It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

After years of thinking about it, I finally made the switch to #Linux as my primary OS. So far, so good. No regrets.

Today's cartoon by Michael Ramirez for the Washington Post:

Cartoon by @mygumsarebleeding.bsky.social

I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.

Oh shit, no! Whatever will we do if we can no longer attract the people who steal all our money and don't contribute any tax? www.thetimes.com/business/eco...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

#ChatGPT is offline. Down, or something else?...... 😬

Richard. Your new profile pic. Yes it’s all very nice but did you know someone has set fire to your trousers?😳

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Absolutely! #BookSky

Remember folks, don't use Meta for Welsh translation work..

This is so well done. 👌

Newspaper famous for lying repeats lies by well known liar, Richard Tice, famous for telling lies about fossil fuels because rich liars pay him to repeat their lies.

Am I the only person sitting and wondering if this is “it”? Will I wake up to an alert on my phone, a blinding flash, or the news Trump has taco’d again. Perhaps I won’t wake up at all. 😬

Five television programs to get to know me: - Blackadder - Modern Toss - GoT (before the last two series) - Red Dwarf - Band of Brothers

Dyson - a man who took his wealth abroad to avoid paying taxes, moved his manufacturing from Malmesbury to Singapore to avoid UK taxes or employees, promoted the disaster that is Brexit, now trying to lecture on how the UK is struggling. He can fuck off.

@spannersready.bsky.social On the fence about the ‘26 regs, but anyone who says it was better in the 80s should be legally required to watch the entire, unedited, 1988 season.

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This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Four years into a war launched by a 70 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power, an 76 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power convinced a 79 year old man worried about legacy and clinging to power that they needed to bomb Iran to take out an 86 year old man wo...

On world poetry day...

WAR won't hide the #EpsteinFiles #Iran #Epstein

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Donald Trump has explained that the attack on Iran was necessary to protect US citizens from the dangers of paying too much attention to the Epstein files.

Morning.

The Dublin Agreement was a huge deterrent. People knew if they arrived in UK & had claimed elsewhere, approved or denied, they would immediately be returned. Now that data sharing is no longer an automatic right. The UK lost access to several shared mechanisms when it left the EU

Highly enjoyable read from @jonnelledge.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/s...

This has tickled me immensely

You’ve only got to see the type of people who supported Brexit,……..Epstein, Putin, Trump, Farage, Vance, Bannon, Covid partying Tories…….. to know it was wrong.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

This from @stephencollins.bsky.social always makes me laugh.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Contrary to Wes Streeting‘s claim that Mandelson was not the person they thought. He was. “All the former Washington ambassador’s erstwhile friends knew his weaknesses” And that is Starmer’s problem. They knew. They just hoped they could get away with it. www.ft.com/content/1a29...

Unless the "truth" inconveniently points to super-rich, powerful people, whose shady deals will be really hard to explain away.....obviously.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Love this. youtu.be/bsyJFmU_mlU?...

How do you tell when a bad person has also gone mad? @claireberlinski.bsky.social describes in some detail the verbal clues we can all clearly see in Trump, providing compare & contrast clips of recent Trump v Trump of decades before. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-presid...

Definitely worth watching. youtube.com/watch?v=9OtO...