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#uxo β€” Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uxo, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Poem for the occasion:

    Dancing on landmines
    Is such a great fun
    While hopped out on drugs
    There in the sun

    Every so often
    An explosive goes off
    Someone loses a leg
    But the rest of us scoff

    We're so high we don't notice
    the music is loud
    Even if one of us
    Turns into a cloud

    #landmine #uxo #rave #dancing #poem
    (human composed poem)

  2. "Dance Dance Revolution" except you might step on an old landmine? 😟

    CNN: Thousands flock to illegal French rave despite explosives risk

    "Over 20,000 revelers gathered for an illegal rave on a military site in central France despite the risks of unexploded ordnance nearby. "

    cnn.com/2026/05/02/europe/fran

    #uxo #rave #dancing

  3. @benroyce I live in Eastern England which was on the WW2 frontline.

    We are *still* regularly unearthing #UXO everywhere especially when there is construction work or when folk are exploring the coast, places get evacuated and EOD (Explosives Ordnance Disposal) has to make the area safe, all this 80 years later in supposed peacetime and there's a non-zero change war in Europe will escalate in the remainder of my lifetime..

  4. "Greetings from Okaloosa County Emergency Management" πŸ€”

    "Please be advised an emergency evacuation order will be in Thursday 24 and Friday the 25th of October from 7 AM until noon for your property. "

    #FL #evacuation #Uxo

  5. β€œAn unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights, Japanese officials said.”

    No aircraft or people were nearby and no one was injured. In true Japanese fashion, the taxiway is already repaired and back open.

    apnews.com/article/japan-airpo
    #japan #wwii #uxo #bomb #airport #aviation #kmi

  6. 🧡

    > In a shop in Phomsavan... recycled shells are offered for sale as containers. #NikWheeler
    ...
    > ...Most Lao are subsistence farmers.

    The "most bombed per capita" people in the world are "defenseless peasants" in the 1970s words of #ChomskyAndHerman in #PEHR #AfterTheCataclysm.. #SubsistenceFarmers, I wonder when this term came into use? I'm guessing after the 70s...
    apjjf.org/russell-ciochon/3171

    #Phomsavan #Laos #ShellCasings #UXO

  7. 🧡
    > The Plain of Jars on the Xieng Khouang Plateau is a major cultural heritage site, now recognized by UNESCO. According to UNESCO, #UnexplodedMilitaryOrdinance (UXO) still contaminates 25 percent of the area of Xieng Khouang province, producing a β€œconstant threat” to the personal safety of its 200,000 people. Needless to say, the presence of #UXO crimps economic development of the province.
    #RussellCiochon #JamieJames

  8. Another very notable video circulating this week has been of unexploded bombs. To civilians these 500lb bombs are extremely dangerous. To the resistance these bombs are a never ending source of material needed to continue the fight.

    #FreePalestine #UXO

  9. How hidden WW2 bombs across the Pacific are found and destroyed, decades after war - theguardian.com/world/2024/apr "Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devices" same true for #ukraine and #gaza... #uxo

  10. The reality for decades to come for #ukraine.

    People hiking in the woods for "obscene pleasure" (mushrooms) finding unexploded ordnance, remains of war, weapons and even corpses.

    #uxo #war

  11. Collected 5200SEK (~€444) for demining equipment to Ukraine. Thanks to everyone who ordered and boosted and so on. Looking forward to my certificate from the embassy πŸ™‚ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

    noise.technology/snr4ukr.html

    #ukraine #uxo #demining #noisemusic

  12. The US Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work & multiple regulatory disputes, according to a Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica investigation. In one case, after state regulators raised concerns, the Corps rebid a contract to assess the unexploded bombs risk on the largest Native parcel in the region, prolonging a process that is years behind schedule.

    #hawaii #uxo #NativeHawaiians

    propublica.org/article/native-

  13. The Kremlin continues targeting Ukrainian #resilence as infrastructure for water, energy and food are destroyed, and #UXO (unexploded ordnance) is deliberately left as Russian military retreats
    PBS NewsHour: Ukrainians could face months of rolling blackouts this winter amid Russian strikes on power grid.
    pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraini