Someone won the internet today 🏆

From Tory HQ to the Daily Mail to Tufton Street, the myriad creeps & cretins who created the ecosystem in which this could happen still claim to be patriotic. And Boris Johnson fluffers still dominate all three places.

I don’t know who or what Apollo is or are but sell your shares in them now

Your occasional reminder that a parcels TGV was exhibited at St Pancras in 2012 to publicise a proposed cross-Channel high-speed logistics service. The plans came to nothing. In the middle of a climate and now an energy crisis, it might be time to think again about how we maximise use of rail...

Tangential niggle but it really annoys me how the British press continues to call members of the EU executive “officials”. European Commissioners, members of the College, are political appointees, not civil servants. They are ministers.

Lot of negativity about this, but it will really allow ordinary people to know what it would feel like to get a birthday message if they were a millionaire paedophile sex-trafficker.

Chat, is acknowledging that the other side have the power in negotiations a good bargaining move?

lmao

new acronym needed - Trump Strategies Usually Backfire.. T-SUB. Pushes UK closer to EU (and makes EU more open to trad deals around the world). Pushes countries into the arms of China.. Makes oil and gas incredibly risky and unpredictable so accelerates moves to decarbonise..

'hey what are you up to over there? wow thats pretty cool.'

These security guarantees, are these the same security guarantees that the United States and Russia gave Ukraine in 1994 in return for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons?

A movie about climate change, cross-cultural problem solving, global teams of smart people believing in science working together, teachers lauded for telling the truth and dispelling conspiracy theories, and paying teachers well is "completely avoiding politics"?

Trump is awarded the inaugural Minsk Bake Off trophy; Lukashenka gets to keep putting bullets in the heads of human rights defenders?

@snell.zone @myke.social Listening to your fascinating i/v w David Pogue & identifying a common strand of Apple DNA over 50 years as bringing tech to ordinary consumers, how does this fit with that? Targeted ads in Maps?? 😱

"At this point, were Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for being allowed to develop nuclear weapons, nobody could be sure Trump would turn it down. If Iran made him the inaugural winner of the Cyrus the Great peace prize, those odds would improve."- www.ft.com/content/2656...

Just an incredible example of entitlement. How would you ever have the brass neck to rock up at your old office in the first place, let alone sue them for denying you entry! There is something wrong in the head with these people.

Rehabbers are brilliant

This is the one of the greatest acts of non-violent resistance I have ever seen. www.youtube.com/shorts/hBzVg...

This is one of my favourite bluesky accounts because it’s a little glimpse into normality and the stuff that used to bother us before everything in the English speaking world went to shit

What happened exactly 69 years ago? On this day, in 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed! 📖✍️

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran trolls President Trump after he said the Strait of Hormuz could be controlled by "me and and the Ayatollah."

Well this prompted a(nother) letter to my MP and spurred me into getting more active to support local asylum and refugee charities.

How lazy and wrong for the German Energy Minister to blame sustainability to crash the EU economy, especially at the time EU oil import dependency is growing by the hour. What if sustainability is instead the main strategy to reclaim Europe’s energy autonomy? www.politico.eu/article/germ...

you see dubious political chicanery, I see admirable proof that the Met doesn't discriminate when it comes to its abject failure to investigate phone theft, even if the phone in question was being used to run the government

Americans now regretting decades of underinvestment and worse in their railway network. Another Trump win.

Guess my next car isn’t going to be a VW

New British exceptionalist manifesto just dropped 🙄

Seeing more and more AI slop also here on Bluesky, very realistic, very plausible looking videos crafted to harvest engagement - cute looking pets, dogs helping cats, etc. If it looks too good to be true it probably is. Be sceptical, don't share unless you're sure, and if in doubt block it.

When the Iranians realise the trick they fell for when they pocket the $14bn and spend it on guns they will be really fed up.

Great to see that @kajakallas.bsky.social prioritises her Bluesky account among her socials; hope X can eventually be retired! & can I suggest to her team that they look into securing her a custom .eu handle asap for verification purposes (& migrate her account to @eurosky.social)?

Drop a film that traumatised you as a child

“This totally changes the whole energy paradigm,” he said, adding: “Even if the war ends next month... there is no going back.”

“Mind-blowing corruption”

CNN: "Trump’s critics are calling [the 5-day postponement] Trump’s latest TACO-an acronym for 'Trump Always Chickens Out.'" "That’s difficult to prove, but the decision follows another undeniable Trump pattern: His announcements often seem conveniently tied to the open & close of financial markets"

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

So I’ve also done a couple of these. It involves listening to an ex-policeman explain how and why speeding is dangerous and might kill someone. To come out of one of those courses and want to drive faster you would have to be a psychopath.

It was Pete's idea. Let's give all credit to Pete.

Fellow WoW-guildie has had this full sleeve done, isn’t it amazing? Have no tattoos myself but I have to admire the ambition and commitment here not to mention the artistry.

📰 In case you missed it, here's yesterday's column from me in the Sunday National on how events in the MidEast, again, underline why we need to get the full community and economic benefit of Scotland's renewables jackpot. www.thenational.scot/business/259...

Men need to women up and know when to help. This is the domestic violence hand signal.

Listen, I'm a big evangelist for EVs, home solar + battery, have been for ages, but (certainly in northern Europe) don't get the idea that rooftop solar will mean you never have to worry about bills. Even a large home solar array will not charge your car(s), and you will still need the grid. >

Have they never been there when there's a big football game on? Should we discuss Sunderland (as an example from lazy research on my part) making a play for domination of our wondrous Kingdom? (Also the gathering looks pretty much gender separated to me!) www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/footba...

It’s tempting to believe this and give up, and certainly the signs are there that this is the direction of travel, but we have to resist it and push for a better way out of this mess. We have to. We cannot accept the alternative.

happy monday everyone

Grenfell trial opens when?

🇪🇸Spain’s Minister of transportation comments on Netanyahu’s statement today trying to drag Europe to the war: “We're not going with you even around the corner, you genocidal bastard. Let's see if you get it.”

🤦🏾‍♂️ Face Psalm

"What's your favourite book of the Bible, Robert?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of the Bible"

Every petrol/diesel car produced now stores up more serious decarbonisation problems for the future. If policymakers soften commitments to end internal-combustion car production and fail to invest in acceptance-raising measures (price rebates, charging infrastructure) the result is clear. 2/3