I Gotta Feeling by the Black-Eyed Peas

I mean, for that money, I'm making feature-length versions of all the Aubrey-Maturin novels AND all the Flashmans as well.

American veneration of the IRA is really fucking gross.

Spring things

It's a start, but they'll need more than one.

Those outtakes of Farage swearing at a technical hiccup being circulated as though they are some sort of gotcha moment...did I miss the Serious Change In Cultural Mores memo? Because it seems pretty normal behaviour to me.

Hell, my ardent sisters, be assured, Is where we’re bound; we’ll drink the pitch of hell— We, who have sung the praises of the lord With every fiber in us, every cell.

I have an EU constitution joke, but let's not go there right now

A few people have shared this and I want to join in with saying how good it is

Mr. Mamdani what is your position on Bludish separatism in South Sordland

They're going to try and do a Temu invasion by landing a couple of thousand marines on Kharg Island, and then act all surprised when a bunch of them get killed, aren't they?

So many times in recent months I've thought of this frame from Preacher, and @mertelstein.bsky.social has just sent it to me entirely unbidden. I will be using it frequently henceforth.

It is striking that a lot of the Brits reposting this are mentioning castles or slightly twee industrial revolution / Victoriana stuff, whereas the continentals are more likely to be saying "our local concentration camp / SS torture prison" and I feel that this may be significant.

This is absolutely mad. Business execs seem to have taken complete leave of their senses. They believe in AI the way mediaeval peasants believed in magic.

"Unscripted and wide-ranging as ever" is quite the euphemistic description. Absolutely dying at this detail though, am quite sure that he genuinely thinks it's unfair that Iran aren't doing what he wants them to do. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So, BlueSky, one of my passions is the study of tea in WW2. I need you to watch this oral history from three ex-tea ladies from the Bermondsey WVS. Because you could guess for ONE THOUSAND YEARS and you would not guess where it is going... #skystorians #history #tea

Make Jack Aubrey a commodore with that mission and give him almost no material support

He's looking like a really good signing, looking forward to watching him play next season cc @jamesdaustin.bsky.social

If things have reached this pass then NATO already faces a very bad present.

Posting this reminded me of this bit of genius from Paul Whitehouse youtu.be/jYXWzP-GuUc?...

Hello, I'm mental.

Our politics is fucked if even our elected representatives can't be bothered to even think "How does this stuff actually work"

Post your favourite final shot in a film

People are grumbling about Chessum not scoring under the posts but look, he's a second row who found himself alone with the ball and half an empty pitch in front of him, he managed to control the panic, run more or less the right way, AND put the ball down, what more do you want?

Is Shaun Edwards looking... cheerful? After conceding that many points??? Truly, we are living in the End Times.

I mean, honestly, what can you do, this is preposterous.

I disapprove of more than about 50 points, maybe 60 at the outside, being scored in a single game of rugby.

I don't think it is going to happen, but a surprise England win would be the most fitting end to this particular 6N, which has been wildly unpredictable from the get-go.

Ok, it is indeed impossible to tell these teams apart from most camera angles. Well done, everybody.

[soupir]

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

I guess being able to take yourself this seriously is a superpower I will never have.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Scotland getting in a mess in the three-quarters and Ireland ruthlessly putting away the resulting opportunity feels like a fair summary of that game.

The only thing prohibiting England from racking up a record win in Paris tomorrow will be if France take part in the game. England will surely romp to victory should France not do that.

Not for the first time, I've had a scam WhatsApp from someone who was able to obtain my phone number, the name of a hotel I'm staying in, and the date I'm staying there from my account at @bookingcom.bsky.social. in fact, this is starting to happen with pretty much every trip I book through them

The key question is why? Why is the EU a target for Trump and the US? The answer is neo-royalism. The EU is a rules based system that puts constraints on personalist leaders. This is not simply a beef or spat. It is a competition between orders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Watched Pasolini's Decameron on Amazon Prime and then had a look at his Wiki entry. He made sublime and righteous art but, yep, he's very much getting cancelled these days. Calling on Gide in your defence isn't a great look.

I was thinking today that I really hope European countries are building an absolute shed-load of these things.

all this badger discourse reminded me of this high point of the Early Days of the Internet, and I am delighted to see it is still extant: badgerbadgerbadger.com

🚨🚨Major story of today: Nearly seven months ago, #Ukraine tried to sell the US their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made attack drones but #Trump admin dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week because of heavy drone strikes from #Iran.🧵 www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...

A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii. At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.

Hello, rest of world. Today in Britain the leaders of mainstream political parties have been debating whether putting native woodland creatures on our banknotes is emblematic of our tragic decline as a patriotic nation, and we hope things are equally weird with you.

This is great, I also had no idea (despite being a sort-of-Dutch eurocrat)

It's nice to see all the Gallipoli obsessives getting an excuse to post about it. Anyway, here's my Dad at the extremely picturesque Beach cemetery, just round the corner from Anzac Cove (second picture). Photos from May 2019.

Tl;dr they don't understand anything and they're not interested in listening to anyone who does www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

UKMTO WARNING 019-26

pithy summary, seems fair

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Lemmings (1991)