Labour’s leadership change in full swing.

Following on from the Marilyn Monroe centenary, a happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks, born a few weeks later and wonderfully still with us. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

America, are you okay?

Something lovely for the weekend! 🤩❤️ Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Mail carrier was dressed head to to in Ecuador gear. "We defeated the Panzers! There's no more D-Day, it's E-Day!"

Not surprised.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

My favourite four frame story of all time. #WorldCup

"‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist" "Wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir had no idea what he had found until scientists started to get in touch"

Do we still do #ff? In which case follow @terriblemapshq.bsky.social for, er, terrible maps, though their finest work is on Facebook. eg

Did you know? During the Behemoth-2 test on August 6, 1991, the Soviet Delta IV-class K-407 Novomoskovsk launched a full salvo of its ballistic missiles. The Novomoskovsk remains the only SSBN to have successfully launch a full salvo of ballistic missiles while submerged. Midshipnews.org

sorry what?

​FPV drones struggle to destroy towed artillery entirely, so they often target the barrel with shaped charges. In response, a Ukrainian 155mm Bohdana howitzer was observed with "hedgehog" stand-off protection: a mesh of unraveled steel cables wrapped around the barrel to disrupt incoming warheads.

The next Terminator movie should just be a blooper reel.

The speed with which AI is getting better at repetitive, low-entropy tasks combined with how it is not really getting better at all at higher-entropy non-RL-able tasks is going to leave everyone disappointed when we automate away the bottom third of office jobs but don't climb the ladder above that.

The St. Louis Zoo has a dedicated penguin elevator for transporting their Formal Chickens™ to behind-the-scenes areas where they can get medical checkups, enrichment activities. Kicking myself for becoming a LAB biologist when I could have been a Penguin Elevator operator. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)

Happy birthday 🎂 Blade Runner; an alternative-history movie set in the distant past of 2019, in which software security updates can't be sent remotely. Deckard, an engineer for tech company Tyrell, performs upgrades & decommissions in person, with hilarious logistical consequences.

This is your reminder that in 1989, Emperor Hirohito died never knowing he had cancer because the entirety of the Japanese press colluded to hide it from him on behalf of the Imperial Household Agency.

That’s what living in a bubble of people wanting some of your money does to you.

For once he’s not wrong-advantage in this type of war is often transitory, especially one of technological nature. And Russia has Chinese industry behind them, even if not 100% officially.

Media might be in a time of existential crisis, but don't worry, there's still bandwidth to report that randos on social media think one of our greatest female icons is OLD. torontosun.com/entertainmen...

The Microsoft AI researcher's point is that it’s possible to build a neural network in "Age of Empires II" that works the same as the ones underlying Claude, ChatGPT, CoPilot, and all the rest. @mjgault.bsky.social explains in todays podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlWJ...

My old PC almost giving up a ghost and forcing me to buy a replacement 2 months ago was a blessing it seems.

"Zelenskyy has new leverage. Teams of Ukrainian defence entrepreneurs are advising the Pentagon as part of its new $54bn drone warfare budget. Ukrainian start-ups and those who use their products on the battlefield are in acute demand globally." www.ft.com/content/b822...

yes it can

Be careful out there

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Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment I present to you what might well be the most carefully compiled word search ever.

Ok, ten francuski mini komiks o Andersie jest całkiem dobry. (books.apple.com/pl/book/le-p...)

It’s perfectly rational to achieve psychological dominance over your enemy by trampling him under your feet (or wheels in this case). www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

😎 www.maptap.gg June 24 98🎯 99🎯 99🎯 99🎯 92🏆 Final score: 968

Russia's evolving nuclear doctrine appears to lower the threshold for nuclear use, forcing a real debate in London about whether Britain's submarine-only deterrent provides enough options. (Members Only) Listen here: warontherocks.com/episode/thin...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

oh my god the knee pat is SENDING me

since I've not heard his name on every broadcast this World Cup and this is illegal, throwback to the time Diego Maradona did a pre match warmup so iconic it justified the price of admission and won his team a UEFA semi final before a ball had been kicked www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdf6...

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I stumbled across this fascinating story about the government's failed efforts to issue a £350m war loan in 1914, and the subsequent Bank of England cover-up to avoid a propaganda disaster. Question is, would patriotic investors hoover up war bonds if they were issued today?

This will end in tears

www.maptap.gg June 23 92🏆 100🎯 97🔥 87🎉 93🏆 Final score: 926

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Nothing like a stylish wfh corner.

This is one of the areas where "we are an apolitical military" works as a thought-stopping technique.

Europe's going to send asylum seekers back to a country run by people so scary it'll only grant them a 24 hour visa

Apparently there was a Top Gun but with Apaches movie, with Tommy Lee Jones, Nicolas Cage and Sean Young (before her career disintegrated). Written by and also starring resident Hollywood military advisor Dale Dye. How I have never heard about it. www.imdb.com/title/tt0099...

What a wholesome group of chaps. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_D...)