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This is the account of the French Foreign Ministry

Janis

@hutchinsondave.bsky.social This illustrates how I imagine it must feel for authors, when they've sent their book out into the world and there is that weird lag while people are reading it.

How 2026 feels so far.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Congrats to all of the Liberal Zionists on your hard, racist work making Palestinian liberation the bogeyman while the real threat to us Jews were right in front of your fucking faces

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

I don't know who needs to hear it, but those big train horns jerry rigged to run off of cordless impact drivers are on sale right now, in case you find yourself somewhere where you need to make a lot of noise very quickly. bosshorn.com/products/dew...

For 18 months, I had to keep the secret that I didn't just voice The Flying Dutchman in the SpongeBob movie, but I also played him in live-action sequences. The hours it took flew by thanks to superb makeup artists Gage Munster & Marcel Banks who were both so kind AND hilarious. 🤣 Thanks fellas! 🙏

Did a pod with my friend Peter about how to thrift for menswear (and why buying vintage is sometimes better than buying new anyway). pod.link/blamo/episod...

Stop the war on protein, you lousy soyboys!

Near-future science fiction is pretty much impossible these days. Although we still try.

Used to be your science fiction writer could be free to make wild-ass guesses about future tech and future developments. Now you guys are lucky if you can stay a day or two ahead of the headlines! Chris Beckett's America City is only my most recent example of that. Sheesh.

Why is embedding Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the British army, navy & airforce a national security disaster? Well consider what happens when you ‘buy’ a Tesla. You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

After decades of austerity from Labour and Tory governments, Westminster are expecting Scots to be happy with a pitiful amount of money that doesn't even go north of Dundee. Once again Moray and the north of Scotland is an afterthought.👇

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

None of Scotland north of Dundee is worth "bribing" it appears. How much more a Scottish government could do if independent. The resources that are properly Scotland's could be retained by Scotland and not syphoned off by WM.

I'd forgotten that Zahawi was the guy who claimed the cost of heating his stables on his parliamentary expenses.

Huge #Reform lead. The more Reform leaning voters hear first hand accounts of #Farage student racism the more they seem to like him as a potential PM. Scotland a very different country with a clear @theSNP lead. Polling: Freshwater Stategies Graphic: @LeftieStats

At the rate we're going, Larry Ellison is going to have Paramount Pictures put out a prestige drama about the valiant officers who tracked down Anne Frank

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

He's actually English.

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

anyway as i have said many times — and literally just wrote on saturday — i think we should abolish ICE as well as unravel DHS and i welcome elected officials who embrace both outright but i am also aware that any senate majority will contain moderate and conservative democrats who need an on-ramp.

@colinpeters.bsky.social Tim, who lives a bit south of me, is giving you some competition in the "gremlins we think of as dogs" category 😂 Dig the legs-in-the-air action!

Beware: You may end up laughing about the linked piece for the rest of your short but happy life.

An ‘overcorrection to statement culture’ - that's a helluva phrase.

How this #Ontario woman cooked up an Un-Brie-Lievable vegan cheese business London-based Nuts for Cheese now supplies major grocery chains across North America. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My story about Michael Haneke’s films and @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social originally published in Paris Fantastique @confingopublishing.bsky.social is now online at Barcelona Review www.barcelonareview.com/114/e_nr.html

/2 U.S. Gen. Gregory Guillot tells CBC News that air and sea incursions into the zones just outside North America have not only become more frequent, but also more co-ordinated. That kind of activity, defence analysts say, is intended to test the reaction of the U.S. and Canadian militaries.

@fashpo.bsky.social Yikes!

When I wrote this thread nearly a year ago I thought the maybe, just maybe, I was catastrophising. I know that I do that sometimes. And it’s easy to make extreme predictions. If they come true you look very smart; if they don’t everyone’s too relieved to care. But, yikes, here we are.

Ice Master. Now there's a fine title. One you have to earn.

Haha, me and my homies used to do this with the XFiles.

Rare European robin spotted in Montreal www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

“We’re gonna need a bigger bus”

GCHQ's JTRIG unit targeted the “general population” of Iran in 2009-11. It involved “discrediting the Iranian leadership and its nuclear programme”, conducting human intelligence operations online and counter-censorship campaigns. www.declassifieduk.org/britains-lon...

Canadians shift spending habits, but still snubbing US: Ipsos poll #Canada globalnews.ca/video/116088...

A good rebuke

It's amazing to hear how much Black american culture has shaped his identity dealing with his own version of blackness in the South Pacific.

This is the best discussion I've read about the real-life stakes for Greenland's future, from the non-partisan Woodrow Wilson Institute:

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

This is everything the American conservative movement was scared of throughout the 80's, 90's, and 00's. Look at these clowns carrying automatic rifles with suppressors and magazines with hundreds of rounds of ammunition a piece. Masked goons breaking into people's homes, and silence from the GOP.

Sorry, I feel transphobic people are the "real perverts" if they think it's okay to "take photos of people in the public bathroom" or "inspect the private parts of children before they participate in a school sports game". #transrights #politics #transrightsarehumanrights