The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Embassy in South Africa is trolling President Trump’s comments on who will control the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran has found Trump's only weakness.

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market.

$1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else.

They made huge gains.

Unusual.

Just got home to the news and my response was “what was he doing at the time?”. Glares.

How much older will you feel when you realise it is actually the 31st anniversary 😀

An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

Thoughts and prayers

Denied so vigorously that he paid off Virginia Giuffre, settling out of court in 2022. Filthy liar.

He’s just added me to the group chat. Stand by

Black and white English pointer, happy

It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested.

If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC.

That's sensible, proportionate policing.

@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy just finished the third Martin Hench book, Picks and Shovels. I have enjoyed all three immensely. Plotty, in parts heartbreaking, gripping. Each one a slice of my own timeline as an aging X’er. Please write another

Marc Andreessen Says One Job Is Mostly Safe From AI: Venture Capitalist In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's.

Absolutely, like this guy..

gizmodo.com/marc-andrees...

Article 54 of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocol I.

1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.

English pointer dog visibly drooling

Big boi drooling at the huitre shack

Same here, I’ve been playing video games since Atari 2600. Plus, I object to hearing “over 50s” and “golden years” in the same sentence. Fuck these guys I’m a street walkin cheetah

The problem with Brexit: open letter to my MP "Adverts continue to state: EU citizens only, EU residents only" - difficulties for freelancers since Brexit

Open letter to the Home Secretary:

“Stop chasing Reform voters - start serving the people who still believe in you”

JFC

Drowned in Sound Newsletter & Podcast mapping out the future of music. DiS has been recommending records since Oct 2000.

Confession:

This week, I snapped

For the third time in a week someone said “it’s a shame DrownedinSound is not still going” 🤦

But it is as a podcast & newsletter, so I need your help to reconnect to the 3m who read DiS

Please repost this and/or tell a music loving friend www.drownedinsound.org

Sign on EV charger reading “co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the EU”

Currently road tripping down to the Alps, public charging is cheap, plentiful and easy. Wondered how they got it so good and saw this. It would appear brexit is why we can’t have nice things. Yet again *sigh*

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Just one knife missile ought to do the trick

Higher or lower?

Looking at charging costs in Europe and the per kWh costs are all in the sub 50 cent region, feels like UK operators are profiteering or held ransom by landlords

I would love to see a stacked bar showing costs that make up the per kWh pricing - wholesale cost of electricity, rent, other concession fees, depreciation of hardware etc. Tesla stick out with lower prices but a lot of the non-Tesla superchargers are in offbeat locations like golf clubs and hotels

Fakebook

So true 🤦‍♂️

Look who I found hanging around in Star Wars Outlaws last night #ps5 #starwars