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>> The intervention is designed to force [...] a defence model that sees Britain as America’s junior partner. Rather than strategic autonomy or European partnership, Lord Robertson wants the UK’s forces built to assist the US.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finally made it to the clouds! 👋🦋
From the bridge of Serenity to the chaotic world of Wade Wilson, it’s been a wild ride. Excited to be here!
Currently: Keeping the peace in Sheriff Country 🤠 & protecting Castle Grayskull as The Sorceress! 🏰✨
Let's chat movies, 🇧🇷, & @theIRC. Hi, Bluesky!
>> Ogilvy, the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger. He was convinced there could be no living thing on that remote, forbidding planet.
>> "A million to one," he said.
The Guardian - Israeli ambassador to Germany condemns Bezalel Smotrich’s tirade against chancellor
>> Ron Prosor says verbal attack on Friedrich Merz referencing Nazi regime ‘erodes the memory of the Holocaust’
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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David Lynch: "I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper."
Morning Bluesky.
* Wants to do, not necessarily current policy to do
I do wonder whether the Reform voting demographic knows what their party wants to do to health, welfare, and their pensions. Maybe they should be told.
Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
One day I'll stop saving these images as potential wallpapers. Today is not that day.
War on Woke.
>> Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said "we need to get serious" on defence and suggested the Tories would "repurpose funds from net zero projects to invest in our military".
BBC News - Former Nato chief warns UK's national security 'in peril'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unfortunately, the Strategic Defence Review failed to trigger the much-needed national debate not just on defence spending, but, more broadly, Britain’s strategy in this dangerous time. Easy to blame the media, but it would have been No 10‘s job to drive this conversation./4 But
>> Don’t worry, you don’t have to steal content from your favorite authors to keep using your Kindle. There are plenty of e-stores where you can buy DRM-free novels legally...
uk.pcmag.com/ebook-reader...
Paging Doctor Germophobe.
youtu.be/kluOMop4RWw
If a reckless "excursion" leads an unnamed NATO member into war with _another_ other unnamed country I'm guessing that's not automatically an Article 5 condition in the same way the first action wasn't... Asking for a hemisphere or two.
President Zelenskyy:
❗️For the first time in the history of this war an enemy position was taken using only unmanned platforms - ground robotic complexes and drones.
Russian soldiers in the position surrendered into captivity.
Q: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?
TRUMP: I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do Red Cross. Only the fake news could come up with that one.
Man, this is all so mad and funny. Antichrist Liberace.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson: “The Strait of Hormuz was already open before the war. You are the ones who created the war out of nothing and closed the strait to the rest of the world.”
youtube.com/watch?v=Wb-6...
The late Tony Benn set out five questions about power. In his final speech to the House of Commons he said that on meeting any powerful person, one should always ask: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?
"How can we get rid of you?"
The immense significance of the defeat of Orbán's illiberal political machine and methodology
By me at the Empty City substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-can-we...
BBC News - Meta pulls Facebook ads recruiting for social media addiction lawsuits
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thinking about the (pressing) need for a more integrated Europe.
Very Ukrainian accent:
"Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace?
Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues?
Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky?
Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"
China: you're going to do what now?
In my experience vast majority of voters know Brexit is a disaster, hate Trump and dislike Farage. Many then follow that up with 'vote Reform' anyway, and say why:
1. Immigration
2. Immigration
3. Hatred of Labour
4. Hatred of Starmer and Reeves
5. 'Got to try something new'
6. Scroungers.
youtube.com/watch?v=4lku...
A big come back for Esperanto?
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