I hope they do. And I hope they're not too afraid to include the president.

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Small steps towards Rejoin

UK specific reminder: when oil hit the 2008 high of around $145 the pound bought about two dollars.

Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100 hours for 14 outside employers since his election in July 2024

📌 ICYMI — Revealed: The Staggering Amount of Time Nigel Farage has Spent on ‘Second’ Jobs Since Becoming an MP

The Reform UK leader has logged more than 1,100……

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/revealed-the-staggering-amount-of-time-nigel-farage-has-spent-on-on-second-jobs-since-becoming-an-mp/

The editor of The Indpendent is Geordie Greig, previously editor of the Daily Mail. So we know what their political bias is. It's just another right-wing Tory paper masquerading under a title, which is now out of date. The Owner, is Evgeny Lebedev who is now Lord Lebedev thanks to Boris Johnson.

Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways

Lord Paul Boateng described UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard to the spiritual sensibilities of its people…[it] beggars belief.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#StreetArt in #Paris 13th

Early 7th century Mosaic of the empress Theodora, dressed in ornate, jewelled covered robes and crown. The predominant colour of the mosaic is gold or deep brown.

For International Women's Day can I tip my hat to Theodora, daughter of a bear keeper, single mother, sometime street walker and actress, also saint, who moved on to conducting strategy meetings and making foreign policy as empress of the Eastern Roman Empire.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

£40,000 Russian Bribe: Reform’s Shame Exposed YouTube video by Ben Goldsborough MP for South Norfolk

£40,000 in Russian bribes.

Reform’s former leader in Wales is now serving ten and a half years in prison.

Foreign interference in UK politics is not theory. It is fact. We must defend our democracy.

youtube.com/shorts/3hd17...

Wow, that takes me back. Back when they were a range of windowing OS, (Windows 1.0 was just a shell) and DOS still ruled PCs (plus rare CP/M)

Russian tech found in drone that hit RAF base in Cyprus As Moscow declares it is ‘supportive’ of Iran, the first evidence of Kremlin equipment in the war can be revealed

Russian tech found in drone that hit RAF base in Cyprus

As Moscow declares it is ‘supportive’ of Iran, the first evidence of Kremlin equipment in the war can be revealed

www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Unpopular opinion but gas prices have always been too low.

Cheap gas means urban sprawl, giant useless pick up trucks, shitty transit options, shitty rail options and dangerous or no bike & pedestrian options.

Oh and burning less gas means the climate apocalypse gets postponed

Too accurate

The Aurora Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
The unusual Earth-sky collaboration was witnessed in March of 2017 in Iceland.

"All the President's Men" was a warning Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay.

“All the President’s Men” was a warning

Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
www.salon.com/2026/03/07/a...

As the [UK-EU strategic] partnership continues, the Government should also look at what more we can do to support our creative industries. We need specific commitments on touring to allow artists to travel visa free and to carry their instruments and equipment without prohibitive bureaucracy. Catherine West MP, Hornsey and Friern Barnet

The music industry is one of the UK’s strongest creative exports, yet the average musician has lost £11,545 of their income since we left the EU. European Movement UK are campaigning for reciprocal access for British contractors, musicians and performers travelling to the EU for work.

Eight-year-old girl, Liza Ostapenko, has become famous for greeting Ukrainian soldiers returning from Russian captivity.

They have now met her to express their gratitude.

Described by them as a symbol of hope, she has now been visited by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant defenders.

Morning, friends.

I’m alive.
But last night was terrible.

russia launched 29 missiles
And 480 shaheds over Ukraine -
Tsirkons, Kalibrs, Iskanders -
At peaceful cities,
At people sleeping in their homes.

Spring ice melt #flowing from Mt. Rainier, taken 6/4/22 #BlueSkyArtShow #photography

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa...

EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6.

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Have some more ducks!

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

If there is evidence of irregularities at some polling stations at the Gorton and Denton byelection, then that evidence should be properly and promptly investigated in accordance with due process by the proper authorities. And that is what is being done. Any denunciations of the election result should thereby await the result of this process. The losing party spokesperson candidly admitted the day after the election that any irregularities were not enough to have affected the result, which was emphatic. But this did not prevent the losing party’s leader from loudly promoting grave allegations of sectarian voting, corruption and dishonesty. Yet if the irregularities are not upheld on investigation as invalidating the result, it is unlikely that those findings will be shouted about. And such a response is irresponsible. Parts of the United Kingdom have a history of sectarian violence. Parts of the United Kingdom have histories of racial tension. Responsible politicians should not exploit such allegations for partisan advantage. Making such allegations is to play with fire, literally. Responsible politicians should be careful to avoid subverting the very fundamentals on which a functioning democracy rests. Such “poisoning of the wells” is familiar to those following the politics of the United States, and it lay behind the lethal violence that took place in Washington DC on 6th January 2021.

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The poisoning of the wells

Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy

This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Use of language that conveys to voters that immigrants are a threat creates a fear response that drives them into the arms of the far right - no matter the policies being proposed.

The language in this op-ed is almost textbook designed to drive voters toward Farage, Reform and Tommy Robinson.

Imagine how much pain this man was in before he died.

Imagine hating people with melanin so much that you don't care.