I’ve been having loads of problems with Samsung T7s recently. Write speed has slowed down so much that it is unable, but drive is still readable

Stansted. Not a place you want to spend any time waiting

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“I can’t risk my life for a sandwich”: A day watching shoplifters at Greggs "No pastries?" said one thief as she cleared the shelves and asked staff for further supplies.

Very good, if infuriating, piece on the pernicious but incredibly solvable problem of shoplifting www.londoncentric.media/p/greggs-sho...

I ended a relationship over their love for Stereophonics, which I feel is Travis adjacent

Funnily enough, Fields of the Nephilim are that band for me too. And, to a lesser extent, Fugazi

A stack of chinos in different colors.

Someone asked if I could tell them where to buy a pair of good chinos. In this thread, I will tell you, but my answer is not simple. On the upside, I think this is a better approach when shopping for clothes and you can apply it to any kind of item. 🧵

I’m sort of afraid to ask, but what are the Artemis conspiracies?

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda:

The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

Football groundhopper record broken: Tony Incenzo completes life-long non-league dream BBC Sport travels with the UK's ultimate groundhopper to the final match of a decades-long, history-making journey.

Football groundhopper record broken: Tony Incenzo completes life-long non-league dream

Apparently the pickups are designed by his long time guitar tech Kevin Buell

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026

📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices

www.carbonbrief.org/...

featuring Page on guitar, I believe

I’m in a Fender Telecaster group on Facebook, and any time Springsteen is mentioned (you know, one of the world’s most famous Telecaster players) some crazy shit goes off.

Everything Bruce says in this introduction is… inherently reasonable. There really is nothing to disagree with here

Very much here for the explanations and demonstrations of musical ideas.

Him poking around that little doorway and talking nonsense has become the defining image of his presidency. It’s like a running gag from The Fast Show

Everyone in Britain with mortgage hates her

The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran They now appear to run both the state and the war

This is a phenomenal piece of journalism by my colleagues at @economist.com - deep reported detail on how Iran is now being run that I haven't seen anywhere else: www.economist.com/middle-east-...

‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate Constituents’ frustration with Richard Tice reflects growing problem for party and its leaders’ climate-sceptic stance

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The most stunningly awful wonderful record’: how the Shaggs became rock’s most divisive band Often completely out of tune and rarely in time, the group of sisters forced to play together by their father gained an army of fans from Frank Zappa to Kurt Cobain. A new documentary celebrates their...

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Stop getting the bible wrong!

Imagine being fired by Bari Weiss, who has no broadcasting experience and even in her field has never written or commissioned a single worthwhile piece. I’d have blood coming out if my eyes

Nottinghamshire County Council's Reform leadership has stopped Nottinghamshire Live from the council chamber.

This is quite unprecedented and authoritarian.

Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

I enjoyed Louis Theroux's delve into the Manosphere, but I have the niggling sense that the whole panic around it is a bit of a fantasma.

The prevalence of misogyny among young men is no higher now than in 2015. The worst you can say is it's stopped shrinking.

What am I missing here?

Sad there's no longer a Slam in Covent Garden

Farage at the garage

In this current harsh world, let's warm a few hearts remembering the events of 7-8 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town. For perspective, that's roughly equivalent to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’ New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick.

New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick. www.wired.com/story/from-u...