Albedo 0.12

I mean, John has a point. #r4today

Wilde didn't pay his library book fines and ended up in reading gaol.

I've subscribed to the Watney's Party Seven tier, £6.42 per month and I get to vomit all over my own shoes & trousers and someone punches me

Lowe wants to use X like radio was used in the Rwandan genocide.

One of the many things I enjoyed about @natashadevon.bsky.social show on LBC tonight as I was cooking was that she specifically talked up Bluesky. More of that please people...

People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.

"14 years on and Farage is still avoiding James like the plague 😭🤣" wrote one person reposting the video.

Donald Trump: "No Peace Prize for you!"

Another attack overnight on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the 6th attack this week, and still getting almost no coverage!! The human price for transiting the Strait seems to be being priced into business costs.

I apologize for the triggering content of this video. I just want to make sure the truth gets told if I can and yes, all seven of these monsters should be buried under a prison somewhere. #USDemocracy

Sorry, not sorry. The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

This is what I mean by rapidly changing - This is now sliding inexorably into all-out conflict. Saudi Arabia are engaging and the Yemen forces seem to be in disarray. I would expect the USA to step in - but that may not be possible with the active Iran and Hormuz operations...

From the new Private Eye

Or implement one of Count Binface's very sensible policies: “Make water company bosses swim in polluted rivers until our waterways are clean.”

Fake I’m (almost) sure but hilarious all the same!

Utterly bleak but absolutely necessary reminder of the utter hell we’ve allowed to happen.

You really gotta love Ted Lieu. #USDemocracy

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

National hero.

Thank you.

The President of the United States is a liar.

In honour of the late Joe Strummer's birthday Ron sings "Lost In A Supermarket" RS youtu.be/sZSc2j09P7U?...

The President Of The United States is a crooked, lying, rapist nonceburger.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

A grand example of FAFO...they voted for this, what did they think was going to happen? #SheShed

Clacton by-election result in a nutshell: Voters kept the rubbish and put out the bin.

Early reports coming in of Houthis again attacking the port of al'Makha (I know it as Mocha Port) on the Red Sea coast of Yemen.

We should all do our bit to save water, says an interviewee on BBC Radio 4’s Today. Of course we should. However, people are unlikely to be enthusiastic about helping out the water firms, which have given ~£80 billion to shareholder, built no reservoirs and poisoned our rivers and seas with shit.

The key difference between us and many other countries, I guess, is that our radio is really good. And the key reason for that is the BBC.

A hero!

US intel: Putin may hit a NATO member… just to see if anyone shows up. Not an invasion. A test. A cyberstrike. A toe OVER the line. Enough to ask if 32 countries meant it. Friend, he is not guessing about our tanks. He’s guessing about our spine.

Absolutely superb!

Absolutely!

Performative bullshit. Fauci is a hero. Besides, they’re trying to ban an 85-year-old retiree from a job he already left.

What if we all just made a pact to support our indie bookshops and public libraries to the best of our abilities instead of massive corporations 🙃

100%

My man! You go ahead on with your bad self, Dr. Fauci! Sane Americans know you have worked your entire life saving as many lives as you possibly could. I’m raising my fist for you like the protesters did at the end of the movie, Billy Jack! ✊🏻😭✊🏽😭✊🏿 #Pinks #SheShed #DrAnthonyFauci #Legend #Hero

I don't care anymore. Let them kill off their stupid fucking voters. If all trump needed was some horse paste and chicken soup, why did he have to be hospitalized at Walter reed and get cutting edge treatment that was not available to us plebs? And why does he get the vax? Seriously. I'm tired.

Have you noticed the tributes to Lindsey Graham don't cite any actual legislative accomplishments that benefited his constituents? It's a lot of "he was a strong voice" & "got along with everyone"- generic stuff you could say about anyone. His actual legacy is fluffing Trump & reckless war-mongering

My mother had Alzheimer's, and it lasted a decade. That wilderness she descended into was made far worse by a state that essentially said "good luck" and "goodbye" having to navigate care and selling her house and worrying that we'd run out of money to finance it all. If anyone can fix it, good.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is a hero of mine.

I don’t know how many perfect movies exist but I do know that STAND BY ME is one of them.

Couldn’t agree more. Dr. Fauci is an American hero.

Good grief, this hits home.

1/8 For the past few months my work has largely fallen into two categories. First, strategic intelligence: collecting and analysing #TheHormuzCrisis events as they unfold. Second, scenario analysis: using that intelligence to explain where events may develop next. My latest article is neither.

1/13 For the last two weeks I have been focused on the Strait of Hormuz. The horror, destruction and loss of life there continues on all sides, with no obvious path back to stability. But conflicts like this rarely stay confined to one maritime theatre. They spread. #TheHormuzCrisis