People look at the "Handmaid's Tale" naming conventions for the women and think it looks odd - "Ofglen, Offred" - but until the 1970s you were known as "Mrs. Husband's-First-and-Last-Name" and in 2026 have headlines like this

A country capable of electing a Donald Trump—twice, no less—is too dangerous and unstable to be “indispensable.”

I really hope this works.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire is approaching. 72 people died, thousands more scarred. Main causes remain unaddressed. Lust for higher profits Unaccountable corporate power Performance related executive pay Failure of regulators Indifference of govts to the cry of the people Nothing changed.

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers. Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

Pathetic. To the Antiguan people, Harvard is…offering a 10-20% discount on online business development classes.

Tell the truth and get fired.

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie

The AI version of Mark Zuckerberg is said to be more human than the original.

I will cook a welsh rarebit.

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

Italy is declining to renew a longstanding defense agreement with Israel, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, a sharp reversal for her right-wing government.

#Olavinlinna #Castle #Savonlinna #Finland

I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist

Omg, Bluesky, stop showing me pet death posts from people I do not follow. I do want to know if someone I know loses a pet, but not every time any person on the entire internet does.

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

‘And lo, it came to pass the Lord God did smite the nation, for they had turned from all that was good.’ - Psalms 1:30 (minutes on high)

I had forgotten how infuriating and hurtful properly hostile reviewer comments can be. (Well, forgotten is a bit misleading as I don't think I've ever seen such nasty comments, and I've submitted/reviewed a good number of manuscripts).

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

“The pope is WEAK on crime” Never has anyone needed their phone taken away from them as much as this dude does.

Ooooof.

the Dow Jones now reacting to The Pope

This is so interesting. It's pretty clear one of the biggest problems with LLM energy is intense verbosity (because long, humany answers are assumed to be better marketing + happier users). But getting rid of that reduces energy use by half www.linkedin.com/posts/maximi...

France is making Sweden look like a fossil dinosaur. (The Swedish government has just agreed to short-term VAT cuts on petrol, and is seeking approval from the EU to cut fuel taxes further, to below the mandated EU minimum.) www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...

Clearly we live in the middle ages. A terrifyingly stupid time to wake up to stories like this. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

imagine arguing with your devout catholic grandma and shouting "the pope is WEAK on crime"

In Finland, we have an idiom, karhunpalvelus, that directly translates into "a bear's favor". It refers to situations where you're trying to help someone but your efforts end up working against them instead. Trump and Vance did a proper bear's favor to Orban by publicly supporting him.

Might be worth it to send Trump on a special mission to space - the kind you don't come back from. Say, to Jupiter. Frame it right (it will cement his position in the history books) and he might even agree to it voluntarily.

The President needs a mental wellness check.

Hell yeah. (I don't think they'll do anything like this in the US, and their descent in the longer term will continue).

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

I hope and pray for you Hungary. Get that fucker out.

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Sunday

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

RIP

Ye Olde Meme: Finnish Catbus. Back in the day when beer was mostly sold in glass bottles, the 12 packs had this cardboard packaging that was colloquially known as a "dachshund" ("mäyräkoira", shortened to "mäykky")

Seen at local pubs...by Primitive Brewing, Seattle

Yeah, don't hold your breath: During Biden's term, I tried to volunteer as a policy advisor on how to stem the tide of elite tax avoidance/evasion; I'd just spent yrs doing that with the EU Parliament & helped change intl law with my research on offshore finance. The WH response (istg): "Call NATO."

What in the...

So the US military is apparently "looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest [sic]." Great.

Fellow academics/writers, I come bearing bad news: #AcademicSky #WritingSky #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

Denmark didn’t “transition” its grid—it replaced it. ~15% → 92% renewable electricity in 25 years. Wind did the heavy lifting. Solar is scaling. Interconnection balanced. Flexibility solved variability. Wind built it. Solar is scaling. Fossil lost it. This IS system replacement. ⚡#Bettrification

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

That means 69 million Americans do not support this. Is there something wrong, in the head with these people?.

For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.

I may be an ignoramus, but I've just learned that Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sherlock Holmes - had a brother-in-law called E.W. Hornung who created a gentleman thief version of Holmes called A.J. Raffles, also the protagonist of popular books. He ofc had an assistant too - called Bunny.