Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

I've seen every major media source I can think of do a story on this.
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www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/p...

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

and all the fish that lay in dirty water dying…had they got you hypnotised … PLEASE HELP …

Twitter screenshot of 3 tweets from 21 April 2016 BBC NEWS BREAKING BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking 47m Singer Prince has died at his Paisley Park estate in Minnesota at the age of 57, his publicist tells AP bbc.in/1SmPkEm 75,905 1,673 Joyce @Full_Time_Mummy 46m @BBCBreaking @BBCNews Hope he's ok X 131 73 reiss @PutltInReiss 42m @Full_Time_Mummy @JackONLFC @BBCBreaking @BBCNews OF COURSE HES FUCKING NOT HE JUST DIED JOYCE 1770 136

Lest we forget tho

CW: Twitter screenshot from 2016

Totes! Well jel obvs

walking from my election party to the Tisza rally and we heard crowds cheering in the distance as Orban officially conceded 🥰

The parallels between Orban's Hungary and what Trump' vision for the the US - putting relatives into top jobs, rewriting the electoral system to make it hard from an opposition party to win elections, friendly to Russian ambitions - cannot be ignored.

Putin's fingerprints are all over it.

If they can win in Kent (think small boats) they can win anywhere. Hope or hate. That's the choice. People are choosing hope.

Yikes!

One should always signal before that manoeuvre I’m told!

Well certainly below SAINOS

Your Mum?

‘Edge play the blues!’

I will accept Edge is a great guitarist but one thing he can’t do is play the blues …

Well there it is … again (!)

They’ll be ringing 999 when there’s no KFC more like!!

Niche post but hey this is Blue Sky … anyone else notice the poor audio edits in last night’s Masterchef The Professionals? Wonder if it’s a new Descript-style ‘script edit’ AI software that didn’t get overseen/heard(!) properly.

I find this Kleenex pollen calendar (scroll down) very helpful to know what trees and plants are being dicks and when

The green bits are the peaks

Mid-March is apparently peak Alder season

Grasses are my worst, I'm not usually badly affected this early

www.kleenex.co.uk/advice/polle...

Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies

Farage has sold videos of himself endorsing a neo-Nazi event, repeating extremist slogans supporting a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot etc

But don't worry Nige will be along in a moment to blame it all on the BBC, or Coutts, or refugees...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Til someone comes up with a sketch show idea made just an iPhone - working title - The Shit Show?

Last night one of the competing chefs on GBN was on MCP as a guest chef!!
Louis Theroux’s next doc … The Chefosphere?!

“The former president had tears in his eyes and called me ‘Sir’”

Came across this, this morning - which was nice 😍

“Remember Dan Price...that CEO who took a pay cut so he could pay all his employees a minimum annual wage of $70,000? Update…

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Shart!

Reminded me of a Popbitch story … I’ll see if I can find it!

A lot of crud followed post Britpop …

J Bo is the dawg x

A wet suit is, I suppose, the right attire for society’s race to the bottom 😫

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]