@antartica81.bsky.social Apparently booking GP appointments at 8am is excellent training for booking tickets for the Galleria Borghese! I figured out when the tickets go on sale, set an email reminder to set my alarm clock, and then from 11:59:40 kept pressing 'Reload' until the tickets appeared!

John Oliver's 3-part series on FIFA was very educational: www.youtube.com/results?sear...

Cauchy? The nicest distribution ever. It doesn't have a mean bone in its body.

How much claude would a claude code code if a claude code could code claude?

The poemwriting is not goingwell today.

Cognitive heroin.

This pic on Nish Kumar's wall 👌

Commiserations to Daniel Křetínský on West Ham relegation. At least he still has Royal Mail to cheer him up ... www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Sort of winning at maths in the same ways that computers beat grandmasters at chess

The default LinkedIn tone is what I imagine Havel's greengrocer would be posting on Weibo - it's what humans do when they know that the powers-that-be are watching and anything they say (or fail to say) may materially impact their future.

Immigration make Britain brilliant

The big risk with Makerfield is not Burnham win or lose. It's Burnham triangulates away from being the change candidate in order to win and becomes Starmer 2.0. Then Labour - and the country - is back to square one. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities

It's King in the North, not King of the North, thanks.

My estimate of the 2026 LE vote (estimate because I ignored small parts of two wards) Reform 49.8% Lab 26.9% Green 10.4% Cons 7.4% LibDem 3.6% Other 1.9% bsky.app/profile/0xcd...

I don't talk about this a lot, but my father was an alcoholic, and it killed him at 51. I have memories of hiding his car keys, of getting yelled at for refusing to let him drive, I had to break into our house because he'd passed out. This country needs to take alcoholism more seriously than this.

There were more Russian vehicles in Kiev than at Moscow #VictoryDay parade. This means we are winning.

What in God's name... this is unearthly

Alan Partridge as the deputy head of a Green-led Norwich Council is the movie Britain needs

Majesty and Travesty

🇧🇪 Participants compete in European seagull screeching contest In the Belgian town of De Panne, a bar hosts one of Europe's most unusual competitions: the seagull screeching championship. Participants from 16 European countries gathered to imitate the sounds of seagulls, with many dressing up too

MechEng degree from Caltech, Protestant and knows the Bible backwards

China has more strategic oil reserves saved up (for a war or crisis) than the rest of the world combined.

At 8:31 pm Friday, the US Treasury prolonged Russia's exemption from US oil sanctions for another month. Two days earlier Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent had promised that this would not be done. This is sufficient proof that Trump works for Putin. ofac.treasury.gov/media/935526...

❗️Lithuania and Latvia have denied airspace access to Slovak PM Robert Fico for his planned trip to Moscow for May 9 celebrations, forcing him to arrange an alternative route. #Europe

2026 Hungarian election result Tisza: 3.4 million votes Vote: 55% constituency, 53% list 141 seats (71% of seats) Fidesz: 2.4 million votes Vote: 37% constituency, 39% list 52 seats (26% of seats) Turnout 79% (+9)

Final results now that postal votes from Hungarians living abroad have been counted. The constitutional majority is 2/3, ie 133 seats or more. vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

Trump Occasionally Redefines Threats Into Limited, Lighter Asks.

🇭🇺 Vote count has begun vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026 Sit tight

Another graph to put the crazy Hungarian turnout figures into perspective.

For the crucial Hungarian election, friends don’t let friends follow fake-experts. Follow these real experts instead: @gabrielagreilinger.com @danielhegedus.bsky.social @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social @zecsaky.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social @eublogo.bsky.social

HiPOD: Strange Patterns in Echus Chasma This image shows bright and dark patterns with curving boundaries, a good example of Mars art. What caused this appearance? https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_042835_1800 NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #Mars #science #NASA

‼️🇭🇺🇪🇺 Here is a potted timeline thread marking some of the key milestones that built Prime Minister Viktor Orban's illiberal democracy in Hungary over his 16 years in power. His tenure looks likely to end tomorrow. The table stakes for Hungary and Europe could not be higher 1/

This is v good. Main points: 1. Magyar is not a liberal 2. Even with a big win on Sunday, he'll barely eke out a majority (due to Orbán's dirty tricks) 3. Orbán used his constitutional majority to fortify key parts of the regime, v hard to dismantle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Trump has lost. He either chickens out, which is the wiser choice, but would be seen as admission of defeat. Or he bombs these human chains and gets crucified for it by public opinion around the world (and rightly so).

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Kanye block him? Yes ye Kan.

In response to Simon Dudley's (Reform UK) comments on Grenfell:

This devastating, emotional, 2-minute clip of the oral evidence from Professor Kevin Fong (@drkevinfong.bsky.social) discussing his hospital visits at the height of the second wave perhaps explains it best. 7/19

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided' @chrischirp.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hope this is the time that the insane capabilities and low cost of these robots breaks out into mainstream. The Unitree g1 is $16k, its cheaper than your car.

‘Can cork man stay afloat?’ was right there.

Peter Mandelbrot. It’s just infinite scandals the more you zoom in.

WHERE AM I WEDNESDAY

One leak he got away with.