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Meta just announced Oakley smart glasses. They start at $399, and they’ll be available later this summer.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Brilliant statement from the Durham Miners Association on why Reform is not welcome on the platform for the Durham Miners Gala https://www.durhamminers.org/statement_durham_miners_gala_and_reform_uk

Fuck FIFA

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

This is the country whose money enabled Fifa to stage the Club World Cup. Nothing else should matter. cpj.org/2025/06/saud...

Starmer is unrelentingly making bad decisions.

i wrote about sly stone and brian wilson and the supposed mystery of genius www.vulture.com/article/bria...

Visit this link to see how many additional deaths Musk's destruction of USAID is costing in real time, particularly from diarrhoea and malnutrition: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi... This ticker should follow him wherever he goes.

Top travel tip* When using your bank card abroad and you get offered the chance to be charged in the local currency or in your own currency, always always ALWAYS choose the local currency. I've probably saved the best part of £100 so far. * Apart from: don't travel to the USA

Always nice to recall de Tocqueville's observation at times like this... "America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." I think it's fair to say that America, as embodied by its government, is some way short of "good".

In the 10th century Byzantine church of Sotiros Christos (Our Saviour Christ) in Eleftherna, Crete, a 12th century fresco on the ceiling of its dome.

I wonder if all the people who bang on about their respect for veterans are going to thank the future national guard veterans currently serving in Los Angeles.

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Thatcher in NE England #womensart

In Crete. The cup design was pretty much perfected 4,000 years ago, along with jugs.

This is great line up for Thursday night in #Birmingham... @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social PLUS Janique James Come and support live music in a grassroots venue serving amazing beer brewed on the premises www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bir...

Diana Darrin - Little Gun, Little Me [USA, Pop] (1962) - Girl is tired of guys making moves on her so she gets a gun https://redd.it/hveki9 https://youtu.be/X8PoW4f-MnQ

"I find it unbelievable that nearly 20 months in #Netanyahu has enjoyed the almost unconditional support of his Western allies" @hannahweisfeld.bsky.social @yachad.bsky.social joins @goldbergradio.bsky.social to discuss #Gaza crisis. From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Netanyahu says "this is a war of civilisation against barbarism" Palestine at the UN "Is it civilised to bomb indiscriminately, to commit daily massacres, to kill entire families.. to block aid & starve a people? If this is civilised, what is barbarism?"

#ProudBlue Bravo! 👏 More of this, please.

Do any French people really eat radishes for breakfast?

Namibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in the first genocide of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1905. the Germans slaughtered 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people.

'We’d jump from the second-floor window on to a pile of mattresses. Sometimes we’d get a bit hurt, but we didn’t have any fear in those days.' Newcastle 1979, photo by Tish Murtha.

"I find it quite unbelievable that nearly 20 months in... #Netanyahu has enjoyed the almost unconditional support of his Western allies." @goldbergradio.bsky.social hears from @hannahweisfeld.bsky.social @yachad.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Bugger. Knife through butter. And it's been coming. Haway Sunderland

What I'd like all other world leaders to do is come prepared to any meetings with Trump with a video of their own showing damning (and true) reports of US violence and Trump's manbaby idiocy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today's men's pie club recipe was a classic Mughal chicken korma - more fragrant than spiced, using both rosewater and kewra water as well as saffron. A delicate dish that's a million miles away from the korma offered in UK restaurants and takeaways. #food #cooking #recipes

After graceless halfwit Trump decided to ambush yet another world leader with his insane accusations, here's your regular reminder...

Beautiful fungus on a cut tree trunk in Holywell Dene.

Don't ever imagine that your government is operating in you and the people's interests.

Great result. Never supported Palace until today and they deserved it. City tediously poor.

Getting strong tadpole envy when I see people's pond updates. I had three good clumps of frogspawn in my little pond, but it all vanished. The water's good so I'm guessing something ate the frogspawn. 😞

I know I've gone on about this before, but honestly, the BBC's 6Music news bulletins really are Zionist propaganda. Much of the 07:30 section was standing up for the Israeli Eurovision entrant. The BBC has its fancy ads for its news teams, but it's not demonstrated in its behaviour.

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

Trump Grants Refugee Status To Former SS Guards

Back at Men's Pie Club today. And this week's pie is a Finnish Cauliflower Cheese Pie. Pan roasted cauliflower, rye bread croutons, cheddar cheese, and a savoury, spiced, beer and egg custard. #food #cooking