Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

I can just shuffle the meme cards in the archives and find something that works.

Right, no, but apart from THAT...

I'm having a Korean fried chicken torta from El Koreano because immigration makes America great.

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

Curious if we missed any obvious contenders here.

Like I swear, every anxiety you may be feeling about AI was felt by your parents about the rise of the internet, their parents by the rise of the computer, their parents by etc etc. You're predicting a future that Karl Marx thought was going to happen in his lifetime, and yet still hasn't.

Genuinely though: I was debating with someone the other day who the "Beatles" of our generation was and really the only thing that came close was radiohead. The criteria were 1) widely popular for a long time 2) significantly changed their sound over their career 3) had obsessive fans

Irish men will literally block all fossil fuel infrastructure in the country instead of going to therapy

Everyone knows that the 5th Hot Sauce is love.

IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) …. WE HAVE OUR LIST. It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce! www.axios.com/local/new-or...

🚨New @alphaville.ft.com stack now out. open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/i...

I find amazing the deafening silence from US universities on Trump's explicit threats to commit war crimes. It is astounding how he has managed to silence them/us. Is this what we agreed to when we bought into institutional neutrality?

Gasoline accounted for almost three-quarters of March's CPI increase

"The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in March ... The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 percent in March." CPI 3.3% YoY, Core 2.6% YoY Slightly less inflation than expected.

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

100% this. From @dsquareddigest.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ace8...

Iran war has exposed the weakness of the dollar - www.ft.com/content/ace8... via @FT

Can't imagine trying to manage rates vol right now

I am someone who has been fortunate to make money outside the housing market, and I paid more than this in taxes percentage-wise! jfc, we live in a society maybe pay some taxes on your completely unearned wealth www.sfgate.com/california/a...

I mean obviously as a certified non posable action figurine appreciator I'm a biased source here, but I do basically agree with this. Being unironically enthusiastic about weird niche things is one of the true joys of living in a society and if you can gain access to it you should.

A nice summary as always here from David

Incredibly foolish of Pirro to not just let this quietly die. The levels of self-destructiveness born out of pride never cease to amaze.

The all time banger

I'm just a humble tortilla maker

This whole ridiculous episode further legitimatising Bitcoin is a real crotch kick, tbh

Absolute unit. www.ft.com/content/990a...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

When the Trump administration cut off food aid to one of the world’s largest refugee camps, it left hundreds of thousands of people to starve. This is the story of one mother’s daily battle to keep her three young sons alive. (Published Dec. 2025)

Gotta love a late winner!

‘Here we all are, our minds fizzing and popping, our lives spent on screens. Cooking is a way of establishing ourselves as bodies in the world… You need to let your intelligence escape the confines of the mind & take up residence in the senses’ @nigella.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4819...

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

Regime change.

BOOCKVAR: “.. because foreigners own so much of US assets, that our markets are a source of funds for them. Here is a chart from the FT of foreign official holdings (central banks and governments) of US Treasuries that hit their lowest level since 2012.”

Thanks to Trump’s billionaire & corporate tax giveaway, some of the largest corporations are saving billions of $$ this tax season. The biggest winners? Big Tech, retailers, drugmakers, manufacturers, & telecom giants. Meanwhile, working families struggle to afford groceries, rent, & electricity.

We literally threatened to invade a NATO ally THIS YEAR. TWO MONTHS AGO.

Man Utd vs Man City last week: 23,000 fans. Arsenal vs Spurs last week: 46,000 fans. There's your wage bill.

Igor Tudor gone in 44 days; the Liz Truss of Tottenham Hotspur www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

One more review from Copenhagen: Silberbauers Bistro, a wonderful French spot that served some pretty spectacular sweetbreads

I always miss Barcelona, but this makes me double triple miss it

“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” -Bobby Sands x.com/AidanSimardo...

“The upcoming period will be characterised by a temporary period of elevated ILTR maturities each week against Level A drawings originally from the October and November 2025 auctions.” The skew to Level A has been a significant issue for 18 months www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-insight...

In a sane world, there would already be high level international planning for the contingency of a worst case scenario. Coordination of fiscal and monetary policy; mitigation of financial instability; cushioning lower and middle income countries. Unfortunately we don’t live in sane world.

This is very well put on AI, information, and markets.

This is such a ridiculous mess... This story repeats Witkoff's odd mistake of referring to the "Gulf of Hormuz" which might be telling. Heard an amazing thing about Witkoff this morning: he never takes notes, even when negotiating nuclear technicalities with Iran, which he didn't understand!

Walking around Rome in the afternoon sun post two glasses of wine, 10/10 would recommend