The voting system is changing in Wales to a hybrid type of Proportional Representation instead of old-fashioned First Past The Post. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg1y72091no Wales has been a Labour stronghold for a very long time under First Past The Post but it almost certainly won't be a Labour stronghold after the May elections. Hopefully Plaid Cymru will form a government but there is a chance that Russia-loving Reform who want us all to pay for NHS services and give up all of our human rights protections might also obtain a lot of votes. Let's hope that the people of Wales have more sense than that. So glad that Newsnight didn't have a panel of politicians talking bollocks down in Cardiff as the two political analysts were far more interesting.

#BBC #Newsnight sounded really boring when Vic introduced it, we're going to tell you what people in Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil want 🥱 but it turned out to be very interesting

The Tory in London was a total tw@t but most tories are

No politicians in Cardiff, just two fascinating political analysts

Most misleading headline ever? 🤔

But typical of American corporations...

Poem - 'Making Peace' by Denise Levertov

This Ars Poetica is an argument about what poetry is for and how it should be made

Poetry is craft not proclamation, process not resolution, labour rather than abstraction

Poetry operates not through direct action, but in reframing how we see and think

#Poetry
#Poemoftheday
#Nationalpoetrymonth

Trump has created a defence crisis for the US. The military has heavily depleted key missile stockpiles during the Iran War, raising concerns about readiness for another major conflict, CNN reports.

One expert warned it has opened “a window of increased vulnerability”.

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Lutnick’s Epstein ties raise concerns on Wall Street — but not in the White House | CNN Politics Howard Lutnick, the highest-ranking Trump administration official prominently named in the Epstein files — outside of the president himself — has faced calls for his resignation on Capitol Hill.

Maybe he was looking in the mirror when he said that... like his glorious leader so often seems to be when insulting people 🤡

edition.cnn.com/2026/02/15/p...

Anyway please hire me to do book covers.

Chicken, salmon and celery kebabs with home-made satay sauce. Sweet potato chips. This satay sauce recipe has a bit of a sweet and sour element as it has tamarind, ginger, brown sugar and dark soy sauce in it. If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.

4 kebabs, ready to go into the oven

Chicken, celery and salmon kebabs (see Alt Txt), home-made satay sauce, sweet potato chips/fries

📷 🍜 #foodsky #cooking #bakesky #food #cooksky #baking
#Photography #BlueskyPhotography #PhotographersUnited #Homemade #Dinner #FoodPhotography

"Ukrainian hackers broke into the conference feed with explicit threats, warning participants they had been identified.

“All your faces are recorded, so watch your backs. You, the bald one, first,” one of the hackers said."

Give that hacker an award.😂🤣

We love razor clams but it's frustrating how much of it ends up being thrown away 😊

MasterChef starting at 9pm on BBC1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vfbd/episodes/guide

Another series of #MasterChefUK starting at 9pm on #BBC1 ❤️

Hope I can get as much great inspiration for my #food as I did from the last series of MasterChef: The Professionals

No Gregg Wallace or John Torode either, bonus 🎈🥳🎈

No news is good news? 🤔

Probably not...

Thanks

It's the damage to her self-confidence and self-respect that's arguably harder to repair than cleaning and dressing the skin tear itself

🤭🤭🤭

Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh, blast! 💥🫣

MTG

So the #BBC #Newsnight panel was very much a rose between two thorns tonight, one with hair and one without

#ToBaldlyGoWhereNoManHasGoneBefore

And Marjorie Taylor Greene was on to tell us what we already knew about her ex-boss

Simple photograph of a tin of #Tabasco brand #chocolate Not showing the contents.

Well, these are fun and really, really good!!! 😋 I need more. I can't wait to see/try Sriracha chocolates! Is there such a thing? #Food #GreatFood #foodie #FoodSky #Tabasco #TabascoChocolate #Sriracha #SrirachaCocolates.

Two bowls of food with forks and spoons. Garofalo ruote pasta boiled with chicken stock cube and celery, drained then mixed with green pesto, artichoke, black olives, then garnished with grated parmesan #cheese and toasted pine nuts, plus sliced baby plum tomatoes on mine. If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.

