Link please?

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

Yep.

Did we? Let's chat again after the current good president™️ has left office...

EU got teeth 😏

Ask Wirecutter: How Can I Stop Killing Houseplants? My Green Thumb Is Broken. Caring for houseplants takes time, knowledge, and know-how.

My neighbor told me his houseplants kept dying so I asked how many houseplants he has and he said he just goes to the store and gets a new houseplant afterwards and adds the dead one to his compost heap so I said it sounds like he’s just composting houseplants and then his daughter started crying.

Exactly the kind of short term ass-covering thinking that got them into the mess in the first place.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

Trump hates Pope Leo because he sees himself as the real vicar of Christ The president is trying to rebuild Christianity in his own image, but the first American pope is standing in the way

🧵Trump's war against Pope Leo is about something far larger than his foreign wars, it's actually a struggle for control of American Christianity.

This thread will summarize the main points of my latest essay about how Trumpism is a replacement Christianity. Continue or click through:

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Confirmation it happened.

That would have been the obviously right thing to do from the outset - rarely has something been so glaringly obvious from the outset. Denial of the glaringly obvious does nothing but infuriate absolutely everyone.

Gary Larsen cartoon showing a cruise ship steaming towards some mines and a small gunboat, with a battleship in the background. Text reads "Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz." The cartoon was published in 1987.

Gary Larsen appears to have invented the concept back in 1987.

No, I don’t think “China is going to eclipse us in air quality” either. That’s getting better, but they’re still getting over half their electricity from coal.

"Complacent" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.

Do you get any benefit from an Apple Podcasts follow?

If we are going back to a time when a divinely-appointed mad king tries to control the Pope, we might as well ressurect the Hanseatic League

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

I’ve always wanted to hold a small pinball tournament where the only rule was that you’re not allowed to move Meatloaf.

The Forces of Scarcity Hitting Asia May Soon Spread Across the World

Thanks to fallout from the war in Iran, "countless businesses [in Asian countries] are verging on insolvency. Governments are taking on enormous debt to slow inflation. By year’s end, in the most dire projections by the United Nations and others, millions across Asia could be pushed into poverty."

4 days since this was posted. We are still at 10% of pre-war transits. Iran fired on tankers this weekend, the US seized one. Little common ground for peace talks, may not be happening. Blockade in place. Last pre-war tankers have arrived. 2 weeks of jet fuel left.

Markets pretty calm

THOSE WERE THE DAYS 😭

And when we went on our long backpacking trips our families didn't know where we were until our last postcards and letters reached them, by which time we'd already moved on again... 😂 Those were the days.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

Suspicions? I have a suspicion that something is attracting us to the Earth’s surface.

Only because you're living far away from them ;)

Energy and immigration - the politics is hard, the economics is not. With better provision for storage, wouldn't wind stand in for solar?

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.