I genuinely can't stop thinking about the Iranian kids who spent yesterday wondering if they were all going to die and what that day will do to them for the rest of their lives.

I see yesterday’s sense of impending doom left its mark on me overnight.

The diva downgrade in Scottish politics needs to be studied.

Well this is going to be awkward.

Note "including in Lebanon"

Weird that having a set of negotiations in which there are no proper diplomats leads to a situation in which no one has a clue what's actually been agreed.

TUESDAY: “A whole civilization will die tonight.” WEDNESDAY: “It’s a beautiful thing.”

FT scoop - Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz. One official says it could be equivalent to $1 per barrel of oil www.ft.com/content/02ae...

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

IRANIAN NAVY: “.. You must receive permission from Iranian Sepah navy for passing through the strait. If any vessel tries to transit without permission, will be destroyed.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Fantastic.

A reminder that Yanis Varoufakis, the idiot's intellectual, is another of Putin's little blogger-puppets. Hand-maidens for imperialism.

The thing is, in any other context, a reprieve from nuclear war or whatever would have been greeted with celebrations and joy all round. Now we just get to look forward to whatever crisis will be in two weeks time. Manufactured omnicrisis is really tricky.

Evergreen post.

This whole “wake up to check whether or not Trump has actually destroyed the world overnight” routine really does make it hard to concentrate on other things. Which will be my excuse to anyone who needs anything from me today.

"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."

The alt text is spot on.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

This whiplash where the president terrifies the world for a few days with unhinged threats and then says “never mind” and then there’s this implication that anyone scared of his unhinged threats was overreacting is very domestic abuse but make it a country.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

I wrote a post about something that's a little hidden in Anthropic's focus on cybersecurity for its next model. Then I did something which turned the whole thing a little more dark. www.ianbetteridge.com/the-worst-of...

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Roundels out of proportion, colours wrong, font not Johnston Underground. Sorry to say that Mr Polanski has lost the autistic vote

If this price sticks around for more than a week, we are deep, deep shit.

There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...

this is a wild story. this level of detail cannot come without many of the principles talking to the reporters. this reads to me a whole lot like vance and rubio - especially - trying to cut their losses and throw the president under the bus. it's like something from W's second term circa 2007.

THIS SUCK'S LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN

this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

Reading “Healing from Narcissistic Abuse” by a friend of mine, Dr Daksha Hirani, and am struck by this narcissism checklist…

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

i've won so many domination victories on Civilization down the years without nuking anyone. Trump is shit at this

Weariest sigh of fucking inevitability from me here

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Latest #Artemis image to drop is my newest favourite! "A New View of the Moon" ICONIC! 🔭🧪 📷: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

The UK has already said the US can't use it's bases for the threatened strikes on civilian infrastructure. From yesterday: inews.co.uk/news/politic... There have also been updated stories published in the last hour or so.

This should always have been the end of it.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

Probably going to have to flesh out the traditional dismissal of Great Man Theory in first-year historiography lectures now it turns out that two to three deranged geriatrics actually can slingshot the entire planet into the sun

God, if I could bite this it’d be like Proust and the madeleine.

Apparently Warp have been sending people mysterious VHS tapes with hexagons printed on them and oh boy, we're getting a new Boards of Canada album aren't we.

Very 2026 to spend the day essentially counting down to some war crimes.

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

i think we should pronounce linkedin “linky din”

Who had ‘the moon is gay’ on their right-wing bingo card?