Favorite story on Moldovan TV today: a local guy from the village of Lopatna, where a drone crashed and exploded recently, told TVR Moldova that he found some drone pieces and is taking them home because some of the screws are nice and will be helpful for his tractor.

Iron man WAS A MOVIE! It was not real life. She's not dating Tony Stark for real, what are people smoking?

România is at its prettiest in May and June. If you ever want to visit, choose these 2 months, you are getting lush green hills, brilliant sunshine, 25 degrees and cherries. Pure heaven.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

What will all the insiders and early investors in the big IPO stocks do with all the cash?

There really couldn't be a better president to speak on D-day than the Ukrainian one right now. With or without a suit.

I will celebrate D day the right way, with a re-listen of Bangaranga, the Eurovision winner of. 2026. We fought the war and we were all bloodied. Let's never forget that to attack each other's sensibilities with absurd songs is much better than the alternative.

History remembers the people who stormed the beaches in Normandy as heroes who saved a nation and a continent from Nazis. History will not remember Pete Hegseth.

Every now an then this site is pure gold. This is one of those times. Read to the end, it's well worth it.

well this is bad!

#Romania's President has appointed Eugen Tomac as the new prime minister after the government fell a month ago. He will now try to form a technocratic government - whatever that means in this turbulent (geo)political and economic context. www.politico.eu/article/roma...

Between the IPO and the macro of the Iran war, the market discourse is all Grok, Slok, and Two Smoking Barrels.

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

I should've asked Zelensky for permission to have the saint petersburg economic forum like I had to for the parade.

Google announced the had a Net income increased 81% and EPS increased 82% in the first quarter of 2026. Now they are attempting to get 80 billion from investors? How can this 4 trillion company, with just Google Cloud having a $460 billion revenue last quarter need to issue shares for 80 billion?

Last year portfolios grew like mushrooms. Wages, not so much.

This sounds like an excellent summer trip.

June is going to be interesting for the stock markets. The SpaceX IPO might be the start of a frenzy of IPOs if it's successful, or it could be the death knell (for now) of the AI boom. I'm really curious if the small investors will show up for what everyone says is an absurd valuation.

La mulți ani pentru toți copiii, și mai mai și mai mici, și mai trecuți de 40 de ani!

Kyla Scanlon: The only person who gave companies a framework for adopting AI is the Pope. I mean, she's not wrong. Funny, but not wrong.

The travertine Sipote waterfall, near the village of Salciua, Alba County, Romania. The walk was well worth the view.

What happens if Arsenal wins the CL and then England wins the World Cup? Do we still need helium from the Gulf, or do we responsibly and renewably harvest UK football fans walking on clouds?

The Russian drone crash into apartments in Galați was a blatant and serious violation of Romania’s sovereignty and European airspace. I spoke with Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu this morning to convey the EU’s full solidarity with Romania. Russia has long ago stopped respecting borders. (1/2)

A Russian drone hit a bloc of flats in Romania last night, a mother and child were injured. Putin being ejected from a fifth floor window cannot come soon enough!

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. (Robert Frost - Fire and Ice)

Some Strait of Hormuz self reflection. If you’d told me in, say, early to mid March, that the Strait would still be mostly closed at the end of May I’d have expected oil prices well north of $150 and evidence of physical shortages and disruption in Europe and developed Asia by now. 1/3

China removes hukou hurdle for migrant workers in social insurance shake-up www.scmp.com/news/article...

Brilliant!

Just saw the Tate brothers filming in the center of my town. Rude awakening that they are still not in jail, released as a present to the Trump administration. Those last US elections had a big shadow across the world and I can't wait to see him gone and with him this culture of impunity.

Is the Strait of Schrödinger open or not?

Un urs a intrat într-un hotel din Poiana Brașov, a deschis uși, s-a plimbat prin interior. Apoi a plecat. Semn că și lui i s-au părut mari tarifele la cazare.

Russia’s massive attack on Ukraine last night shows the Kremlin’s brutality and disregard for both human life and peace negotiations. Terror against civilians is not strength. It's despair. We stand firmly with Ukraine, with further support on the way to reinforce its air defence systems.

Another view here of a fire I showed towards the end of yesterday's thread. This is in the Lukianivka area, near the metro station, the shopping centre is destroyed.

The situation outside a school in the Shevchenko district of Kyiv, on this Sunday morning.

New aerial views of the damage in Kyiv - provided by drones of Ukraine's emergency services.

The cool new shipping craze everybody's talking about www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

This is what winning looks like.

Nu vreau sa sune defetist, dar: maratonist, fuge ca să strângă bani pentru copiii care n-au nimica în viata, și dintr-o dată da o mașină peste el. Futu-i ceapa ei de viață. hotnews.ro/ultramaraton...

For anyone who knows anything about the history of the URSS, this is major, major shade.

The chives flowers are in full bloom and buzzing with bees. I tried to get them out for 2 years, because they sprouted from a forgotten onion. I'm now pretty sure they are indestructible and will survive Ragnarok.

Nine.

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

Serious request to rename Generation Alpha to Gen-AI, just to confuse things a bit. They're the ones coming after the Gen-Z and they will have never been active in a world without AI. Like we're called Millennials, although we should have been Gen-Y, but we came of age in the new millennium.

This week, Lidl is trying to sell me 1 kilo of pork shoulder at the same price as 50 grams of minced pistachios. If this is not a sign of the K-shaped economy, I don't know what is. The poor need to be enticed, the rich can be fleeced. I'm buying the pork obvs, it's very good price.

This is a trap for people of a certain age. You can easily tell.

This almost sounds deliberate. Art.

Hidroelectrica (Romania's hydro power producer) recently reached its all time high marketcap of 15 billion euros. STOXX600 would look so different if countries from Eastern Europe would achieve developed country status. I'm pretty sure Poland has some pretty big companies as well.

Students don't much like the idea of graduating without jobs, because everything is AI now, do they?