ladies and gentlemen, the manosphere.

ffs

Woke up, opened MarineTraffic, what a sight. Finally some good news.

The Islamabad Talks were so successful that USA is now joining Iran in blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump is mad that Iran is making money. In his mind, if anyone else makes money, he's losing.

I've highlighted the bits from Trump's utterly unhinged rant that shows how he is treated the US armed forces as his personal vendetta machine.

Budapest ❤️

This is rightly worrying Japan and India

www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/inte...

As arms agreements fray, China secretly expands its nuclear weapons infrastructure | CNN When three villagers from China’s Sichuan province wrote to local officials in 2022 asking why the government was confiscating their land and evicting them from their homes, they received a terse reply: It was a “state secret.”

While we're all focused on Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, and Ukraine

China is significantly expanding its nuclear capability ...

Iranians abroad are a strange species. I get that they're enthusiastic the Ayatollah has been removed, but they're also cheering on the war on their home country that the military-industrial complex is waging and literally want the crown prince to be their king. So utterly stupid.

"reigns of monarchs" are the British equivalent of "number of football fields" in the US

NASA just be messing with the conspiracists now

should've made this ten years ago tbh

hear me out: an online service where people pay £5 a month to show political ads to their parents/grandparents so they don't drift so much to the right

This represents 1.5 billion people who are still on the bottom rung when it comes to per capita emissions.

For India's carbon emissions to decelerate so rapidly means a HUGE future risk is being removed. This is very significant & positive signal for climate change mitigation efforts worldwide.

To use a weapon with such devastating capability on a publicly identifiable sports hall used by children is a war crime.

New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

On the same day as the bombing of the girls' school in Minab that killed over 100 children, the US used a newly-developed missile to bomb another school & sports hall.

This missile detonates above the target, shooting out tiny tungsten pellets designed to cause maximum human damage.

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He took Pelosi’s lectern on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for office. Adam Johnson has rarely voted and embraces his role as clown prince of Jan. 6. Floridians will decide whether a man who tried to upend democracy can help lead one.

You can't tell me America isn't a joke country

Now is the time for Privy Council to be scrapped: Republic

Those are not minutes and privy council actions are not scrutinised.

"That's not what the Privy council does."

Okay, show me the minutes of their meetings.

4. Look at island tax havens around the world and ask why so many are British and under the monarch's authority, How many trillions are parked there?
5. Why, if the King has no authority or power, do billionaires and heads of states from around the world gush over him so madly

If you think he's just a figurehead, ask:
1. Why there is a privy council, and given it reviews bills before they hit parliament, why the minutes of these meetings are not public
2. Why parliament cannot pass a law that harms the King or the royal family's interests
3. Read up King's/Queen's Consent

People on the march today in Canada, Australia, and London, calling it No Tyrants instead of No Kings

"He's just a figurehead"

Oh yeah? Then you're either ignorant or just hypocrites.

Israel, USA and Argentina voted against.

The UK and EU abstained citing legal reasons (tldr: they dont want to ever pay reparations)

The rest of the world voted a strong Yes and agreed that enslavement and trafficking of Africans was the gravest crime against humanity ever committed.

Middle East conflict will damage UK’s economy ‘more than any other’ Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says UK economy will grow by just 0.7% this year

The Guardian: "Illustrating the UK’s dependence on international trade and imports of fuel, the OECD said it had downgraded the UK’s growth in 2026 because it was likely to suffer higher inflation than previously expected."

OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report March 2026 The conflict in the Middle East is testing the resilience of the global economy that was being driven by supportive financial and fiscal conditions and increasing demand for artificial intelligence te...

New OECD report on economic outlook.

The UK will suffer the most, now only 0.7% growth est for 2026.

The absolute hit in $ terms is bigger for the rest of the world. In summary, Trump's tariffs and wars will cost us at least $1 trillion, that's around $120 for every person on this planet.

How the Iran war brought India’s kitchens into the line of fire | The National Around 90% of India’s liquefied petroleum gas – used in cooking – passes through the Strait of Hormuz

For those interested in more context, this is a good summary

Joffrey.

Much of India is struggling with cooking gas at the moment. A billion people at risk of starvation.

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I'd love to have a coffee to discuss this. I'm in London but happy to Zoom or travel to wherever in the UK you'd like to meet.

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I can fix this.