And just publicly announced an exploitable weakness in the US military to its enemies.

Not like infectious disease was ever an issue in the history of warfare or anything.

Isn't Mahmood 'delegitimising' the concerns of people who disagree with her government's policy? Why should only some groups of voters be classed as valid and real?

Or just learn how conception works, which would be a lot easier.

Incidentally, the shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War, lasted less than an hour.

I think that's the first time I've seen Trump cite actual historical references, so credit at least for that, but not sure 'Vietnam lasted almost twenty years' is the image he wants to be evoking right now.

I've seen recommendations for the US comedy Rooster, set in a university.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Slightly odd that amid all the discussion of links between the film and the Jackson estate, the article doesn't mention that Jaafar Jackson, who plays Michael, is his nephew.

Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution? | George Monbiot The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

It's the opposite of his intention, but the Idiot Emperor is forcing the world off fossil fuels. This week's column.
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Paperback copy of Flame-Coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff. The cover shows a young girl in a cloak, holding a lantern, walking ahead of a man who leans heavily on a stick and a boy wearing a tricorn hat.

#FridayReads Flame-Coloured Taffeta by Rosemary Sutcliff. Working through my Sutcliff backlog (I read her Boudicca novel Song for a Dark Queen earlier this week).

This one is about 18th-century smuggling, not a typical setting for her; a bit 'Rosemary Sutcliff does Leon Garfield'.

Witch attack in the 1896 Méliès film THE HAUNTED CASTLE. The picture was praised for combining comedy with horror rather than relying on just bare chills. Early supernatural horror tended to have comedic elements, with true terror reserved for what we would now consider the suspense genre.

Man converts to a religious denomination in which priesthood and laity have distinct roles and discovers he doesn't like it.

Law to pardon UK women convicted of illegal abortions passes final hurdle in parliament Legislation will expunge convictions and end prosecution of women who terminate their pregnancies Legislation to pardon women who have been convicted of illegal abortions has passed its final parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for a landmark change in the law. The amendment to the crime and policing bill, which will also expunge the police records of those arrested and investigated over illegal abortions, was considered in the House of Lords during a phase of parliamentary ping-pong, where a bill passes back and forth between the Lords and Commons. Continue reading...

Law to pardon UK women convicted of illegal abortions passes final hurdle in parliament

Possible misleading of parliament. (We don't know yet if anyone knowingly did that, but if they did, it's supposed to be a resigning matter.)

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Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right Individuals such as Matt Goodwin and Lord Frost benefited from largesse of self-styled ‘illiberal democracy’

Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right

A hospital inside a ballroom? Is the ballroom a TARDIS in camouflage?

The idea that presidents would need this building for safety (notwithstanding the existing government bunkers) is pretty funny, though. 'That was the four-minute warning! All personnel to the ballroom!'

You have to wonder what some of these posters think that people actually die of, other than of course vaccines and unspecified 'toxins'.

I like how their logo is based on toilet signage.

C'mon, people, at least compose your own false statements.

This just gets worse and worse.

And for what purpose? Were Mandelson's supposed Trump-whispering abilities really that important to the government?

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

The Imagist anthologies (1914-1917, 1930).

I hadn't heard that she had died. Sad news. Will put some Clannad on the record player tonight.

The shoes of a toddler, one of the almost 1500 people who drowned on this date in 1912 when the Titanic sank.
A small thread for a little kid.
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I'm pretty sure we haven't built windmills for a long time. Most of the old ones have been converted into very cool-looking homes and offices.

He was wearing flowing robes and had light coming out of his palm! Quite different from the hospital doctor in scrubs who was also depicted in the image.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault