Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal So much for sovereignty isn't it ? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

Bonfire of the sanities 🤪

I long for a time where I don't need to know about bond yields, or the meaning if autarky, or the name Scott Bessant

I just solved Bellingcat's 'Camouflage' challenge 🏆 Try it yourself! challenge.bellingcat.com

I just solved Bellingcat's 'Spot the Location' challenge 🏆 Try it yourself! challenge.bellingcat.com

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

When America has your back — the weekly illustration from The Economist

Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

the wheels are falling off folks, buckle up.

Our cover this week. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Yup

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France: PM Barnier and government will resign 🚨 🇫🇷 331 MPs in French parliament - more than absolute majority of 289 - have voted for non-confidence motion. Motion was sponsored by the left bloc and supported by MPs from other groups as well. Source: @lemonde.fr

If Bluesky is to replace X for news, global coverage is key. There are consequential events happening in Syria, Ukraine, Georgia, Sudan & Gaza right now. This pack includes reporters on the ground there & analysts. Pls consider following these to share their reporting & build Bluesky's news value

Satellite data analysis suggests that algal blooms may have caused the 2020 deaths of more than 350 elephants in Botswana—part of an "alarming trend" in climate-induced toxic poisoning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A glorious sight.

BREAKING - Assisted dying passes its first stage in the House of Commons

This is a massive story with potentially huge implications for the Middle East if Assad's regime really is collapsing.

Heidi Alexander has replaced Louise Haigh as transport secretary, Downing Street has announced

William Hague has been elected Chancellor of Oxford University. (I appreciate this is niche interest but still... Mandelson wasn't in the top three)

Musk’s timeline of the last couple of days suggests to me that he will interfere much more directly in European / UK matters. See specifically his tweets on Germany and Yaxley-Lennon, for example. Anyone staying on X is tacitly saying this is ok. Really cannot comprehend why anyone would stay there.

some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair

Starter pack of non-massive accounts that you should really be following, because they will teach you things and/or make you laugh go.bsky.app/UStkBW1

Marie Curie's notebooks, which are RADIOACTIVE & must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.

#EXCLUSIVE: At least 24 previously impossible heatwaves have struck communities across the planet, a new assessment has shown, providing stark evidence of how human-caused #globalheating is supercharging extreme #weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity

Recommend the biro-on-a-piece-of-paper-in-the-back-of-a-cab method of verification 😂

For all those Russian bots bleating about escalation, this was the map of all missile attacks on Ukraine last night:

Interactive Map: Hundreds of Known Russian Military Objects Are in Range of ATACMS: www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com

We call them “posts”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Trump picks oil & gas industry CEO Chris Wright as energy secretary Wright, founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, an oilfield services firm, denies climate crisis and is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize oil & gas production

I was so naive last week - joking these picks were like choosing Harold shipman to run the DOH. But I get it now. If you fundamentally hate federal government and want all gov departments to swiftly fail , this is exactly what you’d do ..

'Do I want to work with this person?' Try this test.

This is very cool. I’ve never seen this visualization. The magic of migrating birds - at a global scale.

Christ “Caravans, Airbnbs. We found a child in such bad accommodation with disabilities that there were rats eating through their feeding tubes every night,” De Souza said. “We’ve had children in tents. It’s absolutely shocking” Hundreds of miles from family. Limited or no education Appalling

“What a beautiful home. Have the current owners been here lon-……” www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Just going to post #TomorrowsPapersToday here tonight as well as at the other place as a little test…

Today in Columbus, Ohio.

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Witnessing the remaining husk that is Twitter… It’s hard to think of a phrase more fitting than, “They truly deserve each other.”

Bluesky by the Numbers today: 1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts 2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts 2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!) Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!! We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board. Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago! Holy Moly

A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was “10k user signups.” We’re growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.

“Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudolph W. Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.”

Who made this? Ahahaha

The Dutch government is falling. Ministers seem to be resigning over “racist” remarks in a cabinet meeting earlier this week