@davidallengreen.bsky.social Your thoughts?

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

@ftweekend.com Robin Lane Fox writes this weekend of tulips: "Now that prices have risen, shop around, order fewer and plant in groups, not regimented armies: less, in tulip bedding, is often aesthetically more." But this is the FT. Is an article on rising tulip prices a metaphor?

@poorfrankraw.co.uk Is this one of yours?

@poorfrankraw.co.uk

In the United States the President is deliberately dismantling the White House, while in the United Kingdom we are doing nothing to stop the Palace of Westminster from falling apart. Much the same can be said of our respective constitutions.

@poorfrankraw.co.uk Useful for demonstrating the importance of kerning, perhaps?

However: www.modernpowersystems.com/news/global-...

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Any comments on this photograph, which I understand to have been associated with a press release concerning the Louvre jewel 'heist'? It has been suggested that this is the Paris Gendarmerie's elite 'Flaneur Squad'.

My Trade Secrets today. The Trump-Xi trade conflict is heading towards an uneasy cold war-type truce between the US and China, not an escalation. Also: what do you do if you're a smallish economy like the UK being bounced around between the trade behemoths? Damned if I know. First 300 clicks free.

@financialtimes.com Thanks Donald. That state visit is beginning to pay off for the UK. Trump’s tariffs hand surprise win to London Metal Exchange over New York rival - on.ft.com/47e6tPt via @FT

@dankaszeta.bsky.social Good juxtaposition, thank you.

Awful news - if anyone can help Sascha:

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Amazon has an algorithm such that for any enquiry I make through a search engine, Amazon always offers it to me cheap. Today saw the apogee of this idiocy. A relative of mine has recently been diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). Amazon is offering me 'Low priced CLL cancer'...

@neorsd.org A rare bit of good news for such large scale project management.

To write this, the author presumably had to have had sex with the deputy editor (of @economist.com ). I am not sure that I really want to know...

Another fine performance this evening, this time of The Pirates of Penzance, under the capable baton of @jkaconductor.bsky.social. Always supportive of the singers, never overwhelming them...

A fine performance of Princess Ida this evening, not least down to the enthusiastic conducting of @jkaconductor.bsky.social Ben McAteer, Gaynor Keeble and Phoebe Smith in notably good voice. As to the set, well I suppose that even Jackson Pollock had his off days.

What would Enid have said after this, their latest exploit?

Crypto scandal sinks Russian elite’s $8.5mn polar party cruise - on.ft.com/47ZOPB1 via @FT Who kan sey bet than he? who kan do werse? Whan he hath al wel seyd, thanne hath he doon; Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend,’ thus herde I seye.

And whatever else people say about the privatisation of the UK railways, if did result in a remarkable upturn in rail usage, somewhat in excess of European peers.

@jburnmurdoch.ft.com The BBC needs your help.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

A protest against the visit of US vice-president J.D. Vance has been staged in Charlbury, the Oxfordshire town closest to his holiday venue of Dean. The demonstration, organised by the Stop Trump Coalition and local residents, featured placards such as “Cotswold childless cat ladies say go home”.

This should be a good week for the local farmers to finish bringing in the barley.

Excellent Early Music Show today with @jkaconductor.bsky.social . Well worth a second listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

@robarmstrong.bsky.social The reach of TACO...

@mliebreich.bsky.social "In business, heir to the JCB construction equipment empire Jo Bamford — who in 2021 launched a green hydrogen investment fund HyCap — was awarded a CBE for services to innovating the clean hydrogen economy." - on.ft.com/4e86Mi2 via @FT

Welcome to the archives.

Interesting, but perhaps fanciful...

My brilliant lute teacher Anton Birula made this video for me. Have a listen! If you feel so inclined pls subscribe to his channel LuteDuo. Let's get it to 10k. Pls reskeet. youtu.be/2EWrH0gRphQ?...

@ftweekend.com The closing sentence to Robin Land Fox's column about Rubens' garden, in the Weekend FT, has to be one of his finest, and indeed the finest in the FT this weekend.

Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves www.politico.eu/article/elon...