Tuffy

Wut?

‘Everyone’s calling’: demand for private jets from UK firm soars by up to 300% amid Iran war Insider says demand is far outstripping supply and calls for creation of air bridges to evacuate people from Middle East

It’s like Dunkirk but they’re all wankers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I can’t believe the KC Fed jumped the gun on this. Like, the Fed has a consultation open about skinny master accounts and is probably going to have something ready by the end of the year.

Look, I’m no fan of Gary Gensler but this seems a bit harsh

SpaceX: the final frontier of IPOs Can Elon Musk’s moonshot deliver the mooted $1.75tn valuation?

SpaceX probably has revenues of less than $20bn and loses money after the merger with xAI, but is targeting a $1.75 TRILLION IPO.

So Alphaville got two experts to go through how Musk will probably try to pull off what could be the biggest bagholder operation in history. www.ft.com/content/5bf1...

World Book Day is 23 April. The death date of both Shakespeare and Cervantes. It’s an international UNESCO initiative.

Today’s “World Book Day” is only celebrated in the UK and Ireland. It should be called “North-West European Archipelago Book Day”.

Just a reminder that the military wants you to blame AI when a school gets blown up or whatever because it helps shield the people who are actually responsible

No?

Lou Holtz, Notre Dame’s Last Championship Football Coach, Dies at 89

To use the online lingo, the Kurds aren’t NPCs. If they choose to trust the US this time, despite all the evidence that it’s a bad idea, that’s on them.

Counterpoint: no it can’t

MY CULTURE IS NOT YOUR PROM DRESS!

Honestly, this is a “fool me once” sitch.

USA! USA! USA!

Sláinte y’all

WTF?

Newsom likens Israel to ‘apartheid state,’ questions future military support The California governor’s comments came as he promoted his new memoir in Los Angeles.

the "gradually and then all at once" structure of public opinion moves is a wild thing, and one way you know it's happened is when politicians of the moderate / poll-driven / cynical type jump in with takes that just recently were seen as provocatively ideological www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Huh, don’t realize Clubber Lang lived in Oregon

Is the UChicago law review okay?

Iran has choked off 90% of the world's chili reserves by closing the Straights of Hormel

if you make an NFT of your container and it sinks to the bottom of the Straight of Hormuz you still have your NFT

An opportunity for FinTech?

Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.

Sure, why not www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

It has a drug addled owner?

People sometimes ask why I left Twitter for Bluesky but earlier I posted here about being HIV+ for thirty years and none of the replies have told me I deserved it, I should have died, and angrily denounced how much it cost to develop the medication that kept me alive

These guys are so funny b/c they could quietly raking in money with the easiest and most boring business model (people give them money for free!) but they just can’t hep themselves

Oxford commas fix this

eah, it’s great. I would be very happy not to have basically our starting team an then some always off the table b/c of international duty, not to mention the extra wear and tear.

Wales is the new Italy, basically

Tom O'Toole, Nick Timoney, Jacob Stockdale, Jack Conan, and Rónan Kelleher come into the Ireland team to face Wales.

Nathan Doak to make his debut off the bench, which also includes Tom Stewart, Michael Milne and Tom Farrell.