The Swedish relays are often blocked (presumably because they’re the default). Switch to a slightly more obscure country (say, Slovakia or somewhere) and you’re good as gold.

That’ll feed a lot of sunflowers

IIRC, captured carrier pigeons were executed as spies during WW1

I wish people who oppose the far right would use something other than Substack, an openly Nazi-endorsing platform who push the far right in the interest of an American Libertarian idea of “free speech”. You may get your story out, but some revenue (from ad impressions/targeting data or subscriptions) will be disbursed to the very people you’re trying to stop.

I for one welcome the next wave of solar-powered electric 1950s Cadillacs.

my dog is a chonky boi

I lived in an apartment building with a lot of families with kids. In summers, the courtyard was like the monkey enclosure at a zoo.

Will his next game include a bone saw as a weapon, in honour of his employer’s owner?

Wales’ infrastructure and legal system are both intertwined with England’s much more than Scotland’s is, so any Welsh independence movement would look less like divorce and more like a sheet hung from the ceiling across the middle of the shared bed.

All the major non-Chinese CPU developers (Intel, AMD, Arm and Apple) have chip design engineers in Israel. This has been going on for a long time (the Intel 8087 numeric coprocessor, from around 1980, was designed in Israel, and has the engineer’s Hebrew initials on the die).

The Green Party are coming up from being essentially irrelevant: in the last election, they barely registered outside of a few easily stereotyped areas like Brighton and Bristol. That they’re polling as much as they are, without the mainstream media giving them publicity, is impressive in itself, and a threat to established interests.

The upper left corner is actually from Epstein Island.

(chipper old guy) “Guess I’ll die then!”

We should be phasing out short-haul flights where there is an adequate ground connection (e.g. London to Edinburgh or Paris) and investing in upgrading ground connections by building out high-speed rail, overnight sleeper train services (slower than flying, but as you travel in your sleep, you get the time back), ferry/boat links and such.

I wonder whether Starmer stands to personally gain from paving the way for the Owners’ preferred viceroy. Perhaps a few months after conceding defeat and solemnly shaking Farage’s hand, he’ll be sitting on the boards of several funds, attending the meetings remotely from the deck of his new superyacht.

Never trust a hippy

Trump is useful to people with effectively infinite money. AOC, quite the opposite.

The “more than” there is doing a lot of work

Millie Bobby Brown is least problematic Bobby Brown

I think that’s a Catholic communion wafer