Death cult.

OMG, I cannot agree more. I was really intrigued by the idea of 豆汁, and then I tried it. Foul.

Jardines and CK Hutchison pursue Hong Kong supermarket megadeal Merger of ParknShop with Wellcome would create a dominant player in the territory’s food retail market

ParknShop (which we always called ParknRob for some reason) in talks to merge with Wellcome. What's next, Watsons merging with Mannings?

Hey, but I thought all the cool kids are in the most 社會主義初階time of their lives ...

Hmmm, Bluesky down? Latest posts I'm seeing are from 9 hours ago.

CPJ, Foreign Press Association in Israel, the Union of Journalists in Israel, and Reporters Without Borders filed an emergency motion to the Israeli Supreme Court asking the justices to expedite a decision on allowing the international media to enter Gaza. cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-...

Screenshot of a Fight For the Future article 100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving the Public Record. It includes the text “Rachael Maddow declares the Archive is a 'national treasure' as uncertainty mounts on whether today's journalism will be preserved for future generations." Below is a photo of Wayback Machine Mark Graham addresses an audience, standing before a lectern that reads “Journalists ❤️ Internet Archive,” with several attendees on stage. Photo by Kenyatta Thomas.

100+ journalists, including Cory Doctorow, Rachel Maddow and many more, are backing the Internet Archive’s #WaybackMachine as essential to preserving the public record 🗂️

Read more at Fight for the Future 👇
www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...

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@fightforthefuture.org

🚨 #PressFreedom Under Fire: HK Security Bureau "strongly condemns" the Hong Kong Journalists Association after they queried officials about the surveillance and stalking of reporters.
No denial. Only condemnation.
In #HK, seeking the truth is now treated as an act of hostility.
bit.ly/3QDudrv

Immortan Don is at it again.

Cannot unsee.

Yes, and somehow Jenrick-y

Thought of this classic McDull scene when I saw the story.
youtu.be/tCtOJhDtjTM?...

Now do that with immigrants.

Crispin Odey has dropped his £79mn libel claim against the Financial Times over its reporting of sexual misconduct allegations against him, acknowledging that the FT would win in its defence. 

www.ft.com/content/6966...

This analysis is total nonsense.

1. There is no chance at all that net migration will average 235k in 2026-27.

It will be much closer to zero than 235k

2. There will be declining school pupil numbers & closures for demographic reasons

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04...

And Wessely is the man that Wes Streeting commissioned to review mental health, autism and ADHD diagnoses 🙄

It has been noted that in past days during her trip to China, Cheng referred to the 1992 Consensus as "One China, Oppose TW Independence" and not "One China, Respective Interpretations." Today, Xi echoed that language. This is significant

ALT text: screenshot of a Financial Times post which reads:
Correction: Brené Brown
Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as “solidly in my fuck it era” rather than “solidly in my fucking era”

Oh my. I checked. It's real.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

家駒😢

Am I the only one who sees the karaoke scene in Project Hail Mary and thinks what if it's replaced with the (peerless) Prince version of Sign O' the Times?

What??
or 啊！咩黎架？(read in Canto)

A HK independent media outlet has said its journalists have been targeted by harassing text messages and “stalked” by unknown individuals, the latest in a series of intimidations against the city’s press since 2024. hongkongfp.com/2026/04/08/h...

Wrong focus: I saw the front page on the right as saying Nadine Dorries is desperate and deluded.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

The abyss has no bottom
低處未見低

Right, and what's the spin going to be for "recovery" from GET?

Don't tell David Starkey.

Oops, damn autocorrect, that should of course be mochi balls. Handmade, not machine!