Here's hoping Orbán's tea is oot.

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social: Here is the report with clear methodology by @danneidle.bsky.social Thank you also to the experts who cannot be named but subjected our working to deep scrutiny:

That photo from Alien with the black crew member and the witty Artemis reference is racist. Yes, we all know there's a black crew member on the Artemis mission. No, that doesn't make the Nostradamus photo amusing or clever.

It's pretty random that Melania is probably being forced to make an Epstein denial to draw attention from the Iran shitshow.

Trying out varifocals for the first time and hating them. Doers it get betyter?

why is this pasta cooking time range so big, its like the salary range on a job posting on linkedin

At the moment Zelenskyy seems to have little to lose. Offering to meet Putin in the US is bold though.

Wryly amusing to watch the BBC talking about diplomats discussing the ongoing ceasefire, when we all know that it's various groups of religious lunatics with a less than firm grasp on reality.

Beautiful.

Scotland's Home of the Year sets my teeth on edge. What a pile of wa*k when rich folk have paid an architect and interior designer to get their house on the telly. Respect to the DIYers though...

I rarely post about books but I really enjoyed The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It's a thrill ride of time travel, history and espionage, peppered with a chunk of horniness. Not a romantic comedy, as the paperback edition suggests on its cover. 1/2

I wonder what the frail older lady who dropped a Reform leaflet through my door in Craiglockhart at the weekend thinks of this? uk.news.yahoo.com/malcolm-offo...

"The planes are going anyway" The planes wouldn't be scheduled to go if there were fewer passengers.

Everyone can see how evil, weak, and stupid Trump looks now. It's time for the media to stop being polite about it. Tell it like it is.

This seems plausible

Saw "Everybody to Kenmure Street" today. A great documentary about community and the powers of persuasion. Plus a reminder not to take any shit from the polis when they try the rough stuff. Passive resistance and all that...

More than 100 years since my maternal grandfather fought in the war to end all wars. According to #Trump, erstwhile President of the previous leaders of the free world, we could be facing another.

Guess who booked cinema tickets for this afternoon when it's sunny and 15° outside?

We visited Linlithgow Palace yesterday. Inspired by the south range, its turreted portico and its collection of parked SUVs.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Love It or List It on the telly. An update from Kirstie. "There's no sign of the sunroom I recommended". Tr. "where's the effin' sunroom?" 🤬

The stares remind me of the time I used the word obligatory to an eight year old.

I was listening to Radio 2 earlier and Tony Blackburn was presenting. I know nostalgia is a big draw, but if I was an up and coming 60 year old DJ, I might find that a bit discouraging.

This is a remarkable revelation, ignored by most media who are willing to swallow entirely the White House bullshit about this so-called “rescue mission”. The two destroyed C-130s were 400km from the site of the rescue mission. 400km. It’s all a tissue of lies. (🎥 Sky News)

Watching a football match on tv that's in bright sunshine and deep shade. It's not made any better by one team being completely in royal blue and the other completely in navy blue.

People don't even say Happy Easter any more so we're bringing it back.

We have a #cheese slice. It's a marvellous invention that shaves semi-hard cheese into uniform slices. At lunchtime I experimented with layering #cheddar and #comté. I can advise that a cheddar/comté/cheddar combo works very well with sourdough.

Let's not be #FossilFools and distract from drive for #Renewables, our energy future. " Even in the most optimistic scenario, and assuming none of its gas is exported, Jackdaw would provide just 2% of UK demand over its nine- to 12-year lifetime.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Minor fess... There's a very pedestrian-responsive pelican crossing near my house. Yesterday I waited until two tradies' vans went by, then pressed the button as a Range Rover approached. It felt great.

It's weird to hope that Iran is first to find the missing F-15 crew member, but that's where we are right now. That eventuality could focus some minds.

Beware of religious extremists.

Public Service Notification. Bus 763e on the 27 route has a very cheery driver today. #edinburgh @lothianbuses.bsky.social

WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.

The more people see of Reform in action, the less they like them.

Aff the drink because of my recent leg break, but a long-postponed trip to my local bottle shop @atgbeer.bsky.social was well worth it. A few local beauties amongst the haul. Check that can art!

I wonder if he tells the story about Pope Francis being so horrified by him that he died the next day.

So much going on right now that this might not reach the red tops' front pages.

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly

Bought a couple of tickets to see Teenage Fanclub in Edinburgh in the autumn. My OH is not enthusiastic, so I have some time to win her over. youtu.be/N8MCyiMgYCo?...

No words to describe the enduring suffering and anguish. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The people running the US right now are the worst imaginable.

RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew the outline of an underage girl which he sent to Jeffrey Epstein. It confirmed a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Can you all see what's coming? It won't stop with the military.

Whenever a news story about something Trump is doing declares that it's "a first for a sitting president" or "a change from tradition," replace it with "yet another authoritarian move from the president," and see if it sounds more accurate.

Only one celtic nation at the shitiest World Cup in history (even including the other shitey ones like 1994) and it has to be Scotland.

I really hate to say this, but people in the US who think that No Kings protests are going to unseat Trump are deluded. I think most people know that things will get much worse if you let them, before they return to some sort of equilibrium.

Collapsing like a broken deckchair

Wes Streeting has again accepted over £50,000 from a firm whose owner has longstanding links to private healthcare 🚨