What's extraordinary is that this doesn't attract a content warning from Bluesky's zealous censors.

In, Twist, Out, as they say in bayonet drill.

In, Twist, Out, as they say in bayonet drill.

Though the second may increase the risk of the first.

Loch Arkaig just now

Votes at 16, anyone?

The answer to the jet fuel shortage is staring us in the face

I struggle to believe that the companies whose products are listed here are not paying Apple for visibility. That would go against everything we know about the internet.

bsky.app/profile/marc...

Nothing signals authenticity quite as effectively as briefing your future emotional state.

African American university student and her friends paying attention... African American university student and her friends paying attention during a lecture at amphitheater.

It is, and I think it does.

Not a phone visible. If you reverse image search it is clear it is, at the least, posed, because there’s other similar pictures involving the same woman in slightly different settings. Why is the BBC using this sort of stuff?

Is this photo real? The beige, soft light, short-depth-of field aesthetic looks sloppy to me.

Mañana philanthropy

Not wildly revealing.

Palantir: “There’s no time to debate the implications of this technology we need to beat China (where there is no free speech).”

It is isn't it. I think that's my favourite.

Marvellous Kyffin Williams painting, up for auction.

Graph showing Farage's income and Stack BTC investments.

Impressive (observer.co.uk/news/nationa...)

It’s quite the coincidence that the Strait of Hormuz is open when the stock market is open and closed when it isn’t.

Arguably fiction is the right place to look for it

Killer point.

understanding Donald Trump via Walter Ong's philosophy of the Reformation A recording from Naomi Alderman's live video

had a great conversation last night with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on what our favourite philosopher of information - Walter Ong - can tell us about a historical moment when the most powerful leader in the English-speaking world is rowing with the Pope

naomialderman.substack.com/p/understand...

Sarab rug, NW Persia.

Given the oil futures markets seem to involve physical delivery, presumably we are not far now from a major market hiccup.

Rogers Jones and Co.

Marvellous Kyffin Williams painting, up for auction.

Mujar prayer rug

It is. What I don’t know is how well it worked. I’d love to know.

The kids staying away from school Absenteeism that rose dramatically during Covid-19 has failed to return to pre-pandemic levels. The costs are mounting

Commenters knowing how to deal with the problem based on they went to school 30+ years ago

as.ft.com/r/ee844df0-4... The kids staying away from school