Two decades ago terrorism was true believers of various sorts. Now we also have terrorism for hire and lone nutters who stitch together a grab-bag of incoherent violent ideologies

Great thread on the terrorism for hire tactic being used by Iran and Russia

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

I see the Greens are opposing (checks notes) solar power now.

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Charging over $100 for a train ride that normally costs under $13.

Is she seriously claiming it that every fan that takes a train to see the Giants or Jets is subsidised $87 by the state?

Nah, this is price gouging

In case you are wondering what part of the cycle we are in....Allbirds, the shoe company has sold its shoes business and is now going into AI Compute Infrastructure

And today is not April 1st.

ir.allbirds.com/news-release...

Orbán’s party is paving the way for contesting votes tonight.

Professor Pongoo walked so he could run
www.heraldscotland.com/news/1305677...

Yes Trump's posts are horrendous but they're also completely incoherent. It's pretty obvious he doesn't know what to do.

In need of a second mention for the Moon? Here are some of our favourites...

🌑 The pale lunar orb
🌒 The crater-strewn rock
🌓 Our dusty grey neighbour
🌔 The tide-changing rock
🌕 The luminous tide botherer

Let us know if you've got any more!

Yes, "Bulgarian pants question" may be more appropriate

The wikipedia page of Pope Nicholas I including the section heading "pants controversy"

Superb papal subsection heading there

Although the illuminated (eastern) part of the waxing crescent moon will always be on the side of the moon facing the setting Sun in the west, regardless of which hemisphere you view it from.

With the exception of a few cases like the Sami it's not really used as a concept in Europe.

Darmok (my toddler son) says: Digger, Car, Tractor

Picard (me): That's how you communicate isn't it, by vehicles

This whole "Crime as a Service" trend is really under-covered – it's widespread across Europe. Enemy intelligence agencies don't need secret agents or embedded saboteurs any more, they just need to find some idiot 16 year olds on a Discord who'll firebomb an ambulance station for pocket money

Italy won the World Cup in 2006, it will now be a minimum of 24 years before their next World Cup knockout phase match

Tourist tip from a local: the former student prison that is part of the uni museum. www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/instituti...

And he needs the hype to get an IPO at $1.5bn, 200x their 2025 profits

House of the Binns - Wikipedia

His family estate is outside Linlithgow where the Dalyells have been a wealthy family since before the Covenanter Wars. One of his ancestors is said to have played cards with the devil there en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_o...

Would 100% watch a game show called Churchill or Owl?

This game appears to be slipping away from Newcastle

Badgers:

✅ Fiercely defend their territory
✅ Never put a country back on the gold standard
✅ Never attacked Gallipoli

You can pick these up in the equivalent of B&Q for a few hundred Euros, Lidl even sell them online.

Worth noting that long term renting is more common in Germany

The UK number 1 when Max Dowman was born was Killing in the Name you are very...

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UW Planetarium Arts - Constelaciones y Supernovas 2026

Exhibition of paintings inspired by @sdssurveys.bsky.social plug plates happening at UW in Seattle next month: uwplanetariumarts.myportfolio.com/constelacion... 👩‍🔬🔭

I would guess that Iraq would take their place as qualifiers with the UAE replacing Iraq in the playoffs.

But don't discount FIFA doing something amazingly corrupt instead

Yes but how is the war performing on LinkedIn?

@secondmentions.bsky.social "the blingy Gulf emirate"

Gangland figures 'arrested in Bahrain' five months after fleeing Dubai Steven Lyons and Ross McGill are reported to have been detained by officers in the Gulf nation alongside an unnamed woman.

See also Bahrain www.bbc.com/news/article...