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seems like someone might be panican

53 year-old man. 🤡

When I was 20 I went to the US and worked in a cafe for the summer. (I flew randomly to Minneapolis as I liked Prince). It blew my mind to be somewhere English speaking but so different. Now it seems implausible that a beardy brown guy from East London would choose to do this and that makes me sad

“England’s non-woodland trees have been mapped for the first time, using cutting-edge methods of laser detection and satellite imagery” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ok the Bloomberg billionaires index is legit my new favourite thing MORE! LOWER! www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

JPMorgan now forecasting a 60% chance of US recession this year.

Bye, Starlink. * EXCLUSIVE -- GERMANY FUNDS UKRAINE ACCESS TO SATELLITE INTERNET SERVICE EUTELSAT - CEO SAYS * EXCLUSIVE -- EUTELSAT COULD ADD 5,000 TO 10,000 MORE TERMINALS TO UKRAINE WITHIN WEEKS @reuters.com

I got asked to expand a thread I wrote on here about MISERICORDIA into an article for @animusmagazine.bsky.social. Really enjoyed writing this one, would love it if you gave it a read: animus-magazine.ghost.io/alain-guirau...

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Perhaps this is a good moment to say a few words about the EU’s so-called “trade bazooka”, the anti-coercion instrument. What is it and how does it work? 👇

Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale

lovely stuff, although ‘setback for Elon Musk’ suggests some kind of political legitimacy for an unelected danger attempting to buy votes

Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours Massive applause for Booker

arstechnica.com/security/202... Christ

Record-breaking flooding in south Texas, very powerful winds that caused a deadly dust storm in Kansas and beyond, and unprecedented wildfires in North Carolina. It’s hard to pin individual events on climate change, but heavier rainfall and high temps are what you would expect.

Right-wing YouTuber Tim Pool has made it to the White House pool — someone from his “Timcast” channel will be part of today’s pool duty covering the president. Last year, DOJ revealed Pool was receiving millions of dollars from the Russian gov. Pool says he didn’t know where it was coming from.

Gift article. My beat, my last five years as a reporter, was global health. HIV, malaria, bird flu, TB, etc. This is an extremely important story that may get 10 likes. Two things I know. 1) Musk is killing people. 2) TB is coming to your world, somehow, someday. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

"Cold Habor conveys the scale and the impossibility of loss, the way it transports you to another place you never asked to be but where you must somehow build a life. Mark wants to be with Helly; Mark still wants Gemma back. The paradox is unresolvable." I wrote about the Severance finale.

New from FM: Court of Appeal upholds decision to refuse extension of time to woman deprived of British citizenship | Iain Halliday

I wrote about Netflix's "Adolescence," a very well acted, directed, and written series that also crosses into moral panic. It's also haunted by the Jamie Bulger case in ways that strangely a lot of reviewers missed. foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/27/n...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Here it is - the post that got @therickwilson.bsky.social banned from X - therickwilson.substack.com/p/kill-tesla...

Big day for Simon Calder is never a good day for Britain

Media continues to treat it as if it isn’t its owner’s personal misinformation, hatred and election-tilting cauldron.

The young "intellectual" right in this country is increasingly detached from reality. Deeply alarming.

A few days ago I was writing about how Australia's Pharmacy Benefits Scheme makes prescription drugs affordable for Australians. U.S. drug companies are now lobbying Trump to punish Australia for the program.

Those of us who reacted to @mccrum.bsky.social sending Wirecard’s boss into hiding by saying „now do Elon” have our wish fulfilled.

Tbh beyond trans rights or anything id find this type of posting pretty hair raising if i was rebooting harry potter

I'm so tired of Trump's face, his voice, his ridiculous words, his nutty cabinet members, his awful voters, his imploding country. This 24/7 rolling atrocity of a presidency that poisons the entire world.

“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace.” - Donald Trump, in Michigan, on Nov 1st.

❗️Lithuania, Poland, Latvia and Estonia have announced their withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines.

“We have seen an absolutely astonishing rise of solar installations in Britain and also globally. That’s because the cost of solar has plummeted. It has become so cheap that some solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles or fence panels.” Me in the ipaper inews.co.uk/news/environ...

I spoke to people who used their EV batteries to keep the lights on and the fridge running as Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall for this weekend feature in The Guardian this morning. Think of this as a vision of what life could be like with a phaseout of oil, gas and coal.

I want this to happen just to piss off Dan Hannan.

The Times is back on track today with this article on Keira Bell’s demands to ban sex-hormones for trans children. As usual she’s named (twice) as the person who sued the Tavistock, with no reference to the fact SHE LOST her case. This is typical manipulation of the facts.

Spoke to the Today programme (50 mins in) about X outage: 1. Surprised that in 2025 a global brand of this stature was knocked over by DDoS. 2. The supposed Ukraine link is nonsense. DDoS hijacks infrastructure globally. IP addresses tell you nothing about the source www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

And one day later, Twitter goes down all over the world.

Who could have predicted this?

Everyone, please read this story. Repost and quote it. And if you know someone who can do something, send it to them. Please. bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...

Welcome to the American fascist police state. Get out if you can.

Exciting to watch Elon Musk pivot so elegantly from making his cars toxic to the demographic most likely to consider one, to making his Starlink a national security risk for all the governments who might have wanted it.

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

Darkly enjoyable (from the new Private Eye)