter.com/WOyU4iK2tr

— Ministerio Público (@FiscaliaPeru) September 19, 2026

The Peruvian Press Council joined the demands to determine the motives of the crime, expressing on its digital platforms the urgency that this act not go unpunished as has happened with other episodes of aggression against journalists.

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