I didn't think Trump could achieve an unconditional surrender, but I guess I didn't consider us surrendering.

Ben Roberts-Smith in custody at Silverwater jail after war crimes charges One of Australia's most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder.

Australia investigates and charges one of its most decorated veterans with war crimes for murdering civilians in Afghanistan (www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...) while the US President proudly threatens genocide. It's a contrast.

I thought they stopped getting comedians after Michelle Wolf was actually funny and broke everyone's brains.

Aren't they getting a magician or something this year?

Still - that dude should mock the terrible dick dance.

My coding agent `cat` (named after the cute animal) also only copies code verbatim when instructed. to.

But there are no other instructions it recognizes.

This is why NATO is over. No gratitude for Springsteen.

Once again I'm annoyed by the slogan "No Kings", when we have a problem with a president. Very few kings have as much power in their countries as the US President has in this one under our constitution.

Americans seem to like it though.

It definitely feels more emotional than rational.

It's a good one. Better than I expected going in.

Antigravity is most of the way through getting a fully featured(ish) Wayland backend for JUCE written today, with just a little poking from me.

It's crazy how tractable fairly large, but bounded engineering work becomes.

Middle East crisis live: Trump calls on China, France, UK and others to send ships to keep strait of Hormuz open US president earlier warned strikes on Kharg Island oil facilities would follow hit on military targets if Tehran did not allow maritime traffic through key channel

We at are such a weak country to be running to the people we've been trying to pick fights with for help when we bite off more than we can chew.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It's not a surprise when you compare the Iranian and US leadership. Iran's cabinet is dominated by PhDs, lots from western universities. The US cabinet is mostly JDs and lightweight bachelor degrees.

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Rhys Nicholson explains the Bean Soup Theory applied to transgender people YouTube video by ABC iview

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Makes Liz Truss seem like an economic genius.

gentrification.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The end of private property parts of it?

Are we supposed to keep pretending that the ZTE and Huawei bans are for legitimate national security rather than transactional political reasons?

He was an astrophysicist of some note. He predicted the background radiation levels in deep space. After he died, other people who worked on the same problem after him won the nobel prize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...

What is this DWORD of which you speak? We have 16 perfectly good bits and segment registers if we need to address more memory.

Some randoms:
- When I was a baby we had a pet kangaroo.
- McKellar Crater on the moon is named after my great uncle Andy.

No, no, forcibly convert them.

Are *we* the proxy now?

When the CIA learned about Russia's plans to invade Ukraine why didn't we preemptively strike Kiev?

Rubio says US ‘preemptively’ attacked Iran after learning Israel was about to strike as Democrats decry ‘Trump’s war’ – live State secretary frames strikes as necessary to protect US forces from retaliation; Chuck Schumer tells reporters ‘this is Trump’s war’ and ‘he has no strategy’

You learn that country A is about to illegally attack country B. On what planet do you use that to justify attacking country B rather than warning them, preemptively attacking country A, staying out of it, etc? www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

This is a policy of genocide.

Seriously the best.

They bombed a girls’ school.

Nazis have always attacked trans people.

So we're assassinating religious leaders now. Watch out Pope Leo.

Fun Buffyverse Moments - "Cup Of Tea" YouTube video by nicitta's old channel

Every time I make myself a cup of tea I say to myself...
youtu.be/M5o_KtUmg5I?...