Thing is, 🇺🇸 politics has always been corrupt. It’s just a degree of how corrupt it is & how acceptable it is & to what degree you pursue this corruption.

There is so much I cannot ever forgive Trump and Vance for, but their treatment and betrayal of Ukraine and boosting Russia is right up there at the top of the list.

How many of them could afford to pay for bone spur exemptions?

And Germany’s population is c83.5 million. So approximately a quarter of America’s .. But nearly x 15 times that of Norway.

Anthropic has been scrambling to prevent unauthorised copies of its code circulating online being used to improve rivals' AI models. That's quite the irony, given its own use of pirated books to train its own early models. I dug into it for @techpolicypress.bsky.social:

Téléphone-moi Appelle-moi et dis-moi Que tu m’aimes que tu m’aimes que tu m’aimes Nicole Croisille / une scène supprimée de Scary Movie tags : ce numéro n’est plus attribué, #movie #love #water

India has exported more than 320 million unapproved synthetic opioid pills to West Africa in just three years. Trade data shows over 1,400 shipments of tapentadol — a potent painkiller — were sent to a region already facing an opioid crisis. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

Can anyone recommend a simple idiot proof recipe for #Naan bread please 🙏

#Mandelson vetting I find it particularly galling the Farage sticks his neck out and makes a statement, particularly seeing his pal Donnie is currently blocking the release of the Epstein Files, where the DOJ openly admits there has been murder & no one has been arrested & charged

Epstein / Trump Files Someone has found a can opener. Bondi should be worried

BREAKING: Dozens of victims of Jeffrey Epstein have filed a lawsuit against former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of helping conceal critical details during the earlier handling of the Epstein investigation. Leading the lawsuit is Maria Farmer—

Andy Kershaw RIP Thanks for the memories

Unacceptable

@pippacrerar.bsky.social go on, deny it.

Tony Glover is Reform UK's candidate for Vauxhall, Lambeth. We have a question for you Tony - in 1996, were you a Tory Councillor in Hammersmith and Fulham (Town Ward)? The one that resigned because of allegations of Benefit Fraud.

Am I the only one who when hearing about RFK, reminds me of Gollum? Maybe I need medical care.

Despite the finger pointing at Gen Donovan for this war crime (of which he is culpable), the directive actually derives from the Dept of Pulp Fiction’s Kegsbreth & the Orange Felon

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

He’s going to have to go some to surpass this. 🇺🇸 the world looks on and cringes

Since the declaration of a ceasefire in Gaza on October 10, 2025, Israel has violated the agreement, killing hundreds of Palestinians. The ceasefire at least 2,400 times from October 10, 2025 to April 14, 2026, through the continuation of air attacks, artillery and direct shootings.

Pretty terrible that heavily-indebted Sotheby's has donated to Reform UK. Via Private Eye

useful reminder from Private Eye

@fascinatorfun.bsky.social Don’t know whether you know about this but it might be of tech interest to you www.gov.uk/government/n...

Preparing food for this evening & discovered this can of worms beautifully explained This👇 youtube.com/shorts/9MUjD...

Keep thinking Chazza III ought to call off his US trip due to a bad case of bone spurs. Might be wise. #KingCharles

SCOTUS Clarence Thomas’ wife worked for the Heritage Foundation?! THAT should have automatically raised alarm bells.

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

Wall #photography #coast #seaside #nature Really haven’t had the time of recent to do photography. Here’s one I played with last night; hope it cuts the mustard L’arbre sur mer

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

The government will increase the amount of compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal. As of 7 April, 3,273 people have received an offer and more than £2 billion has been paid out.

In the 1930s, Oswald Mosley claimed to be a patriot, while his British Union of Fascists was secretly funded by the Italian government. We are just beginning to grasp how much of the far right in the UK today has been funded by Viktor Orbán and Russian oil money. Their "patriotism" is always a con.

Should be part of his next test.

Reform UK's energy prize winners, Wigan-based Raymond and June Dibble "are the very same couple who nominated Lee Moffitt to become the Wigan branch chair of Reform UK." Moffitt appears in the publicity video posted by Farage of their miraculous win. Fancy that! bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/r....

Can this be mentioned at a poignant moment at PMQs please @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Fraud is fraud after all

Reform UK Ltd funded by ex-pat billionaires living in Thailand, Dubai, Monaco etc tax havens to avoid paying UK taxes so we all have to pay more ... meme via Ruggy Singh

ITS NOT TOO LATE to stop this shocking attack on our fundamental right to protest. More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC and Greenpeace have joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown on our right to freedom of expression and assembly - CONTACT YOUR MP NOW

Matt Goodwin will have to economise now or find another payment method. Sad

@ofcom.bsky.social spokesperson:

IDF fired teargas to disperse an “unusual gathering” of school children trying to get into their school that was blocked by Israeli settler terrorists. Yes, Israelis have become the terrorists in the occupied West Bank. #Maddow www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Ain’t it the truth!

Turns out this picture is real A federal judge has now dismissed a lawsuit brought by Trump against the Wall Street Journal over Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book. This is a big defeat for Trump in court. It was the first time a sitting U.S. president sued a news outlet over a story he didn't like.

Yes Jane. We’re awaiting an update bsky.app/profile/jonw...

BBCNews fails to mention Orban being "right wing" let alone authoritarian, once in this article. Apparently Orban just "ran out of steam". Nothing about him dismantling democracy, politicising the courts & universities, or banning independent media. No mention of Putin! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Protesters in the Italian capital raised a shroud bearing the names of 21,000 children killed by the Israeli army during the genocide, in a demonstration condemning the ongoing massacres in #Gaza" (Mahmoud Al Shebrawy) #Italy

I wouldn’t say I’m addicted to teak oil finish on wood (😉) but if I could have a perfume the same, I’d bathe in it 👌

Flagship Freeport Teesside gives up on “customs zone” that behind the policy in the first place as if falls into financial disarray - and more on scandalous shake down of a local company to extract millions for the businessmen controlling it. Details in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

going to choose a few more US services to replace with alternatives this week. thinking i’m going to finally targets notes and my to-do list.

Again, all eyes on Russia to see Putin’s response in the coming days