Lorcan Roche Kelly

The kicker line in this is just brilliant (the whole thing is outstanding)

Yep. It's like a bank responding to a robbery by stealing the wheels off the getaway car while the robbery is still happening.
The robbers might get everything they wanted from the bank, but they definitely didn't win

Exactly. Unilaterally imposed tariffs might be dumb, but unwinding them just makes accountants and @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social busy.
This is a different kettle of fish entirely
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Time is relative

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The problem with looking for hidden enriched Uranium in a very big and mountainous country is that it can just become a Fission Expedition.

I have suggested Tortilla as a more nuanced alternative. bsky.app/profile/raja...

🇭🇺🇺🇦 The Hungarian government showed what the cash and gold bars seized from Ukrainian collection vehicles look like.

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Serendipity

US is an airline now?

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”.

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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
Implicate
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.