Heh, it’s something from the age of sail. www.ft.com/content/e3f2... The sailors who keep ‘ghost’ tankers moving

www.ft.com/content/4c3a... Life without US tech (tl;dr-you’re maybe not fucked completely, but it’s not great, especially via cut off of all the services connected with credit cards)

A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160. #architecture #art #History #medieval

Hungary’s parliament 🇭🇺🇪🇺👀

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

"The Israeli base was almost discovered in early March. Iraqi state media said a local shepherd reported unusual military activity in the area, including helicopter flights, and the Iraqi military sent troops to investigate. Israel kept them at bay with airstrikes"

Holy shit they did the meme.

I am once again thinking of the French girl attempting to say "Burger".

Or I like to distract myself by learning about science

The 1129th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment has become one of the most prominent users of the British #Stormer #HVM (High Velocity Missile) in the Ukrainian Ground Forces. This unit has utilized the system's unique capabilities to secure the airspace around Kyiv and support frontline operations 🧵 1/

New koala just dropped

Coolest guy in the world.

Europe Can No Longer Trust America open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

Back in the day, I would’ve given my left leg to work at the DOJ, because back then being an AUSA would make your career Now working as a lawyer for the federal government might just kill your career instead And-obviously-young lawyers know this

Art by Tony Stella

I just legit can't decide what is more pathetic. That his mommy stepped in for him or that he pretended to be his mommy stepping in for him God what a completely useless man he is either way. Like fuck all of them but Musk is just a little extra sprinkle of oh so pathetic

Elon Musk accidentally revealing his mom's account is one of his alt's means that he has both impersonated his own infant child and mother online

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

Niesamowite nagranie... Prezydent Francji śpiewa z premierem Armenii na szczycie w armeńskiej stolicy słynny przebój La bohème z repertuaru Charlesa Aznavour'a, właśc. Szahnur Waghinak Aznawuriana, który był synem ormiańskich emigrantów...

Tah dah! The Marat victim cake! Stay tuned tomorrow for pictures of the cut cake.

Amazing overview! Two decades of household plant Google Search trends. The Covid lockdowns unsurprisingly peaked the interest of many of us as we wanted to makes our homes feel a bit more friendly. Source: buff.ly/eUmz8tx

excellent crossover material:

The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is out:

Poland is often seen as Europe's coal stronghold. In 2000, coal generated 94% of its electricity. But something remarkable is happening: Coal's share has fallen to 50%. Wind+solar, non-existent 15yrs ago, now generate 1/4 of electricity. More in my newsletter. Sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com

Search engines are a way to sell things to us, not a tool for research. This much has been explained to me a bunch of times by people who work in the industry. They're not for our utility; they are mechanisms to gather data from us and guide sales

PanzerKemiWagen is coming!

Commendable diligence on the IMDb’s part to name the actress in this screencap.

No way

Omid Djalili tells plays a slave trader and in his scene, Proximo grabs him by the crotch. Reed improvised it and Djallil said: “The film got an Oscar, Russell Crowe got an Oscar, Ollie got a posthumous Oscar. I got a partial erection.” 21/43

Born in Iran, Ashkan Asadian came to the UK in 1999, and now has British citizenship. His two children live in Golders Green. He said that as he risked his life to save Moshe Shine, geopolitics had not crossed his mind. "Jewish or non Jewish, just [they are] human." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared

If war resumes in the Gulf, it will be because the hubristic US and Iran both overestimate their strength

You can't even do Star Wars anagrams these days because of ewok.

Blessings of Beltane be upon you, b3ta. Artist: Captain Howdy https://b3ta.com/board/11427857

Battle of Endor: still bangs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZi...

My best attempt to piece together the last day. - US tested Iranian control of the Strait. -Iran fires on US ships but isn’t able to hit them. -Iran retaliates/escalates by hitting other vessels and the UAE. Takeaways: US thinks blockade is taking too long. Trying something else. 1/2

New rubbish dialogue reaches me every other day on wadges of pink paper—and none of it makes my character clear or even bearable. . . . I must off to studio and work with . . . Tennyson (that can’t be right) Ford. Ellison? (? — No!)—well, a rangy, languid young man. —Alec Guinness, diary, 1976

Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you

"Putin is spending more time in bunkers, including in the Krasnodar area in southern Russia, working from there for several weeks, while state media use pre-recorded footage to project normality" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... This is loser behaviour

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK trailer with giddy narration by Harrison Ford.

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn — the artist who built an archive to decode dreams ft.trib.al/WSR11Xc

Painful but true. "May the Fourth Be With You" was originally a Tory campaign slogan, coined for Margaret Thatcher on election day in May 1979...

It's all a propaganda joke. R2D2 was flying the ship all the time, from the specialised port which exactly fit him. He was part of a sophisticated automatic gunnery system. "The Force" is the equivalent of the myth that WW2 night fighter pilots ate plates of carrots rather than using radar.

It’s the 115th anniversary of a long debate in the Reichstag (it takes up 17 pages of the official proceedings) about... typefaces. This, you see, was one of the big moments in the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute (which was really a modernity-tradition dispute, which eventually involved Nazis. Of course) 🧵

I think Mamdani is an effective politician who is performing well for his electorate but also that Democrats win that same electorate handily every single election so there’s limited lessons for the national party to learn here