That is a sentence I honestly never expected to read- none of it was predictable at any point

Trump told you he’d run America like a business.

He is.

It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag.

Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

Fantastic news from Ukraine, but the implications will roll far beyond the foreseeable and obvious

🇺🇦 News coming in that clearing a €90bn EU loan to #Ukraine has now been unlocked. Hungary dropped its opposition.

Confirmed by Swedish EU delegation.

Some of that aid is planned to be used on #Gripen E.

😀

Very rare to hear criticism of dictator Putin in the rubberstamp Russian parliament, the Duma. The person speaking is Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, so he's being hyperbolic in referring to 1917, but the strains of Putin's war are starting to show in fascist Russia.

Well. I couldn't read all of that, but it is very disturbing.

No one will ever trust us or help us again.

Probably just as well he's devastating the CIA. They can't do their jobs like this.

“The innocent have nothing to fear” is a Goebbels line.

A genuinely bad sign

Astonishingly UK gov has awarded 34 contracts worth £900m to US-based Palantir, including a 7-year £330m contract to handle NHS patient data. There are major concerns about this, given Palantir’s links to the CIA, its contracts with the IDF, and its co-founder Peter Thiel being a major Trump donor.

Read this and be glad you’re not Russian

As a white liberal that’s voted Labour 3 times to stop this kind of performative nationalist self-harm-as-policy, it’s not us that can “fuck right off”. It’s her.

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

What Starmer didn’t do.

Really want to see the Venn diagram of AI believers and antivaxxers

Don’t fully disagree, but here in the UK we have not had any electoral choices which permitted us to choose a more active role

Men only want one thing, and it’s disgusting

We need to drastically change how we handle treason in Europe.

Right now, politicians and influencers freely push Russian interests with zero consequences.

Promoting the agenda of a foreign enemy should be a crime that ends careers and leads straight to prison

Most mornings I am glad to only have UK Bluesky before the Americans wake up.

Given the howling today, I am, for the first time, looking forward to America logging on

Chart showing fall in GDP per person caused by Brexit

The economic damage caused by Brexit may be almost double the 4% impact assumed by the OBR, the Resolution Foundation has revealed.

Also see; UK and Reform.

It’s all so cruel and tedious

That’s literally the point of the GOP plan to remove birthright citizenship. They want a docile underclass with no rights that is beholden to an employer and can’t leave.

Probably the single most important energy policy any country can make- and I’m only seeing threads and sub stack articles about it:

a man in captain america 's uniform says i understood that reference ALT: a man in captain america 's uniform says i understood that reference

It’s been a while, but

EE 2.2 Consious Uncoupling Breaking the link between gas and electricity is easier than you think

This is a good read by @samalvis.bsky.social, and this is basically what I think on the whole “decoupling gas and electricity prices” thing.

The first best answer is “build more renewables and flex”, and we’re making a lot of progress on that

It is likely that Trump's Iran catastrophe will lead to some kind of compensation for all the countries the US has screwed (which is all of them). We would do well now to lay groundwork for seizing assets of the Palantirs and Musk fortune that enabled Trump's rise and invasion.

Someone’s making money out of this misery

Watching “Watchmen”. Dr Manhattan is probably autistic (and everyone should be grateful)

No Cards, huh?

Imagine selling these to Gulf states. Autonomous drone defences