Not really sure what's happening regarding the Mandelson thing. All sides appear to be claiming vindication and that it is proven the other side are rotters, so at least everyone seems happy.

Eh, it is Tuesday, which is Deal Day. We'll see if it survives the week even so.

Technically Ireland is "third world", ie non-aligned with "first world" (US et al) or the never-mentioned "second world" (USSR et al) during the Cold War. It's a nonsense term in 2026.

Or the Armenian Christian quarter.

I get why the Christian churches in Gaza would be targeted - they're inconvenient and lead to questions like "but we were told the evil muslims would never allow christians in Gaza", so destroy the evidence. The Armenian quarter in Jerusalem is harder to deny.

I'm bewildered that even when Israel isn't saying it's AI, others still will. Like...why?

Seems unlikely unless everyone there including Robbins is in one falsifying his testimony and if Robbins is in on it, he could just say what the gov wants him to say from the start and not be bothering to mess around with AI.

Oh the offense you have wrought in this cat. Jail for at least one hundred years.

(I actually have a lot of sympathy for ordinary Americans in this. But not because they're modelling proper civility to the world the US is bombing, invading and threatening.)

"Uncivilised" South Korea should take notes, deposing their dictator in such a rude fashion.

Pity about the thousands of mere foreigners who must be sacrificed to US bombs & invasions in the meantime, but tf that's not "ancient barbarism" as they're only foreigners anyway.

Looking this up, this does not appear to be true. The only countries the US puts "billions" into are Israel and Ukraine.

Last fully reported year was 2024, $7.5m.

Overall military budget same year was $997b.

Stupid pair. And now a young lad with a life ahead of him is dead due to stupid choices and - quite possibly - the coddling of privilege. 🙄

And nothing of value would be lost.

Zero respect for the man anyway, but somehow went into negative numbers when he argued in court that he was torturing those families for the lulz & money. I could more understand actual irrationality and some sort of belief system.

Apparently so! Although I tend to look askance at mention of the culprit's relationship to some sort of sportsball when it gets prominant placing in the text too. (Although it tends to be more direct than grandbrat of sportsball guy.)

It'd also be very strange to report it as "person dies in [whatever victim was doing when got chainsawed] accident". The vehicle/chainsaw seems more relevent to the equation than the victim's occupation at the time.

It's possible the beautiful singing translated as something like "oy, ratbag! Do you know how smoky it is in 'ere? I damn near suffocated, I did, you lousy excuse for a cook!"

The blackbirds are vaguely cockney for some reason.

How rude.

I tend to think hoping earth gets hit by an asteroid when stupid-evil happens is a tad much - but an awful lot of people would improve the world by being hit by very precise asteroid fragments.

I have to admit, I'd be uncertain if it was the lady or the brassica up for the date from that picture.

That's a noble cabbage though.

I'd say that was only tried the once given the size of the oven the baker'd need. Even with blackbirds, the pie'd be pretty huge. Probably insufficient heat transfer, hence the birds still singing by the end of it.

Oh that's horrible. I'd assume it made some guess at "appropriate text" from angel 🙄 Although given how that gets used on FB, that could lead to some very awkward posts.

Honestly, fair. A cruise ship of pensioners wouldn't be worth the headache of anything but letting it through.

Daft lot. Oh well, keeping him out of mischief for a bit at least.

They could stand to be more imaginative about it at the very least. Some creativity.

Plus it removes Burkes from general circulation, so I see no downside here really.

Is that mad fecker still parked up by the school? I've rather lost track.

The first and most important step when using an oven is to preheat all the pans you store in there to 425.

Me normally: one very frustrating thing about being on the left is that a huge chunk of the movement is obsessed with defending the abusive, repressive monster that was the Soviet Union

Me after reading this article: gulag gulag GULAG FOR THIS FUCKER FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS

Gulag, but he also gets charged rent.

Honest to god, the absolute shitshow that is renting in this country. And the absolute shits on show renting them out.

It's nicely-flavoured sugar tbf.

Arson attack that resulted in a getaway on a tandem bike.

I'm not saying it'd be a *good* action movie.

THREE RUSSIAN OIL REFINERIES ARE BURNING AS FEW HAVE BEFORE

The Tuapse plant near the Black Sea has been set on fire after multiple drone strikes. The scene looked hellish last night. The skies were black above as vast swathes of flames burnt their way across what seemed to be the entire horizon.