A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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The global wave of energy rationing [FREE TO READ] Governments from Bangladesh to Zambia impose measures to cut fuel demand as Middle East conflict cuts off flows

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

🛢️ Record-breaking oil

Brent crude hit $118 a barrel on Tuesday, on course for its biggest monthly gain in data going back to 1988

Who would've predicted this...

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Hmmmmmmmmm. www.ft.com/content/1171...

Line chart of central bank sentiment score showing the BoE's language has shifted sharply negative this week

Heatmap of mentions of energy prices in central bank announcements and decisions showing the energy shock loomed large in central bank messaging

The Bank of England’s hawkish pivot in language has rattled markets. @financialtimes.com analysis shows it was the largest shift of any major central bank, raising questions about whether it misjudged its tone

Lots of number crunching from me and @joelsuss.ft.com here:
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The Bank of England was a real outlier with its comms this week, far more hawkish than peers

Language analysis shows a sharp shift in tone from the UK central bank this week

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The English roads at risk of being underwater [FREE TO READ] FT analysis reveals large swaths of vital infrastructure are vulnerable to flooding

This was such an amazing project to work on, it really pushed me to the limits of what I can do with mapping tools

The ‘number station’ sending mystery messages to Iran Radio station is broadcasting apparent coded messages in Farsi, echoing the cold war

Ghostly Farsi-speaking broadcasts “have been sent out regularly over long-distance short wave radio from a transmitter somewhere in western Europe since the hours after the first US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28...” www.ft.com/content/86c4...

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The US pulled the trigger, but emerging markets absorbed the shock

Middle East war pushed investors to the dollar -- strongest week since July 2025. A surging greenback means weaker EM currencies, higher debt costs & capital flight

EM stocks down 6.9%, the sector's worst week in almost 6 years

Map of Tehran showing location of strikes by Israel adn the US since Feb 28

Satellite image showing building damage to Valiasr Barracks in Tehran

Satellite image showing building damage to the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran

NEW: Maps and satellite image analysis and videos reveal extent of the damage US and Israel's airstrikes have had on Tehran. Great team effort with @theboysmithy.ft.com and Dan Clark

Read @jacobjudah.bsky.social's report
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How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation Modified images of strikes circulate as fighting intensifies across the Middle East

How AI fakes are turning satellite images into war misinformation ft.trib.al/gemBmLZ

Sankey diagram of crude oil transported through the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia is top source of 5.3mn barrels per day, China is top destination with 5.4mn barrels per day

Indeed - but we have now updated the Sankey...

The escalating Mideast conflict — in charts Since the US and Israel struck Iran, thousands of missiles and drones have been launched across the region

The escalating Mideast conflict — in charts ft.trib.al/Xqh4k9c

Great illustrations here by @financialtimes.com on how much more willing to use military force Trump has become in his second term - and that most of these military interventions are actually outside of the 'western Hemisphere':

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Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.

Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
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🇮🇷 Srikes on Iran by the US and Israel could send oil towards $80-$100 a barrel, analysts say

The military action may send global oil prices towards $100 a barrel “if the conflict is prolonged”, said William Jackson, chief EM economist at Capital Economics

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'A really fascinating place': British media giant basing multi-year political series in Bethlehem What's a British media mainstay to do when it needs to find a U.S. city that has sway in a political swing state?

@derekbrower.bsky.social explains why the @financialtimes.com is delving into the economy and politics of Bethlehem PA www.wfmz.com/news/area/le...

That 1879 Sheffield by-election, incidentally, was the triumph of my old friend Samuel Danks Waddy, the MP with the most carefully-enunciated name of the late Victorian period and possibly of any era.

The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition

What an incredibly cool FT article and WWI story!

The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders (🎁🔗)

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Can AI liberate us from the tyranny of email? New tools automating inbox management could ease a loathed productivity burden. But do they work?

I wrote about the proliferation of AI tools promising to finally sort out our inboxes — will they give us back hours a week or accelerate a broken system? 🤖📧

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A terrifying glimpse into our dystopian future.

The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders The extraordinary story of when, two months into the bloody Great War, the newspaper launched an unusual competition

This is such a fascinating piece about a deeply surreal bit of history: the competition the FT ran *in 1914* inviting readers to speculate about what the map of Europe would look like after the First World War was over:

Similar vibes to the reader in California who inadvertently stuck an XR version of the Phillips machine to the ceiling of his condo and couldn't get it down

As reader support tasks go, explaining how a word from the latin quote in your article has been audio-typo'ed as "Eastern Standard Time" feels peak FT...

This piece is terrific, combining the best of narrative and visual storytelling

Hopefully nothing quite as deadly! 🤞

A photo of an elegant grade-II listed tomb in West Norwood cemetery

A 1914 competition map: Changing the map of Europe

8 years ago, at the British Library, I first saw this map: an FT reader competition to predict the boundaries of Europe after WW1. I made a note to find out more one day - which ultimately led me last month to this tomb in West Norwood cemetery. You can read more here: www.ft.com/content/79a4...

Unhedged chart of the week: the very vertical Beveridge curve -- can it last? @hakyungkim.bsky.social
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A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more

Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...