I don't trust anyone except Pawel, one guy I met in a hotel bar in Bamako, and a random discord channel

If you were not there in the “no one but like six Western defence reporters know what Azawad is” trenches of 2018 I don’t want to hear a word of your analysis of what’s happening today

I'm not exaggerating when I say this is one of the reasons I left Ireland www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

Fun detail in the release: "The Finnish Defence Forces will communicate with the assigned reservists, and therefore the reservists do not need to contact the Finnish Defence Forces." ≈ Hold your horses you overenthusiastic lot, we just need a few people for a while 😀

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

I regret to inform you the weather forecasters are once again describing mornings as 'fresh'

My neighbor told me Keir Starmer keeps eating his senior civil servants so I asked how many senior civil servants he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new senior civil servant afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding senior civil servants to Keir Starmer and then hi

In case there was any room left for doubt, London's oldest Roman Catholic Church's reflection this week is on liberation theology

Same, buddy

After our story yesterday, the US has now expanded the Hormuz blockade to include Iranian and sanctioned ships, warning they could be subject to interdiction, search and seizure regardless of their location www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

This was always going to happen once Europe decided to actually spend on defence. Why should European money go to the Americans? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Is the blockade working? Kinda, probably www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

In one of my all-time favourite examples of "per capita is a shite statistic", the crime rate in Vatican City is the highest in the world From the Archdiocese of Baltimore, of all places: www.archbalt.org/crime-and-pu...

I grew up thinking about boats, never wanted anything but to be around boats, learn about boats, look at boats. Be careful what you wish for I guess because my entire waking life has been and will, for the foreseeable future, be about boats.

Tracking data appears to show a number of Iran-linked ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in the hours after the U.S. blockade of the waterway began on Monday. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

In this week's free Patreon post, I write about the map I drew for Steve Mentz's book, "Sailing Without Ahab." It's an unusual map that combines the world of Moby Dick with the geography of Steve's local coastlines. Give it a read! #maps #melville #mobydick www.patreon.com/posts/world-...

The swedish anti-sketchiness force-field is powerful. sketchy.boats/9260823 sketchy.boats/9311622

Man, I really miss this place www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast...

[Stevie Nicks voice] Trianon

My @flightradar24.com subscription should be on the NHS aeon.co/essays/how-t...

Btw, the ship was dark in AIS for over 40 days. So what ever its doing, its ment to be seen www.itamilradar.com/2026/04/11/h...

My energy company emailed this morning to say my direct debit is going up nearly £30

US photographer, film-maker, musician and author Gordon Parks created a groundbreaking body of work that made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. ‘Gordon Parks: The South in Colour.’

No big deal just a solar eclipse as seen from the moon streamed to us here on Earth by astronauts who are farther away from their home planet than any human has ever been

I’m going to need to see this mountain beach farm cave

Meet the artists and musicians keeping a Mardi Gras tradition alive for over a century. It's one that most tourists will never see. 60 Minutes, Sunday. 60Minutes.com

ok but shooting down airplanes with surface to air missiles and IR sensors isn't asymmetric anything

New meditation just dropped

Good morning and Happy Nigella Day! Because all is briefly right with the world and as a special treat, it's free to read. www.ft.com/content/4819...

My debut at Foreign Policy The Islamic State Sahel Threat Is Transnational and expanding. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/31/i...

After Trump's claim of a "present," data show most ships getting through Strait of Hormuz are linked to Iran www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...

It's the worst day of the year for some of us

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

You can read more about our entry on the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) here: osmp.ngo/osmp2061/

"(Jesus) does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: 'Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood'” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Press release is here lpj.org/en/news/join...

Israeli police stopped Cardinal Pizzaballa, head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and Most Rev Fr Ielpo, Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, from entering the church and celebrating Palm Sunday Mass there today, their offices say.

Don't forget the clocks go forward tonight, as they do every night, pitiless and unstoppable, silent witnesses to our inevitable decay.

Trying to explain persistent migraines to people who “had a really bad headache once”

“According to a police source, the suspect said he had been recruited via the Snapchat app to carry out the bombing in exchange for the sum of €600.” www.thejournal.ie/french-polic...

Landmines are evil, evil things that will destroy the land and the people on it for decades after this war ends

A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

If you didn't read this amazing piece in december then here's another chance today as the extraordinary Nathan Newby receives the UK's high gallantry honour, the George Medal as.ft.com/r/57d73632-e...

Mate, have you seen Sirat?

Everyone loves to cry false flag, but have you considered that some people are just dumb?

An Irish company feeding the Russian war machine slaughtering Ukrainian civilians. This has to be stopped

From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'. Quarry, Buchenwald, Germany. 2018

Finally found this list of 15th century Italian names for cows I had saved ages ago and lost, but don't remember where I first got it from.

GUYS. Guys.