The Odyssey! I have read, translated and compressed it into a handy half hour podcast for you. Here’s your quick guide on BBC Sounds. Infidelity and monsters aplenty… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees

I loved writing this story for @newscientist.com Orangutans are generally pretty solitary and mothers and their young often hang out without other company, but it seems the mothers plan playdates for their offspring. 🧪 🐒 🦊 #primates #orangutans #parenthood www.newscientist.com/article/2532...

💥 Explosions have been heard in the Moscow region since night, - Exilenova 👀 Krasnozavodsk Chemical Plant, which produces components for ammunition and missile weapons. 👀 Klimovsk - Central Research Institute of Precision Machine Building.

This cannot be real?

Large oil companies are expanding oil & gas production Plans are much worse than IEA’s gloomy business-as-usual scenario - 5.9% increase in oil & gas production this decade, leading to 2.9C global temp increase by 2100 The current heatwaves are with 1.4C warming www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Belgium’s team celebrated their victory over the US by mocking Trump’s signature double jerk off dance move.

An illustration of how utterly dumb the European Socialists and Democrats (PES) are is this support of theirs of the Serbian student movement nationalists who are sporting a giant RUSSIAN flag at their protest, like they always do. Disclaimer: this isn't an endorsement of the Serbian government.

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

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Winning.

I've been filming Patriot Front since 2017 when Thomas Rousseau marched into Charlottesville when he and his Vanguard America chanted "blood and soil". Here he is in January at the DC March for Life. They're recruiting and more than tripled their numbers since then.

America is such a deeply misogynist country that a whole decade of Trump still hasn't driven home the central lesson he offers: Misogyny & sexual assault aren't unfortunate private hobbies. They are the OG forms of oppression. When a man degrades women that's political & he's an oppressor, period.

Delightful little brown mouse nibbling at a walnut. From a #Roman ‘unswept floor’ mosaic by Heraclitus. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effects! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

This is a famous quote from a 1999 Clinton-Yeltsin phone call. Imo, the most notable line is that Yeltsin fully recognizes that Europe doesn’t want to be “given” to Ru but doesn’t care. Russian imperialism waxes and wanes depending on state capacity but the desire to dominate is always there!

⚡️ Russian strike kills medical graduate in Kharkiv. Nnani Adaobi Marian, a Nigerian alumna of Kharkiv National Medical University, died from injuries sustained during a June 29 Russian attack. 🧵 1/3 ⬇️

Good Monday morning, friends!! Today's giggle is brought to us by the Weather Machine. 🌥🌧⛈️❄️ You know the machine Dems be using to mess up donsnorleones nazi speeches.🤭🤭 Have a day, y'all!! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

russian fuel crisis update Collapsed: 6 regions Government Prioritized: 7 regions Widespread Outages: 5 regions Spot Outages: 60 regions Government of self-imposed selling restrictions, but no significant shortages reported: 4 regions Normal: 1 region Map and data @malcontentnews.bsky.social

Deep Strike units of the SOF successfully struck Russia’s largest oil refinery, located in the city of Omsk. The SOF drones traveled up to 3,000 kilometers to reach the target, making it the deepest long-range strike into enemy territory since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

🔥 This is how the largest oil refinery in the Russian Federation, a sponsor of the war, burned down in Omsk today.

Spouses of U.S. citizens have traditionally had a special place in immigration law. That's no longer the case, according to the administration and immigration lawyers.

The same Kremlin machine pushing this TikTok campaign also funds far-right, populist politicians across Europe who build their platforms entirely on amplifying the "migrant threat." 🧵 1/3 globalinitiative.net/analysis/rus...

Booommm 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 Fiiiiiiiirrreeee 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🇷🇺A permanent base of Russia’s 26th Missile Brigade near Luga was struck early today.

The above is an extract from MacCaig’s “A man in Assynt”. You can listen to the whole poem being read here by Jim Macintosh for the Cateran Ecomuseum #poem #poetry soundcloud.com/user-5574107...

French photographer Mathieu Stern accidentally discovers an old film from 120 years earlier. And after developing it, it turns out to be a cat. Original post

Angry bird wins against angry turd. 😁👍

The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide (Jeremy Corbyn)

Moment of a strike. Glorious bsky.app/profile/spec...

The Omsk refinery in Russia has been hit at multiple points. At least two oil processing towers have been struck and are burning. This is Russia‘s largest and most modern refinery with an annual production capacity of 22 million tons.

Irony is well and truly dead.

🇺🇦Every life matters.

There’s ignorant, there’s ugly & then there’s Sue Ellen* Braverman ▪️Former UK minister demands reparations from Britain's ex-colonies 'investment'

Everyone knew when this World Cup started that FIFA is corrupt as shit. But you bought the ticket. Now you get to take the ride.

🇺🇦The oil refining infrastructure in Omsk has been struck. The facility processes approximately 20–22 million tons of crude oil per year, making it one of Russia's largest oil refineries.

“Socceroos star Awer Mabil says it is "bullshit" to suggest Australia is not a successful multicultural society, declaring his team was not "distracted" by the monoculture debate launched by One Nation during the World Cup” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Ukraine hit the Omsk refinery for the first time today. It’s one of Russia’s biggest refineries, located well over 2,000 km away from Ukraine. Huge success!

⚡️ Russian hackers breached UK government email accounts and are selling the stolen credentials on the dark web for up to $60,000. united24media.com/world/russia...

He can dance too!

This rooster has figured out how her feeder works and it closes it in time so the alpacas don't eat all the food. Original post

Russia killed an entire family in Kyiv. “Will this photograph stop the war? Probably not. But the world must see the truth,” photographer Efrem Lukatsky wrote. Photo: Efrem Lukatsky Sensitive content: t.me/Kyivpost_off...

‼️🛑L' #AFD parti fasciste nazillon🇩🇪 et grand "Z_ami" du #FN (Fraudeur National) de tata marine et de jordy monaco #RN (Ramassis National) confirme son amour pour la ruZZie avec un de ses membres⤵️

Russia's overnight attack killed 11 in Kyiv and one in the oblast after all 29 ballistic and Zircon missiles beat Ukraine's depleted Patriot defenses. Air defenses downed 363 other weapons, the Air Force reported. 📷 DSNS, RFE/RL, Reuters 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/06/r...

russia and Belarus have launched a widespread TikTok campaign encouraging migrants to enter Europe through their borders. This "migration bomb" strategy has been used before, including during the 2015 and 2021 migration crises. Info via @vatniksoup.bsky.social

A story that encapsulates so much about British attitudes to its history of Empire. BBC News - Thousands of forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Putin doesn’t want you to know this

It is is remarkable that Albanians see the Trump-Kushner corruption better than many Americans.

Can't say it plainer than this: "The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today’s, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources" doi.org/10.1088/1748...