Russia destroys mass graves near Mariupol, satellite images suggest The site was used to bury residents who died during the Russian siege of the city in 2022, according to Ukraine’s Center for the Study of Occupation.

⚡ Russia destroys mass graves near Mariupol, satellite images suggest.

The site was used to bury residents who died during the Russian siege of the city in 2022, according to Ukraine’s Center for the Study of Occupation.

kyivindependent.com/russia-destr...

🇰🇵🤔 A bridge has been built for Russians in the DPRK.

The connection of the spans of the road bridge across Tumannaya River, connecting the two countries, has been completed on the border between Russia and North Korea.

Two black and white bunnies sit closely on a patch of green moss outside.

Miliband doubles down on net zero - Energy Live News Labour to announce breaking the link between gas and electricity prices and more renewables push

Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”

If I were a betting man I'd guess some new borderline tyrannical criminal probe against some enemy of the regime or other. But as I don't have inside information, I don't bet on prediction markets.

Trump still cannot agree the conditions of this unconditional surrender.

Good thread on the Welsh polling: Plaid Cymru and Reform are 29% and 29% in vote share, with a fortnight to go. There is a significant chance that Reform being neck and neck in the polls boosts Plaid significantly in the final campaign stretch.

My view on the Briefing Room 5 weeks ago was:
If the Strait reopens in the next week, we have economic disruption but it’s manageable.
Closed for another 4-8 weeks & we have high energy prices throughout the year.
Closed for few months & all bets are off and we’re in a really grim economic world.

Chelsea, you are an absolute horror show.

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Iran has so far sent no delegation at any level to Islamabad for talks - Tehran Times.

Well done Eurail for putting my passport number on the dark web. Great news.

Cardiff City fined over homophobic chanting Cardiff have been fined £15,000 and issued with a formal warning over homophobic chanting during their Carabao Cup tie against Chelsea in December. The chanting occurred in the second minute of the ma...

Cardiff have been fined £15,000 and issued with a formal warning over homophobic chanting during their Carabao Cup tie against Chelsea in December

High Court legal threat if South Bristol's tallest building approved "My clients consider that each gives rise to a potential ground for judicial review"

Bristol's planning committee cllrs have been warned they risk a £1m legal bill if they refuse it, or a High Court judicial review if they approve it.
Read the full story here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

“I miss the days when students used to borrow actual books from the university library” 🙄

If you want some proof of the kindness of human beings, go to a blood donation centre. Mine is always heaving.

Oh God…

EU Transport Commissioner: Without the return of permanent freedom of navigation through Hormuz, consequences will be "catastrophic" for Europe and the world

Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

Social media fine print may limit users’ right to su​e Terms and conditions documents are becoming harder to read and sometimes waive a user’s right to sue the platform in court, according to a new analysis.

Terms and conditions documents are becoming harder to read and sometimes waive a user’s right to sue the platform in court, according to a new analysis.

Listening to some We Have Ways podcasts about Normandy and never heard the word "bocage" used so much.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

A total ban on phones in schools is a completely batshit, over the top, policy which shows, yet again, how out of touch Labour is with the reality of many people's lives. This will be totally unworkable for many people, including young carers as mentioned below. #r4today
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I mean it’s the obvious question and it’s unanswerable. US security guarantees obviously count for shit.

Britain sidelined in talks on Carney-backed defense bank The U.K. Treasury has expressed little enthusiasm for an initiative to provide lower cost loans to finance the armed forces.

Further evidence of a lack of deep thinking in government about the reality of the world. Or even waist-high thinking.

www.politico.eu/article/keir...

U.S. Military Strikes a Boat in the Caribbean, Killing 3

Because so much gets lost as yesterday's news, it's important to note we're still attacking and killing people on boats in the Caribbean. Estimated death toll now up to 180.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

Trump: I am under no pressure whatsoever to make an Iran deal.

speeches....The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs-and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst and Blackett's edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can't win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees tum upon some such theme.

From Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf