Feature idea for Substack: let writers clone their voices, for the automatic text-to-speech feature. So we can listen to their posts in their voices.

Looking for a welcome distraction to take your mind off a bad breakup? Pick up a copy of the Eye for 48 pages of topical jokes, cartoons, news… and DEFINITELY no mention of your X. IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

Yeah, and what they going to say next time if it isn't a white British man?

Minimalism Not much to see here. www.worldofmoose.com/products/min...

🇷🇴🗳️ Watching interviews with Nicușor Dan and it's amazing how a introverted guy running on a "I just want a normal Romania that works, do you?" platform somehow didn't wink to the far right and managed to rally a nation to text their "I don't care about politics" aunties and get them to vote.

Poor The Economy

YUP '"We’ve lost a couple of bond deals already . . . they simply say that, you know, we’d rather just do this with a local bank than with a US bank,” Jamie Dimon said last week.'

Judgment of UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, a very important decision on statutory interpretation and the limits of the legal fiction in s9 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. No change to meaning of “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

** Cabo Delgado ** Launch of Armando Nhamtumbo's excellent book on the #war in northern Mozambique. Maputo, 9 April 2025 at 15h30 AfroLuso AfricanJihad #Mozambique

Every major media company around the world should be reporting on this every single day until those men are released.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... If you don't have an Atlantic subscription, here you go

Long-awaited meeting between Mozambican president Daniel Chapo and the de facto leader of the opposition Venâncio Mondlane took place in Maputo last night

It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.

Zitamar can now be found on Mastodon, thanks to @ghost.org joining the fediverse Plus our editor-in-chief is there to explain headline puns of which he's unduly proud

Such a cartoon supervillain. Which I'm sure is the fantasy he's living out.

Oh FFS (chapeau to the journalists for their very last line) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A friend in Belgrade writes #Serbia

The only thing Russia has to fear from NATO is that NATO might stop it interfering with and invading its western neighbours. NATO is no threat to Russian sovereignty or territorial integrity. So, LOL no, indeed.

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

»"We are Vladimir Putin's useful idiots": Le Figaro found Nate, JD Vance's first cousin and volunteer fighter in Ukraine«

Europe has to pay more for its own defence. One debate is whether they should "Buy European" weapons or buy them from America or other allies. One really BAD statistic is polluting the debate: that the EU buys 80% of its weapons from overseas. Ursula von der Leyen repeated it today. It's wrong. 🧵

Bluesky and Slack now in Opera sidebar. Noice.

Going over old ground, but it did not need to be a metric of success that the private sector maintained enrolment. Shrinking that sector and the inequality it propagates through the next generation would have been a good thing.

This is sad, though understandable as explained by @james.crid.land. For now the new audio feature in the BBC app is hidden away, buggy, and doesn't cast, though hopefully those issues will be fixed. Mostly I hope they forget to nuke the Sounds app, leaving it up just like Guardian Puzzles 😁

A peaceful country next to Russia heard this same thing before from them.

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

This is superb. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Trump: Nothing comes to mind. Zelenskyy:

Media: after three years of war in Ukraine, who should really take the blame? On the one hand- Putin: it's me. Media: certainly, the West must bear some- Putin: I wish to destroy democracy. Media: NATO is seen as- Putin: I hate you and will kill you all. Media: we may never know.

The good people of Norway, a founding NATO nation, should start asking their central bank why it is a top ten holder of Tesla. Actually no. They should demand it is sold.

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓

What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’? What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported? I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.

It isn't easy in the paranoid Labour party at the moment to put your head above the parapet and call out the bullshit. Respect to Stella Creasy for standing up to this. Denying refugees a pathway to citizenship is anti-integration nonsense and it reeks of desperation.

If there is one positive in all of this it is the final, definitive end to the fiction these companies are global. They are as American as the United Fruit Company and Standard Oil were in their time.

A chance for someone to actually mine for Bitcoin

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