National Parliament Election in Armenia 🇦🇲 64% of polling stations have now been counted. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s centrist, pro-EU Civic Contract party remains just above 50%, while the pro-Kremlin Prosperous Armenia party is... #ArmVote26 Follow live: europeelects.eu/2026/06/03/n...

These are a few examples of the so-called Town Mosaic found at the Palace of Knossos. They are faience plaques which were likely mounted originally to furniture. Each plaque depicts a Minoan house with doors, windows, brickwork, wooden beams etc. It’s a delightful find 🕰️c1700 BC 🏛️📷Heraklion Museum

So many zingers in such a short obituary for Sir Alex Younger. 🧵 Let’s start with when he finally tells his mum he is a spy…

the "HR lady" thing is so telling. oh no, did someone ruin your open sexual harassment environment?

leftist populist men: I know how we win, we tell women they ruin our politics

The existence of non-subordinated women with college degrees has driven a substantial proportion of men completely fucking insane. It's not great.

So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.

HR gets a bad rap because the median memorable interaction with HR is of a man coming up against a woman with authority over him.

Moving, layered piece by @david-batty.bsky.social about his meetings with his birth parents and the complex relationships these opened up. It highlights a horrible period in the UK where unmarried women were pressured to give up their babies www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘Poisoned’ AI: the ChatGPT shopping scams that lead to fake websites

Hegseth's speech is in line with last year's US National Security Strategy, which is clear that the Trump regime will back parties and individuals in Europe who seek to divide and undermine the EU. Europe - UK included - must resist this attempt to subjugate Europe. ecfr.eu/article/why-...

Also, I think an uncomfortable reality of American progressivism is that it traces a lot of its modern lineage through an intensely antagonistic campaign against Hillary Clinton - antagonism which drew in more than a few people whose core objection to her had nothing to do with policy

We never see as clearly as we think we do. A #birddivination for anyone who has been surprised by someone they thought they knew well. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofbirds.org

Hey Jacobin: misogyny IS the most pervasive driver of economic inequality. Don't take it from me, Mere Female: take it from Nobel winner Amartya Sen whose major thesis in "Development As Freedom" is that oppression of women puts the brakes on prosperity everywhere. www.wider.unu.edu/video/amarty...

In 2015, Eric Schlosser, author of the book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety,” revealed on Australian television that at least one Titan II ICBM launch crew (and almost certainly all 54) was ordered to retrieve and insert their launch keys.

It's super that every country in the world now has their own specific Trump-related reason to hate the USA.

This story has been consistently reported, but seems not to have really broken though - it’s ASTONISHING. An asylum policy that caters specifically and essentially exclusively to white people from a country in which they’re safe.

Most people do. Gigantic swings in English/British identity mainly down to the order they come on the census, which suggests it just ain’t that deep

And this is the shocking thing. Seeing a cohort of mainly left wing MPs (plus Ed Davey) actively considering pushing to amend the Equality Act to remove sex based rights is alarming. No surprise that Reform want to get rid of it altogether, but the left centre position is baffling.

The Metro NY Library Council is hiring a Library Field Ranger for our Library Field experimental outdoor library in Westchester County!

Another one for your study @gaillardiafever.bsky.social

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

BBC reporting a serious problem of ‘young people‘ killing wildlife & pets, as well as targeting people, with ball bearings fired from catapults. They say ‘young people‘, they mean young men. The problem, yet again, is cruel, angry, violent men.

Started playing this catfishing.net this week. Guess ten wiki articles from their categories. Very tricky. But quite satisfying.

HM Saffer II • Moon Waters • night Venticelli •

that's only because of the evolution of marmalade itself, which was originally made with quince, hence the name - so you're wrong that it's "english speakers always misunderstand everything," it's that nowadays orange has replaced quince as the popular main ingredient

Haven't listened yet but suspect a number of you may be interested

“in France only 5% of places are run for profit, in England, the FT tells us, the figure is 84%.”

Generally speaking if you have read claims of sexual misconduct in the a broadsheet newspaper or glossy magazine, you can assume that they have been thoroughly vetted and that there’s a lot of worse behavior that couldn’t be confirmed.

"Women with bad politics are to be doubted when they make claims of domestic violence" is the logical endpoint of the trend that began with leftists doubting Israeli Jewish women reporting sexual violence on 10/7/2023. "Believe women" is apparently over now.

Narrator The Labour government already has a 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy backed by £725 billion in public and private funding. Key areas of focus include energy transition, green transport, and regional development to boost long-term economic growth.

I'm trying to think of what could be an England team equivalent to pose for and for some reason this one keeps coming to mind, although sadly Jack Grealish hasn't been selected and so couldn't be the reclining guy with a pint.

Sarah Wakefield: "Reform's policies on women are shocking. Reform on day one wants to repeal the Equality Act. That is your party policy." "I can't believe, as a mum of a young daughter, I'm having to sit here in 2026 and make the case for me and my daughter to have the right for equal pay."

Exceptional piece of bureaucratic design, where a council accidentally reinvents the core logic of the menstruation hut because they refuse to just design a default single-sex space that accommodates normal human biology with basic privacy.

Very interesting @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece this morning - how much value AI is creating is exactly the right question. The evidence from coders here suggests it’s so far creating a lot of extra output - 290% more files, 30% more software releases - but no extra valuable outputs (app downloads)

Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘By the Mere’ Artist: CFTunnicliffe

Hannah Spencer challenging Robert Kenyon's sexism & Reform's sexist policies would hit harder if they didn't mirror Green Party. Greens have a titnotherapist for a leader. Reform wants to undermine the Equality Act and women's rights .... and so do the Greens. Both parties are a nightmare for women.

Requests are often gamified and the children don’t know what they are caught up in. This excerpt is about teenagers in Ukraine who unwittingly pass on geographical data that helped Russia plan its air strikes

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

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It's now considered "escalatory" to send Tomahawk missiles to a NATO ally separated from Russia by two entire countries. Another reminder that when you make "not upsetting Putin" your North Star you hand him the total veto of endlessly expanding what he claims to find upsetting.

Haha yes to the woman in the audience who said to Reform candidate: ‘How can we trust you when your party leader will say ‘up the IRA’ for £80’ 😆

if only anyone could have foreseen the very specific risks of picking completely untested hypermasculine candidates for no other reason than their hypermasculinity

"Oh yes! This rough-hewn guy seems like the kind of person a right-wing chud would like! Let's recruit him!" "Oh no! This rough-hewn guy is exactly the kind of person a right-wing chud would like!" Ad infinitum

None of this explains what is substantively wrong with a democratically elected government implementing legal guidance produced by an arms length body, updated after a comprehensive passage of a debatable point of law through the courts all the way to the High Court of Justice.

Unison’s call for "real life impact" is impressively selective. They aren't interested in the reality of female workers - they’re just crowdsourcing testimonials to lobby against the EHRC. A trade union working this hard to dismantle its own members' legal protections is quite something.

this is my new favourite account

There are (at least) 2 liberal responses to the Nowak murder: 1. No, there are no considerations of race in policing. 2. Yes there are considerations of race precisely because of the history of the police and racism. I worry we're going for the first, and the populists have liberals on the run.