Well at least Gemini came clean.

The worst person in your extended family WhatsApp group is in charge of the most powerful military force in the history of the world.

Met apologises to Commons speaker for sharing tip-off with Mandelson’s lawyers Exclusive: Lindsay Hoyle told MPs he had shared information ex-US ambassador planned to flee UK with police ‘in good faith’

Are all institutions of the British state just thoroughly inept now? 🤷

one thing about the post-Soviet ideological hangover is it obscures that there is a tradition of liberalism-socialism compromise, namely Nordic social democracy, that has a better record than any other society

I have got over myself and am now quite excited. But one way London has got worse in my lifetime is: not enough stuff can afford to stay open past 23:00.

Took some video as well to capture the ethereal magic.

🌈 Double rainbow fully visible over #Brixton. A rare highlight of the perpetual rain of 2026.

The DS9 one is kind of like a boilersuit, so I think the intention was for it to be worn when you need to get your hands dirty, like on an abandoned Cardassian ore refinery.

‘Generations’, and later ‘Voyager’, ruined that by making it just the ‘new’ uniform.

Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll? Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters

We’re not talking enough about what’s happening in Iran.

For obvious reasons (the regime’s oppressive police state), numbers are difficult to verify, but protestor deaths are in the tens of thousands at least, from just a matter of days.

I do wonder if a lot of it is just that bloody hell, some people are really easily led and default to a crowd with a total absence of critical thinking. Which is very depressing.

Gonna need a 45-minute Vergecast meditation from @reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz on what constitutes providing the foundation of a foundation...
www.theverge.com/news/860521/...

Leaving the regime in place and forcing them to become a puppet government, or else. What could go wrong?

We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...

This was one of Trump's very worst moments. And that is saying something.

Cowardice. Short-term managerialism. Myopia. Take your pick.

big, multicultural cities - they're good!

Tells us something about the increasingly expressive and affective character of contemporary politics – quite far from a cool calculation of economic self-interest.

We've been adopting US-style polarisation – where the poorest states vote consistently against redistributive policies – since before the EU referendum.

Giving the Peace Prize to a Venezuelan democracy campaigner is ice cold under these circumstances.

Is Brendan Carr going to threaten the Nobel Committee now?

Called this after the strikes (read: summary executions) on Venezuelan boats in international waters started.

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Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

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Ah yes, fixing the crippling housing supply problem by...

*reads teleprompter*

...further increasing demand!

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

Challenge: How do we convince left-libertarians who fear ID cards are the tool of a police state?

Solution: We'll make it about cracking down on immigrant communities, like the ones in their constituencies, and give it a nationalistic brand name.

Unfuckingbelievable level of brain genius in No10.

What Do We Have To Lose If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.

"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details. You stamp it into a million pieces! You draw a f*cking line!"

If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him?

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas, with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

It’s always ‘we don’t have a problem with *legal* migrants’, right before targeting legal migrants.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's just all so ceaselessly bleak.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be too surprised if the Trump administration did a missile strike on US soil before the 2028 election.

Perhaps in a suburban building in a blue city (Seattle or Portland?), where they say a ‘Hamas-sympathising antifa cell’ was planning an attack, or something.