Rewatched One Battle After Another. A true American epic. And Sean Penn is memorable in his role.

Not one but a dozen. Like they would create a new waterway. Newt’s been playing too much Minecraft.

Someone is winning the war giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"We don't see any reason why we should talk with Americans, because we were talking with them when they decided to attack us," he tells CBS News' Face the Nation. "This is a war of choice by President Trump and the US, and we are going to continue our self defence." www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

An incoming Reform government would "focus on making change via executive orders rather than legislation, where possible" www.theguardian.com/politics/202... As predicted last August on The Empty City blog: emptycity.substack.com/p/yes-an-inc...

The art of the deal, baby

Morning Bluesky.

Officials are normally presented with ceremonial swords or paintings or whatever. But these guys are so fucking stupid that foreign intelligence agencies can literally give them an "Honorary Electronic Communications Device for a Very Special Boi" and they fall for it every time.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Of course they're ignorant. Politicians are incredibly easily impressed by tech demos, and prone to ignoring the advice of those who aren't.

Beware the Ides of March.

PhotoActive Podcast, Episode 205: Spec Goblins and the MacBook Neo Apple has announced the MacBook Neo, a $600 laptop running on the same A18 Pro processor that was used in the iPhone 16 Pro. Oh, and it has 8GB of RAM and starts at 256GB of storage. Believe it or not, lots of people on the…

Complex ‘highly aggressive’ tax structure avoids £600,000 tax for Reform deputy Richard Tice bit.ly/4cNFkrc “Voters should be reassured to have a successful businessman who knows how to make money for shareholders” he responds. He is one of the shareholders.

I would think early railroads, steel Mills, automobiles are far more energy hungry overall.

Exhibit A for Nuremberg II.

You know what? Fine, tech bros. You win. You get to do algorithmic pricing. But in return, we get to do algorithmic taxing on everyone with a net-worth over $5million. As a little treat.

It’s a tie for me whether not knowing a Kennedy is Catholic or referring to WASP as an epithet is funnier

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Achievement unlocked: Tesla Robotaxi ride in Austin--with a human "safety operator" in the front passenger seat. This ride was fine; the car seemed super-cautious at intersections. What was not fine: The app (iPhone only) inviting me to tip and then suggesting $.69 or $4.20.

NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

The agency has never before issued a heat advisory in the Bay Area in March, and only one April heat advisory has been recorded over the past two decades. 🎁

There is absolutely no bottom. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/p...

10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this. Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.

Is this the kind of thing US officials should be briefing to the press It feels like something that might be useful to the other side.

Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!" Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.

“We have already destroyed 100% of Iran's Military capability, but it's easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile” 100%

And if anyone’s interested, this is the bread cloche that I am using. It’s kind of like cooking a round loaf in a Dutch oven, keeping the steam in to get better crust on top, but here you get an actual loaf shaped loaf. www.bakerybits.co.uk/netherton-fo...

Crumb view of today’s loaf.

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

Gee, Don, you insult us, slap tariffs on us, and now you want our help?

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

“The oil and gas industry’s financial strategy has been ‘pray for war,’ because those are the conditions under which they make money,” said one an oil industry financial analyst. “They have to have a big price spike every few years literally to make ends meet.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

“The war is popular with his supporters…“

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

Today's loaf. Trying to see how much dough I can fit in this pan, because it is in two parts, both the same size. It's a bread cloche, which keeps the steam in while cooking. 20 min on, then 15 min off to brown the crust.

Renewable energy. Renewable energy. Renewable energy. Renewable energy. Renewable energy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Fuck every single one of these tax avoiders. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

Apple is giving users of old devices a false sense of security. This week’s iOS 15 & 16 updates address Coruna-exploited vulnerabilities. But hundreds of flaws remain unpatched—even ones exploited in the wild. Does #Apple care more about optics than protecting us? 🤔 #iPhone #cybersecurity #infosec

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

WSJ: The likelihood of Iran closing the strait was discussed, Gen Caine predicted it, and Trump decided “Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait — and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Up through the 1930s, State Fairs across America featured head on collisions between trains. The first occurred at the Iowa State Fair in 1896 before a crowd of 20,000. This video is from the Minnesota State Fair during the Great Depression, as featured in the poster below:

They’d been churning out the same slop for years, not sure AI made much difference futurism.com/artificial-i... (seriously though, I’m impressed they’ve lasted this long given how tough things are for sites & how old their ‘formula’ is)

JFC. Impeach and remove this lawless man, you fools.

The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe...

In the middle of a war, Trump is focused on a...home improvement project.