"The real question is why any legal system that honours freedom of speech or the importance of speaking truth to power should lend its enforcement powers to such a wrongful scheme." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And the only reason the swift stops flying is to nest. Obsessed by swifts? Who, me?? Yeah me.

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EVs are now the top *16* car models in China, while ICE sales have totally collapsed. EV sales skyrocketing in Europe and Mexico. Americans? “But our pronouns and testosterone levels!” 🙄 apple.news/A5sCTrGadSoW...

More footage of people not liking Trump very much.

(Ralph Wiggum voice) "Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm not universally hated!"

🇪🇺❌ EU to ban entry to former participants in the war against Ukraine on the Russian side in the 21st package of sanctions, — Ursula von der Leyen. The lists of persons involved in the aggression will be updated and synchronized between migration services.

lol what an obvious conjob www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

So much for Trump's intervention. Again.

Cage fight to the death, please. Of them both. aje.news/xbzuwq

Yay, Lupin is coming back! www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/lupin-p...

What's it like to be a dictator's personal chef? Ask McDonald's. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

Hungary still cleaning up after Orban’s grift. Parliament has approved major salary cuts for the Prime Minister, ministers, parliamentary leaders, and MPs. PM Péter Magyar’s monthly gross salary will fall 50%, from €21,667 to €10,556. MPs will see their salaries cut by 40%.

“Cooled by the chill of space” 🫠

More datapoints for Brexit as a form of British necropolitics where the will of the living counts less than the will of the dead

You're a good egg, Brian May. youtu.be/HTGj_NQ5k8E?...

This is how it begins to end. As the people find their courage, and their voice.

Exceptionally cool episode on the new generation of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. youtu.be/4OM0zTfdsPo?...

People who look like they recently arrived. Does he mean white people? 🤔

Here's something you can't stick a piece of tape over: the widespread and fully socially permitted assumption that if you wear pervert glasses in public they are going to be smacked off your face by the largest and most physically intimidating person in the vicinity

In his defamation case against the BBC, Trump is claiming not only reputational damage (ha!) but financial damage. So in discovery, the BBC's lawyers are seeking Trump's financial records that demonstrate that. And very weirdly, Trump's team don't want to release them. 🤣 youtu.be/SXiEUNgS3qg?...

No despotic regime in history had access to anything like this level of control. Just imagine what the Stasi or the SS or Pol Pot or Stalin would have done with it. Now think about what Trump and his successors will do with it.

"The preventive seizure was ordered by the Special Prosecution Against Corruption & Organised Crime, as part of a fraud investigation into how land titles in a protected coastal wetland were acquired & how the area was stripped of its protected status." But, but, Ivanka fell in love with it! /...

Fabulous clouds near Nijmegen.

Okay. Now that I have MSG booing Trump, I just need the video of them removing his name from the Kennedy Center.

redheads...

You can always tell here when one of these nations wins a big sport competition. The city erupts with car horns and folk out on the street celebrating! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Frankly, I suspect 80% of sentient denizens of the galaxy would be. What a waste of eons of DNA replication, all that biological success from self-replicating proteins to amoeba to multicellular organism to mammals to... that.

Midnight in Helsinki

"Apple, Google, and Meta are very excited to announce the release of new AI-driven products. We guarantee that they will respect your privacy. Unfortunately, these products are not available in Europe, as they have laws to protect your privacy."

339/ Pape:"Trump is distancing himself from the new escalation btw Iran & Israel But a post is not enough US supplies Israel with everything that just hit Iran Only material containment of Israel can save what's left of the "ceasefire" Red sea oil - & far higher oil prices - now in the balance"

I'm starting to think that the US will be as corrupt in its overseeing of the World Cup as it is in everything else. Dear Leader will want wins.

A very toothy young #fern. #Newfoundland, Canada. Nature #hike

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

In Colorado, a moderate Republican could easily win as governor, especially over the milquetoast Democrats on offer. Instead, the frontrunner is a guy who does phone exorcisms and says he killed a man when he was 7. Says a lot about GOP primary voters. www.salon.com/2026/06/08/e...

100 years ago!

It would be magnificent if Ivanka and Jarad's Adriatic adventure led to the fall of another corrupt government. Gotta hand it to those Trumps. They have a talent for uniting people.

Russia lost the election in Armenia, which is good news for the whole world

Anniversary of "Tommy Robinson" celebrating the D Day soldiers who needlessly gave up their lives by running into the sea.

Hazel McNab (British Artist, born 1965) "Holiday," 2025. Reduction Linocut Print, 29 × 31 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Such a glorious part of the world! But not a great investment to pass onto your grandkids, as the land size shrinks.

There was a 32 hour gap in his Truth Social posting, but alas he's back at it now. Someone pointed out that When It Happens, his minders will have back-up posts to cover it up while they work out what to do. Like, presumably, how to respond when folk across the planet take to the streets celebrate.

People keep suggesting the Swiss model; the only problem is, the EU hates it. Wolf acknowledges the EU wouldn't give the UK all its old opt-outs back. Switzerland is *more* bespoke, which is why the EU keep trying to make it look more like the EEA standard (Norway etc). www.ft.com/content/1d69...

A whistling kite soaring above the River Murray at Morgan.

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"Perhaps the most under appreciated success of the war has been Europe’s ability to step in when America stepped back." We Europeans ought to be (a little) proud of ourselves. Yes, we could have done more. Yes, we should have done more. BUT we did not betray Ukraine. Unlike the Americans.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.