As well as being just, this is also clever, as North Korean troops will recognise the new route to defection, NK leadership and loyal officials will recognise the risk, and the fighting efficiency of those sent there will be reduced by the effort of trying to guard against defection.

Do we, as a species, deserve to exist, given this absolute stupidity? Answers on a postcard to future generations, who probably won't exist because we drove the Earth System past a cascade of interacting tipping points that resulted in our mass extinction.

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"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

This is very lovely. Especially from An Irish city.

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

I've been kinda obsessed with this video

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

The reflecting pool is being sabotaged by paid protistas

Isn't science amazing... The drops in cervical cancer mortality in England reported here are incredible. 🧪🛟😷🧭 Sociology demography idsky

"My popularity is none of your concern. I suggest you focus on yours.” --Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

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Sanoin äidille, et luepa kuule pääkirjoitus, kun viittaan siinä suhun. ”Olisit voinut sanoa vieläkin pahemmin”, sanoi äiti. Aidosti: puoli miljoonaa ei pärjää digin kanssa.

Still Life with White Tulips and Wood Burner

"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." Douglas Adams

It is so comforting and empowering to see how people using their expertise to fight the current onslaught of fascism on the integrity of our institutions. Don’t underestimate the expertise you have and don’t underestimate our power if we all put our expertise to good use in this way.

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You will be shocked to learn that I am trying to make a Cistercian clock 🤣 four versions, unintelligible throughout

Muistakaa: me anteeksiannamme ja ymmärrämme. Nasse-setä ei. #jokajuhannussamamuistutus

Best deal ever says the inhabitant of the White House.

Sharing this here because it will find more of the right people: Sarah Aubrey (aka @electrifythis.bsky.social) wants to get out and about to see the energy transition. I know there are going to be loads of folks who follow me who facilitate that.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

Good news: The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system critical to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, bowing to a bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Hi All, we now have an official text of the USA-Iran MOU from the US point of view. It is extraordinary. The US is in a far weaker position than before it started this war fewer than four months ago. Here is a free, blow-by-blow description why. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

This is bombshell stuff.

RIP Mike Davis you would have hated to be proven right once again about Californian capital

A 60-year-old grandmother killer whale named Sophia battling in what scientists believe is the first time a single orca was captured on camera killing a great white shark. [📹 NatGeoWILD] Original post

Pope Leo XIV holding up a Knicks jersey yesterday... #NBA

Hallo 👋 Can you support me to keep posting these observations for free here? I'd LOVE to have your support. And you get lots of lovely content if you do: my monthly journal, interviews with wonderful creative folk, a free newsletter, access to my fiction stories etc: www.patreon.com/cw/MirandaKe...

Ei kaikki delfiinimiehet.

Three years now since the last time I saw her.

Doing my small part! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Kaja Kallas: ❗️"We have also now verified reports that the Chinese military has been training Russian military personnel to fight in Ukraine. We are carefully assessing the implications."

Surprisingly nice thing about being a newly-published author: friends sending you pics of your book 'in the wild'. These are from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social museum shop. amberley-books.com/discover-boo... (there may be cheaper places to get it - shop around!)

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Linkkari palautti kyseisen postaukseni takaisin eetteriin anteeksipyyntöjen kera. Itse en heille asiasta ole mitään kommentoinut.

As an example of a competing actor, we built @mu.social, a microblogging app. We built it in a month (you can just use it with your account, Bsky, Eurosky, etc.) to demonstrate that this economic model is strong and can lead to a blossom of competing novel apps, all compatible — great for people.

Core to Eurosky is the idea that European tech needs to invent its own vision and playbook rather than copy US incumbents. A European Google, European Meta, European X would still be toxic sludge except with a EU sticker. @maxvonthun.bsky.social wrote about this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People often ask about @eurosky.social, so I wrote a little thread to explain some of the ideas.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

back at it

"If people stop believing that he can actually deliver on those promises, or if they stop believing in Musk himself, those valuations could disappear overnight…Musk is a modern-day Tinkerbell: if enough people stop believing in him, he simply ceases to exist in his current form."

oh look, the trump "made in america" phone wound up being an overpriced two-year old Taiwanese-made knockoff pre-loaded with propaganda who could have predicted something so on brand

Someone made a chart of where in America the highest concentrations of each team's diaspora pop live and Massachusetts is well represented!

Fox made sure to note that there's a sizable population of immigrants from Cape Verde in Rhode Island and, honestly, I'd love to see that for each match. Remind Americans that we have connections to all these countries through immigration, collapse the distance and give us rooting interests.