Find this whole tone very odd, as if partying (especially when young) is something from which you need to turn your life around! It smacks of the same judgementalism that repelled me from Catholicism when I was young.
My sister loved to party and turned her life around
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We've seen in recent time how quickly supply chains can go from flowing to a halt, we've seen the whipping up of internal anger and we've seen a US president happy to slate and attack anyone who hurts his ego. If you're not worried it's because you've switched off. Understandable but a big mistake.
The Berlin wall came down, there was greater unity between nations, especially previous foes in Europe. But now, our supposed greatest ally threatens to invade Greenland and withdraw from NATO, and Putin invaded Ukraine. Complacent does seem like the right description. And it should worry everyone.
I used to think in my younger years that because several UK generations have not known the scale of loss that happened in WW1 and WW2, we were both quicker to bomb others and less likely to sign up to fight ourselves. But it also seemed a safer time, that the world was on a path to global peace
Can we also take a moment to show respect for that fantastic double wall corner row of baseball caps! She's an absolute legend!!
👇👇These two almost make me, a lapsed Catholic, want to renounce my heartfelt atheism. Almost...👇 (To support their fight against what often feels like a truly evil force)
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
Someone should give the spoiled brat a lecture in grace. He's such a child, it's incredible. The most damning indictment of humanity that he became president.
The astronauts came across as really decent human beings. The vibe in their televised sessions was so friendly and chilled, it was hard to believe they were doing something so perilous. Meanwhile on earth we had fucking Trump. Can we send him & his team to the moon and put Artemis crew in charge!?
A single line in this piece just made my day:
“The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.”
Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉
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This is very powerful. It's a reminder that leaders bestride the globe and trash it, and everyone else pays the price.
The events of the last few hours, written down in one place, by the great chronicler of the US @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Putin undoubtedly a threat to world peace but can be dealt with by conventional means, ie fight him in a war. Trump is inside the house, wrecking it and ready to turn his military on allies. A bigger threat only potentially reduced by a constitution that very few in US seem to be using.
This is the truest thing and explains about 95% of American politics.
I love that Wikipedia updates this part of astronaut biographies, with the explainer (currently in space). Incredible to think they are nearing the moon. Just as Earth seems to be about to blow...
I'm going with 60-40 odds now. bsky.app/profile/nick...
I’ve read countless articles, from both liberal left and conservative right, about how we should have something like the US constitution, accompanied by warnings of the dangers inherent in our own system.
Yet, when we had two leaders who were unfit for office, we got rid of them.
BBC news misspelling the American president name showing a suitable level of disregard for an office already demeaned by the holder
Loving the BBC subtle digs at the baby in chief, with typo errors...
A week of Sundays, the younger sibling to month of Sundays...
an inspiration for us all. she got out.
When the media says "was meant to explain"..., by who? Trump has always been incoherent, always. The media still often treat him like they would other politicians, as a potentially rational and thinking person. Despite all the evidence, they can't conceive that maybe he's got no idea what he's doing
What I genuinely don't understand is who will have money to pay for these AI tools? Or will it be a world of tech bros trading with tech bros and the rest of us just banging at the palace gates?
The Snooze in Outlook feature as one example of absolutely useless. Doesn't do what it says it will, and you only need to compare to Google to see the difference. If Microsoft cannot get something so basic to work, what the fuck are their engineers doing!?!?
I have been and that's a pretty fair representation. It is a beautiful city in so many ways. Not just physically and architecturally but how people prioritize cycling, how you can move through it, and the canalside culture. Genuinely a real pleasure to visit.
What an absolute fucking disaster the war on Iran is turning out to be. How did we let the world become ruined by an incompetent, arrogant, irrational, fascist leader? If ever there was a rationale for a proper United Nations, and international law, it is clear now that without, the world is fucked.
"[Trump's] got 5,500 nuclear weapons, the second-largest arsenal on the planet at his disposal. We can't be guaranteed that he won't drop one of those bombs on somebody at some point, because he has no moral compunction about it."
And I think time for this again... Maybe add a third reason of hitting the bottom in a huff because he's not winning a war, though really it's still the spoiled brat reason
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Short of introducing proportional representation I'm surprised that there's not been a big push in the #UK & #Canada to at least have preferential voting like in #Australia. It's so much more democratic to list your 2nd, 3rd, 4th preferences etc. It more closely reflects the will of the electorate.
This is an example of why Sinners was, and always will be, the Best Picture of 2026 for me. The music, the creativity, the talent was definitely better than OBAA, as good a film as it was. The Academy often gets it wrong, and it did again last night. Sinners is superb. In every way.
