“The 312-foot Dena and its 130-member crew, many of them musicians in the Iranian navy band, had just finished participating in an Indian government naval exercise and cultural exchange that the U.S. Navy had also participated in and were on the way home on Wednesday.”
Hm. Looks like it!
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
[small cat seeks home, varied tastes]
A sidewalk vendor with a giant vat labeled “AI Slop”
Roz Chast, from this week’s New Yorker
[And who funded it...]
Ein Stirnlappenbasilisk gleitet mit ausgestreckten Armen und halb eingerolltem Schwanz über die spiegelnde Eisfläche. Er besitzt einen leuchtend grünen Körper mit hellblauen Punktreihen an den Flanken, während sein Schwanz schwarzgrün geringelt ist. Auf dem Kopf trägt er den namengebenden Stirnlappen, der einem Hahnenkamm ähnelt. Den Rücken zieren zwei aufgestellte Kämme, die sich bis zum Schwanz hinunterziehen. Aufgrund der besonderen Anatomie trägt die Echse weiße, extra lange Schlittschuhe.
#art #illustration #animalmarch #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #stirnlappenbasilisk #jesusechse
Im Winter steigt der Stirnlappenbasilisk in seine Schlittschuhe und läuft damit übers Wasser. Deshalb wird er auch Jesusechse genannt.
OUT NOW: Francesco Cavalli’s strophic lament from Il Giasone, 'Se dardo pungente', is the last in the brilliant series of videos from Bellot Ensemble's debut album, Cupid's Ground Bass.
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[Toxic: unconcerned]
[Pattern emerging]
[borb]
🕊️ goedemorgen,
fijne zaterdag gewenst 🧡
#roodborst #robin
#vogels #birds
#natuur #nature
[Hm. Some background.]
It’s worrying to see how quick many people are, including in politics and media who should know better, to dismiss the lessons from Iraq when advocating deeper UK involvement in the US/Israel-Iran war. Whilst they score cheap political points, history threatens to repeat itself as tragedy or farce.
The levels of sheer ignorance, blundering and schoolboy immaturity displayed by Trump, Hegseth et al in relation to their perverse war of choice against Iran have no parallel in modern history. They were clearly manipulated and pushed into this conflict by Netanyahu who will be its only beneficiary.
This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts.
Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently.
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
Like taking tips on healthy eating from Mr Creosote.
Thank God Starmer is PM not the tousled tosser, Johnson.
[Crow in summer waistcoat]
[Hm. Constitutional lawyers may know, perhaps it's in the small print, but at what point according to that wonderous document is an evidently insane president defenestrated? Is it after 250 years?]
[The demented old mobster reveals more of the people behind it all... but completely insane now.]
Seems likely from the buses (the Fleetline) but as I say, if you can see what's on at the Odeon that will narrow it down. I would imagine it's from a local newspaper archive.
[If you have a larger image you can read what's showing at the Odeon which will date it closely. From a newspaper archive possibly.]
"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."
"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".
Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump’s decision to attack Iran was grounded in what she called a “feeling based on fact” that Iran would imminently attack the United States and its allies. When pressed during a media br...
TAT: [Foreign policy | Controlling information]
The Trump administration said on Thursday it would replace a Biden-era rule that required some oil and gas companies to set aside billions of dollars in extra funds for decommissioning oil platforms if they go out of business. The new rule will save the industry $484...
TAT: [Attacking science]
I think the secretary of defense should not be a psychopath
Hm. What year is it?
[If you ever wonder what's behind the vast over-funding and rabid imperative of AI-slop - beyond the point of illegality over mere copyright - then this provides yet another insight...]
The myopic parochialism of domestic news reporting on this conflict is hugely frustrating I think - not an inability to see the big picture, but an obsessive focus on the small picture, and absolutely no attempt to communicate how exceptional this is. That the conflict is illegal *on US terms*.
