Lady Jek

I've never been more pleased that the markets take this clown and his traveling circus at near-face-value.

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

Morning all!😀

close up image of the face of a Dassie (rock hyrax) looking fierce but also very very cute with big black eyes and a prominent black button nose, with two triangular vampire teeth showing

das soll doch sicher -zaehnCHEN sein....

Off to give Claude a fatal dose of House of Leaves

Fine, keep one leg out of the covers while you sleep. Just don’t come hopping to me after a monster bites it off.

SUPERking, I didn't know such a thing even existed! Ok, fair :)

Um. Looked up the video, and that looks pretty complicated. Why don't you just grab the corners of the duvet from inside of the duvet cover, and fold the duvet cover over the duvet inner....?

FT is honestly a shiny beacon of sanity and quality journalism! If you can't afford the hefty subscription fees for the whole offering, the FT Edit option gives you a selection of 4-6 articles a day that cover a broad spectrum of issues (including this article) for only R85 a month!

This is going to be one of those evergreen posts, isn't it

Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

ouch

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

A victory for Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “To be honest, I don’t even understand now how anyone can call on others to follow the norms and principles of international law. In fact, it no longer exists.”

Tehran residents warned of acid rain after oil storage attack Iran’s Red Crescent Society tells locals to avoid exposure as capital is engulfed in smoke

Tehran residents warned of acid rain after oil storage attack ft.trib.al/1vHcns1

Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?

Posted 7 months ago, and, well...

Scene from Hungary tonight as crowds rally against the Russian-backed Orban regime.

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

Middle East war live: Israel expands attacks to Iranian oil storage facilities [FREE TO READ] Iran targets infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait as Middle East conflict enters ninth day

Our live blog on this shit show is up and running again. Just a mounting nightmare - as.ft.com/r/bbc5b47c-1...

Alleged organised crime boss Ralph Stanfield and his wife, Nicole Johnson, captured chunks of government’s multi-billion-rand Cape Town central line reconstruction project, with the apparent support of Prasa security head Alexio Papadopulo.

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

i think that one of the things that nobody in the mainstream talks about (yes i know we complain about it on here all the time if you think this is the mainstream oh boy) is how successfully politicians have divested themselves of any responsibility for anything at all

We seen so many stories about the costs of going green. Wait till the stories of the cost of climate change start biting.

And people say Bluesky is a bubble! ;)

Opinion | Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic

“The entire technocratic nation-state that we currently have in the advanced capitalist democracies is a technologically contingent institutional complex. The problem that A.I. presents is that it changes the technological contingencies quite profoundly.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...

Tiny tangent - it will never cease to irritate me that a truly mediocre thinker like Klein gets to interview the Very Interesting People!

Wow. But also, he's obviously right.