The authorities in occupied Crimea have just announced they are rationing fuel sales to 20 litres per person.

A whopping 38% of Russia’s refining capacity is now offline, according to The Economist. Gasoline output fell by 1 million tons in September which has created a 20% domestic shortfall. Repairs may take months because of sanctions limiting access to parts and tech.

Never has a group developed so complete a hearing problem as Republicans confronted with actual words that Trump has said over the last decade.

what the fuck are we even doing man

Like the trade strategy never happened, or is a slightly embarrassing interlude in Ministers thinking new trade deals is a great national virility test. NB UK exports have not increased at all since 2019.

who among us has not hacked up a journalist with a bone saw or hung a college activist from their ankles until death

A list of words for coffee in ten different languages... 10. Welsh = coffi 9. French = café 8. Manx = caffee 7. Romanian = cafea 6. Dutch = koffie 5. German = kaffee 4. Swedish = kaffe 3. Malagasy = kafe 2. Icelandic = kaffi 1. Ojibwe = makade-mashkikiwaaboo (literally “black medicine water”)

Me be like

Pharmacists who recommend homeopathy should be willing to accept as payment envelopes that once contained money. - @davidjuurlink.bsky.social

"It appears that Donald Trump not only has dementia set in, but he's copying tactics of Vladimir Putin. Sending troops into cities, thinking that that's some sort of proving ground for war.. is just, frankly, inane and I'm concerned for his health" www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Ed Miliband just said “We have a message for Elon Musk. Get the hell out of our politics and our country.” Time for @royalsociety.org to take their lead from this UK government minister.

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data

A new report from Bright Line Watch finds experts now rate the U.S. as a "mixed" or "illiberal" democracy. The rating is dragged down by Trump's attacks on institutions, a weak legislature, political violence, and partisan gerrymandering www.gelliottmorris.com/p/experts-no...

I’d double down. “Yes. I’m obsessed. He’s a fascistic, law breaking, populist, Russia aligned, dark money sponge. He’s leading in the polls. This is an emergency”

Drones have also been reported at the Bundeswehr base in Sanitz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Thursday and on Friday at the naval command in Rostock. This is looking less like a threat and more like preparation.

Good examination of the most bizarre and embarrassing event in the US’ current Age of Bizarre and Embarrassing.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Comedian goes to Saudi Arabia - and beyond!

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

We now just need to turn Starmer's words of compassion (and pushing back against Farage) into policy. Hmm.

It is illegal under the 1939 Hatch Act for American civil servants to use their offices or government resources for partisan campaigning. Trump yesterday ordered every US agency to do so.

'We're going to fight back against the immoral and racist Nigel Farage by meeting him half way.' - @rolandmcs.bsky.social #r4today

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

Well that New Keir didn’t last long, did it? Reverting to the same “Farage is right, don’t vote for him”strategy as before his speech. He’s unfit to be Prime Minister. Get rid of him.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

"no more superficial individual expression"

The administration has two main impulses: kleptocracy and reactionary ideology. The kleptocrats just want to squeeze as much money as possible out of the government. The reactionaries are utopians who think that if they roll back the enlightenment then power and prosperity will magically happen.

What His Magasty wanted vs what His Magasty got.

Reached out to retired Gens. Chiarelli, Milley and McKenzie in regard to Hegseth citing them as the kind of leaders he wants "out" of the Pentagon. Chiarelli responds he is "honored to be put in the same sentence" as the other two. "Two of the finest leaders I have ever served with," he says.

Fact of the Day 💎 In 1905, the Cullinan diamond (3,106.75 carats) was sent from Johannesburg to London 'by ordinary registered post' at a cost of 3 shillings (£11.79 in today's money). History does not record if it was left behind a bin on delivery. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Me, 5 minutes ago: the Martin Wolf column is back after the summer break. Excellent. Me, now: well, that was depressing. www.ft.com/content/f836... A world with two predatory superpowers

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

1% of US adults have never heard of Trump.

I’m just going to leave the article I wrote about unrestrained brutality and its effects on discipline here ridl.io/the-unreform...

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon www.thetimes.com/comment/cart...

In other 'hurty words' news... (6 weeks apart.)

The US is deploying dozens of KC-135 and KC-46 tankers with fighters to the Middle East. Some are already at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base. Could be nothing, but previously this was the first sign of airstrikes on Iran.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Now, I'm not saying that he's a Russian Quisling, but some people may have valid concerns that he could be taking foreign money to sabotage the country. I'm not saying he is, but maybe we should just be asking questions.

Obloquy! There's a word you didn't see every day...till the second Trump administration.

This passage nearly broke me.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

US sites are used to thinking they don't have to obey laws in other countries; Imgur will still have to pay the fine if it goes from provisional to 'you were careless with the data of children'

"Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them..." U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section III

Extraordinary is an overused word, but this is truly extraordinary.