This bizarre little guy just took a stroll over my pen in the back garden. Looks like a scifi alien. Its the caterpiller of a Vapourer moth.

A majorly sci-fi moment, not to mention a first in human history!

Great job 👏

Belgium’s foreign minister accused the European Commission today of taking “insufficient” action against trade with illegal Israeli settlements as a push to clamp down divides EU countries.

Yesterday, in Tel Aviv, Israeli high school students dropped an enormous banner on the side of a building announcing that they refused to enlist in the IDF and calling on others to sign an open letter asking them to join them in refusal to serve 📸 @orenziv.bsky.social

The number of confirmed Ebola cases across the DRC has risen to 1,926, including 702 deaths www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

Israeli attacks kill six in Gaza Strip, including girl (9), officials say

this is the perfect use of axios’s bullet point house style

Thank you European Union 🇪🇺 #europeanunion #EU #smartphones #mobilephones

Irish Facebook & X: The “Irish” man who killed that nurse in Budapest isn’t really Irish, he just holds an Irish passport, the media are lying to you The guy’s name: LORCAN TADHG MURPHY #speirghorm www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...

Trumps Trounced News: The US President's son "buys" Albanian real estate based on forged documents from a trafficker of South American cocaine into Europe who used the laundered funds to establish a ‌real estate empire, complete with falsified land-ownership docs Oops! www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Windows 95 detected installers by looking for magic words and hoping for the best

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

I don't think I've ever seen a group of people take a joke quite as badly to heart as this lot have this week

All of this tacky-ass third-rate Golden Corral looking shit will be gone before sundown the day a Democrat is inaugurated.

AI-driven datacenter builds drive Microsoft's emissions up a quarter in one year

Voronezh 🚗⛽️

Microsoft emissions up 25% in a single year Google emissions up 25% Amazon emissions up 16% Big tech's climate pledges are being swept away in the insatiable race for AI profits.

The rhetoric around a European parliament vote to allow tech companies to monitor online chats in an effort to clamp down on child abuse has been so extreme that it’s not always clear that opposing sides are discussing the same thing. jrnl.ie/7097705

Trump started a war with Iran and assassinated their leaders. The US government had been bombing the country for months and killing civilians. There’s no moral high ground here despite Trump’s preemptive effort to cast himself as a victim.

While the AI bubble is primarily a *material* phenomenon (driven by the calculation that bosses are easy marks for a sales pitch for replacing workers with apps), there is an inescapable ideological component to it: the desire for a world without people in it: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v... 1/

Israel must release pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been held without charge for 18 months and now faces an imminent threat to his life from torture. Israel must end the targeting of health workers and the inhumane treatment of Palestinians in arbitrary detention.

1/ An interview with Russian oligarch Alexey Melnichenko in The Economist is prompting strong interest among Russian commentators. Some see it as a valuable insight into elite thinking about Russia's future; others see it as a Western provocation. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/econ...

Claire, you’re shouting at a bin.

Count Binface was on Andrew Marr's show today, and performed a lot better on that than the majority of politicians youtu.be/WRBh7uGwxmU?...

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

This didn't age well...

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

I’m genuinely astounded that, for some madcap reason, the International Astronomical Union decided to name an asteroid after yours truly! This is both absurd and heartwarming. (20635) Robinandrews hangs out between Mars and Jupiter—and at 24km across, it could kill everyone on Earth. ;)

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

More talk from the Farage camp about unmasking Count Binface. They should do it on tv and then pan to the audience who have all brought their own bins from home, like the end of V for Vendetta. #binface

25 years into our attempt to switch to renewables, and we still have days where total renewable generation is less than the power we import from the UK.

Another German state heads down the open source sovereignty road

The Commission confirms it has sent the document. "We have transmitted the paper to our member states, as we committed to do," a spokesperson said. The first discussion among foreign ministers will take place on 13 July. The Commission will then "take stock".

The supposed free speech absolutist censors checkable facts from being shared.

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

More hilarious brilliance from @alphaville.ft.com re $ SPCX: www.ft.com/content/1344...

A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself. The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on."

Finland President Alexander Stubb: "Trump, don't ask us anymore — you go into Venezuela & Iran, you don't ask. You make claims on Greenland, you don't ask. You think you can run the show in the Middle East, like Iran? Not without us You will lose. Every time."

I wish just one NATO leader (or all of them) would say, "This is unacceptable. The US president has lost his mind. America come get your boy. He's broken and needs to be under a doctor's care back home." I wish someone would tell the damn truth about what's happening.

The Ukrainian deep strikes didn't just increase in quantity starting in August 2025. The US intelligence community enabled the Ukrainian drones to evade Russian air defenses through precision route planning and to achieve maximum impact through target selection.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

An Israeli strike in Gaza just before the kickoff of the Egypt-Argentina World Cup match killed a top Palestinian aid official who helped organize public screenings of the game across the enclave. apnews.com/article/gaza...

There’s never bin a better moment than now.

The good thing about none of the major parties running in Clacton and Count Binface running against Farage is that it effectively gives Farage nothing to run against, aside from complaining he's running against a man with a bin on his head, which is inherently funny.