Sara Webb

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

It must be so frustrating to be a Conservative politician and to have all these fantastic ideas for how to make the country better so soon after having 14 years in power when all they did was make the country worse.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Rémi Kasprzyk @KasprzykRemi]

Cette photo mérite absolument tous les prix. Elle a même sa place au Louvre.

Elle relate précisément l’inertie de l’individu face à l’effondrement.

Regardez la composition. Un chef-d’œuvre involontaire.

Au premier plan, le sable doré, les tongs abandonnées, la glacière. Le décor ordinaire du bonheur estival. Deux personnages assis, de dos, comme dans un tableau de Caspar David Friedrich. Sauf que Friedrich peignait des hommes contemplant le sublime. Ici, ils contemplent la catastrophe. Et ils ne bougent pas.

Au centre, le parasol. Publicitaire, criard, dérisoire. Un pastis face à l’apocalypse. C’est presque trop parfait : la France qui prend l’apéro pendant que le monde brûle. Aucun scénariste n’aurait osé.

Et puis le ciel. Les deux tiers de l’image. Cette muraille de fumée qui avale la lumière, ce dégradé d’ocre et de noir digne d’un Turner. La nature qui reprend la palette des maîtres pour peindre notre propre fin.

La femme photographie l’incendie avec son téléphone. Mise en abyme totale : nous documentons notre disparition au lieu de l’empêcher.

Cette image dit tout. Le déni, le confort, l’habitude. Nous sommes tous sur cette plage. Nous voyons tous le nuage. Et nous restons assis, parce que l’eau est bonne et qu’on a posé nos congés.

Les historiens de l’art parleront un jour de cette photo comme on parle du Radeau de la Méduse.

Sauf que cette fois, le naufrage, c’est nous qui le regardons depuis la plage.
💔🌍

[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I've pieced together this incredibly rare & precious Edwardian colour movie, filmed 118 years ago at Upton Manor Farm in Southwick, England. This is the Autumn Harvest of 1908, showing rural life in the UK just 7 years after the end of the Victoria Era, when our life and work was considerably less mechanised.
This is amongst the earliest British colour films, which was made via Kinemacolour, developed by George Albert Smith in 1906. It employed a spinning 2-colour filter system of red and green filters to replicate "full colour". The separate colour frames line up pretty well, except fo shots of lateral movement, such as the horse's legs where the individual coloured filters become much more apparent.
The music I've used is the Largo movement from Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World", which is rather ironic considering the film shows us scenes of the Old World long gone.
Watch until the end, which leaves us a charming little love story. Though perhaps she waved her fellow off to War on the Western Front 6 years later...
(One of my hobbies is to collect old colour film footage, and if you enjoy this example I might share a few extra videos on my account)

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Hang it in the Louvre

[Kathleen Winchell ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🇺🇸 @KathleenWinche3]

This is hilarious! 🤣🐶🐾🐱

[SweetMarie @Oceanbreeze473]

Being an adult is basically figuring out what to cook with ground beef and chicken for the rest of your life.

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

Some professional advice: never take a job where you’re required to say “my boss has a different way of calculating percentages.”

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Farage has ensured any references to his buddy Victor Orban are erased from his X account.
So, I thought it would be useful to share these just as a reminder of how close they were.
‘Orban is the future of Europe’ is my personal favourite!’

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[hunter @3gpmh]

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated

[Covie @covie_93]

The devolution of man:

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Punch circa 2030

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

I want to thank everyone for all the support we’re receiving. There really is an incredible amount of it.

For me, the sacrifice of the people depicted on the helmet means more than any medal ever could - because they gave the most precious thing they had.
And simple respect toward them is exactly what I want to give.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Her name is Bohlale Mphahlele. Not 16 year old girl. The headline should read :

