This summer's most entertaining science fiction blockbuster is not in any cinema, it's going door-to-door in a small British seaside town. We'll be nominating "Count Binface's byelection campaign in Clacton-on-Sea" for a Hugo Award.

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Belgium head coach Rudi Garcia on his conversation with Folarin Balogun after the match: “He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame - that's what I told him. I really appreciate the intention that he came to see me. I appreciate this player."

Delicious result. Well done Belgium. Go home, you cheats.

Still can't quite believe the World Health Organisation framed Roger Rabbit AND let the dogs out

@zapiro.bsky.social latest cartoon for @dailymaverick.co.za on xenophobic hatred in South Africa

brilliant

Need to write an onion article about palantir crashing now just to balance everything out

Reality made satire harder. Satire fired back by preceding reality.

A comprehensive assessment of the safety of mRNA vaccines thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Over the past two weeks, authorities in KwaZulu-Natal have been overwhelmed as immigrants, mostly Malawian, flee their homes amid rising xenophobic sentiment. Read groundup.org.za/article/in-p... by GroundUp Staff

AmaBhungane can reveal their links to the Zuma family via the late Thokazile Jennifer Mbambo, whose company ties lead back to two of Jacob Zuma’s late brothers.

Much of the attention has been on March and March frontwoman Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma. But behind her are two lesser-known directors: Nozibusiso and Sanele Khambule.

Xenophobic marches in South Africa on Tuesday 30 June: *Johannesburg CBD & Hilbrow*: Beyers Naudé Square → Helen Joseph Street → Troye/Twist Street → Kotze Street → Queen Street → Constitution Hill, Hillbrow Police Station

To at least some extent this is cartographic naivety: contiguous continental empires are harder to recognise as empires, not just big countries, than Empires Upon Which the Sun Never Sets TM.

A professional organisation must produce professional material. Not lazy sloppiness. If obvious misrepresentations are put out in the public domain, what other sloppiness and inaccuracies are taking place behind closed doors?

So unwritten that of the five prime ministers to inherit a majority in “mid-term”, only one of them called an election before its due date. Why are some political journalists so uninterested in history?

DINOSAURS ARE COOL TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)

20yr German study of health related qual/life impacts of living within 6km of #WindTurbines finds no effects. N Germany has one of most widespread & dense distrib of turbines anywhere in the world www.nature.com/articles/s41... @cleanenergycouncil.bsky.social @simonahac.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co

Oh the irony. “the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is .... the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; .... who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'” Martin Luther King

Sean Jacobs on the life and music of Abdullah Ibrahim

It is a heavy day for the world of music. Today, we say goodbye to a true titan, a healer, and a cultural revolutionary: Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as Dollar Brand). #CarteBlanche #southafrica #news

Absolutely gut wrenching statement from @drtedros.who.int many of us feel this way about xenophobia in South Africa

RIP to a legend #AbdullahIbrahim music.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQ0...

I fondly remember him destroying an early version of the ridiculous Toby Young on Question Time. A good man who stood his ground against Militant. Old school Labour. There are very few like him left. RIP

Teen footsoldiers of the paramilitaries of the last days of the conflict are now the middle-aged men who run the politically connected gangs violently targeting migrants. Is this Benoni or Belfast ?

Teen footsoldiers of the paramilitaries of the last days of the conflict are now the middle-aged men who run the politically connected gangs violently targeting migrants. Is this Belfast or Benoni?

Belfast anti racism rally today, massive crowd. Nó pasaran!

Aerial PARTIAL view of the anti racist, anti fascist crowd in Belfast right now. City Hall to the left for scale. This - this is the real Belfast. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ

instead of silly messages asking for 5 bucks, Dems need to send messages promising the highest donor first crack at the wrecking ball for the ballroom

MAGA is trying to claim, “but the border is closed!” as if it's some counter argument. Screwworm flies have wings hence why prevention efforts were located in Central America and Mexico. DOGE teenagers eliminated those programs thinking it was fraud. And now we suffer from MAGA beliefs.

Things I motivate myself with when I sleep in...

Zapiro’s latest. No further comment needed. www.dailymaverick.co.za/cartoon/2026...

Incredible. Scotland puts a wind turbine near Trump’s golf course in Aberdeen 20 years ago. He sues and loses. Then his resulting hatred of wind turbines now ends up with the US Secretaries of Defense & Interior fabricating absurd lies to justify killing wind energy in the US.

"Belfast burned this week. The direct culprits were racist thugs who set fire to homes they believed migrants lived in... We have a word for this: it is a pogrom. @owenjones.bsky.social on how the British media and political elites are fueling anti-immigrant violence zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri...

Oh dear

For the avoidance of doubt, yes, Trump is racist

WTF MS Teams?

This is just describing a pogrom.

crooks gotta crook

Air to Ground Message: HAHAHA. THAT WAS GROSS Area: Arlington, VA, USA A: #aa3f180e141 F: #f5533c74b4a

NEW: Trump missed his deadline to respond to a Motion to Dismiss filed by the BBC in his defamation case against the outlet, and the court is considering hearing the MTD as unopposed and sanctioning his legal team.

It all seems a tad Berlin 1936 over there, and over here a bit Leipzig 1933 . . . or Pretoria 1947.