Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism.

And here's the entire Scott Pelley interview via YouTube... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePqd...

#coygig G’wan Barrett 🇮🇪

I just go a newsletter link with the headline ‘Pete Hegseth’s softer side’. Yeah not opening that, but still hoping it’s ironic 🙄

100 times this!

This is the greatest description of humanity I have ever read.

Sign the petition to protect the laws that protect us - our health, nature, and water. Give nature a voice! #HandsOffNature birdwatchireland.ie/our-work/adv...

🧵 🧵🧵 The constant bitching about Bluesky community and the obsession around it in certain parts - is not really any different than the dynamic around blogosphere/netroots circa 2003-08 (until those spaces became coopted). (1/6)

Exactly this

True. That's how Iran is beating him. They aren't physically obstructing the strait. They're creating a situation where insurance companies refuse to provide coverage to ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Sums it up, really.

From the Grauniad's 'Explainer' article:

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

It’s all falling apart.

On this day in 2003, Apple launched the iTunes Music Store.

New: Manosphere influencer Clavicular is everywhere, and that’s not an accident. A paid marketing campaign is spreading video clips of his controversial antics across social media. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Yup: how low can you go? Try him

Normally I would assume this was a joke

After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with the department.

OTD d Mary Wollstonecraft,author of Vindication of Rights of Women,argued women weren't inferior to men but lacked access to education.One of 1st feminist philosophers.Against radical Fr Rev, she wrote "I cannot yet give up the hope, that a fairer day is dawning on Europe."Also Mom of Mary Shelley.

Link to a story on this subject: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Good lord…this picture.

What the actual…?!

U.S. importers can begin filing refund claims on Monday, April 20, for $166 billion in tariffs collected illegally over the past year. on.wsj.com/4crMtgl

I say this a lot but today’s pod is worth your time. It’s with Josh Owens who worked for Alex Jones/Infowars for 4 years in the 2010s. It’s a conversation about how the conspiracy machine works from inside, about radicalization and, crucially, about the hard, unscalable work of deradicalization

So sad that a normal, human heartbreaking reality needs to be ‘announced’ but that’s the world we live in 😔

"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence software, Grok, continues to generate sexualized images of people without their consent, despite his company’s pledge months ago to halt abusive deepfakes after a public backlash and government investigations." @davidingram.bsky.social keeping tabs:

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

Ah lads, how exciting is this collab!!!! 13 hours. Counting the minutes 🤯

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God knows we were all due some good news!

Really hope this is as good a sign as it appears 🤞

Guardian says "marathon" peace talks, but without quotes for a mere twenty-hour session. The talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement took nearly two years, with a longer process of engagement before then.

Our mainstream media failed utterly this week to investigate this side of the ‘protests’. This is an excellent analysis, which also points to the good work done by @thejournal.ie

Excellent explainer by @thejournal.ie - which really captures why so many of us who would be pro peaceful protest were alienated from these protests.

Obviously it's completely unseemly that they're hoping to bribe Hungarians to vote for Orban. But it's also just bizarre - Orban does nothing for America, but he does a lot for Russia. Why is this Trump's priority? (It's okay, you don't need to answer.)

Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours. (H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)

Despite the difficulties Muslim Sisters of Éire managed to feed those who needed their help tonight. Only to be verbally abused by racist arseholes who are so stupid they can't conceive that Irish born and bred people can also be Muslim. #SpéirGhorm

Recommend a film from the 1960s

🚫🇷🇺 Hungarian protesters chanted “Russians go home!” (Ruszkik haza) at Viktor Orbán during a campaign rally, hours after we revealed his foreign minister conspired behind allies' back and even shared EU documents with Sergey Lavrov. The chant echoes the main slogan of the 1956 uprising.

The future really doesn't look the way we were told it would as children...

The #Artemis II Orion spacecraft is equipped with four solar arrays, built by engineers from Airbus Space in the Netherlands. Installed on the European Service Module, these arrays are essential for providing power for Orion and its crew as they travel around the Moon on this historic mission.

“Strongly and powerfully” sure sounds like Miller/Trump alright

But Dr. Strangelove, how do we maximize shareholder value?

From Catherine Belton, on why Vance is going to Budapest www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Wow!

Anyone else have Pink Floyd melodies in their heads all week?

Yup: Sora “now looks like an expensive strategic miscalculation” in hindsight, a bitter lesson learned and a dire warning to AI startups everywhere not get bogged down by “distracting side quests”.

Good grief! THIS is why sub-editors are the most underrated constituency in the world of journalism.

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...