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There's always light; thing is trying to find it. #photography #autumn #sunlight #light #trees #leaves #goldenhour #austria #path

Irish gyms, pubs and restaurants are prepared to turn away people wearing so-called 'pervert glasses' as patrons worry about their privacy. I spoke to some of them for today's Irish Times ... www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

When I think about Brexit harms I think about @gailmyerscough.co.uk and the damage it did to her ability to sell to customers in Europe. She has exactly the sort of small business politicians all love to say they support.

Crazy to see how a democracy with rule of law works…

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Landowners could scupper free Land Registry access plans, campaigners warn

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

From "the age of miracles" to "CATASTROPHIC, EXISTENTIAL RISKS TO HUMANITY" in 2 bloots

⚡️️️️️️️Update: Russia launches 2nd wave of ballistic missiles at Kyiv. Explosions rocked the city again at around 3:30 a.m., according to reporters on the ground. Earlier in the night, Russian missiles hit a university and city medical centers, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others.

Kyiv again under attack by Russian ballistic missiles. Several loud explosions. A strike just hit the Holosiiv and Chabany districts. The missiles were only detected as they were falling on their targets, Telegram monitors say. Around 10 missiles fired.

⚡️️️️️️️New report tracks how Russia helps China build better drones. The investigation found that Russian designs for rocket-launched drones likely shaped weapons China unveiled in 2025 and that Russian wind tunnels kept testing aircraft models for China's top arms maker after the invasion of Ukraine.

Also, at least 2 hospitals were hit in Kyiv by Russian attack tonight

“Eighty per cent of Reform donations in past two years from overseas donors In comparison, Labour and the Conservatives received just 0.15 per cent and 3.57 per cent during the same period” app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

The cuts being made at the BBC are unforgivable. They are putting it into a death spiral. The weaker it gets, the less people will want to support it. And yes, this is an issue for the Government, which likes to pretend it's not their problem. It is.

Number crunching: Royal Mail From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Nigel Farage, 62, on Brussels: "Do we want a bunch of old men who we can't vote for, can't get rid of in Brussels, making the big decisions?" (the average age of an MEP is 50)

Autumn leaves 🍂

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Guardian reports Police Scotland will get round to watching the documentary at some point ... No rush lads.

Instant nocturnal animal disorientation and death. How are these geniuses so fucking thick?

Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) – one of the greatest European poets of the 20th century – was born #OTD, 26 Oct A 🎂🧵 Watch “Sorley MacLean’s Island” via @natlibscot.bsky.social – Sorley MacLean in conversation with fellow writer Iain Crichton Smith #poetry movingimage.nls.uk/film/3141

“Our way of life is besieged by the forces of international big business, our country’s beggared by bad communication, the iniquities of land ownership, the failures and unconcern of central government…” —Sorley MacLean, from the film “Sorley MacLean’s Island” ☝️ #Gaelic #history

⚡️️ Exclusive: Russia significantly expands glide-bomb production, research shows.

That sizeable gap between the first and second round in the Brazil elections is fascinating because it gives you a trailer of what each leader will be like in power. Lula was saying, how can we move forward as a nation. Bolsonaro’s message was “look who we will get to hurt once we are in charge“.

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

If anyone would be kind enough to furnish me with some of the other examples of the "CEOs Guide To Robot Parenting" ouevre, I'd be much obliged. I know I've seen at least half a dozen more in tweets or LinkedIn posts.

Meanwhile, Orbán, his family, and his allies have been lining their pockets through a system that funnels public money, including EU funds, to a closed circle of allies and their families. The country was not merely corrupt; it was built around a system that abused public funds.

gotta say hats off to all the writers pretending to do profiles of Silicon Valley CEOs just so they can add that one same paragraph, every single time, that demonstrates they're all insane freaks who do not know or like their own kids.

including all the French friends I had in London :(

EXCLUSIVE: US political candidates tailor messages for AI models used by voters reut.rs/4srgwem

Claude Ai is out there committing election related crimes and no one gives a shit. www.reuters.com/world/us/ant...

no amnesty

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

Coastal cities swing left, sparsely populated interior swings right

It's impossible to imagine a Conservative leader having made better decisions over the past two years than the ones Kemi Badenoch has, apparently:

This is mental!

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

I could post photos post storm, broken trees and overflowing rivers, but you can see all that on the news, so instead... here's some uplifting colourful sunrises instead. stevecarter.com/latest/sunri...

@bloomberg.com has this same bullshit and it pisses me off to no end

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

One of the world's rarest types of river flows through Norwich. Yet the Wensum and neighbouring Yare may be in their worst ever condition. Restoration could take 30 years and cost hundreds of millions. Who's going to pay? @eastangliabylines.co.uk @celinawords.bsky.social

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

RIP to this man. This is a really powerful 62 seconds of video.