something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…
*talking to teenage militant atheist self*
current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church
teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government
current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one
Check out @unusualwhales.bsky.social they do it.
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
A sign that human creativity is a bottleneck is that this year everyone can generate almost any image or video they can think of for nearly free and the April Fools posts are basically just as bad as any other year.
Absolutely incredible watching them run the same playbook on children with ADHD and autism that they did on trans youth.
And Arsenal fans know all about mediocrity ;)
Meanwhile, the price remains unchanged of the 173,000 terawatts of the sun's energy (10,000 times more than humans use) that is continuously striking Earth at every moment.
Honestly fair fucks to Vittorio Angelone for calling out Penny Mordaunt on Last Leg
Good plan, there’s no way that the US would ever betray Kurds who fought on their behalf, or that Turkey would be upset by and seek to frustrate any US-backed Kurdish forces, or that an invasion from Iraq would trigger Iranian nationalist opposition. None of those things have ever happened.
Brendan O'Neill Hannah Spencer combines the spirit of CBeebies with the politics of Gaza The new Green MP campaigned in Urdu and appealed to the communal fury of Muslim voters
Brendan O'Neill Published 28 February 2026 8:00am GMT If Queers for Palestine were a person, it would be Hannah Spencer. No one better sums up the dimness and sheer vacuity of the modern Left than the new MP for Gorton and Denton. There she is in her blue jeans and trendy trainers dancing awkwardly as Muslim men who dream of wrapping her sinful body in a black cloak look on with restrained fury
If we’re ever going to get out of this, the British media class must be destroyed
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Okes like Breetzke and Muthusamy are part of a new generation of gun Proteas. I'm excited for the future and expectant for this next T20 WC.
Proper Eastern Cape gees!
What a lekker finish yesterday too, from dead-and-buried at 40ish for 4, to winning it with balls to spare. Gutsy.
The LeBron James of divorced women. No one is doing it like her.
Schrödinger's Murder.
Thanks, appreciate that.
Fascism does at home what imperialism does abroad and now's probably a great time to internalize the full implications of that.
P for Penis.
Glorious, from the FT.
Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules – it showed there aren’t any. We’ll all regret that | Nesrine Malik
The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela.
This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources.
It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.
Wait, so a leader of a country literally kidnapped a leader of another country?!
A tweet by Elon Musk reading "Post your family pics on X! We care & do more to fight child exploitation than any other platform by far."
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