Never interrupt your mistakes when you’re making enemies.

Presumably all ship owners should be able to reclaim this cost from the US. It being a direct result of Trump’s pointless war and now ceasefire deal.

Yeah, but marmalade sandwiches for all. I could get behind that.

Too little, too late

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

The problem with vibes based government is that the vibes are entirely detached from reality (see how far you can get through the thread without going full joker challenge).

One exception: people generally understand that today's contributions pay today's pensioners. But the rest: hmmmmmm.

I got as far as “younger think older get the best of it, older think younger” before I began to unravel.

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

xkcd.com/3228/

I couldn’t have put it better

Screen shot of the title of Ian Dunt’s latest podcast on an in-car Airplay. Title reads: “I buggered up the podcast - here’s the…”

Ah, @iandunt.bsky.social, never change

We are back

In which I tell Arthur why Britain is in trouble but not "broken”, why British pluralism is admirable yet fragile, how this country is both impressively global and weirdly insular, and why it is (even) better to be allowed to work for the BBC than to be invited to a royal visit.

Just sayin’

Happy Easter.

Man I have never been so happy for a random pilot I have never met before

NASA: "Hey Artemis astronauts, you're back early
Reid Wiseman: "Outlook's haunted"
NASA: "What?"
Wiseman: (loading a shotgun) "Outlook's haunted"

Or “Has bins”?

If I had NASA’s budget, I’d launch a copy of Windows 11 into the sun.

From the people who brought you last year's smash hit, "slowly discovering the limits of what you can coerce countries into with tariffs" comes this year's can't-miss series, "rapidly but still somehow too slowly discovering the limits of what you can coerce them into with bombs and Tomahawks."

sorry have to add my favorite one

You’re just hoping they bring you back some cheese, aren’t you?

Very weird experience to be reading along this very interesting article... and see myself mentioned towards the end. Was not expecting that! Anyway, this is a very thoughtful take on trying agentic coding help, written by a very strong skeptic of the tech.

How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper

Good morning and Happy Nigella Day! Because all is briefly right with the world and as a special treat, it's free to read. www.ft.com/content/4819...

Not as many brilliant April Fools paper on the ArXiv this year, but I think @ianbetteridge.com will appreciate this one:

"Do Papers with Titles Ending in a Question Mark Usually Have the Answer “No”?"

arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29936

can i be honest i don't give two shits about whether the king goes and visits the yanks or not

i just want us to go full throttle at whatever we need to do to strengthen the UK’s independence and thus ability to cope with the whims of swing voters in winconsin every 4 years

Fucker Has Nerve To Be 22 Years Old

Fucker Has Nerve To Be 22 Years Old

Does anyone miss the heady days when there was at least concepts of a plan?

I’m not willing to check, but hoping that there’s a Rick Astley hit awaiting anyone who clicks.

In Trump we've got the most transparent President in history in terms of saying what he's thinking and talking to journalists on the record.

And it's entirely useless because what's happening in his brain is a monkey playing cymbols.

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