Countryside. Tolstoy. National Trust.

Toni Basil co-directed the famous video for Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime with David Byrne, and he then asked her to make this video for Crosseyed and Painless (THREAD) youtu.be/yHoqH-26UDk?...

NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT. Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out. Thread

N: St Petersburg S: Melbourne E: Sydney W: San Francisco

Sweden vs England

As someone who is in contact with dozens of different non-citizens every day, I can anecdotally confirm that all of the documented people I know are living with some degree of anxiety and all of the undocumented (& their families) are living in some degree of terror. Please support where you can

Gonna take this opportunity to bust a bit of a myth about the mobile phone network during 7/7. The wider London phone network never went down. The Security Services, TfL and the Met Police all wanted it up. But it DID go down briefly in the Square Mile. Due to a C&C issue nobody had spotted. /1

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

🧵 There’s a thread going around misrepresenting my work and Bellingcat’s education strategy. I want to use this as an opportunity to explain what we’re actually doing—and why it matters. This is about truth, democracy, and how we build a more resilient society. x.com/buynevich/st...

Once again I brushed so much fur off my dog that I was able to make a new dog.

VATman

Trump asked today, why didn’t Ukraine fight back in Crimea in 2014? As I wrote in my book, The War Came To Us, Ukraine’s decision to not fight against Russia’s invasion was largely influenced by behind-the-scenes pressure from the US. Here’s what then-interim President Oleksandr Turchynov told me:

An amazing piece of Roman military history! The only complete surviving Roman scutum (shield) used by legionaries. Wood, leather, bronze edge binding. AD 200s. From the garrison at Dura-Europos on Rome’s eastern frontier which fell to the Sasanians in AD 256. 📷 me #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

I could watch the Vitameatavegamin bit from "I Love Lucy" on a loop and would/will break into fuckin TEARS 😭 every time. I feel no hyperbole in saying Lucille Ball was a comedic genius and this is scene is my entire thesis...

My art is based on my experiences of breast cancer. I’ll have a book out later this year. I am fully confident that AI could not replicate an expression of something that’s a deeply human experience.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

I mean... holy shit.

After multiple failed attempts, the conch was blown at 10:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100.

@dolichon.bsky.social saw your credit on the show!

After Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s recent diplomatic debacle with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, I thought it might be helpful to contrast the current administration’s approach with that of President Jimmy Carter:

To spare you all from Twitter, here’s @shashj.bsky.social’s great rebuttal.

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

StopTB has a new report estimating the impact of the foreign aid freeze. It's useful to understand the huge impact that global health efforts have everyday, and worrying. Some highlights... 🧵

This weekend I've decided to finally read Balaji Srinivasan's terrible fucking book, "The Network State." I've put this off for as long as I possibly could. Here goes. thenetworkstate.com/book/tns.pdf

Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit. Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

Cary Grant looking impeccable at 55 in NBN, in an action movie requiring lots of running, in an era when male film stars of his age were physical wrecks after decades of hard partying and smoking (see Bogart) Legend.

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.