Steve K

Presumably we’re all calling Farage’s party ЯEFOЯM from now on?

‘Proud to be French’: Author Ken Follett receives special citizenship Respect for French culture and traditions made obtaining citizenship easy choice

www.connexionfrance.com/news/proud-t...
Definitely not jealous @kenfollettauthor.bsky.social

Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

Photo of a man walking with a fully laden bicycle through a desert. The photo probably taken by Kazimierz Nowak, the person in the photo, via self-timer.

Kazimierz Nowak and his bicycle in an African desert, circa 1930s.

Nowak, a Polish traveler, reporter, and photographer, was probably the first person to cross Africa alone from north to south and then from south to north. He took more than 10,000 photos of his journey.

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Painting of woman wearing a green shirt carrying a bicycle.

Dame à Vélo (Lady with Bicycle)
Artist: Pham Luc

NEW: Important thread from @thenerve.news.

See key WhatsApp evidence & videos from Nathan Gill hearing now sentenced to 10 & half years in prison
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New soundtrack!
Made for the surf Scottish ‘Silent Roar’ film which is now on BFI player 🏄‍♀️

Didn’t ever think I’d get a chance to release this, but super fun to make its eccentric sound. Trombone heavy, colliery brass, marimbas, synths, choir and guitars…

🌊🎥 🌊

silvascreen.ffm.to/silent_roar

It also suggests that the only two options available are Jane Austen or Malcolm Tucker. Which, frankly, is bollocks.

I have an inchoate, perhaps indefensible, and yet powerful sense that conversation about this whole range of issues would be improved immeasurably if we could all just fucking stop one-upping one another over what is and isn't legitimately surprising. (Note: I am talking about conversation between actual human beings in this thread, and in other threads on Making Light. If you want to perform the "WTF, You Didn't Know That?!?" superiority-dance on the New York Times or the Washington Post, please, go with God.) There are things that amaze me because I didn't expect them; there are things I've known for a long time and which mostly inspire in me a tired sense of yes yes yes, that again, yes. This is almost certainly true for you as well, but you know something? They're different things. If we spend our goddamn lives sneering at one another over whether we were angered or amazed or appalled at exactly the right time or not, we'll have wasted our goddamn lives. So stop it.

Never forgot reading this, by @pnh.bsky.social, way back in 2010, and have taken it to heart. Haven't done it since.

Chilling

"He's increasing the likelihood of an intelligence failure"

Ex-MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger discusses President Trump's comments when questioned about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi while hosting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House

#Newsnight

Lord.

Nigel Farage wants to ban dual citizenship.

A quick reminder that the hypocrite-in-chief tried to add German citizenship to his own by lying about the place & length of his residence in Germany, & then had to withdraw his application when found out.

Next summer... see you at North Music Festival, Portugal!

➡️ www.northmusicfestival.com

A fantastic show.

Is your site hosted somewhere affected by the recent cloud outages? There are graphics missing.

Schertenleib from Saulxures.

best part of leaked emails is seeing how rich people write in private

Hmm, there are several makers of Langres and 1 of them at least most certainly has the funk. I'll try to find the producer's name.

Well yes, Délice is good but it's no Langres.

And there was me thinking you're a serious tech journal.

A 10k bike might sell to a high earner for 6k without the tax. OK. So who really benefits? Is it beyond the imagination to think, perhaps, that bike was overpriced by, oh say 4k to begin with?
A £2.5k cap would not be a terrible thing. There are wonderful bikes available up to that price.

£1.5 million raised. Target hit... and then some.

Huge congratulations to Music Venue Properties, who’ve officially smashed their investment target, raising over £1.5 million to put UK grassroots venues into permanent community ownership.

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Feels like a threat to me. "We have all your money, don't ask for it back or lives will be ruined."

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts Speaking exclusively to BBC News, CEO Sundar Pichai said the artificial intelligence boom had been an

Tech Bros: please don't take all your money back, it will ruin the lives of people who never wanted this in the first place.
BBC News - Google boss Sundar Pichai warns 'no company immune' if AI bubble bursts - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A statistic that concentrates the mind: In the first 6 months of 2025, China installed 250 GW of solar power capacity. This is around 150% of France's aggregate electricity production...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Israeli parliament backs death sentences bill affecting Palestinians Bill would impose death penalty on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians

Israeli parliament backs death sentences bill affecting Palestinians - on.ft.com/4otCESt via @FT