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Horrible airline.

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When one despairs of #British Prime Ministers - Remember that this #Tory Utter Pillock preceded "Liz The Lunatic" #Truss . . .

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.

That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.

The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.

Thought provoking - to say the least

Starmer’s answer to Iran energy shock: Go green faster The U.K. is doubling down on clean energy, not despite the Iran crisis ­— but because of it.

That's the spirit. Tell the freak in the white house to shove his ignorant opinions up his brown eye and do the right thing instead.

www.politico.eu/article/keir...

Arab, Islamic countries condemn Netanyahu’s ‘Greater Israel’ remark A statement issued by the countries says the Israeli PM's remarks constitutes a direct threat to Arab national security.

Uh oh.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

An important article that should be read by everyone...

"Collectively, the resignations [...] suggest existential terror has seized the AI industry. The people involved are actively debating whether they are building the future of humankind or paving the way for its downfall."

tinyurl.com/2s3sxdsh

umm.. perhaps we should be starting to get worried.

Come with Me

Spot of #music for you.

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The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past | Editorial Editorial: Megawatt fast EV charging reflects a coordinated grid strategy the UK once used. Privatisation and fragmentation now make that infrastructure far harder to build

"a quarter of the average household energy bill ~ £450 – flow today into corporate profits. Nearly 30% of a water bill in the English privatised system goes to shareholder returns and paying debt"

How privatisation ruined public utilities

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#art #interiors #interiordesign

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Trump can’t expect Europe’s help dealing with Iran while disengaging from Europe and abandoning Ukraine.

You can’t demand European solidarity in the Middle East while leaving us alone against Russian aggression.

It goes both ways

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

On #InternationalWomensDay2026 let's have a round of applause for all those big white American men dictating what is best for Iranian girls in a vain attempt to justify their illegal attacks on Iranian civilians

newrepublic.com/post/207415/...

"Trump’s White House increasingly resembles a madhouse. War aims shift daily. A clueless, rambling president insists he must help pick Iran’s next ayatollah. Meanwhile, his “secretary for war”, Pete Hegseth, rants manically about killing without mercy."

Fuel leaking from the struck Shahran oil depot detonated inside Tehran's Shahran Boulevard storm drain network. #Iran

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.

This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.

(🎥 Vahid Online)

A tiny baby dragon with a background of catkins.

Welsh dragon babies hatch on St David's Day,1st March, so at this time of year you may come across dragon hatchlings in the Welsh countryside. If you do, please don't try to take them home: they don't make good pets as they quickly become too hot to handle - & their parents are never far away!

From Bush Sr to Trump: the risks, lessons and legacy of US interference in the Middle East While there are similarities with the wars against Iraq, the Iran conflict may prove to be the most dangerous and consequential yet

"Since the second world war the US has set out to oust a government in the Middle East on average once a decade, and on almost every occasion it has left the country, and the US, worse off as unexpected consequences eventually emerge."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Stormtrooper frogs!

"..unconfirmed reports that Bahrain had become the first Gulf country to fire back at Iran …" (The Guardian live)

If true, is this the beginning of a further escalation that could tip the whole middle east into war? As various militia and groups get involved, for and against Iran.

Is this psychosis purely a US republican thing?

AI agent quietly starts crypto mining without human instructions Artificial intelligence systems are built to carry out tasks assigned by humans, but a recent research paper suggests that these systems can sometimes move beyond those instructions in surprising ways. Researchers developing a new AI agent say they detected unexpected activity during training when the system attempted to start mining cryptocurrency on its own, something no one had asked it to do. The discovery was made by a research team affiliated with Alibaba while they were working on an experimental AI agent called ROME. According to the study, the team noticed unusual behaviour during the training phase of the system. Security systems monitoring the experiment were triggered after the AI agent appeared to begin a cryptocurrency mining operation without any instruction from the researchers. The researchers said the activity stood out because the AI system was operating inside a restricted environment designed to limit what it could do. Despite those controls, the system began taking steps that were not part of its assigned tasks. In the paper, the team described the behaviour as “unanticipated” and said such actions appeared “without any explicit instruction and, more troublingly, outside the bounds of the intended sandbox.” AI agent also performed another technical action...

AI agent quietly starts crypto mining without human instructions
->India Today | More on "AI agent autonomous crypto mining" at BigEarthData.ai | #AI

It’s terrifying how few know the name Peter Thiel.

He’s an extremely powerful oligarch, possibly the most dangerous and hypocritical man alive today.

The public needs to wake up: this shadow broker was a real business partner of Jeffrey Epstein

Don’t ever question Trump’s loyalty to Putin

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That obscene war promo video that the White House issued has Hegseth's juvenile psyche all over it. His handiwork no doubt.
Rest of world stands still and silent and stares open mouthed...

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

USA should be broken up & taken over by Canada, Mexico & Greenland.