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I am so jealous of this oblivious pile of fluff.

I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.

If you see this, I implore you to post an image from your device without context.

Few people realise the scale of the Himalayas because static maps are a bad way to convey topography. Fortunately, we can use interactive maps to explore topography. Here is an example using Pyvista.

Excellent article on how the US is starting to weaponise its control over critical financial and technological systems against its own allies. Contains a good explanation of the sanctions stuff I've been talking about lately. www.wired.com/story/enshit...

Lou is writing an angry fax to Darche as we speak.

One of the things that *actually*, *truly* makes America great is NASA. And Trump has slit its throat.

well it's obvious there was no intelligence involved in the decision

Once again, @xkcd.com got it right.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

so who do we think trump is manipulating the market for today?

The Republican administration is also ordering all current international students (and postdocs, I believe) at Harvard to transfer or leave the country. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05...

NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.

Definitely can't wait to see how the guy who failed miserably for 11 years leading a team with all of the money, resources, cache and power in the sport handles running... the fucking Islanders. I'm sure it'll go very smoothly.

As I detailed on the latest episode of Islanders Anxiety... I've hated this douche ever since he whined his way out of Hartford. Not really feeling this. www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/...

"The bare minimum will reach the population - simply so the world doesn't stop us and accuse us of war crimes." www.bbc.com/news/live/cq...

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office announced Sunday.

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

NORTHERN LIGHTS: Take my picture! Please! I don't look great now but the photos will be spectacular, bursts of green and pink! Take as many photos as you can! THE MOON: Do not take my photo, if you little apes dare to photograph me I will be so tiny, I swear to god I will make myself so goddamn tiny

It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

Everyone’s going to correctly focus on the ethics problems, but Air Force One is supposed to also be a secure communications platform, right? Nobody sees the issue here?

This will be vital during the restoration

The Ref went down due to a collision. Don’t worry Jamie Vardy blew the whistle to stop play for him.

If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.

this is what the "trade deals" are gonna look like. bribes for trump, giveaways for the regimes that bribe him. Hail to the thief.

🙁The restaurants where I used to eat have become tourist traps and my favourite café in the city centre is closing because they couldn't renew the lease. Piece by piece, the Como I used to love is gone. comozero.it/attualita/il...

"If you strip out the effects of the cancer, the patient is actually doing great."

He is gearing up to invoke the Insurrection Act, if that wasn’t obvious.

Unterwegs zur Rheingasse, vorbei an heimeligen Kleinbasler Fassaden am Lindenberg.

What a picture. Described as “a symbolic meeting that has the potential to be historic” by Zelensky. Two months after the shouting of the Oval Office, a seemingly calmer exchange in the Vatican. Is Pope Francis’ funeral the moment Donald Trump brought peace closer to Ukraine?

Nella basilica di San Pietro vuota un’altra pagina di storia: #Trump #Zelensky #Macron #Starmer (Fonte RSI)

seen a lot of daft hippie bullshit in my day, but this might take the cake kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-d...

Gasparino's been right a lot and wrong a lot, but if he's right, he's unwittingly saying that the White House leaks information to friendly investors who can front-run the markets

“Vladimir, STOP!”

TRUMP AND BESSENT: We’re negotiating with China, this trade war will be resolved soon. CHINA: WTF are you talking about. www.ft.com/content/3e07...

Friendly reminder 😉

Moscow reportedly dropping its demand to control four Ukrainian regions & agreeing to freeze the front line is not a concession, it would keep what it’s taken. Russian troops have never been close to taking all of Kherson & Zaporizhzhia.

Breaking: Tesla’s net income sank 71% in the first quarter, hurt by competitive pressure and a reputational hit from Elon Musk’s polarizing role in the Trump administration