Putins massive grin says it all, I guess.

Ok, my kids are describing a fight between Dr Leftovers & The Magnet and it's just hilarious.

Of course the day I go on holiday my youngest child comes down with a D&V bug. Naturally. Why would I expect anything else?

Spent a few minutes digging through the dragon magazine archive in search of this cartoon, which was always one of my favourites.A

The US is so overwhelmingly powerful that international geopolitics today be like:

“experts warn these [1-2 week] breaks could come with long-term financial and career tradeoffs. Is unplugging worth the risk?” tell me an article is American without saying an article is American

Starmers welfare reforms "in tatters" according to Sky News, which feels really idiotic to me on so many levels. Firstly, being forced to listen & take into account other peoples opinions is not a sign of weakness no matter how much the media wants to portray this as a defeat. 1/

Peter Thiel Shows Trump How To Sort Spreadsheet Of Americans By Ethnicity theonion.com/peter-t...

Poorly youngest son this morning - probably because of the heat. No school for him today & we're trying to get fluids into him (unsuccessfully so far). Still, the house is now set up to start cooling down, so fingers crossed. Brace yourselves everyone.

Today, with the temperatures heading toward 37°C, I have been forced to re-use the air conditioning unit I bought back in 2018. Its not very efficient as we vent the heat through an open window - but thanks to the power of a repurposed cardboard box & lots of duct tape, we're slowly cooling down.

Thoughts & Prayers to the Democrats as they are forced by the voters to be represented by someone under 60 years old for a position of actual power.

I’m so glad that Trumps unilateral & totally constitutional orders were entirely successful & will have no lasting negative consequences for international security.

No! A cease fire is something that *you* do! Not us!

Calling @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Today is a good day to charge your bank account password. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

Governments should start taxing digital pollution.

Back from a late night at a friends wedding. Crawled in at 2am. The world seems peculiarly sharp-edged this morning & I seem to have lost my voice.

This is fascinating, do read it. Would be interested to know what @ciaranm.bsky.social makes of this. Too much hype?

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Focus on suffering when it comes to societies like Israel and Ukraine tends to ignore how a sense of family and collective humiliation through the experience of Shoah or Holodomor handed down through the generations also shapes societal attitudes towards the use of military power

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Just once I would like to watch a drama about a detective with a healthy home life and a transparent uncomplicated past, who does things exactly by the book and gets results.

I hate this damn timeline.

If you dig into it, this is actually a fairly dark detail and explains a lot about the Separatists' grievances. The implication is that especially on a lot of core worlds, there is no meaningful democracy whatsoever and Senate seats are essentially hereditary offices owned by trillionaire families.

Wouldn't happen to Trooping the Colour. This is how you do a birthday parade for the head of state you rubes

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Among all the other things that it is, it's a very particular and strange moment in the history of streaming television that this sign exists and is being produced for upcoming protest marches.

You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.

Look, I'm not saying that I have any special knowledge ok - but given that there are now a lot of angry Iranians out there looking for some sort of high-profile American target to publicly attack... Personally I'd be finding excuses to avoid attending Trumps military parade this weekend.

I can think of worse CBeebies ideas.

Genuinely stunning to see the DNI putting out unvarnished Russian propaganda videos that anyone who opposes Russia invading European countries are elites who secretly want a nuclear war.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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The similarity is ...uncanny.

Horrible.

Good morning everyone. Today is bright to you the word ‘ants’ and the number ‘millions of them’.

@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu might be an idea?

There is an incredible amount of heavy weapons and ammo floating around in Syria - IMO it would be a win-win for the EU to setup a mission all over Syria that would buy it all for cash no-questions-asked and ship it to Ukraine.

Hm. Laptop is misbehaving. A 50% power drop in just over 15 minutes, it becomes unpleasantly hot to the touch & it starts to stutter. Not a great combination.

Well that dr who episode was clearly written by someone who thinks that viewers know a *lot* of backstory & can pick up on things that the writers deem ‘important’ & I doubt the casual viewer will be bothered to do homework.

If someone asked me this question in a meeting, with the stated goal of being productive, I would walk out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A weekend of restaurant meals, completed chores, a local cake festival, home made pancakes, swimming & finishing s2 of both Andor & Silo. I’ve had worse weekends.

I am begging for a Hollywood movie or TV writer to make something that features realistic 'artificial intelligence'

Good - both morally & politically.

Tuesday's @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...