Sarah Mackie

Misquoting Orwell is the perfect end to her tenure

a picture of a pig on a carousel with the words status written above it Alt: Status: with a wee girl on her face getting dragged around by a carousel

Posting what you thought was a gif while on your coffee break at work to find later it was just a static image. *sigh*

It's almost like the President of the United States of America and his lackeys don't understand trade deals.

He cannot 'cut all trade with Spain' because the trade deal the USA has is with the whole European Union.

Yet another reason why the EU is a powerful trading bloc,

And Brexit was stupid.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This sounds like what a teenage boy playing Fortnite would say.

I’m just flinging things in the Clyde now

UK supermarket chain Iceland drops trademark dispute with Iceland Company promises ‘rapprochement discount’ with shoppers from country after decade-long action in EU court

TIL that the country of Iceland had to take the company Iceland to court because it had trademarked the name Iceland and it was preventing companies from Iceland doing business in the EU. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

Wholly unprepared for the consequences. As the whole operation was from the start.

I suspect Sánchez is expressing the majority view of the EU population, unlike his fellow Member State leaders and those in Brussels.

Trump's dad was in fact born in New York City

Économisez 90 % sur Planet of Lana sur Steam Dans un monde déchiré entre nature et machines, une fille et son amie ne peuvent compter que sur leur amitié pour survivre et protéger ce qu'elles ont de plus précieux. Une histoire d'espoir, de deuil...

Planet of Lana (2023) at -90% on Steam!

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Recommended!

YouTube video by Star Wars ONE HOUR OF DANCING MON MOTHMA | Andor Season 2 | Disney+

2026 so far has me feeling like Mon Mothma

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In a dark, starry space environment, a long, industrial-looking spacecraft with bright blue exhaust fumes from its engine pushes a huge curved golden structure that reflects light on its grid-like surface.

Andrew Stanton's In the Blink of an Eye (Hulu, 2026) gives me one of the biggest ships of the year so far: the Phoenix 5.

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Our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has a hiccuppy past It may erupt every few centuries, but don’t panic!

If you need a momentary distraction right now — and by heavens (literally) we all do — then here's a story about how our local supermassive black hole undergoes episodes of cosmic indigestion. The last one was just over a century ago!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/our-milky-...

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My statement on the deeply concerning escalation of the conflict following the United States and Israel’s strikes on Iran.

Satellite photo of the Namib Desert. The top two-thirds are covered in red, undulated sand dunes, leading down to a dry river bed, seen in bands of blue and white. Along the river bed, black dots of vegetation curl around the pointed tips of dunes.

#PPOD: Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the Namib Desert on 7 January 2012. The blue-and-white area is the dry riverbed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close to the river’s main route, while salt deposits appear bright white. 🧪

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Blair 2.0

Asserting international law only when it is in your own/allies interest means not being committed to international law at all. Being dragged into a war by more powerful allies against direct interest and better judgement means having no strategic autonomy. The UK Govt is in a mess.

NEW: The Lib Dems are demanding MPs get a vote on allowing the US to use UK air bases.

Leader Ed Davey says:

“No matter how the Prime Minister tries to redefine offensive as defensive, this is a slippery slope. He must not let Trump drag Britain into another prolonged war in the Middle East.”

Screenshot of an Affinity design software screen with a portrait of a Red Rebel in the middle

I’ve been looking to dump Adobe for a long time and just started using Affinity which is great so far. The surprising thing is that it’s also free which seems unbelievable. Definitely worth giving it a go if you are sick of paying subscriptions.

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan

this bread is beautiful

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

Dumped the images off of one of my Gameboy Cameras... found this pic of the moon.

There were eight others, but this was the nice one.

This shot took my biggest lens and a stand made of Lego to hold everything still.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to