Wifey had another fall and I had to take her to be patched up, so fairly simple #vegetarian #food tonight: pasta with pesto (see Alt Txt)

📷 🍜 #foodsky #cooking #bakesky #food #cooksky #baking
#Photography #BlueskyPhotography #PhotographersUnited #Homemade #Dinner #FoodPhotography

Fallouts and financial woes: inside Heston Blumenthal’s sinking empire Current and ex-staff claim demise of London restaurant can be traced back to the departure of chef’s right-hand man

#food #foodsky #HestonBlumenthal #AshleyPalmer-Watts

(top marks to the person who put "Mandrin Oriental hotel" under the photo 🤡)

www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma...

Surprises me that John Higgins has amazing #snooker ball control but can't control his tongue well enough to keep it in his mouth 👅

Glad it's other players competing this morning as I drink my coffee ☕😁

Erling Haaland not happy about Gabriel ripping his shirt in the #Arsenal vs #ManCity game.

Great #BBC #MOTD tonight ❤️

Best subtitle fail: AFC v MCFC, Gabriel rips Haaland's shirt

Commentator: He literally wants the shirt off his back!
(which I found quite funny 😁)

Subtitles: He wants a shot of his back 🤨

And congratulations to Morgan Gibbs-White on his hat-trick for #NottsForest #nffc

How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World Documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal the role of Palantir in creating the U.S. government’s international spy machine.

How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World
Documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal Palantir’s role in creating the U.S. government’s international spy machine.
theintercept.com/2017/02/22/h...

How MAGA are Republicans? Comparisons now to record high The percent of Republicans who identify as MAGA peaked in March. Here's where that number is now.

I'm totally confident that is wrong

Even if you take the percentage of people who voted (which is not what electorate means) I'm doubtful it would be 69% MAGA

Republican voters aren't even 69% MAGA, either 🤷‍♂️

www.newsweek.com/maga-republi...

Meta plans to lay off 8,000 staff, or 10% of its workforce, starting May 20 as AI push reshapes jobs - Tech Startups Meta is preparing a new round of layoffs, setting May 20 as the starting point for cuts that will affect roughly 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its global workforce, according to an exclusive report...

techstartups.com/2026/04/17/m...

The pizza when it had just come out of the oven. My first time ever making pizza bases, with the recipe telling me I was making 3 pizza bases but it didn't turn out that way. I ended up with just one quite large home-made pizza base so I divided it into two sections. There is mozzarella #cheese in the centre and extra-mature cheddar cheese around the outside. The #vegetarian section has artichoke and black olives, with twaróg mazurski smak (Polish curd cheese) between the mozzarella and the cheddar. The spicy section has bacon, 'nduja spicy sausage (from Calabria), baby plum tomatoes, with more cheddar between the mozzarella and the outer ring of cheddar. If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.

A plate of food. 3 pieces from the spicy section of the pizza. If you enjoy my food posts then please consider at least liking them and maybe reposting them. Thanks.

#pizza (see Alt Txt)

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#Photography #BlueskyPhotography #PhotographersUnited #Homemade #Dinner #FoodPhotography

A soldier swings a hammer at a statue of Jesus

An Israeli soldier smashes a Jesus statue’s head in southern Lebanon.

Maybe he thought it was Trump.

Photo by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi.

Greece goes its own way – and drops EU entry-exit biometrics for British travellers The Man Who Pays His Way: Flying in or out of Corfu, Crete or Rhodes? No fingerprints necessary

❤️ #Corfu ❤️ #Greece ❤️

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

As someone else has said, this article is fascinating but possibly misses the point

Firstly there is really high youth unemployment

Secondly student loans are financially crippling people in work

Thirdly a lot of young people can't buy their own homes

What a stupid thing to say

Young people want a government that makes life better for everyone rather than just kissing the backsides of the market, billionaires and tech giants

Now that Labour don't seem to fulfill that need they are looking for an alternative

Corbyn/Polanski aren't communists