Recap: Hour 1: We hit them like they’ve never been hit before. Day 1: We already won this war. It was easy. Yay us. Day 5: We don’t need any help. Don’t bother showing up after the war is over. Losers. Day 13: Why isn’t the world helping us? There will be be consequences.

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”

Truly "2+2=5" stuff from Alex Burghart here, who describes being inside the EU and making the rules as being a "rule taker" whilst being isolated and having to abide by others' rules a "rule maker".

The West Wing used to be enjoyable in its idealism but watching it today, with Trump it gives me nostalgia vibes in the Greek sense... Pain from a past where I had faith in US politics.

L-Day.

Including judgments against Greece for death of a migrant, and against Serbia for extradition to an unsafe country

Zelensky has led the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression for over 3 years. He has aged 30 years in that time. And there he sits in the Oval Office with two mindless gorillas threatening him and shouting utter nonsense at him. Never in my life have I seen anything so undignified.

Wookie 1 to Wookie 2: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Imperials ever done for us?"

Just the most fantastic thread about the lovely Gene Hackman. Joyful.

As Dutch PM and #EUCO member for fourteen years he made sure the EU was kept weak and small and unable to "get its act together". The times they are a-changin' allright.

OpenAI right now

Brilliant Marina Hyde again

Imagine trying to explain this to someone 20 years ago

With so many housing-related issues in the UK you may think it can't get any worse - and then your read this www.ft.com/content/cbcd... We need leasehold reform and higher density housing in the UK.

#bbcqt full of the best of us again

I'm not against the new #jaguar logo, but I do think it fits better to a dating app for older women looking for younger men than to a car company

Glad to see cool photographers joining this side :)

You can measure the popularity of a social network using the following 3 metrics from the "discover" tab A) number of academics posting, B) number of journalists posting, and C) number of OF accounts posting. Last metric clearly rising the last couple of weeks.

Milley first, now Kelly. Read the article, he said he wouldn’t speak out unless a threshold of danger was breached…and comments about using military on the “enemy within” pushed him over the edge. He even read aloud a definition of fascism to justify his argument. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/u...

Here's the full, chilling quote from Trump's former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, the retired Gen. Mark Milley, in Bob Woodward's new "War." "You have got to stop him! ... He is the most dangerous person to this country. ... A fascist to the core!"

Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure Thanks to managers at the BBC, the outgoing Kuenssberg repeated lies rather than challenging them, writes former BBC journalist Patrick Howse in @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/l...

I feel seen

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social on the Ukraine attack on Kursk. A great explainer on how the Ukrainians launched their dramatic incursion into Russia. And what it might mean. samf.substack.com/p/ukraines-i...

Watching Hancock argue that he should have overruled the "science" based on his hunch is the physical manifestation of someone being at the first peak of the Dunning Kruger effect chart and shouting to everyone how wise they are

This favorite amongst fake history accounts is circulating again. It's not old, not Japanese, and not an engraving. It's a digital piece by a Russian freelance artist from 2007: www.free-lancers.net/users/Origin...

Other countries have the same rise in graduate numbers without the same decline in graduate earnings, because they’ve created good jobs. When people say Britain sends too many people to uni, they’re saying we’re not a country where skilled people can expect to find skilled jobs.

Not good enough. I demand an apology from Billy Corgan himself.

It's not enough that the German antinuclear obsession limits Germany, it needs to spill out beyond the German borders too

So glad to be able to read John's incredibly threads without supporting a certain South African egomaniac. Now if only a certain member of the Enterprise were to find his way here...

Hello fellow ex-twitters. Is there any way to create lists here? It really made a difference in the previous app