Chris Clegg 💙

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Spain v Cape Verde is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ highest points are volcanoes in Macaronesia.

Spain tops out at Mount Teide in Tenerife. Cape Verde tops out at Pico do Fogo on Fogo.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

On the eve of the #FIFAWorldCup support for Scotland’s team is provided by one of the famous snow ploughs. By @ForthBridges

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

A moody sky over Edinburgh taken from a train on the Forth Bridge above North Queensferry. A cruise ship is visiting.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@BerisfordRon That statement isn’t even 100% true.
1 in 400 twin births have different fathers probably.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@UndisScot I was walking down that street as you posted.
But because I’m not welded or even wedded to my phone I only see the post now, about half an hour too late!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.

Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.

Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.

But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.

The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
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[tern @1goodtern]

Wow.
This graph puts the speed of this outbreak into context.

It's not an illusion.
This is *very fast*.
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https://t.co/6Vd7ZOFI6G

[North End Podcast @nepdailypod]

🚨Football in 2026 is a complete MESS

- Southampton win over 210 minutes, then Middlesbrough take their place despite losing, completely ruining Hull preparation.

- Celtic practically handed the SPL by VAR.

- Arsenal given the Premier League title thanks to VAR.

- Senegal protest an incorrect VAR call, go on to win the game, then have the AFCON taken off them.

Football should be decided between 22 blokes on a pitch not in offices or VAR rooms. Absolute shambles. It’s not football anymore.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@BerisfordRon 12 minutes to 11. Could be am or pm.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It’s incredible how “if we meet people’s basic needs, they’ll stop working” and “billionaires are hard workers” coexist in people’s minds.

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Last week, I thought the pandemic potential for ANDV was small

Infinitesimally small

Less than 1%

[Johanna Saunders 🕷🐇 @JohannaSaunders]

The UK voted the Tories out of office with a vengeance after more than a decade of mismanagement, corruption and scandals, so naturally the UK then opts to vote them all back into power again, under a different name, alongside the architect of the UKs decline via Brexit.
FFS.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

The Forth looking particularly attractive on this May morning.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@elementalPaul I saw someone taking a picture of the first kind of blossom this morning, but no blue sky then, so couldn’t have been you.
Very photogenic blossom there though, evidently.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

According to retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson: During an emergency meeting On Saturday Trump tried to “use the nuclear codes” on Iran and he was stopped by General Dan Caine.

According to Johnson “there is seriously something wrong with Trump”:

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@edinpotter63 @4golfonline I’m going to have to switch to my right pocket…

…obviously where I’ve been going wrong all these years.

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@edinpotter63 @Wayne_adams83 You must care a little bit @edinpotter63 because it’s Blackburn today!

[Chris Clegg 💙 @Saintchris13]

@BerisfordRon To be fair, they haven’t actually missed it yet on their current trajectory. I’m reserving judgement until they actually go past.