Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

More of the mosaic decorated bollards in the Woodlands area of Glasgow. I love the colour they bring to the streets. #glasgow #streetart #mosaics #woodlands #bollards

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

How about giving a few quid to support a new blue plaque in London celebrating Black history? Only takes a minute to do your good deed for the day 🗃️

Reviews of that fellas scaffolding company tell quite the story. Are REFORM doing any due diligence on their candidates at all?

Everything is connected

The challenge is how to change behaviour at a population level, and that’s much less about personal choices and more about government policy… More thoughts on this in @profdevisridhar.bsky.social’s book.

The thing about people who are supremely skilled in most domains - whether it is politics, music or sport - is that they make it look really simple. Watch that video and you think 'how hard can it be?'. It's hard!

👇🏼 #Women #Inequality #Reform #Politics

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Robert Fico, the corrupt pro-Kremlin Prime Minister of Slovakia, is clearly worried by Orban's fall in Hungary. He's trying to rig the electoral system in his favour, but many people in Slovakia aren't happy about this. Things may be about to get interesting. apnews.com/article/slov...

Yassamin Ansari: “I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering US service members and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.”

4filming.com/palestine-36... Remarkable historical drama. Also remarkable that this was filmed in 2023 #Palestine36 #Film

Hey look! Mexico just got universal healthcare (aka single-payer healthcare, aka Medicare-for-all) for every citizen there.

UK teenage girls say misogyny, harassment and online abuse shape their daily lives. This BBC article describes teenage girls experiences in their own words. Often life is described as being shaped through boys’ expectations, behaviour and scrutiny.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

I think probably yes.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

“… the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has secretly blocked publication of a report that concludes COVID-19 vaccines are a significant boost to public health…the report found that COVID vaccines drastically minimize risk of hospitalization after catching the virus.”

I am incredibly proud to be one of those Editors-in-Chief and even more proud to be part of what Bylines Network stands for. Join us as we discuss Women, Justice and Equality 👇🏻

7/8 So, panic actually makes the situation worse. The system is designed to cope with steady demand and gradual change. Sudden behaviour shifts, like stockpiling fuel, create artificial shortages that wouldn’t exist. In most cases, the system itself is still functioning. #EnergySecurity #UK

1/8 The UK energy headlines are about to get loud again. Before that happens, here’s a simple explanation of how the systems actually work, that I created for my students a while ago and have updated to 2026. It explains why the risk is often misunderstood. #UK #Energy #EnergySecurity

It's baffling to me that this is their red line. After alllll the shit he's done, this was a bridge too far for them. 😒

Trump's followers on Truth Social are calling him the Antichrist after his post of an image depicting himself as Jesus

Trump is going to break with Rome and become formally head of his own church.

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity

Re: my last RT, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on how very bizarre it is that this chain of cafés came into being in Orban's Budapest.

Already annoyed about the coming books full of anonymous senior officials telling every ugly behind-the-scenes detail about the effort to hide Trump’s dementia like it is some fucking revelation when it seems like most of the planet already knows and legacy media are the ones not saying it.

If you don't already follow @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and democracyforsale.substack.com, you should! It's essential reading on the power of money in British politics, and what can be done about it.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Don’t give in to despair. Fight with spirit & focus

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

I'm sorry, but this woman posting photos of her dog at a religious event in Spain and then having to frantically clarify a few days later at their "supersausage_charlie" Instagram account is something out of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.

This is a frightening map, especially given the fact that this is normally near the peak in snowpack across the West. There are many far-reaching consequences from this historic snow drought, ranging from increasing risk of summer wildfires to major water concerns. Map by nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov

“The cohesion of the MAGA unit is breaking down. This Melania thing is part of it. Instead of uniting behind Dear Leader, they're differentiating - 'well, I still love him 80%, but on this he's wrong'. That's not how personality cults work. Once that begins to happen, it's a sign of real trouble.”

“There used to be some sense that killing a reporter would mean serious consequences. Now that understanding has vanished” BBC world affairs editor @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social writes for the Nerve on the journacide in the Middle East 🔗⬇️

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

This is the massive turnout for last night’s “anti regime” concert in Heroes Square, Budapest, ahead of tomorrow’s crucial Hungarian elections. Tens of thousands chanted “Russians go home”. #Orban

Thousands of men are members of Telegram groups and channels that advertise and sell hacking and surveillance services that can be used to harass friends, wives and girlfriends, and former partners, new research has uncovered. wrd.cm/3NOJyEY

All of these things seem ... good?

I signed this letter calling on British and Irish govs to take action on Israel’s continued violations of international law. Specifically: 1) the issuing of tenders to build a new illegal settlement in Jerusalem, and 2) the Israeli gov’s ban on international NGOs in Palestine.

The concert brought together more than 50 prominent 🇭🇺 artists, channeling public frustration through system-critical music ahead of the April 12 parliamentary elections. Lyrics such as “I’ve had enough of this forever” echoed through the crowd, reflecting a strong tone of dissent. #HungaryIsEU ❤️🤍💚

Outstandingly good vintage French & Czech photo booths. fotoautomat.fr

‼️🇭🇺🇪🇺 Here is a potted timeline thread marking some of the key milestones that built Prime Minister Viktor Orban's illiberal democracy in Hungary over his 16 years in power. His tenure looks likely to end tomorrow. The table stakes for Hungary and Europe could not be higher 1/

A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the U.S. and Iran would reach a ceasefire on April 7, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.

"The world witnessed what happened in Gaza. It’s happening again now. It’s planned, systematic and is happening in plain sight, while a US president threatens civilisational erasure and what’s left of the international order collapses. It’s Gaza that’s made this possible. ⬇️

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.