Tosny Digest 60: Eructate Elsewhere Please

Oct 31, 2025

🐶 What did I do?

Had a thinker’s week and started ploughing through the amazing Shogun by James Clavell.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

🗨️ Peter Drucker

The act of belching or emitting gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth.
After enjoying the fizzy mineral water, he gave a quiet but unmistakable eructation and politely excused himself from the table.

Japan’s SLIM lunar lander has unexpectedly woken up after a third freezing lunar night, exceeding its design lifespan and continuing to send back valuable data from the moon’s surface.
In a stunning political setback, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party failed to win a majority on its own, forcing it to rely on coalition partners to form a government and signalling a major shift in the country’s political landscape.
A volcano in Iceland erupted for the fifth time since December, spewing lava fountains and leading to the pre-emptive evacuation of the Blue Lagoon spa and the nearby town of Grindavík.

Vieques, Puerto Rico
Mosquito Bay on the island of Vieques is home to the brightest concentration of bioluminescent dinoflagellates in the world. At night, every movement in the water, from a swimming fish to a kayak paddle, is outlined in an intense, electric-blue glow, creating a truly magical, starry-night effect just below the surface.

The Atlas of Moons: A beautiful, interactive website by National Geographic that lets you explore the dozens of moons in our solar system. It’s a guided tour of these fascinating worlds, from the volcanic Io to the methane lakes of Titan, with stunning visuals and concise facts.
WindowSwap: A website that opens a literal window into someone else’s life somewhere in the world. It streams a 10-minute video filmed from a window submitted by a user, offering a silent, peaceful, and intimate glimpse into a different corner of the globe.
Silk - Interactive Generative Art: A simple but mesmerising website where you can create beautiful, silky, and colourful generative art with your mouse. As you move your cursor, it paints with flowing, symmetrical patterns that are both relaxing and stunning to look at.