Finland is energetically tackling cable incidents using the power of the law. Now it has charged the captain and another officer on the Fitburg, which hit cables on New Year's Eve. yle.fi/a/74-20231651

"The real choice is between a just & durable peace & a false peace that merely prepares the ground for another war." I agree with Marko Mihkelson. Nothing will change for the better in Russia as long as the regime believes it can win by eroding its adversaries' will. It must lose & know it has lost.

Russia's use of gig agents: Acts as different as arson attacks against Keir Starmer and vandalism of London mosques were instigated by Russia and carried out by locals. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Great work by the police and investigative journalists, who have uncovered the links.

MUST READ: Canada Deepens EU Ties as Carney Secures First SAFE Defense Contract and New Ocean Partnership www.onestnetwork.com/canada-deepe...

WATCH: Sebastian Gorka has one of the most powerful national security jobs in the White House. For six months, reporter @hannahallam.bsky.social tracked his public statements to understand how national security priorities are changing. Here’s what she learned: propub.li/3SD7H30

This Welsh cross-dressing riot tells us more about gender diversity in history than you might first think www.wearequeeraf.com/this-welsh-c...

I haven't seen Cape Verde put a beating like that on Spain since the 1640 dissolution of the Iberian Union

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

"systematic repression and violations of human rights in Russia, as well as the country’s repeated disregard for the Chemical Weapons Convention." www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

Not since the days of Colonial Pipeline and SolarWinds have I felt the need to write a special report for Metacurity. 1/3 www.metacurity.com/special-repo...

But of course they are.... 🤷‍♂️ www.bairdmaritime.com/fishing/regu...

@nytimes.com reports on what is likely the last performance by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the foreseeable future and what #Trump is doing to the arts and music scene in #Washington. #GiftArticle #MusicSky #music #culture #KennedyCenter www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

oh wait now i'm told bluesky WILL be included in the ban, so i guess we will have to read out this kind of material to them, like a bedtime story. They'll like that

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this is how you do comms.

📚 Join Professor Ciaran Martin Martin for a conversation with historian Helene von Bismarck about her new book, Fantastic Kingdom. 📆 5:30pm, 16 June, Blackwells, Oxford Get your ticket 👇 https://ow.ly/j9Ml50ZbTIV

Plato's Iliad - existentialcomics.com/comic/659

Farage said Reform would “cap the recruitment of foreign doctors to ensure that British patients are not being put at risk”. Disgusting.

With whole towns leveled by Israel, a quarter million Lebanese people may have lost the proof of who they are and what they own. interc.pt/4oqllCJ

Okay if you’re a teen impersonating a 38-year-old on this website here’s a list of Simpsons references you need to know:

The EU formally opened accession talks with Ukraine after Hungary lifted its veto on the arduous legislative alignment Kyiv must complete to join the bloc. ft.trib.al/5clcpEY

Over the weekend notorious cybercrime gang ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen more than 429,000 documents containing HR and payroll data from multiple departments of Council of Europe and has threatened to leak the allegedly exfiltrated files tomorrow www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

People are using all sorts of classist language to describe what happened last night - trailer park, tacky etc. It was above all an orgy of white patriarchial supremacy and if you can't see that this was an event about and for white dominant masculinity I don't know what to tell you.

Locals in Alakurtti, Kola Peninsula: "We don’t have any petrol. And now our bridge burned down"

Love to see these! The right to repair is so important for how we interact with our belongings. We reduce so much unnecessary waste and save money when buying something means buying it for life.

What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.

A generation of children confined to exclusively posting on LinkedIn, humbled to share that they have been recognised as thought leaders in vertically integrating your mom's supply chain.

CARL NOLTE: The San Francisco Chronicle’s longtime columnist signs off after a lifetime of newspapering in which he served as reporter, editor, war correspondent and sometime photographer.

PROUD OF WHAT BRITAIN HAS ACHIEVED: 80% RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION We should shout about this and rightly so. We’re on around 80% renewable generation. How cool is that - could not have even imagined it 30 let alone 40 years ago.

Yikes. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/b...

Has to be accompanied by losing a war at the frontier

A reminder that the LACMA now has over 22,000 images for reuse in the public domain—out of which, over 3,000 are from premodernity. Open access! collections.lacma.org/search?publi... (side note, I love this late antique Sassanian pear-shaped 🍐 bottle from modern Iran! I am sure Augustine would too…)

LA, this is in 24 hours. Hope you can make it, partner.

having high-attention-getting, well-attended events where people bid money to destroy trump shit would also build consensus in the public that trump sucked ass and everyone hated him

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And because of how the IPO is organized, Musk and SpaceX insiders can sell their shares sooner than usual. They’ll ride the stocks’ upward tide as major indices force millions to buy it, and then cash out before the crash. Sound like a Ponzi scheme to you? It does to me, too.

Nie AI zniszczy naszą cywilizację, tylko transformacja do ekonomii fuchy.

Weegee - BOTD in 1899

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

"The real problem is the political space between accident and attack, where coercion can operate before attribution is settled." buff.ly/nRMLqaI | by Jing Ge

German cybersecurity journalist Marc Hofer uncovered an unsecured prototype Chinese policing dashboard titled Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel. www.smh.com.au/world/asia/t...

"'Diversity is not our strength.' So saith Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. At first blush, the statement may seem plausible in a military context—uniformity is expected of the armed forces. But a glance at history reveals why modern militaries must embrace diversity to be successful."

As ever, if you feel you can't sell "we need to raise taxes to expand the Royal Navy" to *Britain* then why are you even in politics, you clearly don't think you're any good!

The coolest thing I found today: Abraham Bradley's 1796 "Map of the United States, Exhibiting the Post-Roads, the Situations, Connections, and Distances of the Post-Offices." 7 days to get a letter from Boston to Philadelphia!

Release the Epstein Files, of course, but spare a thought for a trafficking empire of possibly equal scale, involving Trump, his admin, & foreign gov't leaders, *happening right now.* You knew Tate was a creep. But it's bigger than that. Heidi Blake reports. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Sorry to be so annoying about boosting this! But I still have too many FREE and by donation seats opening to run this - thankfully I am a dogged creature Past participants have found it useful and know it is worth trying to understand how information systems hope to hijack our emotional response

Two Chinese government vessels entered the restricted waters near Taiwan's Taiping Island for the first time today, marking the fifth CCG incident this month.

Attorneys for independent journalist Georgia Fort say that prosecutors admitted to falsely accusing her of “chanting” with protesters inside a church. It’s more reason to inspect the grand jury records, they say. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pudding-brain theory of defence spending. A world in which the UK has no allies or is content to abandon them. Would take about three seconds of Googling to learn about the UK battle group in Estonia, and another three seconds as to why it needs to be there.