The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.

Apparently like every day.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

As long as his doctors certify him fit I don't think there's any recourse, I presume that's where the system is breaking down.

I miss having an inteligent US President. #usa #barakobama #trump

OMG Mind Blown!

ICE wanted to build a detention centre - this small farming town said no Residents say they support the administration's immigration agenda - but not its plans to build a detention centre in their backyard.

The extreme selfishness of these people is stunning. #ice #usa www.bbc.com/news/article...

Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.

A different perspective.
Always helpful.

Hope your Good Friday went better than Jesus’s did.

Greetings from Kyiv.

Let’s cross the Dnipro River on the metro with me.
I filmed just a bit of the ride.

Thick grey clouds merge with the water.

🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught by an underwater robot during an expedition off the Phoenix Islands.

You may have heard of Zaporizhzhia as a city under frequent attacks.

But even this city is more than the war.

Olha Hrechukha creates dolls.
She founded her own doll gallery in Zaporizhzhia.

Yesterday, I saw one of her dolls.

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

🤎 Happy lazy #Caturday 🤣🤭

Truly scary

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

So I’ve lost access to my 2factot this post is trying to fix the problem, please ignore [495701-cold-spring-morning]

“Fall in love, O dark-browed maidens,
But not with muscovites,
For muscovites are strangers,
They will do you harm.”

🇺🇦 Taras Shevchenko, from the poem Kateryna (1838)

Today we mark the 212th anniversary of his birth — one of the greatest voices of Ukrainian culture.

Love it

Star Trek has always been about exploring the human condition while also having some fun, thought provoking, and weird sci-fi concepts.

Getting tired of media illiterate chuds and fake fans trying to convince you it was only about the cool spaceships.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Find your spine Mr Merz for crying out loud. #germany #usa #trump #friedrichmerz

Holy! I come back from a weekend away and Israel and the US have assassinated a world leader and are doing their best to start WWIII! #iran #usa #israel #war

Help on way for people in electricity arrears - Tánaiste Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Simon Harris has said help is on the way for the 320,000 people in arrears on their electricity bills.

Maybe FFG need to target the energy companies that are making obscene profits instead of shielding them from the rightful ire of their customers. #electricireland #ireland www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

I'm sure we'll be seeing Melania deposed shortly, after all she actually knew Epstein personally. #hilaryclinton #epsteinfiles #melaniatrump

Israel committed two-thirds of press killings in 2025 A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said, blaming Israel for two-thirds of the deaths.

When is the Western world going to stop covering for this state? #gaza #israel #warcrimes www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Fingers crossed, the people of Ukraine are heroic. #ukraine #russia

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Guinea-Bissau: Planned US-funded baby vaccine trial blasted by WHO Giving some newborns in Guinea-Bissau an established hepatitis B treatment but not others is "unethical", it says.

When you think the US can't possibly sink any lower #holdmybeer #who #vaccines #newguinea www.bbc.com/news/article...