The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.
The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.
We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.
Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.
If a 600-ton excavator can be converted from diesel to electric, pretty much anything can.
And thanks to Dementia Don and the oil crooks pulling his strings, the world is now - finally - scrambling to break decisively with fossil fuels.
electrek.co/2026/04/18/m...
All right! Starting the Bluesky Pool predicting when Abdulrahman Abohatem is invited to the White House to be honored for his selfless courage in stopping an American sex offender.
I've already taken "Never."
by artist JB Cornish
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
I think it’s time for a change at the top but framing Starmer as a Bond villain?
“007 you need to take out the PM”
“Why?”
“Well he inherited a mess, incorporated breakfast clubs, spent billions on infrastructure
/green energy, improved workers rights etc… he’s just like Blofeld”
Stupidity
Photo of a young girl on a solid background. She can be seen from the waist up. The girl is wearing a dress with buff short sleeves. Her hair is neatly styled - the curls fall to the right side of her head and almost reach her shoulders. She is smiling tightly, exposing her upper teeth.
18 April 1932 | A Czech Jewish girl, Doris Kindlerová, was born in Prague.
In #Theresienstadt Ghetto from 17 December 1942.
Deported to #Auschwitz on 18 May 1944. Registered in the Theresienstadt family camp in Birkenau. She did not survive.
It began with coal and steel. But from the very start, our Union was always meant to be much more.
75 years ago, in Paris, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Europe chose a different path.
One of unity over division, of peace over war.
Dad was a union convenor. Pragmatic, fair & largely successful. Over Sunday dinner he would explain how capitalism works, & where it doesn't. He was balanced, but always a labour voter. He'd argue with his Tory dad.
Now he sits in front of the telly all day, and spouts YouTube bollocks as fact.
Shoebills are unfortunately not doing too well in the wild. It has been estimated that there are only between 3,300 - 5,300 adult shoebills left in the world according to IUCN. This is due to wars, habitat loss, poaching and capture for the illegal pet trade.
TT: birdkeeperkirsty_
Photo: Under water, statues of six men kneel on the ocean floor, their heads buried in the sand, briefcases by their sides, and their buttocks pointing skyward. Source: www.boredpanda.com
The Bankers, an art installation in Musa, Mexico.
They've been lending money to the O&G industry and making huge profits for decades, all the while knowing
full well that climate change is killing our biosphere.
📸 Jason deCaires Taylor
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
I love the way it gets two in its beak first.
This Day in Labor History: April 17, 1905. The evil, vile, terrible, no good Supreme Court outdoes itself by issuing Lochner v. New York, saying laws stopping employers from forcing workers to labor as long as they demand are unconstitutional. Let's talk about Neil Gorsuch's favorite case!!!
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car
This week's post: Orbán, Trump and the International Right Wing Populist Movement mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/04/orba...
While Trump's image is now a problem for right wing populists in Europe, the impacts of Trump's decisions over Iran are likely to help these populists gain power.
White dendrobium grows naturally in a soursop trunk. There's a couple white inflorescence in a stem of the bulb, while some other the bulb of the orchid have wilted.
My hand holding a couple stem with many inflorescences of the white derobium.
"Maybe I'd get less stressed If I was tested less like all of these d̶̶e̶̶b̶̶u̶̶t̶̶a̶̶n̶̶t̶̶e̶̶s̶." dendrobium.
The U.K. has pledged to supply Ukraine with over 120,000 drones by the end of 2026.
The U.K. Defense Ministry announced its "biggest ever drone package for Ukraine," including "thousands of long-range strike drones, intelligence and reconnaissance drones, logistics drones & maritime capabilities."
And also helps to keep undermining the authority anyone associated with Orban government until it’s formally replaced.
Looks to me Magyar deterring Salyok having, say, Orban replace him as President. Wording from Magyar statement that Salyok should resign AFTER new government is formed:
Magyar stated “the decision of the Hungarian people, Tamás Sulyok must step down from office after the new government is formed”
Today, Israeli forces fired teargas at Palestinian schoolchildren who staged a sit-in in the occupied West Bank after settlers blocked access to their school.
It’s the first day of class since the start of the Iran war.
This is life for Palestinian children. The world does nothing.
A couple shots of this Barred Owlet pair. These were from around 2 weeks old. The 3rd shot and video were funny as the one just rested its wing on the sibling and the sibling just sat there calmly snoozing.🪶🦉
I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.
This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.
