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Driver billed for circling Earth 25 times at the speed of sound - RÚV.is A coach driver in Egilsstaðir flatly refuses to pay nearly ISK 20.000.000 for (allegedly) driving almost a million kilometres in January. This would mean his coach circling the Earth 25 times at the s...

Breaking news about the new driving taxes in Iceland

More, I think. Young people generally have much more media literacy than older people.

Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

Repayment thresholds now just a touch over min wage!

Our greatest ally at it again. With friends like these… www.itv.com/news/2026-01...

Maybe the wrongest part of a generally very wrong thread. Some of the books I’ve most enjoyed reading I picked up serendipitously from a second-hand bookshop not knowing anything about them or the author.

This piece is good on how the people running the US are pure posters. They're obsessed with posting on Twitter, finding something new to post on there, and running the FBI is just a great source of new #content. Cool vision of the 'everyone is just a content creator' future we're almost already at.

reads like the list of countries attending Russia's May 9 parades

Hope the military bases you already had the right to are worth it!

Torching your relationship with your closest allies for the square root of nothing all takes some doing.

The Strong Will Suffer What They Must Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris

“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...

This Is the End Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.

"We have seen empires fall and civilizations crumble. But we’ve almost never seen a people renounce their leadership of the world—all at once, in full public view. That is what has happened in the 365 days since January 20, 2025."

Is Washington’s friendship in the room with us right now?

From the pics community on Reddit: Here's me a British soldier doing nothing for America in Afghanistan 2009. Explore this post and more from the pics community

Nice thread of people recalling their friends being killed not doing anything for America in Iraq and Afghanistan. www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/KCD...

“49 other nations have, to a greater or lesser extent, been involved in the international campaign, sharing its triumphs and its tragedies. And of these none have been more supportive than Denmark.” archive.nytimes.com/rendezvous.b...

This scumbag. Article 5 has been triggered once, by America. Soldiers from allies from the UK to Denmark died because the US requested their help. And this fucking president says he’s not sure allies would come to the US’s defence.

What is the charge?

Wow. That's very insightful. It *is* a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of something—a wife. If you'd like, I could help you draft a "Wife Marriage Acquisition Plan" or a "Good Fortune Business Plan."

‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says Timothy P. Broglio, a Vatican senior cleric, expressed concern at President Donald Trump’s U.S. military policy as he pursues Greenland.

The Catholic archbishop of the U.S. military services said it “would be morally acceptable to disobey” orders if troops considered them against their conscience.

Pathetic. If you’re going to threaten an invasion at least have the dignity to recognise why your victims might be scared.

Prerequisites are getting rid of your leader and implementing a total whole-of-society transformation to ensure that what happened can never happen again. Good luck!

I met three cyber think tank people yesterday - two Germans, one Pole. All said they viewed the US as a rival if not an outright enemy. Changed their mind in the last year.

I am not sure Americans grasp the degree of damage that’s been done. Trump could leave office tomorrow and it would take a generation to fix relations with the countries that used to be the US’s closest friends.

Maaaaate

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

Trade war. Tariffs. We didn’t ask for this and don’t want it but enough is enough.

Goldland

Enough appeasement. Europe didn’t ask for this and doesn’t want this but if the Americans want to behave like this it’s time to stand up for ourselves.

OpenAI brings advertising to ChatGPT in push for new revenue $500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic

Gemini is better anyway www.ft.com/content/ec16...

Yeah sure but you wouldn’t be arrested at the border when you tried to return to the UK even if you hadn’t managed lol