🇺🇦🇪🇺 Today, Ukraine is effectively serving as a defensive line for all of Europe, strengthening the European Union’s security even before formal membership.

The fastest way to halt hostilities is to freeze positions along the current line of contact and shift to diplomacy — Volodymyr Zelenskyy

I didn't mean to turn this into a short thread, but once I started ranting ...
So here it is, on one page: skywriter.blue/@georgemonbi...

NEW: Hungary has breached EU law by "adopting a law which stigmatises and marginalises LGBTI+ persons"

European Court of Justice.

Second ECJ ruling against Orbán in a week

Damn right it is.

Roger Stone warns Republican makes Eric Swalwell "look like Mother Theresa" The GOP strategist suggested a “bombshell” report about Representative Cory Mills, a Florida Republican, was forthcoming.

Another case of “looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, must be a duck”, sexual abuse charges seem to be pending. Mills is facing renewed scrutiny over sexual misconduct accusations as similar scandals led Swalwell and Representative Tony Gonzales, to resign. He’s a FL rep and running AGAIN!

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy - Arkeonews Archaeologists in Egypt’s Oxyrhynchus have discovered a Roman-era tomb containing mummies with golden tongues and a rare papyrus

This is just so cool. A Roman-era mummy recently excavated in Egypt contained a fragment of papyrus with a section of the Iliad.

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘April’
Shell Guide to Trees and Shrubs Artist: SR Badmin

Seems like a good solution….

-KASH PATEL: I’m suing The Atlantic for that story.

-FBI STAFF: He must be drunk again.

The AI slopaganda videos on fuel production have come to Australia....check out Leo's thread

When you learned about the Iran hostage crisis, did they teach you this part?

In November 1979, during the crisis, Black hostages and women were released first.

Ruhollah Khomeini said they were oppressed in the United States and not part of the power structure, so they weren’t seen as spies.

#VoteYesVirginia
“It wasn’t going to be a fair fight nationally if you try steel seats in Texas, in N Carolina, and in Missouri…

What were we supposed to do, nothing? Just allow them to try to stack the deck…to steal seats? All we’re trying to do is…make the system as fair as it can possibly be.”

It's incredible that these levels tolerating this level of open corruption.

#holdhimaccountable

Tall, dry grass stems sway in the foreground, sharply in focus against a vast field of bright yellow rapeseed stretching across the landscape. In the distance, Binevenagh Mountain rises along the horizon in Northern Ireland, beneath a deep blue sky dotted with soft white clouds.

Guys the sun is shining and the birds are singing. Time to take my dog his walk. See you all later. Thought you might like to see the field where I took my #BirdOfTheDay capture. So I start here and hike up the mountain in the background. Have a great day. #photography #Ireland #scape #ECK

Republicans have a choice:
 
Help families here at home or cut a blank check for Trump’s warmongering.

Why is the USA incapable of removing an obviously insane and incompetent President?

JUST IN: Judge Amit Mehta (Obama/DC) opens door to deposition of Trump in #Jan6 civil lawsuits. Discovery against Trump on merits of cases could begin in May. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Good morning Wülferhampton , have a taco treats Tuesday. You talented trombone twanglers

This man was featured in a gut wrenching documentary about Israel’s war and genocide in Gaza. He was a good man. No one deserves this. I hope there is a place like hell for all of them.

“a clear “rejoin” message would increase support for parties on the left — Labour, the Greens and the Liberal Democrats — much more than other, more nuanced positions.”
#Brexut disaster. archive.ph/2026.04.21-0...

Reminds me of the World of Pencils which is one of those things that you have to go to when it’s raining in the Lake District.

TRUMP POCKETED $63 MILLION Meant for Presidential Library YouTube video by Jesse Dollemore

Let's see if I understand...

Hillary was gifted a bracelet and congress lost their minds but Trump pockets $63 million and crickets?

Is that about right?

youtu.be/eEvT_0-jUck?...

Shocking.
BBC was such a respected network worldwide when we were young.....

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

If you look at the bus some way behind her, 4 people walk into its front then move to the side! 😂

A driverless bus with incomprehensible destination seems decidedly allegorical…

Then the very “weird” Wishio advertising signage ……

All very “British” and patriotic complete with flag 🙃 🙃 🙃

bsky.app/profile/leoh...

Very convincing 🙃

Looks as if accounts originate in…..wait for it…

Sri Lanka that should definitely be careful what it wishes for given the islands exposure to sea level rises.

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