I'm going to go out on a limb and say the judge overseeing Trump's IRS case is not going to just let this slide the way he is hoping.

Woodpecker at Fennsee - this is at full zoom on my 12-45mm f4 Pro, using the “digital teleconverter” and then cropped in-camera and tint-adjusted on my phone

I've been away and have come back to this ... El Niño and the heat it brings is coming - and it could be a very big one #climatecrisis #elnino www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

It is worth noting that almost 15 months after the military genius Trump told the Ukrainians that they had no “cards”, the Ukrainians hit so many targets around Moscow in one night, the most heavily defended city in Russia, that only a map does it justice.

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

For 20 years, the journalist in me has been fascinated by the politics of #Eurovision. But in this piece for The Guardian, I write from the fan perspective - about why things have crossed a line and so many of us won't be watching this year.

Honestly, let that be a lesson. Goddamn dumbass humans who think they know better. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My latest: I wrote about Trump's Golden Statue. And as a former Christian, let me hold y'all's hand when I say...the Trump figure is not the modern version of "golden calf". If you know your Bible, the statue represents something far worse. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

This is absolutely disgusting www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

What are these characters between the name and dates? Can anyone translate?

The first time he said this, Trump accidentally stepped on a rake. This time he purposely jumped on it.

You can't really desecrate Homer. He probably wasn't even a single person. The Iliad and the Odyssey were developed over time as part of an interative oral tradition

Excellent! Richly deserved

Der Post wurde hier 659 mal zitiert, bekam aber nur 27 Likes. In den Quote-Posts wird meist erklärt, das kostenlose Pampers für Bedürftige eine gute Sache sind oder wie shitty die WaPo geworden ist. Aber damit verschafft man dem Podcast, der auf X unbeachtet blieb, natürlich Aufmerksamkeit.

😕 "Holmes that's not a smoked kipper, that's naval treaty" - rip Hottest Watson David Burke

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

Labour, be like “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Next time, the leader has to be a woman…” “Actually, you know that man who lost two leadership elections and isn’t yet eligible to run…”

There's a mounting vibe of panic in the European financial sector, as cyber-capable AI continues to leap forward www.bankinfosecurity.com/ecb-ai-means...

Spotted on Tumblr…

Really enjoyed this conversation with @krystianlukasik.bsky.social about the Techno-Optimism Archive, which I can highly recommend as a reminder that hype around the new is anything but new youtu.be/XaTo-5Z7Ga0 @technooptimismarch.bsky.social

Andy is from my constituency, I get on well with him, he's done great things for Manchester, and it'd be pretty cool to see a Culcheth lad in Number 10 - all this is true. Beyond that, the rest is bollocks. Can we finally put this to bed now?

Had a great conversation with @superglaze.eurosky.social on Tech Gets Real about my archive of techno-optimism. Thanks for having me! For Polish listeners, I’ll also be on Radio TOK FM this Monday. And I’m very happy that the archive reached 10,000 visits in its first two weeks!

Really enjoyed this conversation with @krystianlukasik.bsky.social about the Techno-Optimism Archive, which I can highly recommend as a reminder that hype around the new is anything but new youtu.be/XaTo-5Z7Ga0 @technooptimismarch.bsky.social

Is there any connector type that is more cursed than micro-HDMI?

Mensa Reddit is amazing

Just spent two grand on a camera and I feel a bit sick

Surely they've suffered enough?

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Reform UK are roughly half as popular in Scotland as in England or Wales (slightly above half) 16-17% in Scotland 2026. 29% in Wales 2026 Reform 27% in English locals in 2026 (Were 32% in 2025) Reform got 7% in GE 2024 in Scotland, 14% across GB. (Highest - 17% in Wales - overlooked at time)

There's a very Gordon Brown feel to him. I want the job, but now I've got it I'm flummoxed.

This is what election coverage should be like. This is what we tune in for.

Berlin detritus

I could understand Starmer wanting to hang on if he had some kind of mission he wanted to fulfil, but he has no discernible vision, so it can only be ego

BREAKING:

Finally!

YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID

We do not in fact need an "all of the above" energy strategy

As AI becomes more dangerous, now is clearly the time to water down what rules we have! Whee! www.bankinfosecurity.com/europe-moves...

I have been making fun of the Odyssey since I was a teenager and I’m not going to stop just because a director with a very parasocial fanbase has made it his mission to turn the Ancient Greek version of “Dude Where’s My Car” into a Very Serious Movie.

AI agents for research: - invented fake datasets - p-hacked results - used nonrepresentative datasets - concealed or excused misdeeds But hey, who needs integrity in science!

Excellent timing for this WSJ newsletter ad from Anthropic, which just leased xAI's gas-powered, neighbourhood-poisoning Colossus 1 datacenter

Journalist*innen oder Extremismusforscher*innen sollten NIUS oder Julian Reichelt nicht durch Follows aufwerten. Falls Ihr diesen Mist beobachten müsst, nutzt Listen!

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Using Musk’s illegal pollution factory is an interesting choice for the “good” ai company