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Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

This tickled me (posted by Rhoda Bracewell on the other place)

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

Well then welcome to the Streisand effect

My own subjective experience of X's default "For You" feed is that it feels like a procession feed of viral videos scraped from other sources and intercut with posts designed to provoke a certain kind of anger. Here's a cool clip from an old film! Here's why the "multi-faith prayer rooms" in airports are an Islamic conspiracy! Here's an amazing cheeseburger in Japan! Here's why wind turbines are evil! Here's an amazing way to slice a cucumber! Here's a black person committing a crime! Here's someone turning a shipping container into a swimming pool! Here's why young women in offices don't have real jobs! X is not the internet. It is an attention prison, seemingly designed to change people's minds, and which is apparently quite successful in doing so: a recent study of

Pretty good description of the Twitter ‘For You’ feed from @willdunn.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

Wolf 2 - Where is the expert to tell me all these rules?

Wolf 1 - the rules of engagement are stupid. We give no quarter plus, we ate the expert

Far more stylish than what I had in mind...

@manmademoon.bsky.social

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.

But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

Trump is ‘wrong’: Europeans slam US decision to ease Russia oil sanctions “We want to ensure that Russia does not exploit the war in Iran to weaken Ukraine,” the German chancellor said.

#Trump is 'wrong': Europeans slam US decision to ease russia oil sanctions

🖊️ Nette Nöstlinger, Hans von der Burchard and Clea Caulcutt

"We want to ensure that russia does not exploit the war in Iran to weaken #Ukraine," the German chancellor said.

www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Temptation - Heaven 17

Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

[at dinner with Tony the Tiger]
"Tony, can you say grace?"
"Yes, but it takes me a bit longer than everyone else".

China Girl - Bowie

Let's Go Crazy - Prince

Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer

Bigmouth Strikes Again could be the soundtrack to all Hegseth's pronouncements

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. Circumstances have made the Strait impassable

this means it is not open for transit

"I was sat on a train next to an elderly guy who was playing one of those number puzzle grid games. Then he told me he was a famous songwriter who wrote the hit 'Solitaire'. 'Neil', something..."
"Sedaka?"
"I think it's pronounced Sudoku"

With the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne?

He could be sent to Johannesburg

Elvis Costello's "Olver's Army"

The parents in the study were interested in the toy's potential to teach language and communication skills. However, their children frequently struggled to converse with it. Gabbo didn't hear their interruptions, talked over them, could not differentiate between child and adult voices and responded awkwardly to declarations of affection. When one five-year-old said, "I love you," to the toy, it replied: "As a friendly reminder, please ensure interactions adhere to the guidelines provided. Let me know how you would like to proceed."

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

these are literally the shittest things. ban them.

"I was sat on a train next to an elderly guy who was playing one of those number puzzle grid games. Then he told me he was a famous songwriter who wrote the hit 'Solitaire'. 'Neil', something..."
"Sedaka?"
"I think it's pronounced Sudoku"

"In the same public toilet was that Depp guy, buying something from the toilet vending machine"
"Johnny?"
"Yes, Ribbed For Her Pleasure"

"I went to a public toilet once, and inside was the top hatted lead guitarist of Guns N Roses"
"Slash?"
"Well, actually, I had a poo if you must know"

Thank god it's you instead of them

Putin always benefits from Trump's stupidity. Always. Funny that.

Build a giant straw to suck and drain it from one place to another.

If you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw — There it is. That's a straw, see? Watch it. Now my straw reaches across the room, and starts to drink your milkshake. I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Get Amazon to accelerate it's drone delivery service and have millions of drones drop shipping little oil parcels.

Birds

Birds are great at soaking up oil as evidenced by all those oil slick disasters.