The country-ban by US immigration authorities is a disgrace! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-my...

It's super that every country in the world now has their own specific Trump-related reason to hate the USA.

Corruption hates daylight. The names of every single donor and the “benefits” they received since donating need to be brought to light.

So this morning in 1944 my dad landed here. His job? Killing Nazis with his Bren gun. #normandy

World class!

Are we doing this again? The borrowing and its service cost has a counterpart- the company you acquire and the services it produces and the revenue they bring in.

I very much enjoyed this one! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO4...

🤭 the crime of the century😂

This is staggeringly similar to the message sent out today at my place about a deal between it and Microsoft CoPilot. I think there are decisions being made that the people making them have no clue about the consequences.

This is actually a much bigger deal than people seem to think. Talk about leap-frogging in the private spacerace. spacenews.com/france-to-fl...

The whole world could see how rotten and corrupt the FIFA was when it was led by Sepp Blatter - and nothing has changed since then. Infantino is even worse because he is a bootlicker of the most corrupt President the US ever had: the fascist Donald Trump. It's a bloody shame! #BoycottWorldCup2026!

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

Erg de moeite waard te lezen

At the @telegraph.co.uk they like to think of themselves pro 'law-and-order', 'conservatives' and defending traditional values' and cheerlead fascist riot-mobs attacking police-officers. But their hearts bathe in a 1930's sauce of hatred, division & admiration of black-shirt activism.

Wall Street Journal now confirming Trump’s call with Netanyahu went off the rails y’day. But says it was a second call, after an unreported earlier one.

Zin om de Russische moord-machine een tik(je) te geven, en tegelijk de kennis in NL van drones te vergroten? Deze club ontwikkelt, print en assembleert interceptor drones, in constante afstemming met Oekraiense commandanten a/h front. Kosten p/ drone: € 1000. Help jij? www.geef.nl/nl/actie/ver...

Deze zijn ook alweer bijna door de 20k heen! Wie duwt ze over die laatste drempel (nu € 19.513,73). Vanavond gaat het weer los namelijk, met Russische bombardemente op Oekraiense burgerdoelen.

Lees Paul Mbikayi over de stilte

If you want to read the open letter from 400+ female screenwriters about the BBC’s Everard drama, The Nerve has it.

Tomorrow is Kyiv Day. I’m proud to live in this city and keep showing it to you. The heart of Ukraine beats here 🇺🇦

The issues raised in this piece apply equally well, and perhaps even more urgently, to UK universities. Having been an elected Faculty Council member & Chair in the years before coming to the UK my impression is that managerial overreach and democratic deficits are even starker in the UK.

"Authentic realism does not give up on changing the world: Indeed, It starts by clearly identifying interests, fears, constraints and power dynamics, precisely in order to determine what can be achieved, and the measures needed to achieve it."

"forge bonds of fraternity built on listening, an open demeanor, making time for each other and even wasting time together. For if we experience authentic encounters with others, with those who are different, strangers and migrants, it becomes much more difficult even to imagine war."

Great post, well worth your time as a deep assessment of an AI disaster for a top firm. I was particularly struck by the young lawyer’s determination not to check the AI’s work even when the AI advised them to. That could be defect of character or training, or it could something weirder and worse.

🚨🚨" Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as #Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption". Excellent and compelling case against being on #X made by @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am holder of a publication record which allows me to savour every single citation I get when it happens & treat myself to a beer to celebrate🥳, with 0 risk of intoxication. Today, I found out I have my first citation from China ... by this paper from 2021. 🤗

Je viens de retrouver la vidéo la voici de @colinboudrias.bsky.social

Maybe Silicon Valley should wake up to the fact that a large number of us are treating built-in AI features the same way as we do computer viruses.

En 2014, Evelyne Dhéliat faisait 3 erreurs : - il n'a pas fallu attendre 2050 - la Bretagne est également concernée - c'est le 28 mai, pas le 18 août Vague de chaleur 2026 n°1 : en 2022 je proposais de leur donner le nom d'une entreprise responsable du réchauffement climatique.

Thanks Mr Blair but a baselessly confident 6,000 word diatribe telling the UK to move right on every issue while embracing Trump and Silicon Valley wasn't even that cute all those times Dominic Cummings wrote it.

Hats off to all the political cartoonists keeping it 💯 🖌️

Some pics from yesterday’s protest 🇬🇪🫶🏻🇪🇺 For those who don’know, the flag in the first photo is a flag back from 1918, when Georgia declared its independence from russian empire. 📸 Mariam Nikuradze

‼️More impressive video (drone’s eye view) from Day 545 of nonstop nationwide #GeorgiaProtests against the repressive illegitimate regime. This march coincides with Georgia’s 🇬🇪 Independence Day celebration. The people clearly want their independence! (via @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social ) 👇 🇬🇪🇪🇺‼️

The content is very revealing about the personality behind it: by turns amoral, trenchant, compelling, and heinous. Also: dated and unreconstructed. His comments on the US are stuck in the mindset of the 90s and don't reflect modern reality. He's become as dated and irrelevant as Jeremy Corbyn.

This is a good piece and important context to the European deregulation discussions.

I once drafted a reporting cable from Geneva entitled "Iran, Iran So Far Away from Joining the World Trade Organization", and even though I wasn't allowed to send it, I still feel like it set Tehran's interests back further than Operation Epic Fury.

In case anyone needs another example why it's bad when humans are allowed to accumulate too much wealth.😵‍💫 www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Born #OnThisDay in 1888 was seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann ForMemRS. Lehmann is known for her 1936 discovery that the Earth's core must have a solid inner core inside a molten outer core. Before this, scientists believed that the core was a single molten sphere. #WomenInSTEM

It's always seemed to me that the 'prediction' of the positron is the most mind blowing prediction of the 20th century, perhaps alongside the prediction of gravitational waves. The former, a prediction of a new form of matter, had no precedent. The latter, technically, had a precedent in Maxwel's

By treating Welsh, Scottish and English nationalism as variations of the same political problem, Streeting created a false equivalence between movements shaped by entirely different political traditions and grievances ✍️Brenig Davies wp.me/p8Mk4U-1lJR

This US is not an ally.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch Grundi!

I saw the #MandalorianAndGrogu last night, and I loved it enough to actually want to see it again! For those out there who don't know whether to watch it, here is some advice: 1] You don't need to have seen (any) of the adventure-romp series "The Mandalorian". The film's story is simple and direct.

SpaceX's Test-flight 12 is not going well. Booster failed its boost-back burn and landing burns, and the ship didn't manage to insert into its planned sub-orbital orbit and is "within bounds but not nominal".

Here we go again! 🙄 *This US is not an ally.*

We're providing over €1 billion in financing to modernise Hamburg’s electricity grid and support the rollout of 188 new electric buses. From smarter grids to cleaner public transport, the investments will help build a more sustainable and connected city. ➡️ go.eib.org/Hamburg2026

🚍 A new city power grid and a new fleet of electric busses – this is just one of the ways the European Investment Bank helps towns and cities if they're in the EU. We could have this, too, if we had the courage to bin Brexit! #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🇬🇧

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

I am rereading "War & Peace" (well ... re-listening) for the first time in decades. I am not sure what's more depressing: i) the undiluted Russian propaganda about the Russian soul or ii) the endless drawing room conversations that hurt more than relentless grapeshot for an approaching column.

The season of continental school class excursions is in full swing I notice 😂