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Just started inline skating again at 40 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48327639

I went ice skating for the first time in 30 years back in January, and started inline skating again after. I skated some when I was a kid, but I am now better than I was then. I am working on wolverines/turns right now. It's really fun, but I need new wheels on my hand-me-down skates.

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TIL a white South African named Rodney Wilkinson worked with the ANC to bomb a nuclear plant being built by the Apartheid regime (www.theguardian.com)
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20260506011916/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/05/the-man-who-blew-up-a-nuclear-power-station-koeberg-south-africa

Read this article today and was amazed. A former fencing champion named Rodney Wilkinson joined up with the ANC. Rodney had been working at the plant which was under construction. A black draftsman he worked with looked the other way when he took the plans for the plant to copy. He was trained by the ANC in espionage tradecraft, and was given 4 limpet mines to place around the reactors. Since the plant was under construction, there was no nuclear material on site. To minimize the risk of casualties, the operation would occur on the weekend. Rodney was successful and escaped and was able to return to South Africa after the fall of Apartheid.

Really incredible story!

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