The people of the Middle East are, of course, famously tolerant of outsiders just helping themselves to their land.

This is obviously some exciting new meaning of the word stabilise of which I was previously unaware.

Rachel said Lisa Murkowski reported the average # of calls coming into the Senate is 40
Now it is over 1600 a minute and they can't keep up

KEEP IT UP!!!
KEEP IT UP!!!

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue.

TWENTY.

As in, they call that getting slammed.

So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind.

TWENTY is a lot.

a man wearing a cowboy hat is singing the song howls . Alt: "Howls, howls of derisive laughter" from the Monty Python Aussie sketch.

He's a free speech absolutist, don't you know.

RFK Jr & his kids are vaccinated.
Because he knows vaccines are safe & effective.

Yet he makes millions of dollars causing preventable illness & death by telling other people vaccines are harmful.

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Dammit - *was* *not* disappointed. Grrr.

Went to see Conclave tonight. If you don't know it it's a movie about selecting a (fictional) pope. I was optimistic, could have been dull, but I was expecting political shenanigans and I was disappointed. Really enjoyed it.

Been reading your posts.

Fair play, that is a cracking stick.

Liechtenstein is kind if a special case anyway, so far as I can tell they get the benefits of membership via Switzerland. Switzerland and Liechtenstein have a very close relationship when it comes to “public infrastructure.”

Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU

Something good that the government are doing.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I hadn't believed it until I saw with my own eyes. DeepSeek is programmed not to answer certain basic questions of fact.

The trolley problem meme. The guy who can pull the lever says "I refuse to pull the lever untill there is an option to stop the trolly" Next image: the ground is covered in blood. Lever guy looks traumatised. "T-t-t-this isnt my fault... I... I... t-took the moral high ground..." A surviving guy tied to the train tracks side eyes him.

Up there with his assertion that babies belong in mangers 🤣

“roads are constantly clogged. The authorities know this and are working on it: new highways and
bridges shoot up in months.” Sigh. Someone’s never heard of induced demand.

Well done!

Well that makes sense, I imagine he paid someone to read them for him 😀

Musk seems to have read Iain Banks “Culture” novels and his only takeaway was “the ships have really cool names.” I hate him so much.

Ironically Elon has given the name grok to a thing that cannot understand anything at any level, never mind grok anything.

“Society has the right to decide how technology is used and pass legislation accordingly. People have the right to use technology which respects their choices and does not try to hack them into perpetual empty engagement.”

Making California out of Coast Redwood | Official State Tree Map #shorts #trees #wood YouTube video by justinthetrees

This youtube channel is delightful. He’s making a map of the USA using wood from the state tree of every state, but you get a little story about the biology, history and uses of the tree, or whatever is interesting. Great stuff.

Police request transcripts from Prince Harry’s case against owner of the Sun Exclusive: Campaigners hope for investigation into claims of ‘perjury and cover-ups’ against News Group Newspapers

The authorities are coming for Murdoch rag The Sun.

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social

If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov"

The national archives is still doing its job for now.

Yeah. We kept letting folks push and not *technically* be breaking any rules/laws while making every discussion space miserable, and at a certain point we just have to say "you are making this place suck, you aren't here in good faith, and you don't belong here" to these fucks.

Despicable.

This is the way.