David Lance Callahan

Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation Paying farmers to swap cattle for conservation has helped sway the balance in biodiversity’s favour

Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece.

Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging.

Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Very impressive to see @georgemonbiot.bsky.social get a round of applause from the audience (and a kind of sulky downward stare from the panel) for explaining how a 1953 CIA coup against Iranian oil nationalisation got us here : Showing that telling the deeper truth might seem.hard but can be done.

Pete Hegseth: "It was unfortunate that the Brits didn't, from day 1, say go ahead & have access but we got there, we got there, & thats now part of the way that we're operationalising bomber runs, and when we say more to come, its more fighter squadrons, its more capabilities.."

That's all they released (assuming you've included the shared EP with Dog Faced Hermans and Sperm Wails). Wildly, I've just had an old VHS of a Turncoats live set transferred to MP4 for the guitarist, which we'll upload to YT at some point soon ...

YouTube video by VinylVague The Turncoats - What's So Funny (UK, 1986)

@glennairey.bsky.social

Are we familiar with this lost classic? Bought it 40 years ago and it never gets mentioned. Know David Lance Callahan is a fan too.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQj...

#5debutalbums8589

Step On It - Bogshed

Trump to Rubio: "Your next one is gonna be Cuba. He's waiting but he says, 'Let's get this one finished first.' We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen."

🤢 Is the whole world full of damn pedophiles and rapists?!

Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.

Stewart Lee hoisting aloft Epic Soundtracks' 'Debris' LP for RSD2026 - April 18. Stew was kind enough to write sleevenotes for this @glassmodernr.bsky.social @thepastels.bsky.social
@chrisseventeen.bsky.social @thelilactime.bsky.social
@nofansrecords.bsky.social @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social

A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in).

The ship was, by any definition, defenceless.

Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown.

Infamy.

Map showing Dahieh in red and orange

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon.

Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

What's so weird about the Telegraph's framing here is "He fundamentally doesn't like Trump, and he doesn't like this Iran thing" are probably opinions held by a supermajority of British voters.

Opposing any war even without knowing anything about it will have a better rate of being right, statistically, than the usual sensible neolib support for almost all of them.

Every empire believes itself to be different from previous empires. And every empire is wrong.

Sure, all the other wars for the past half century have been massive fucking disasters, destabilising whole regions for zero tangible benefit, but for some reason the stupid left just can't see that this one is different.

Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

Me,about to type something just now..

My brain: DON'T TYPE ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET YOU DON'T WANT USED AGAINST YOU IN A COURT OF LAW

Middle East war threatens ‘marginal’ progress in Gaza since ceasefire, WHO warns Humanitarian crisis “still catastrophic” and supply disruptions in Middle East preventing $6 million worth of medicines from reaching Gaza, says WHO.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is "still catastrophic" and has seen only a "marginal" improvement since the ceasefire, with worse to come due to the Middle East war, senior WHO officials told reporters today.

The Spectator @spectator 9h G... Keir Starmer came under colossal personal pressure from Trump in a series of bully-ing phone call exchanges which one source, with Whitehall understatement, calls 'scratchy'. Another source says: Trump was very angry, demanding, "Why won't you let me use the bases?" We frequently talk about being shoulder to shoulder with the Americans but, as far as he is concerned, when it mattered to him we were not.' Matt Collins, the deputy national security adviser, was despatched to talk to Elbridge Colby, the US undersecretary for war, and 'got both barrels' as well. Tim Shipman

It demonstrates just how astronomically detached from reality the British right is, that they believe this makes Starmer look *bad*.

From X (sorry): @DropSiteNews • 6h ••• Peter Beinart: If the United States and Israel had not launched an attack on a country that poses no serious threat to them, those 180 school girls would be alive today. Matt Schlapp (interjecting): "They'd be alive in a burka... This is a barbaric society."

Discuss.

Middle East crisis live: Israeli military tells hundreds of thousands to flee Beirut Evacuation order issued for all of the southern suburbs with up to 700,000 people thought to be affected

It used to be incumbent on states to not simply massacre civilians inside their destroyed houses and we have now moved decisively to “If you stay, you die when we destroy your town to rubble”. It was the wars in Iraq and Syria that established that precedent, not the destruction of the Gaza Strip.

Labour's strategic flaw is that positioning yourself as the "least worst option" doesn't work if theres a party less bad than you

Did they, though, Home Secretary? Is there any *actual evidence* that the post-2021 migration surge was a problem for any reason other than the numbers made racists angry?

How Iran war may accelerate the fall of US empire This conflict could prove to be Washington's most perilous adventure yet - the classic story of a superpower overreaching

‘Suez did not end the British Empire overnight. But it exposed something fatal: that military capability without political legitimacy and force without restraint accelerate decline rather than prevent it … Iran may yet prove to be Washington’s Suez.’

I’m realizing that, at some point in seeing the Gaza genocide, a flame went out in my heart I haven’t seen since. A steady drumbeat of atrocities and brazen sadism rewarded with, at best, tacit complicity, if not open bloodlust and frothing glee, eventually deadened something in me and left me cold.

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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“He had a feeling” is a crazy reason to start a war