Really quite stunning how Trump's decision to deploy ICE has solved the problems he created at America's airports.

If the internet was still good, we'd have a flash game where you have traverse the straits by now. Miniclip would have been on it like wet on a flannel.

Honestly what the fuck are you talking about

CEO said a thing!

The Metaverse was/is awful, but I still maintain that VR table tennis is a miracle. If Nick Clegg and Mark Zuckerberg had focused on table tennis in that promo video, they'd have been on surer ground.

over at the newsletter I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg

I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT I AND THE GIANT FAMILY OF CHIPMUNKS DESTROYING MY PATIO HAVE HAD, OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS, VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS REGARDING A COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES. I WILL ALLOW THEM 5 MORE DAYS TO TAUNT ME THROUGH THE SLIDING DOOR!

tbh I thought it was absurd

"It's just devastating. It sounds dramatic, but it's life-changing." "It's like a grieving process." 💔 No-one who hasn't been through something like this can really understand that grief.

The DPRK Politburo, except run by people in clown suits. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Well, except that his stock portfolio is down and he is panicking about losing both houses in the midterms. I don't think he is enjoying that.

This is going to run into the reality of the World Cup. Will be interesting to see if they back off. If they don't, it will surely damage World Cup attendance.

Christ on an electric bike. Trump Administration to Pay $1 Billion to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...

I rather like that he's resorted to self publishing. I did not expect this to happen so quickly. I thought the fall would happen later, after a more dramatic rise. www.thenational.scot/news/2595986...

they really are going to try to jedi-mind-trick people into thinking the strait has always been closed and they just opened it. It's like how they're always blaming the stuff that happened in 2020 on Biden

Comic framing by the defunct WaPo. It's emerged as perhaps the paramount objective now since it was previously open and then closed as a very predictable consequence of bombing Iran with no means to stop it closing the Strait. The previous objective of regime change/state failure, having failed.

It’s terrible. He’s falling so low he’ll end up leading the party.

🇪🇸🇪🇸

In a way, good - let the ICE budget get rinsed. Then they can do less.

Finally some stirring of opposition to this terrible, dangerous and immoral entanglement.

We're not entirely out of it are we, since we are allowing planes to use UK bases that are bombing targets deemed related to the closure of the Strait. So we have kind of let ourselves be dragged into this war somewhat.

I guess it's something that the bot hoards are coming

All these outside actors arriving in Hungary to support a PM whose bread and butter for a decade has been railing against outside actors interfering in Hungary's national sovereignty.

These are the same people who complain about other people lacking a sense of social responsibility...

Reported and blocked.

University of Kent press office response as of 2:44pm:

You don't know him: he goes to a different school

Protein bars are just a marketing device to get male sports addicts like me to eat sweets

Can someone tell Starmer to stop saying the thing about pulling levers

Get Coleen Rooney to reveal it on her socials

If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause. Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.

Still possible that they are fibbing or taking US lie at face value. UK also wants low oil prices.

Starmer tells Commons Liaison Committee the UK "was aware" talks between Iran and the US were happening - suggests Trump was NOT making this up, despite Iranian denial of talks after Trump claim on social media earlier today

Diverting ICE agents from deporting people indiscriminately to help watch excessively long airport security queues at least uses the capacity inefficiently for a little while

Miraculously seems to have had a change of heart after missing out on being the Fed chair pick - obviously correlation doesn’t necessarily imply causation.

Quite interesting given that this is not the sort of thing Trump would want him to say. And he normally says only what his patron wants him to say.

It is worth noting that Nigel Farage's favourability ratings are not that much better than Keir Starmer (the latter is widely known to be unpopular, the former is often characterised as walking on political water).

“…the latest cuts are more sudden and deeper than anything they have faced before. Experts reckon all this will take between two and four weeks”. V good Economist piece. Short version: if there was a ceasefire tomorrow there’d still be months of energy disruption. economist.com/finance-and-...

This by @anooshc.bsky.social is a masterclass in nuanced, attentive interviewing of a divisive character. Also some really funny bits, including:

Thread about Hatzola (depressingly, stressing several times that they help everyone, not just Jews, because there are untrue claims circulating by neo-nazis saying otherwise)

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

The fact this is sold as doing something the public want, yet those selling it seem very reluctant to tell the public honestly what they are proposing to do, suggests perhaps they know it isn't as popular as they are claiming?

He just doesn’t have to do this. It demonstrates the total brain death of NATO. The only plan is to just beg America to stay. It’s becoming a farce and it’s not even working.

He's got nothing, he's just vomiting word salad on us.

There's something darkly amusing about this passage from Tim Shipman's long read in this week's Spectator about RefUK. You're worried that you have "no idea how [government] works" so you bring in Nadine Dorries, Jake Berry, Suella Braverman and Nadhim Zahawi. Interesting choice

Trump is doing everything Erdogan did, but faster (ht @aramsinn.bsky.social)

Trolling our way into WWIII…