Hey Google, does threatening genocide qualify as ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’?

Something many astronauts/cosmonauts have in common: they attest to what we all have in common. "You look amazing. You look beautiful. And from up here, you also look like one thing."

Fourteen years of Tories dishing out North Sea oil & gas licences led to "20 new and relicensed fields that have the potential, over their lifetime, to produce enough gas to supply the UK for only six months". A great thing about renewables: they're renewable. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Feels like a day to reup this recent Democracy for Sale story Tony Blair’s Institute privately pressed a top European Union official working on the rebuilding of Gaza to work with Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...

Feel bad for the Channel 4 reporter reporting live from "deep underground in the Foreign Office 24/7 Crisis Centre". He dramatically points out all the important agencies present. And on all the big screens they're tuned into the news ... from the BBC.

Feels like another day for Fun With Fake Greek Terms

If you drew a venn diagram of "People who have had a subscription to x" and "People who have threatened online to cancel their subscription to x", I wonder if there would be any overlap?

The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive. This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts. www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How could the Nobel committee have overlooked the guy who uses armed forces to kill civilians while threatening to use armed forces to kill those who use armed forces to kill civilians, which, no doubt, will result in the killing of civilians? It's such a mystery

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Has anyone ever read something about a post on Truth Social that wasn't from Twump? Does it even have other posters?

Never heard of Chuck Redd. Buying an album now

We're such suckers www.theguardian.com/business/202...

www.commerce.gov website barely has space to squeeze in its mission statement of 'opportunity for all' below the massive advert for an opportunity available exclusively to millionaires.

Two stories; two sentences. US Department of Defense Law of War Manual apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...

This week's inaugural award for fair and accurate reporting goes to The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent.

It's going to get awfully busy in the Great Rift Valley

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

"Things happen." Chump makes light of the state-sanctioned murder and dismemberment of a journalist for doing journalism.

🤣🤣🤣 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This app is a must for journalists who receive material of dubious origin. Great stuff @micahflee.com for now making it much easier to use. (It no longer requires Docker.)

Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics: Peacock reut.rs/4nF6nXs

Grokipedia is a really good advert for Wikipedia

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... While one the largest demonstrations in the history of the US gets one single, below-the-fold article in the New York Times. Oh and they dug out a five-month-old sidebar on how numbers don't count, or something. The NYT's editorial decisions can be difficult to understand.

As every day more satirists ponder new careers, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

... is that up out of the sewer that the Mail drove it into?

🚨 NEW: By the end of this video, Europe will have lost 2850m² of land to construction. That’s almost half a Premier League football pitch. This rate of loss, amounting to 600 football pitches a day, is 1.5 times higher than official EEA estimates. This is the #GreenToGrey project. [1/3]

This is heartwarming www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

In 2024 91% of renewable energy was cheaper than a fossil fuel alternative. 'Drill baby drill' makes sense on one metric alone: vested interests. rmi.org/affordabilit...

Pains me to say "I agree with Nick", but "If you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression" is a pretty good line. However. He speaks like someone emerging from stockholm syndrome in this interview. But he was no prisoner. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"The war in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US civil war, World Wars I and II, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan combined." watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

This is the era of unlearning, isn’t it?

How many times can Laurence Fox post adverts that violate Google's policies before Google realise that taking them down *after* they've had hundreds of thousands of views isn't really working as a deterrent? adstransparency.google.com/advertiser/A...

From the dictionary of politics: INTOLERABLE (adj): tolerable

This trip's getting weird www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Conspiracy beliefs are mostly associated with reduced public health ... weakened social cohesion ... deteriorated basic human rights ... lower support for reducing carbon emissions, clean energy & preserving delicate ecosystems; & with reduced trust & cooperation..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...

The news: * Me: when a species evolves to the extent that it becomes an existential threat to the overall biosphere, does an evolutionary inflexion point occur, after which the species is mysteriously compelled to behave in ways that ensure its own demise? Gaia: vote Trump

"Bomb 'em till they like us" hasn't got a great track record

Wish I had thought of nominating the kumquat-in-chief for a Nobel Peace Prize first. He's such a pushover for ass-kissers; I'd be minted.