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There's a petrol station near me, had to do some pickups so I ended up passing by it 4 times today.
9.30 am: Diesel 172
10.30 am: Diesel 174
12.00: Diesel 178
3.30: Diesel 179

QATAR TO FULLY SHUT GAS LIQUEFACTION ON WEDNESDAY, TWO SOURCES CLOSE TO MATTER SAY QATAR WOULD NEED 2 WEEKS TO RESTART GAS LIQUEFACTION AFTER FULL SHUTDOWN, SOURCES SAY, CITING INITIAL ESTIMATES ONCE RESTARTED, QATAR WOULD NEED AT LEAST ANOTHER 2 WEEKS TO REACH FULL CAPACITY,

Müller right

SPAIN'S PM SANCHEZ: THIS IS HOW HUMANITY'S GREAT DISASTERS START, CANNOT PLAY RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH DESTINY OF MILLIONS

[my longest loudest sigh]

The Trump Administration Tried Hubrismaxxing against some Adversariods and is getting Historymogged

The Cabinet will today approve legislation to dissolve NAMA, the State’s crash-era ‘bad bank’, and to conclude the special liquidation of IBRC (Anglo and Irish Nationwide). Both will have remnant operations transferred to the NTMA, closing a major chapter for Ireland. @virginmedianews.bsky.social

European gas futures open more than 20% higher

Shipping just officially got more expensive. Introducing the “War Risk Surcharge”.

www.hapag-lloyd.com/en/services-...

There's a volcano in Iceland called Svartsengi. For the last few years it has rattled away. It occasionally (and suddenly) erupts into life firing molton rock far into the air before dying down again.
Which makes it the closest analogy I can think of for US policy in the Middle East

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has been killed and his body has been recovered per Israeli media outlets

Epstein
Pictures
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Commander

never look at your phone when you get up to take a leak. someone might have started an idiot war

I have many times. Unfortunately it's closed now

Black and white pic of antartic explorer Tom Crean. He has a pipe in his mouth. In his arms are four of the cutest fluffy puppies with black patches on white fur. The puppies look well cared for, he looks content with his lot

It even comes with puppies

Tom Crean (explorer) - Wikipedia

I think most people have a favourite Wikipedia page. I love this biography of Tom Crean, come back to it whenever I need something inspiring to read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cre...

Common Peephole     She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it.   That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston

Pulp poetry.

Bear in mind, this guarantee of sledgehammering food safety is coming at the exact same time they have already shot food safety in the face via DOGE cuts and such.

Like, last *April* they killed tracing salmonella levels in poultry. Last *August* the CDC stopped tracking 6 foodbourne pathogens.

KREMLIN: THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY IS ENSURED

2. Congress can't block the replacements for the illegal tariffs BUT they can harry the administration with public hearings & constant criticism.

3. The grandstanding justices at Scotus deserve MUCH less credit than the true heroes at the Court of International Trade, who kicked all this off.

2/2

New: Drones are redrawing the map of war in Ukraine.

Relentless surveillance has pushed the battlefield 20km beyond the front, in both directions. Supplies arrive by drone; the wounded leave by robot.

This is the “kill zone” — and the future of warfare.

👉 ft.com/kill-zone

McKenzie Crook is a genius. This and Detectorists are just super entertainment

For those who think it important for the Nation to impose more tariffs, I understand that today's decision will be dis-appointing. All I can offer them is that most major decisions affecting the rights and responsibilities of the American people (including the duty to pay taxes and tariffs) are funneled through the legislative process for a reason. Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people's elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man. There, deliberation tempers impulse, and compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions. And because laws must earn such broad support to survive the legislative pro-cess, they tend to endure, allowing ordinary people to plan their lives in ways they cannot when the rules shift from day to day. In all, the legislative process helps ensure each of us has a stake in the laws that govern us and in the Nation's future. For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent. For others, it may not seem so obvious. But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today's result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.

These words by Supreme Justice Gorsuch should be printed, in full, on tomorrow’s front pages.

All is wonderful. Except the weather. Please do something about the weather

Well, Epstein is an anagram of ET penis, so maybe they were there all along...

Things may be grim right now but at least they’re also spectacularly stupid

Ha. Their memory is still more coherent than my career path :)

Cc @rajakorman.bsky.social

It'll be an acronym.
Offshore Euro Unlimited Funding. Or Oeuf.
Which will inevitably lead to everyone calling it the egg system.
Which in turn is great news for me because I can write an "Egg Scrambled" headline every time something goes wrong with it

ECB to offer repo line access to almost all central banks - Central Banking Euro liquidity ‘granted by default’ unless breaching AML/CFT rules or sanctions, says Lagarde

ECB updates repo facility to provide standing access to nearly all monetary authorities www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...