Flu vaccines aren’t about “freedom.” They’re about keeping troops healthy enough to do their jobs.

89 candles would have set off the sprinklers, so we settled for one — and one perfect slice of cake (with @bradtakei.bsky.social on ice cream duty). Thank you to every friend, fan, and fellow traveler who has made these 89 years such a joyous voyage.

I agree, but the UK expected its secrets to remain private. Whole thing a total mess. Which is why Mandelson should never have been considered for the role.

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

The Japanese release changes the title of the song to use a percentage, translating it as "66% is good enough".

Your new motto is the Japanese translation of Meatloaf’s “Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad”

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Reminder that if you're using Google for email, you need to go into settings to turn off their damn Gemini-slop.

The shitheads have it automatically enabled.

From your email:

Settings --> Google Workspace Smart Features -->

Uncheck both boxes and save.

It's probably past time to migrate away.

Monochrome photograph featuring the upper half of a Black woman holding an open umbrella

Dorothea Lange,
Girl with an umbrella,
Louisiana,
1937
#WomensArt

Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders.

Milky Way over the Cuckmere meanders 🤩

Congratulations to Daniel Richards for winning the People's Choice award in our annual astrophotography competition with this impressive photo!

#InternationalDarkSkiesWeek

If Mamdani and Obama singing The Wheels On The Bus with a group of tiny kids doesn't spark some sort of joy in you, I've got nothing for you.

The UN refugee agency has warned of an 'unmarked graveyard for thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees' in South Asia

The UN refugee agency has warned of an 'unmarked graveyard for thousands of desperate Rohingya refugees' in South Asia https://aje.news/o4jtmc

After the latest Mandelson revelations, Starmer needs to get a good lawyer. Wasn’t he supposed to be one? | Jonathan Freedland If only the PM had been the process-obsessed technocrat he was once painted as, this disaster wouldn’t have happened – and he wouldn’t be on the brink, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Keir Starmer was meant to be a dull, managerial lawyer. If only. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Maman is finally free!’: French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, who moved to the US to marry a GI she met in the 1950s, was arrested in her nightgown at their home

"‘Maman is finally free!’: French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Makes sense. I also wondered if it was a deliberate boobytrap tbh but don't know enough about the characters or circs. I agree that I can't see how he can survive this either way, but just wondered about the motivation.

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.

The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If you could have recorded every person in the country who said "WHAAAAAATTTTT?" or "NOOOOOOOOO!" when they heard the news about Mandelson's appointment, it would have been a deafening sound - but still not loud enough to reach Whitehall....

If you step back, it is truly extraordinary that so many people went to such great lengths and broke so many conventions and risked their political careers and the only outcome of all these efforts and risks was appointing a washed-up old spinner to an ambassadorial post

NEW: Yvette Cooper only became aware that Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting when approached by Guardian on Thursday, I’m told.

Foreign sec then spent evening in FCDO and Downing Street with the PM where she spoke to Sir Olly Robbins. They concluded he could no longer continue in post.

Has anyone presented credible theories re why Starmer wouldn't have been told? (assuming that's what happened). I think many negative things of Starmer but wouldn't expect him to lie about this.

I'm truly not sure which is worse. If Keir Starmer was informed and is lying about it or that he is so absent as PM that important decisions are taken for him by officials. At least lying about what he knew, while intolerable, would show there is someone in charge and taking an interest.

Based on information already in the public domain, Mandelson should arguably have failed vetting at the "What's your name?" stage. So it is possible he failed simply on known/prior facts, regardless of the information or misinformation on the forms?

Welcome to the traditional social media graveyard for attempts at subtle humour.

Not going swimmingly for all the families of the dead schoolgirls....

Pete Hegseth is now opening with Quentin Tarantino Where a hitman reciting a prayer before he kills an unarmed man in "righteous" vengeance will influence the war in Iran.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoted a violent and fictional Bible passage nearly word-for-word from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction in his Wednesday night worship service at the Pentagon.

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

A sunset sky with light pink and grey clouds and the branches of a tree silhouetted against it. A dove sits on a post where there is a white fence (and a solar water heater). In the foreground are thick green leaves on a wall.

White-winged Dove enjoying a calm evening in #Kingston
#Jamaica
There has been a bit of a population explosion in the yard recently, clusters of young ones sitting on the wire, looking a little lost sometimes! A very common garden bird, the first to wake you with gentle calls.
#Birds 🪶
#Birdsky

BREAKING: Top foreign office civil servant Sir Olly Robbins is leaving his post.

Understand that Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper have lost confidence in him after he failed to tell PM & No 10 that Peter Mandelson failed security vetting.

Archbishop of Canterbury backs Pope Leo after spat with Trump The leader of the Church of England threw her support behind Pope Leo, urging 85 million Anglicans worldwide to speak out for peace.

Archbishop of Canterbury backs Pope Leo after spat with Trump reut.rs/3Owi72N

Kids at youth club swore they were at school with a kid called Russell Sprout.