CfD stockmarket chart for US WTI Crude oil swings violently on Trump TACO Tuesday announcement.

Ya think?
US WTI Crude Oil +4.2% and then -4.7% in a 38 minute whipsaw.

Trump: Whelp, my work here today is done. Time to hit the golf course with my buddies and order some gold ballroom accessories.

Just reposting this to point out that Trump has ticked all the boxes.

In the words of Emperor Palpatine, "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen".

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

I'm not even a Christian and I'm disgusted and dismayed.

I'm not surprised though. That's the scary thing. This is the new "normal" for American leadership.

Santander bank mobile app screenshot: Income: We need you to tell us about all regular amounts of money going into your Santander account(s). Select income source [list]. Monthly income amount [amount]. Is this income from the UK? [y/n]. Add this income. Continue"

Screenshot from Santander mobile banking app: List of income sources: Employment Income, Self-Employment and Business Income, Investment Income, Rental and Property Income, Benefits and State Support, Other Income Sources, Online and Digital Income"

For online donations, I don't know which countries they came from. Am I now supposed to go ask the person who donated £1 to me where they live and show ID to prove it?

This is colossal overreach disguised as "protection" (as usual).

And yes, I already declare all this to HMRC and pay tax on it.

Mobile app screenshots from Santander Bank. "Confirm your details. Under UK law, we need to make sure we have your correct details. We need you to confirm the information we hold for you is correct. We might restrict Mobile Banking acces if you do not do this."

Mobile app screenshots from Santander Bank. "UK law requires us to make sure we have complete regular customer checks. These checks are called 'Know Your Customer'. The checks include taking steps to keep customer details up to date. What information do I need? You might need to upload prrod of ID and address. All documents must be in English. For andy that have been translated, please alos provide a copy of the original. Employment details. Account activity (e.g. what you pay in each month and where it comes from). If you pay tax in non-UK countries, you will need your tax identification numbers where applicable. You'll also need your National Insurance number."

Mobile app screenshots from Santander Bank. "...If we don't receive your update, we'll restrict access to your digital banking. This might mean you'll be unable to manage your account(s) through the Mobile Banking app."

Santander UK threatens to disable mobile banking unless I hand over ALL info about my earnings. Not just who and why but where in the world they're from.

KYC is creeping. They want to know EVERYTHING about you or you get de-banked. Threatening the mobile app today but seizing everything tomorrow.

Seriously. What IS it with all these AI old guy "Chair tai chi workout" video ads on YouTube?

Sure, you could divert all that social health and welfare budget to building up the military. The deaths from poverty would just be "colateral damage" in a war that hasn't happened.

If you drive your population into destitution, exactly what "way of life" are you fighting to protect?

People who think "It's just Trump" are mistaken.
If 40% support him after all he's done when he's such an open liar and is regularly exposed as such, then that makes the US a rogue state and a world security risk far greater than China, Russia or North Korea.

Evidently, the JD stands for Just Don't.

a dense forest with lots of trees and plants ALT: a dense forest with lots of trees and plants

Nods sagely.
Training for landing in the game zone on the planet of the Predators.

The High Court’s judgment in the Palestine Action case The High Court has ruled that the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 was unlawful, holding that the decision contravenes the government’s own policy on…

No quashing order was made on the proscription so the ban on civil protesting remains in force. This is because the Gov't appealed the High Court judgement and may take it to the Supreme Court.

publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/02/13/t...

The proscription was judged unlawful but only in the context that the Home Secretary did not (in the High Court's judgement) apply her own proportionality test correctly to the decision to proscribe.

Yumi and Sily Oak duel with rappers.

Had a lot of fun in a fencing world in #VRChat last night!

NHK World confirms Japan has perfected a process to extract high purity lithium from dead batteries with a 90 percent recovery rate. Great

It was always going to happen when the batteries reached a critical mass. When you dig up ore you have to refine it and what you're refining is measured in parts per million. Used batteries are the mother lode of raw materials.

Lead acid batteries have been >99% reclaimed material for decades.

Fun fact: Black cab drivers are allowed to piss in public if they pee on their own car.

£300 for pissing in public? Spending a penny really has suffered from inflation.

I remember being at Lewes for fireworks night and needing a piss. Nowhere was open. No public toilets. I asked a police officer where there was somewhere and they said, "Just do it in the bushes over there" 😂

As it's Moon shot week...
'The Righteous Stuff'

Looks scary. Like 'invasion of the body protectors' scary.

Can you clarify whether the streams are illegal or the sports?

Youtubers like 'Vegetable Police' making videos like 'Artemis II: How NASA Faked Going to the Moon Again'.

I give up. The flat Earth cabbage patch kids can't be saved.

The Artemis 2 fly-by of the far side of the Moon. One of the most incredible feats of human engineering... and Nutella 😂

The viceral image of space marines being dunked head first into a cracked open boiled egg... and then brutally devoured. I can never unsee it now.

Also... they should have made an Easter Egg with a Kinder Surprise in it.

Knowing that would seem to present an opportunity to make money, trading on the 2 minute...

What a photo!

To think that I was just 3 years old when in 1972 humans went to the Moon for the last time and in 1975, 6 year old me watched Gerry Anderson's 'Space 1999' in awe of a future where we had a moonbase.

I pray for the safety of the mission 🙏

Yumi on stage in VRChat with a mic, singing.

Karaoke night!
It was a Very Good Friday.

Trump when he realises that only 'Yes Men' will do when things are this bad. Women are more likely to say "No" to him in any given situation.

I've been through the comments and I can't believe I'm the only one to not have dredged up this ancient joke:

"I wouldn't like it on the Moon... There's no atmosphere" Ba'dum tish.

I don't think it's a Brexit thing. 38 years ago at uni I met a student who had never been more than 5 miles out of town his whole life.

We went on a coach trip to the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Oxfordshire and as far as he was concerned we might as well have been going on a daytrip to the Moon.