I love this place. But I hate it for constantly reminding me of what we lost.

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

Blimey. Andy Kershaw has died. RIP. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New from Massive Attack & Tom Waites ... "Boots on the Ground" amazingradio.com/profile/mass...

"Anthropic recently invited around 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant communities, academia, and business to a private two day summit to discuss the moral and spiritual behavior of its AI chatbot, Claude." Well, that's just idiotic and narrow-minded. As expected from Americans.

A DDoS attack they say....? I'm calling bollocks on that. This is probably down to their overuse of AI... And the tech-leads here really have become quite odiously cocky.

Fail Whale Heydays... from that other place we used to love ..

"Something is technically wrong" ...

Reddit picking up the slack as Bluesky 'support' today .. www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...

So... about that "all our engineers use AI" thing....

Going for a full house ...

As both a Tom Waits fan & Massive Attack fan from the early 90s onwards, I’m happy to witness this dream collaboration. Moreover, as a thoroughly awake human being in this world, I’m as encouraged as I am moved to hear Tom Waits singing these words. Listen well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

"A train ticket to the games at the stadium could cost more than $100 (£73.80) - a seven-fold increase on the usual $12.90 (£9.50) for a return fare. No concession prices are planned, so children and seniors must also pay the full fare." #WorldCup reasonsToNotGo++; www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

No Bluesky, *you* check *your* internet connection ... tsk.

The BBC makes it official...Radio 4 is coming off Long Wave. www.bbc.co.uk/reception/wo...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Maybe King Charles will get there and eventually take Trump aside and say "I need to talk to you about my brother..."

Just an idea ... Why don't all the living leaders of all the world's religions get together for negotiations? They could all decide that nobody wants to kill each other, then maybe go on a global roadshow to tell/compel their faithful to stop arguing and fighting. It's all their fault, after all.

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

More reasons to avoid ever going back to America...

Orbán concedes.

Spoke like a true extortionist ...

I wonder when it was that Vance came back from 'negotiations' with nothing but his dick in his hand ...

My first ever "full manual" FPV flight with a tiny 55g drone ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=48rM...

The Melania/Epstein thing yesterday was extremely odd. Mostly due to it coming out of the blue, and there actually not being much accusatory stuff thrown directly at her at all. (Aside from the possibility that JE introduced her to Trump) Also amazed she hasn't fully grasped speaking English yet.

Set phasers to expose & destroy ...

What *is* the rest of The World going to do about this utterly mad man? He really is ruining all our futures..

Trump has very clearly been 'inspired' by Benji simply because he's been in power for so long. He now knows how to stay in power for longer : start/fund Wars. That cube-headed arse has been paying the enemy to "be in control of the fire" for years. They decide how high the flames are. His words.

Wow.. I'm surprised they don't knock themselves over with all the crass self-back-slapping...

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

So Iran and the USA have agreed a 'ceasefire', eh... What about bloody Israel then? Pretty sure they started it.

It's quite amazing to see the amount of idiots in crypto that respond to every Trump 'threat' (taco) by being bullish. Having said that, while somewhat undercover, I discovered that most of the 'crypto bros' are very MAGA types. It'll all shoot down again soon, for another run up in two weeks.

"Two weeks'? That bloody idiot can't do nothing for two weeks. Falling down the stairs would be great though. I live in hope.

Dear America, Fix this big orange mistake you've inflicted on us ALL. ASAP. Regards, The Rest Of The World.

"a whole civilisation will die tonight" sounds an awful lot like genocide to me ...

"Is Trump the most dangerous man on the planet?" ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVB...

Did all the engineers, supporting musicians, mixers, producers, PR, marketing and merch people also have Bipolar disorder when Kanye decided to record, produce, market and distribute a song called "Heil Hitler"? No they didn't. This is not just about one person blurting out crap during an episode.

#Kanye Apologising in a paper does not cure you of bipolar disorder. Bipolar doesn't make people antisemitic. There's nothing to stop him doing all this all over again in the next episode, once he's made his money. London does not need a Trump-loving Nazi (c)rapper causing more trouble. Not now.

Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...

So many domains have already been taken related to celebrating the demise of a certain senile orange crook. It's kinda heartwarming.

Does anyone know what the "Go Live" thing does here? If it's what I think it is, I've never witnessed anyone use it here. (btw: I did start to build a 'BlueSky Spaces' thing. It works. But I lost motivation here.)

So, I'm about to complete what's left of Slow Horses. Also was a big 'Spooks' fan. Is there anything else out there in 'TV land' I should look at that's similar? #TVShows #Spies

The lack of humour here is astounding compared to other places. Puerile or mature. Look. I get it. Life is pretty serious right now. But everyone seems so very 'stiff'.

I guess it's a case of Yeezy come, Yeezy go.... #WirelessFestival

I have risen

Obligatory #Moon shot post... Bought these at an auction years ago... The first ever image from the surface of the Moon. And one of the photos taken from Apollo 13 of the damaged service module.