Justin Stach

عاجل وزير الخارجية السعودي 36 سنة كنا نعتقد القواعد الأمريكية تحمينا بأول حرب اكتشفنا احنا نحميهم Breaking minister of exterior: For 36 years we thought we he US bases were protecting us, now we’ve discovered we were protecting them.

BREAKING NEWS • TechTimes BREAKING: SAUDI ARABIA, THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, KUWAIT AND QATAR ARE DISCUSSING WITHDRAWING FROM CONTRACTS WITH THE U.S.

العقارة الرئيس السابق لجهاز المخابرات السعودي تركي الفيصل: هذه ليست حربنا، بل حرب نتنياهو، يحاول الهروب من جرائمه في غزة والضفة عبر هذه الحرب aleqaria.com.eg Former Saudi intelligence chief, Turkey Al Faisal: This is not our War, this is Netanyahu trying to escape from his crimes in Gaza.

Narrative in the gulf is turning against the US and the war on Iran.

Translations in alt text, but general gist is resentment against being pulled into a war which is a distraction for what is happening in Gaza.

We spent a lovely few hours at the NPG’s exhibition on the drawings of Lucien Freud who, if he wasn’t one of our greatest artists would undoubtedly have been a serial killer.

OK so reading this, he thought that the people on stage couldn't hear him from forty rows back, until one of them looked up after the n-word, and he didn't realise the BBC would be broadcasting his slurs.

America isn't exceptional — it's the exception America has self-importance in abundance. What it lacks is the data to back it up.

brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

Yeah, but that tie and shirt combination...

Looking for folks learning #watercolor to help me test an app I'm working on to help with colour mixing. Drop me a line if you're early in your path to becoming a watercolourist, I'd love to ask you a few questions and if you're up for it, share the beta for the app with you for some feedback.

I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

That’s a lot of air to be pushing, doesn’t it risk overdoing it?

And yeah, I’m sure the only difference between cheap and not cheap wine is aeration…

I’m so sorry. I dread that.

It’s like a shit sodastream. What is it meant to be doing?

You could have a word with Stow Brothers, they’ve had some decent folks on their books in the past, alternatively I know a great handyman who’ll happily do the lot for you.

Here’s what that looks like at both the low and high end for English and Welsh constituencies from the last election. There are no Tory constituencies where more than half of the voters have a HE qualification.

From docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Finally they convinced Suella. Dream team.

Said nobody.

The director of the FBI: "I don't read."

His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s Blue Monday so how about an act of kindness to others and giving blood.

Just incredible. So glad I went to the cinema to watch it too.

It’s funny, but I can’t see any of the tedious cranks who all *knew* last week that Starmer was happy to allow (and in many cases actually help) America invade Greenland admitting they were wrong.

Perhaps they’re having a lie in this morning?

Isn’t that where things are inevitably going to end up?

Given there’s no way back to a Pax Americana it’s a when not an if, so I’d imagine Starmer is waiting for that penny to drop with the nation and then allow himself to be led to the table by public opinion without needing to argue the case.

We experienced a truly incredible moment at the aquarium when this octopus decided to be a total jerk to its tankmate.

The Great British Firewall can’t come soon enough. We don’t need to be this porous, we do need some leverage.

This thread takes a bit of a turn a couple of posts down.

GitHub - GBSOSS/skill-from-masters: Stand on the shoulders of giants — Create AI skills built on proven methodologies from domain experts. Stand on the shoulders of giants — Create AI skills built on proven methodologies from domain experts. - GBSOSS/skill-from-masters

@steveportigal.bsky.social Have you seen this? You’re now part of the Borg. github.com/GBSOSS/skill...

I just can’t decide who to stick in there. Maybe I’ll just have them all queing up. Also, I’ll draw whoever you like in there for £20 (as long as they either deserve it or won’t mind).

Imagine pulling a Compo face over this perfectly reasonable proposal. There’s something so fucked up with men who love cars.

The 96th Percentile Anomaly: A Parent’s Guide to Deafness How undiagnosed deafness shaped my life, my trauma, and my career, and how to spot the signs in your child.

This was a fascinating read, heartbreaking but fascinating. Made me ask many questions of my own struggle with sound and finding some places difficult to listen in.

medium.com/the-parentin...

Beautiful stuff.

Good work.

Last one of his I read was The Sense of an Ending which was excellent. I think I might have to re-read a few over Xmas.

And now I'm wanting to read Barnes all over again. He was one of those authors I read too young.