The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars
• It will be turned into a parody site of itself
• Has the support of the Sandy Hook families
“A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered"
(via Variety)
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran.
Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.
🇮🇷 Iranian protesters violantly attacked by the government
Oh, sorry, wrong video.
🇮🇱 It's the self-described "only democracy in the Middle East" bashing 100s of anti-war protestors chanting slogans against Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the war with Iran
Was the man Bobby Gillespie?
Crazy, sturdy, a torpedo
They should simply fly to the Middle East and fill up there
Woot. Have just preordered!
It was so good not to hear from Jacob Rees-Mogg for the last two years.
1/8
Yesterday I was asked a question live on @lbc.co.uk by @mrjamesob.bsky.social :
What happens if the United States intercepts a Chinese cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz?
At the time, I said I didn’t want to think about it.
Since then, I have.
#Hormuz #MaritimeSecurity
Haven’t heard from my uncle either.
You helped a lot of people help a lot of people
I’ll buy you that drink Fionna
Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks
This is how octopuses actually throw things [🙏🏻]
America destabilises everywhere, that’s what it does. Most of this is nothing new. The only new bit is that they’re destabilising Europe too.
Use Calibre
This is quite the read. Almost everyone in Trump's inner circle, including Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Trump against launching a war on Iran. He did it anyway.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...
The front cover of this week’s Economist shows President Xi in focus smiling at Trump who is in the foreground out of focus ranting. The Economist’s headline read/: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Under the terms of the ceasefire, if an American oil tanker wants to transit the Strait of Hormuz, it must pay $2 million. In Chinese yuan. To Iran.
The United States has crossed the event horizon of political humiliation.
The British version of Donald Trump is Jimmy Savile.
B-52 directly above the photographer with 12 visible cruise missiles on the pylons.
This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things:
- The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only).
- AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery
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![[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreiakufyngycqogzws43gzq5ei2zayvoozx42wmbmyawywxyjqhw2ua)
[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA
Whoa 🤯
The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
Mad Men star Christina Hendricks played a four-hour DJ set, spinning indie, shoegaze, dream pop records including Chromatics, Sky Ferreira, St. Vincent, Broken Bells, Beach House, Warpaint, Cocteau Twins, Mitski, Lana Del Rey, Spiritualized, and more.
A screenshot with a block of text: Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965. Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
One part of this maneuver is the subjective/objective switcheroo: going from recognizing your own inner life (I feel sad) to pretending to have a handle on everyone's life (we are doomed). From vulnerability to authority, on a journey that's also from insight to bullshit.
On the "Trump is funny" thing, I've made this point before but 'funny' is a blanket term that means several things. When people say he's funny, they sometimes mistake that for Trump having a good (or, indeed, any) sense of humour, which is 100% not the case. Trump is funny like a noise or a dog.
I said burgundy when I should have said maroon
