every so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline

Amazing work by Reform in picking Robert Jenrick as the man to tour the broadcast studios to portray Nigel Farage and his party as a model of probity

I know we’ve all had a big laugh at the Reflecting Pool. But we’re now at the point where people are being indicted and threatened with jail time based on nothing more than the fevered imagination of a diseased mind, and a need to protect Trumps fragile ego.

Apparently it’s 11 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

"as political strategist I didn't have a political strategy"

UN Ambassador Matt Whitaker: "People are enjoying the United States of America because it's an awesome place. We have extraordinary things like Buc-ee's and Chick-fil-A, very convenient to eat in your car while you're having a phone call. It's an amazing country."

More material for the @royalsociety.org’s bio of their esteemed fellow, Elon Musk FRS.

the punchline here is that this GB News opinion piece headline ... is written by Kwasi Kwarteng. utterly shameless:

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

Like several others, I had to check that this gorgeous creature is not AI generated!

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

Europe has an oceanic climate which means you normally get cool nights in summer, so until recently existing buildings did a good job of keeping residents cool. People seem to have this idea that Europeans have been sweating through hot nights for decades and just putting up with it. It’s weird.

Nature is amazing

Democratic politics can't be sustained with this level of disinformation and misinformation. Action needs to be taken.

Meanwhile in America: “Prosecutors convinced a jury that the fact that the eight defendants present at the protest wore all black and used the Signal encrypted messaging app supported their material support of terrorism charges.”

holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly

Here's the context you won't find in corporate media: Trump is done with Iran. He never cared about it or the Middle East, he wanted glorious victory. Now he's furious. He's told Vance to get him the hell out of there. Meanwhile he continues to mutter vile threats. presswatchers.org/2026/06/pres...

Well. I wonder if anyone got it in one? Wordle 1,829 2/6 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 @scoremywordle.bsky.social

OMG … 🤮😱

First car I drove v first car I owned. I loved the Suzuki so much 😍

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

Oh my goodness … it’s fabulous. A dream house.

It is extremely important that Labour understands that the movement of voters between Lab and Ref was not the crucial factor, it was consolidation of the anti-Ref vote and Lab voters turning out in droves. Otherwise Burnham will make the same mistakes as Starmer in targeting only one set of voters.

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

The fact that the name of his company is “Greenwater Services” is just magnificent 😘

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

I expected leavers to have a big celebration on the 10 year anniversary of their historic win. As it stands I don’t think even they’ve acknowledged the anniversary. It’s like they’re a bit embarrassed by it all and are now trying to act like it never happened.

Remember, it's only a waste of taxpayer money when it is something that is being done to help other people

I know we’ve grown used to this garbage, but this is just an astounding thing for a U.S. president to say at a summit with the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries.

When the community has to shut down because of someone you've invited, perhaps you shouldn't have invited them... #pmqs #politicslive bsky.app/profile/byli...

The fundamental problem remains that Trump never wanted to fight a war with Iran at all. He was sold on airstrikes supporting a quick coup, i.e. Venezuela 2, & the moment it stopped being that he stopped caring except to the extent that he wanted to stop being obliged to care

PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.

Given that Boomers have been using the web for over 30 years, and using Facebook for 20 years, we've been able to identify slop since it started. It was spread by email before the creation of Social Media. Those who fell for it and shared it, are the same kind of people who do it now, sadly.

Happy Obama appreciation day 💙

Quite pointed that he will do this but won’t do anything about the incitement, hate and disinformation on X.

On est sur le GRP Midi-Corrézien. Aujourd'hui Turenne à Noiallac (photo).

This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢

Americans, this is true. There is no good food to be had anywhere in Europe. Don't come here.

FOOTAGE OF THE LETTERS BEING REMOVED The irony of the Trump admin claiming to be the most transparent in history is never lost on me. Kennedy Center Workers used a tarp so cameras couldn’t see the removal. Give @repbeatty.bsky.social her flowers.This wouldn’t have been possible without her work.

If anyone is in Paris and wants to home a kitten / young cat who is living in the bushes in Montmartre this is an amazing pet for someone. Very affectionate cat.

The fact that Starmer thinks he should continue seeking advice from McSweeney (who has done nothing but damage to the Labour party in his policy to ape Reform), shows that Starmer has no good political nous or judgement and is the reason why he has failed as PM and will be ousted as PM.

The only way a lavish and bloody cage match under a monstrous contraption erected on hallowed ground to honor a demented would-be king staggering into his ninth decade could possibly be a more appropriate metaphor for our moment involves lightning.

- How did you allow fascism to happen AGAIN grandad? - We were just too worried that, if we intervened, the fascists might call us mean names, darling. Such learned helplessness! Greece investigated Golden Dawn financing, declared it a criminal organisation, banned it and jailed its leaders. DONE.

Exactly. Helplessness combined with what frankly looks at a refusal to place what is happening in the UK in a wider international context, and act and communicate accordingly.

Elon Musk is paying fascists to riot and attack minorities in our cities. Some he is paying, others he doesn't need to, the X algorithm and revenue program do the rest. The UK's leading nazi thug is posting from a Moscow hotel room right now. We need to wake up to foreign money and the far right.

Wow. Speechless.

People always say we need to keep the Royal Family in Britain because Tourism. But France has the highest tourism in Royal Sites in the world. And their Royal Family all lost their heads.

Like clockwork