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I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

People like the presumably British Guardian writer reporting on how last night was “just like a movie”…what movies don’t show is American children stuck with GoFundMes to put lives and loss back together. Even the thoughts and prayers ran out.

So far this month, we had 2.4 mm of rain in the central Netherlands, and with no rain in sight, that'll be the monthly total too. That's 94% below average, and about what Chile's Atacama desert gets in April.

Kimberley Harris. The Day's Last Light. Oil on board.

I keep a potato masher in a drawer because it's fun not to be able to open that drawer.

He honestly thinks we're stupid.

I’m listening to seasoned reporters talk about how frightened they were during the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and imagining how much worse it is for America’s children. If there’s ever been a time to pass sensible gun control laws, it’s now.

My wife snapped this amazing pic of the Empire State Building tonight

Ireland's National Cycle Network (NCN) should be considered critical infrastructure www.tii.ie/en/active-tr...

Does this count for #CeilingsOnSunday? 🤞 London St Pancras.

It's such a pleasure to take a train in Italy. Yesterday, the high speed Frecciarossa brought me from Bologna to Milan in just 1h14, perfectly on time - even though the train was coming from Naples already - and for just 27 EUR. Today I'm on a regional train with lots of space and huge windows.

Nemophila bloom season has begun in Japan. Every spring, the fields of Hitachinaki Park are transformed into a blanket of blue, where over 5 million delicate blue flowers bloom, creating a "sky beneath your feet" effect.😍 Good image for Bluesky .

🇨🇦🇺🇸 All other considerations aside…this is, hands down, the single ugliest automobile ever designed….

BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on

“That all may be one.” - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, offers a blessing in the Clementine Chapel, close to Peter’s tomb. On Monday the Archbishop will meet Pope Leo, then both will preside at midday prayer in Urban VIII Chapel in the Apostolic Palace.

Lucille Ball--actress, comedian, producer & film-studio executiver--died #OTD in 1989. In 1962, she bought out Desi Arnaz's interest in Desilu Productions & became the 1st woman to own & run a major TV studio. Desilu produced many popular TV series including Mission: Impossible & #StarTrek. #legend

The guy glaring at them from behind the table is all of us…

Witness the stunning timelapse of a lightning storm over Western Australia, where nature's fury creates a breathtaking spectacle of light and power.

Probably the most significant gender gap on a political issue not tied to gender I have ever come across. And not some mere fluke, consistent on our trackers going back years, a genuine point of difference between men and women.

With plug-in solar now a thing, we need a solar panelled chicken ark to both keep backyard hens safe (from martens and bird flu) and as a movable solar collector, charge a battery during the day that can be plugged into the mains at night. Could also have own battery to power feeders and monitors.

This is one of many ways HBO Max is a great addition to UK streaming, in that at a stroke it frees you from two of the dirt worst subscription services in the country (TNT and Now TV).

Invasion of the latté delivering drones. #Speirgorm

This picture is more American than anything Norman Rockwell could have ever dreamed up

And the Sky Touched Down (2011) by Canadian artist Mark Grantham (born in 1966) Acrylic on canvas 91 x 61 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I'd make an excellent Swede: I still recall my wife's shock when she first saw me greeting family members I hadn't seen for a long time with a nod and a mumbled "hello"

Structural change in Britain ... the end of inefficient small-holding agriculture. By 1911 there were few if any “peasants” in the United Kingdom, other than in Ireland, where, for political purposes, London was pursuing a strategy of “peasantization”. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

" the world economy before 1914 conformed to classical economics - capital flowed “downhill” from capital-rich to capital-poor regions. The world of the 21st century and the structure of American power today is much stranger than that"

Those Washington correspondents would be in flitters in Gaza 🙄 #speirgorm

Be a good excuse for the palace to cancel while they could still plámás the lad by saying they'll wait until his glorious and secure ballroom is built. www.bbc.com/news/article...

By "Darkness coming viscerally close" do you mean you were sharing a meal with a corrupt, paedophile fascist?

"People can just do less overall — consume less, produce less. That is, we can reduce oil consumption by having a global slump. And demand destruction through a global slump can happen quickly." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-harm-f...

The most Reform thing ever

POV: Watching a vegan trying to order dinner at a Parisian restaurant...

26 Apr 1535: St. John Houghton, Prior of the #London Charterhouse and fellow Carthusians Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster are interrogated #otd by Thomas Cromwell for their refusal to take the Supremacy Oath. Executed 4 May.

If this is true and the battery can last long, this is the end of combustion cars and China will lead the way.

The Easter Rising was entirely undemocratic and really quite outrageous, and it’s a very good thing they did it

Gee, why does the internet keep saying "staged shooting", I wonder?

Most of this is just left alone. 🌱 That’s the part that works. 🦋

On the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the site remains too dangerous for humans – but wildlife has moved back in.

I think the best bit is that he thinks the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans happened some time during Lindsey Grahams tenure as a senator I know he's been around for a while but bloody hell!

people *mocked* Anna Komnene for being convinced every western crusade was really about sacking Constantinople but she just keeps winning