This is rather brilliant - Having Super Mario Kart Racing in your own home, the live-action version. This course features collectible LEGO figures of Mario, Luigi and the gang. The creation is part of a Rube Goldberg-style machine featured by Joseph's Machines. #mario #lego #racing #fun

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.

Yes! Vindication at last!

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

I'm surprised at the accuracy score, as I thought I'd made a lot of mistakes. I played squaredle.com 04/12: 72/72 words (+18 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 13% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 7

Strands #770 “Get ready!” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

🚨 It starts with one leader. Then change spreads. That’s what’s happening in Europe. When Pedro Sánchez took a clear stand, he created space. Now others are stepping in UK 🇬🇧: Zack Polanski calls for sanctions, ending the Israel trade deal.The fire is spreading across Europe. MOMENTUM HAS BEGUN💥

Remember the Labour Loyalists always telling us we must be pragmatic, put up, shut up, vote 🌹 to beat Tory/Reform instead of voting for small parties with policies we like? Now the Greens are the pragmatic alternative, 🌹 tell us to ditch pragmatism & vote based on "good" Labour policies we missed?

The Welsh Electoral Commission has dropped the ball on explaining the voting system for elections on May 7th. Many people still don't even know there's been a change, more don't understand it. Here's a clear description without reference to any party electoral-reform.org.uk/there-is-a-n...

And here's an illustration from a leaflet of what this can mean for folks who want to vote Green in the Senedd elections May 7th

My memory isn't what it was, so apologies if I'm misremembering, but didn't the USA and Iran have a deal before Felonious Skunk ripped it up?

She is so up to it, right up to her armpits. The US has a criminal family in the whitehouse, they lie and cheat without honour or morality and those wonderful GOP congressmen and women just let them get away away with it. Why hasn'r she been called to give evidence under the law?

Flippin' eck...

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One of the purples is unfamiliar to me 🤷🏻‍♂️ Connections Puzzle #1036 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

😬 #whendle no1174 ▪️▪️⬜️⬜️🟩 5/5 248pts

Good morning everyone. It was a bit of a struggle to get this one! Have a peaceful Sunday, all 🙂 Wordle 1,758 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1758

North America and East Asia - my bêtes noir. Oh, and Africa. Not forgetting large chunks of Europe. 😉 www.maptap.gg April 11 98🎯 88🎉 94🏅 89🎉 74🤗 Final score: 863

“Join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law, lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption. Resistance over complacency, truth over lies, unity over division, and peace over war.” -Bruce Springsteen in Los Angeles variety.com/2026/music/c...

I played squaredle.com 04/11: 34/34 words (+3 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 6% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 6

Just look at all those terrorists!

via The Daily Britian

Rare image of a stork delivering a baby!

🙂 This reminds me of a story I once read which speculated that a species of bipedal dinosaur had evolved to a level of having a complex language and being capable of sophisticated tool-making. Then came the asteroid 😕

That’s another new word to add to my vocabulary. Though, given that I’ve spent 7 decades without using it, perhaps I needn’t bother? 🙂 Strands #769 “You're putting me on” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵

The Artemis crew with President Biden, whose administration planned the mission. In case the felon tries to take credit.

Call a public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy. Deadline 28 July 2026 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

There is a joy in voting for policies that offer a real future for the UK. One that is for a better economy, for clean air and water, for equality and fairness, for access to education for all, for renewable energy, for all of us. All Labour and Reform can offer is voting against things.

1) Since Starmer became leader, Labour Party membership has dropped by over 50%. And falling. 2) since Zack Polanski became leader, GPEW membership has risen by over 200%. And climbing. 3) Now only 25,000 difference in membership numbers between them. #GreenMenace #HopeIsGreen #GreensAreGrowing!

Linux - free, robust and resilient. Also, so resource efficient that it can be run on older, lower-spec machines. Just requires a little shift in thinking.

Who'd have predicted the Greens in England becoming the dominant progressive force against right wing populism? Or the British media, as a result, finally starting to recognise The SNP and Plaid as progressive forces, rather than dismissing them as "wreckers of the union". Labour opened the gates.

Someone please show this photo to Trump - it might cause him to explode 😀

Every single thing about that inspiring and remarkable Artemis II mission, every achievement, success, message, skill, strength, trait, relationship, decision and human emotion, was a repudiation of everything Donald Trump exhibits and stands for. Do you think he knows that? #ArtemisII

Good morning everyone. I got there quite quickly today. Have a wonderful weekend, all 🙂 Wordle 1,757 3/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1757

Meh. I played squaredle.com 04/10: 58/58 words (+4 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 20% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 5

Make sure all young anti-Reform supporters are registered to vote! "To have a say in the choices being made for our community Say it with a vote! 20th April is the deadline to register to vote - you can vote online, by post, in person: www.gov.uk/register-to-... via Epsom & Ewell Green Party

The Green Party has secured a "huge victory" at the Kent County Council (KCC) Cliftonville by-election. Green candidate, Rob Yates, gained the seat from Reform UK, increasing the Green vote share from 12 per cent to 39 per cent. They're dubbing it Kent's 'Gorton & Denton moment'.

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Stand With The Venezuelan People! Sign the petition in.yourparty.uk/en/petitions... #YourParty #StandWIthVenezuela

This novel approach to politics (based on solid principles and a sense of moral duty 😱) is why I am now a member of the Green Party and no longer a member of the “Labour” Party.

Strands #768 “On the sly” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

Brilliant result! 🙂

We are calling for an immediate end to the massacre of Palestinian journalists in Gaza and for the international press to have direct access to this territory! rsf.org/en/petition-...

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This is silly. (Not the mapping, which is great.)

Yup!

Phew! The app tells me that my current streak is 8, and that, astonishingly, my longest streak was 21! So, I’ve some way to go to replicate that! #whendle no1172 ▪️▪️🟨⬜️🟩 5/5 259pts