📈 Confirmed: Live metrics show a partial restoration to internet connectivity in #Iran on day 88, after 2093 hours of near-total isolation from international networks, the longest nationwide internet shutdown in modern history. It is unclear if the restoration will be sustained.

CENTCOM comments on clash with Iranian forces in Strait of Hormuz today.

The funniest thing about the Reform Makerfield candidate saying "I'm sexist, sorry but I am" is that *four days ago* the Daily Express rejected Burnham on the basis he was anti-women www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Trump announced during his Memorial Day speech that we waged (undeclared) war against Venezuela and took over the country

Trump "blinked" for a long time during Pete Hegseth's Memorial Day speech

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Oh and also Ben Habib who run's Tommy Robinson's Advance UK is being sued by Christopher Harborne who gave Farage the £5m bung. And some racists are going nuts because Rupert Lowe's son has married a part Libyan woman. Truly a golden age for British politics.

Source... hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...

If Andy Burnham has given us nothing else he has created a situation in which Danny Kruger has had to go on TV and defend his candidate claiming he wants to "smell and lick" Carole Vorderman's backside.

Restore vs Reform fight with Tories throwing in abuse from the sidelines plus a gross tweet from the Reform candidate about Carole Vorderman. It's deeply pathetic. bsky.app/profile/hele...

The entire British right seems to have gone into meltdown over Makerfield over on the other place. It's like a bunch of howling Macaques throwing feaces at each other.

Sam has actually sanitised what was posted, if you can believe that.

To be clear, this isn’t shade on Vikings the show. I don’t know enough about the period to know how accurate the aesthetics are, but a history documentary being fed off footage of it is just plainly incestuous

At one point there’s a closeup of a guy and he suddenly turns into the guy who played Ragnar Lodbrok

History documentary on Sky about the Vikings using Gen-AI footage for historical reenactment. Besides my objections on aesthetic grounds and on principle grounds, the algorithm is blatantly just using the TV show Vikings as its primary reference point

I did this last year. Dreamed that Pret sold a cookie called Hairy Man. He had a solid choc chest of hair and choc sprinkle body hair. Woke up, drew it, then baked it. Him.

🚨 NEW: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate Robert Kenyon previously claimed women “can’t drive” and get abortions for “vanity purposes” to “shag anyone they want” He admitted: “I’m sexist, sorry but I am”

I know that the average newspaper reader tends to be fairly older than average but this is a reference to a sitcom that aired fifty-one years ago.

While the GOP formally was all against legalization of marijuana, GOP lobbyists used that position to pump the marijuana industry for loads of cash. Now a similar play may be afoot. The big push for legalizing psychedelics is coming, once more, straight out of the heart of the MAGA GOP.

Israeli Channel 12 on a Senior Israeli official: Containment is over, and Israel has decided to launch a major strike against Hezbollah.

Trump skipped his son’s wedding then did nothing all weekend but post A true poster

If you have never seen Don Hertzfeldt’s trascendent work of staggering comedic genius, “Rejected,” stop what you are doing and watch this right now.

He fucking brought it up Daniel

Curtis Yarvin provides them with the philosophical excuse to do whatever they want. He's not their thoughtleader, he's their fluffer.

It’s not private!! It’s a national security issue!

Imagine if any other party leader told such a ridiculous lie, especially one leading the polls - Nigel Farage’s Russian hack claim ‘without any merit’, former NCSC chief says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

lol it looks like Trump posted another private message on Truth Social

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Article answers some questions but raises more! Why would Colbert do it financed/produced by CBS? My guess: Maybe he needed to pretape while still under contract. Otherwise not great look. I worked at CBS/Paramount 7 years. Was point person to post Colbert's web content first half of his run...

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

Looks like we've passed peak academia. www.ft.com/content/8097... via @data.ft.com

Nope - they decided not to ask about Farage at all, and instead had me on with @grahamjonesxmp.bsky.social talking - briefly - about Labour attitudes to Russia. I asked the producer...

Today will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected📈 The current May record is 32.8 °C. Records are usually only broken by tenths of a degree - making this heatwave unprecedented for the time of year 🌡️

Tomorrow morning (Monday) I will be on GB News discussing their star guest’s claim of being hacked by Russia. I might just mention that when I get hacked by Russia, unlike Mr Farage I don’t have any problem explaining when, how, and who did the investigation. 0820 UK time. Could be interesting.

Farage under mounting pressure to prove Russian hack claim www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why would Russia fire an Oreshnik IRBM at a bunch of garages in Bila Tserkva in Ukraine? Because they were aiming for a nearby air base, but their missile's targeting is crap.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces police investigation into ‘alleged inappropriate behaviour at Royal Ascot’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🥴 Meanwhile, the Russians brought so-called foreign “journalists” to the occupied city of Starobilsk, presumably to legitimize and justify the strikes on civilians in Kyiv. Against the backdrop of this propaganda, Russian MoD claimed that it was striking “military targets.”

One of Russia's most popular military bloggers laughs not only at Putin's pathetic attempt to bomb Ukraine's civilian population into submission, but also at the inevitable Kremlin lies that will follow.

The aftermath of the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile strike on Bila Tserkva, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS): “A fire broke out at a garage cooperative in the city of Bila Tserkva. Three garages were on fire.”

🤬 More footage of Oreshnik missile strike on Bila Tserkva. The Russians themselves are unhappy. Voenkors consider the strike with a simple "iron" a sign of weakness.

NEW: Leaked documents provide a wealth of new details on Russian destabilization and influence campaigns against European countries — including last year’s Islamophobic “pig head” attack against French mosques. buff.ly/yZPrHbl

No it the fuck was not.

The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service shoots person near the White House, bystander also shot, law enforcement official says.

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Reform's candidate Robert Kenyon said abortion was a "cowardly act of murder" and implied that people falsely claimed to have been raped He said: “Don’t dole out the ‘what if someone is raped by their brother’ arguement... don’t want babies? Use contreception! [sic]” observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

New from me: Following up on my 14 Theses Concerning Online Political Violence, I offer Four Rules of Thumb for Online Safety Work. Whether you work for the companies directly or research safety issues in civil society, we need to approach our work with new guardrails. medium.com/p/0e4eba9668...

Seems like Trump has a major announcement of a deal with Iran, but his entire national security team didn't know about it and have all had to be recalled to the White House, at lightning speed. What's scarier: - Trump's National Security team making decisions - Trump making decisions by himself?