The Buddha teaches us that all backups are temporary mandalas. The true "backup" is the knowledge gained along the journey. Embrace the Buddhist Data Cleanse. Release yourself from the shackles of yesterday's data and be reborn!

The fact that Trump thinks the US can negotiate for everyone else coming back to haunt him.

Defending a monopoly at all cost.

‼️🇩🇪🇺🇸Unfortunately, this is no bad joke: US is launching a 301 tariff investigation over a German draft law on medicine prices. That is interference in national sovereignty. Absolute no-go! Good that the EP secured a safety net against Turnberry violations

The "Reform Party," is a misnomer, something right wing extremists have perfected. They don't want to reform anything, what they want to do is turn the hands of the clock backward, to an ERA of feudalism in England. Farage is busy pissing on everyone's legs while telling them it's raining.

Untouched pint - check England flags - check All the ingredients to convince my gullible fans that I like beer, give a shit about football and have anything remotely in common with them.

10 years since the EU referendum, majorities in England, Scotland and Wales believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU Scotland Wrong: 75% Right: 16% Wales Wrong: 61% Right: 29% England Wrong: 56% Right: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

'If you have any information about the whereabouts of Nigel, whose mummy is very worried about him, the number is 0345 6060 973.' After Andy Burnham's Makerfield win, James O'Brien wonders why the Reform UK leader is not doing any live interviews.

Culture Forum. His company’s money reached Reform UK two days after Farage’s return as leader, and the same firm sold restricted technology to the main trading partner of a sanctioned Russian arms agency, an NYT investigation found, one of several unexplained connections to Russian intelligence.

US judge orders release of Palestinian rights advocate detained by ICE https://aje.news/ihum2o

I don’t think it’s nitpicking to point out to Trump and Vance that declaring that “The Iranians shouldn’t have to give up the right of self-defense in their country” is the *opposite* of demanding “unconditional surrender.”

anyway if you wanna do something more useful for Palestinians than anything Hilary Clinton has done, you can donate to these very urgent fundraisers for medical help ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/anim...

JD Vance soft-launched his presidential campaign this week and the timing could not be worse. Tagged as the Iran war architect, left to sanewash Trump's worst decisions, and humiliated on the world stage. The irony is that Vance was right about almost everything. He just can't say so.

Excellent from John Crace. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There are exactly three known species of sea dragons, all of which are found only in the coastal waters of southern and western Australia. They are close relatives of seahorses, known for their elaborate camouflage and graceful, drifting movements. This is the Weedy sea dragon

Trump’s humiliating Iran surrender in one chart: Obama: 98% uranium cut, enrichment capped, sanctions in place, 0 American lives lost. Trump: $25 BILLION unfrozen, sanctions lifted, Hormuz tolls for Iran, 15 dead + 543 injured Americans, $2.2 TRILLION cost. Pure weakness. #TrumpSurrendered

"Downing Street has repeatedly defended the use by departments of a platform whose owner has called for the UK government to be overthrown"

Each extra hour of forward bending at work in early pregnancy was associated with a 36% higher miscarriage risk in more than 470,000 Danish women. Only bending showed a consistent dose-response pattern.

Analysts warn that pro-Israel groups and politicians in Washington will likely push to derail diplomacy with Tehran.

Four Russian military satellites passed within ~13 km of a Finnish ICEYE radar satellite that supplies battlefield imagery to Ukraine. Moscow labeled such systems “legitimate targets” already in 2022. The incident highlights rising hybrid pressure in space. Source: Meduza #NordicOSINTmonitor#Space

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“So you don’t poison wells. You don’t destroy dams. All of that is illegal. And nevertheless, it happens." Costs of War co-founder Neta Crawford on international legal protections for the environment in war, and how current conflicts are testing those protections. www.newsweek.com/ecological-t...

The only way forward is a one-state solution with equal rights for all. That means eliminating Zionism as an ideology and understanding that the existence of a genocidal ethnostate is contrary to the interests of humanity.

When Michelle Obama mentioned that her husband Barack won the Nobel Peace Prize as a not so subtle shade to that Orange toddler, Hillary couldn't help but release the loudest cackle 😆

Is it right that Trump agreed to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Iran?

BBC News - London Museum's new Smithfield Market home to open on 28 November - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hegseth still doesn't understand why no one supported the USA against Iran. His failure to make the case at the UN to get legitimacy left America out on a limb.

PS #EpsteinFiles Still 3+ million pages/documents withheld; Still no one in the US arrested or charged except #Epstein & #Maxwell Copy & paste to your every post - learned in HS Latin class: Cato the Elder after every speech added "Carthago delenda est" (Carthage must be destroyed) - until it was!

Norway Invests Millions to Preserve Medieval Sites www.medievalists.net/2026/04/norw... #MedievalNorway

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WAR CRIME ALERT🚨🇮🇱 An Israeli soldier shot a journalist point-blank in the chest with live ammunition while he covered protests against a new illegal jewish settler outpost. Western media will not report this.

Protest takes place over Oxford Union Robinson debate #Oxfordshire #BBCNews

Devastating news - the BBC is keeping Laura Kuenssberg 😠

I can't even see Altman's face without thinking... Backpfeifengesicht germanisweird.com/backpfeifeng...

Australian Soccer Fans Take to the Streets, Humiliating Trump with This Chant…

It took me a while to work out what this bill was all about, until I realised 'heritage public houses' = nice old pubs (2nd reading just announced): bills.parliament.uk/bills/3834

A preliminary ruling but potentially huge. And common sense!

While his ancestors were illiterate and living on farms and in homes with pigs, the ancient Persians were composing poetry and had running water, eat shit (to honor your ancestors)

Hugely significant victory. Turning the tide on outsourcing as promised by Rachel Reeves in opposition - "the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation".

On this day in 1976, the Soweto youth uprising begins in South Africa. anticolonialhistory.com/event/319/

Der Anfang vom Ende der Apartheid#Südafrika#Soweto#Apartheid

Black students braved bullets to protest the discriminatory apartheid-era education policies.

Hell of a Freudian slip. I *assume* he was thinking of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a far-left terrorist group. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a legendary and rightly celebrated anti-Nazi theologian & dissident.

Brand new Augustinian writings revealed!

He's back 😄 #archaeohistories

A Corded Ware burial was discovered in Germany -- in a disused kiln, which is puzzling archaeologists. 🏺🧪

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