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It’s okay sir we can just reload the save file from last month

Five cut-out-and-keep bookplates Each reads ‘ex-libris’ then has a space for the owners name. The design reflects the genre: Sci-fi: Nanotechnology tracks the book, monitors its condition and summons a retrieval drone if necessary. Horror: An ancient curse creates feelings of unease, rising to apalling, abject horror unless the book is returned. Romance : Acts as an invite to the county's grandest ball, but revoked if not returned in a polite and timely manner. Crime: Tailed by a dishevelled Gumshoe who Seems cynical, but loves books more than dames and bourbon. Fantasy: A fellowship of heroes lead the borrower on an epic quest to return the tome to its Rightful shelf.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

This @WSJ.com headline and few paragraphs are the story in a nutshell: the blame for this stupid, reckless, doomed war is all his, abetted by his circle Republican sycophants in the White House and Congress.

The Republican Party's Nazi Problem Is Getting Worse. It Should Care Young conservatives are increasingly expressing support for Hitler and aligning themselves with Nazis. The GOP has largely shrugged in response.

All the Young Groypers from John Avlon www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... via @rollingstone.com

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe?

Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban.

Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion.

If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

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That was also true in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

This film is also how I learned that, until 1991, the New Zealand government owned a large portfolio of high-end hotels in some of the country's most appealing locations.

If the homeless are going to be moved on, the area outside Paul Goldsmith's electorate office would be a good start.

The real spend by jacinda and labour
Missing nothing
Absolute lies by the nz kakalition govt

Half of high caliber ammo seized in Mexico from US plant, Mexican govt says Mexican officials shared the data in response to an investigation by ICIJ and media partners.

While the trafficking of guns into Mexico from the U.S has been widely reported, less is known about the millions of rounds of ammunition experts say are flowing across the southern border each year.

Read our recent reporting:

Alternative Platforms Aren't Fringe Anymore - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

A lot of journalists and researchers seem to be under the impression that alternative platforms — Gab, 4chan, etc — are dying websites. But that’s really not the case. This one from @heyhank.bsky.social is worth the read

openmeasures.io/2026-alterna...

The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization A growing transnational network known as the “764 Network” is exploiting children online through social media, gaming platforms, and chat apps. Victims are groomed and coerced into producing abusive c...

A growing transnational network known as “764” is exploiting children online—targeting them through social media, gaming platforms, and chat apps, coercing victims into abuse and self-harm while spreading extremist imagery and violence to gain status within underground networks.

they are saying what they have been saying which is “ethnic cleansing” in Republican

A snow-covered yurt is shadowed in front of two massive ribbons of green and pink light. The first ribbon shoot up straight into the sky to the left of the yurt while the other swirls closer to the horizon to the right of the image. The photo is framed by the silhouettes of spruce trees.

We got an #aurora alert tonight, but it's cloudy. So instead, I'm going through my photos from this time last week when the skies were alive. I won't be forgetting this night any time soon. #NorthernLights

What took him so long to realise?

Gas station sign with rising gas prices. Title says “We make a lot of money”: Trump downplays rise in gas prices during Iran war.” #Car Dependency #OilDependency

North America stubbornly didn’t learn from the 1970s Energy Crisis, and largely doubled down on oil and car-dependent suburban growth (and lately, bigger vehicles) built on assumed cheap energy.

As we face another oil shortage and potential lengthy crisis, will North America learn THIS TIME? 2/2

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

Pretty sure there are some ICE agents who need to meet this fate.

Investors cash-in on state housing sell-off in Christchurch Nearly 150 Kāinga Ora homes have been sold in Christchurch since July, with some later flipped for large profits.

The government has sold around 150 state houses in Christchurch, most of which have been bought by investors. It has caused the first decline in the city’s public housing supply since at least 2017 dlvr.it/TRT7lc

I slept in today, so probably going tomorrow. There must have been a human traffic jam at the grand reopening.

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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You've all heard of the Resource Curse: countries are impoverished by rich resources in their territories, as these trigger colonial looting.
Now we see the Base Curse: if you host a US base, you don't enhance your security. You make yourself a target.

Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition

🚨 Read about how sensible nations planned to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels (spoiler alert: Britain not included 🙄). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photovoltaic Plants with Battery Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants - Fraunhofer ISE The newest edition of the study by the Fraunhofer ISE on the electricity generation costs of various power plants shows that photovoltaic systems now produce electricity much more cheaply than either ...

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

Hasn't he always been a crank magnetist?

Iran - a message to the PM YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

@ledbydonkeys.org strike again.
A consistent yet rare voice of reason in public life.

People on Twitter crying and crying about some gay white boy who went to Mamdani's Iftar at Gracie Mansion and saying why doesn't he go try and do that in a Muslim country...half the State Department's MENA staff are gay white boys

Were there any highlights on YouTube etc for those who couldn't attend?