We have done up the bedroom as we planned to do.

Well amazingly the ‘Board of Peace’ turns out to be more dodgy than the fairground dodgems at Dodge City run as a wholly owned concern by dodgy impresario Dodgy J Trump. Thread:

Live tweet Trump speech thread. All the salient points:

The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.

Lad's hungover. Popped the local for a couple last night with Brigitte after a long day, a couple turned into "fuck it", and them only leaving the pub when the landlord interrupted them singing to remind them they all had homes to go to. bsky.app/profile/nadi...

If I was an early medieval scribe writing up last night’s entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle I’d definitely be saying that dragons had been seen in the sky.

Insane Auroras over Stonehenge

“Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Brooklyn and Nicola to the dance floor as they share their first dance as a married couple.” Victoria:

Thread — you’ll need popcorn. I haven’t spotted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the video clips but I believe this is part of their franchise?

Aurora seems to have finished in Exeter now - 3 surreal photos from my iPhone earlier - handheld 3 sec exposures through the oak tree in my garden

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Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:

Aurora Borealis in South Devon in England right now. Never seen it this far south before. Quite subtle and hazy, but definitely worth a look for my couple of followers in this part of the world 🙂

From the quire of Winchester Cathedral. I took the source images for this several years ago, was curious to see if I could find anything new or improve upon the original pictures made. #winchester #photography #architecture

Nobel Prize Derangement Syndrome

Or having to go to the White House to hand it over.

I wanted to call it the Tariff Disaster Blaster or the Orange Bluster Buster so Trade Bazooka was a compromise. (Not my area and way after my time, alas, so nothing to do with me)

Neighbourhood beef. "No fucking parking. How the fuck do you expect me to get my car in and out the garage. Fucking #/@. You lot are taking taking the fucking piss now."

I know it’s silly but in the midst of all this catastrophe I just love that it’s called the ‘trade bazooka’. Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail — ‘bring up the holy hand grenade!’

It’s a nice idea and we should do it. But I visited the Soviet Union in the early 1980s when 66 countries had recently boycotted the Moscow Olympics over their invasion of Afghanistan (yes indeed) and, honestly, that boycott made not the dammdest bit of difference. We need much stronger measures.

By today’s standards this thread counts as comic relief. Does she still have some capacity to do material harm? I don’t know; I hope not.

The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.

When we were kids we’d come to London to visit my dad and he’d take us to the *original* Hard Rock Cafe back when, briefly, rock glitterati actually went there and he’d say, ‘look, there’s Jimmy Page, there’s Ronnie Wood,’ and we had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.

The only people this image doesn’t deeply disgust are the unreachables who are going to vote for Farage come hell or high water.

I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.

This photo should form a core piece of every election in the UK until the day Farage quits

Dear Editor, I'm writing to let you know how much I enjoy reading your lovely paper. I buy it every week without fail cause somehow Sunday without 'Sunday People' is not the same. I don't know about other readers, but I enjoy it back to front.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

“And I can’t understand the reason that America collapsed”

And Viagra. Make America Floppy Again

Hampshire oak drawing #trees #drawing #nature

Presumably they are publicly admitting to this enormous number to terrify the population into submission. ‘If you oppose us you will die’, seems to be a way some governments speak frankly to their people at the moment.

The exquisite thing about this is that in an act of the most excruciating self-debasement she gave him her prize, he readily took it — and nonetheless did not make her president of Venezuela. That tells you so much about trying to do business with Trump.

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

This is the foreign policy version of “Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?”

Moreover, the same people who were intensely angry about being told what to do when it came to wearing masks turn out to be intensely in favour of wearing masks and telling other people what to do.

Lotta minds in the replies here with the same thought

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

It was David Cameron all those years ago who coined the phrase ‘broken Britain’ while failing to add ‘but you ain’t seen nothing yet’. Here’s Farage saying the quiet bit out loud.

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Explain to me how this would happen. The fucking mechanics of it. Explain them to me. Russia or China, storming the beaches of an EU and NATO member state terrotiry which includes a fucking US military base on it in a take and hold maneuver a bazillion miles from their nearest supply lines?

Hands, more hands, and the occasional foot. All by Federico Barocci, who they called the man with the hands. Well, not really, but they could have! Today is his day.

Beautiful and bittersweet clip of a lady emotionally sharing her voice with a busker early on in the protests crackdown in Iran. Still getting goosebumps wondering what happens after that whistle, when the clip stops😢 BTW the song is "Khodahafez" (Goodbye) by folk-pop singer Erfan Tahmasbi. #Iran

Grrrrr!

Been out in the garden trimming my large bush. It’s wild.