What is fascinating is that the stock market is so manipulable. It's almost as though the it's just a bunch of jumpy and superstitious investors following each other around like a herd of addled sheep.

The Flamingo Revolution. I wish it would spread globally, targeting the billionaires who want to bypass democracy to impose their will on our lives.

Goldfish, just an absolute tankful.

This will end real fine.

The world is paying the price for Trump's uncontrolled id.

Exactly. You are both a fraud and a thief.

#hotdesking My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Normally you wouldn’t increase the likelihood of US casualties by announcing something like this ahead of time, unless you are bluffing to use it as a negotiating ploy, you are stupid, you don’t really care about the troops, or all three.

Or they simply come from places that have survivable minimum wages so staff are adequately paid by their employers and don't have to rely on customer's largesse to survive, and tipping isn't part of the culture. The US should try it.

CANADA COMES TO THE RESCUE OF SOMALIAN REFEREE OMAR ARTAN! 🇨🇦🇸🇴 David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, has announced that his province would welcome Omar Artan. He stated that Artan should be allowed to referee World Cup matches within his jurisdiction, specifically in the host city of Vancouver.

Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"

The government must treat this as the emergency it is. Our sovereignty, democracy, and the lives of some of those who live here are threatened by a deadly combination of US billionaires, Russian interests and homegrown fascists. Step 1: Get the money out of politics.🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg want tougher safeguards for new EU countries to avoid a repeat of the Orbán era. The joint proposal pitches a "non-regression clause", a faster Article 7 and a pause on veto right. I have all the details.

Tomorrow Four Palestine Action protesters face being sentenced as terrorists. More than 50 lawyers & legal experts have written an open letter stating that: “Blurring the distinction between principled direct action and terrorism is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.” 😤 #StarmersBritain 🇬🇧🤐🇵🇸

Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

As I wrote at the time of the Ballymena pogroms, I'm old enough to remember when the LVF attacked the home of disabled child because he was insuficciently Protestant. I'm old enough to remember this because it happened in 2024. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Hasn't this been obvious for years? “Belief US would defend Australia in event of an existential attack is a ‘ludicrous delusion’.” Former Labor Foreign minister rips Albanese a new one.

Delft is one of the most beautiful towns in the Netherlands.

The key difference between Hitler's 1936 Olympics and Trump's World Cup is that the former happened when Hitler was still consolidating, in the equivalent of Trump's first term. 3/3

Disappointing that the international refereeing community has not taken a far more robust public stance. They are not powerless observers. Collectively, they possess the one thing administrators fear: the ability to stop the spectacle. No referees. No tournament.

Your usual reminder that immigration has been falling like a stone for over a year, but none of these bastards actually care about that.

"Chill"? Resign, you patronising, corrupt toadie. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Simply pathetic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A brand new piece for Crikey: digging into what happens now for Australia's data centre debate Anthropic, planning 20GW, would have to build 1.7x the amount of all renewable energy ever built in Australia to date, to meet the 100% mandate. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/10/m...

The Met Commissioner should have thought about achieving savings without becoming dependent on a single US supplier in a clearly unsustainable model. It's on them rather than Sadiq. Poor process and planning. www.ft.com/content/677b...

Albania is not for sale. Last night, fresh protests showed that a movement born against a Trump-linked resort on protected coastline now challenges something deeper: Edi Rama’s long grip on power, opaque deals and weak accountability. 1/2

reflection..

⚡️ Unieke ervaring met 'opwaartse' bliksem! De foto's hieronder heb ik gisternacht gemaakt vanaf het strand bij Hoek van Holland. Deze bliksemsoort ontlaadt alleen vanaf hoge objecten omhoog naar de onweerswolk toe. Een absoluut hoogtepunt van dit seizoen... #onweer www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwx...

More on the German case holding Google liable for its slop. "It might actually force the tech industry to get its act together, to try to find a sounder foundation for AI, in which hallucinations weren’t baked in." garymarcus.substack.com/p/maybe-sect...

Good things still happen.

Reminder that the July 7 memo falsely claimed there was no evidence Epstein tried to blackmail anyone (not mentioned in today’s NYT piece, btw). You might ask why Kash and Carte Blanche would tell that lie?

Wow. How dim must you be to risk it when you surely know that chances are it includes slop? Lawyers who do this should be disbarred/struck off.

Big week for Elon Musk, instigating a racist anti-immigrant pogrom on Tuesday, set to become a trillionaire with the backing of all the biggest banks on Friday.

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

Pogroms like this are going to become commonplace unless we take action. The oligarchs who incentivize and encourage this need to be brought to heel. We can't accept supposed leaders flirting with xenophobic rhetoric for "electoral purposes." We have to stand together, arm in arm, in solidarity.

You see these scenes from Belfast? That's our future if Reform, Restore, the Tories, GB News, Elon Musk and the right-wing media get their way. Except this will be on a much bigger scale. We have to decide: do we want those inciting hatred to destroy our country?

On Google buying its own stock, and what that means in the context of all these new AI IPOs and the AI bubble. Enlightening stuff from @hankgreen.bsky.social. Tick tick tick... youtu.be/AcjnLc4TH4M?...

“Straightforwardly left-wing government”

Trump’s election lies are central to his identity...a Chekhov's shotgun that must fire at some point. His conspiracy theories about Los Angeles are another step toward his big dream of stealing an election, as he failed to do on Jan 6. W/ @gregsargent.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2115...

Iranian MP Ebrahim Azizi:

Chat is this a good sign?

It’s hard for Trump to end the war so long as his friends are making money from it.

Gianni Infantino (2017): “It’s obvious when it comes to Fifa competitions, any team, including the supporters and officials of that team, who qualify for a World Cup need to have access to the country, otherwise there is no World Cup.”

This could serve as a major precedent elsewhere, for Google and all the other stochastic slop machines. 🤞

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

If *YOU* are still on X, get off. Now.

Calling on the Irish government and state agencies to immediately close their X accounts. Continued use of a fascist agitator's social media site is both incompatible with democratic values and immoral.

Time to force Rs to defend a bonkers POTUS