Bohlale Mphahlele, at merely 16 years of age, has invented something to protect all women everywhere. She’s a legend.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Continued:
Kirkness, David Leslie
Brown, James Stephen
Hornby, Simon
Pritchard, Michael
Roney, Christopher
Brown, Tommy
Howell, Aidan
Watson, David
Hayes, Robert
Read, Daniel
Brownson, Lee
Farmer, Luke
Aldridge, Peter
Cooper, Daniel
Riley, Liam
Shaw, Graham
Moore, John
McDonald, Sean
Markland, David
Hicks, Darren
Greenhalgh, Dave
Marshall, Mark
Dawson, Sean
Mellors, Guy
Dalzell, Douglas
Walker, David
Southgate, Luke
Kinggett, Martin
Fox, Paul
Apolis, Carlo
Green, Richard
Allott, Jonathon
Maughan, Liam
Keogh, Tom
Thompson, Stephen
Driver, Martin
Hardy, Scott
Grigg, James
Campbell, Steven
Woodgate, Jonathan
Holkham, Daniel
Sweeney, Michael
Turner, Mark
Burgess, Jonathan Antony
Holmes, Harvey
Roy, Daryn
Buxton, Barry
Harrison, Christopher
Walker, Stephen
Cusack, Zak
Curley, Stephen Paul
Taylor, Scott
Hotine, Anthony Dean
Webster, Terry
Cochran, Alan
Chandler, Mark
Monk, Jonathan Michael
Breeze, Andrew
Birdsall, Steven James
Rogoiruwai, Taniela Tolevu
Tagitaginimoce, Ponipate
Smith, Ashley
Hollington, Richard
Warren, Paul
Taylor, Michael
Darbyshire, Steven William
Horton, Martyn
Ramsden, David
Halliday, Douglas
Isaac, Alex
Gilbert, Stephen Raymond
Kirkpatrick, Jamie
Stephens, Seth
Leverett, James Anthony
Sephton, Thomas
Robinson, Samuel Joseph
Hart, David Charles
Bowman, James Joshua
Turkington, Neal
Purja Pun, Arjun
Harrison, Matthew
Crookes, Jonathan David Thomas
Griffiths, Kinikki
Monkhouse, David Thomas
Linley, Brett George
Stenton, Matthew James
Monkhouse, Stephen Daniel
Smith, Mark Antony
McCallum, Dale Alanzo
Brown, Adam
Sanderson, John Charles
Kulung, Remand
Gurung, Ishwor
Foster, Darren
Bancroft, Jordan Dean
Pool, Joseph McFarlane
Griffiths, Andrew
Deady, Darren
Howarth, Andrew Martin
Jones, Andrew James
Thomas, Matthew
Gurung, Suraj
Rayner, Peter Anthony
Barnsdale, David
Blanchard, William Bernard
Hughes, Scott 'Scotty'
McCormick, Aaron
Davies, Christopher
Howard, John
Dunn, Steven Thomas
Wood, Charles Henry
Vatubua, Joseva Saqanagonedau
Bell, Martin Simon George
Dalzell, David
Beckett, Colin
Hendry, Lewis
Lewis, Conrad
Wood, Robert
Hutchinson, Dean
Marshall, Kyle Cleet
Tasker, Liam
McKee, Stephen
Prior, Daniel Steven
Collins, Matthew James
Burgan, Mark Terence
Cameron, Alan
Head, Lisa
Mead, Nigel
Fortuna, Kevin
Augustin, Ollie
Alexander MC, Sam
Pike, Michael John
Gill, Martin Joseph
Lamb, Martin Jon
Found, Andrew
Newell, Lloyd
Bellingham, Gareth
McLaren, Scott
Watkins, Paul
Palin, Mark Anthony
Wright, James
Clack, Daniel John
Weston, Barry John
McKinlay, Jonathan James
Fairbrother, David
Rai, Vijay
Haseldin, Matthew James Sean
Thornton, Matthew
Eustace, Peter
Boyce, David
Scanlon, Richard
Lake, Thomas Christopher
Steel, Sheldon
Bond, Elijah
Jennings, Tom
Downing, Anthony
King, John
Limbu, Sachin
Sartorius Jones, Ian
Gurung, Gajbahadur
Tomlin, Ryan
Hartley, Jake
Frampton, Anthony
Kershaw, Christopher
Wade, Daniel
Wilford, Daniel
Coupe, Nigel
Bowers, Rupert
Foley, Michael
Taylor, Luke
Stanley, Jack Leslie
Ray, Connor
Roland, Michael
Roberts, Andrew Steven
Silibaravi, Ratu Manasa
McCarthy, Brent John
Davies, Lee Thomas
Healey, Stephen James
Thacker, Michael John
Stone, Gregg Thomas
Ashworth, James
Guy, Alex
Roderick, Craig Andrew
Tuisovurua, Apete Saunikalou Ratumaiyale
Thomas, Leonard Perran
Smith, Matthew David
Chesterman, Andrew Robert
Shadrake, Jamie
Whittle, Karl
Davidson, Lee Paul
Groom, Duane
Thursby, Gareth
Wroe, Thomas
Townley, James Anthony
Kups, Jonathan Eric
Manley, Carl
O'Connor, David
Day, Channing
Drummond Baxter, Edward
Kunwar, Siddhanta
Barrie, Walter Reid
Walker, Richard Reginald
Shaw, David
Webb, Jamie
Savage, William Thomas
Flint, Samuel
Hetherington, Robert Murray
Brynin, James
Fisher, Ian
Richard Holloway
Adam Moralee
Thomas Clarke
Rakesh Chauhan
Spencer Faulkner
James Walters
Oliver Thomas

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

The names of the UK personnel who died in Afghanistan:
George, Darren John
Busuttil, Robert
Gregory, John
Kitulagoda, Jonathan
Sherwood, Steven
Cridge, Mark
Craddock, Peter Edward
Philippson, Jim
Bartlett, Paul
Patten, David
Hashmi, Jabron
Thorpe, Peter
Jackson, Damien Raymond
Eida, Alex
Johnson, Ralph
Nicholls, Ross
Cutts, Andrew Barrie
Reeves, Leigh
Tansey, Sean
Budd, Bryan James
Hetherington, Jonathan
Draiva, Anare
Andrews, Gary Wayne
Beattie, Stephen
Bell, Gerard Martin
Davies, Adrian
Dicketts, Oliver Simon
Johnson, Steven
Knight, Benjamin James
Langton, John Joseph
Mitchelmore, Leigh Anthony
Nicholas, Gareth Rodney
Quilliam, Gary Paul
Squires, Allan James
Swarbrick, Steven
Windall, Joseph David
O'Donnell, Craig
McCulloch, Luke
Muirhead, Paul
Wright, Mark William
Wright, Gary
Wigley, Jonathan
Watson, Richard J.
Dwyer, James
Curry, Thomas
Ford, Mathew
Holland, Jonathan
Summers, Scott
Clark, Ross
McLaughlin, Liam
Reddy, Benjamin
Smith, Michael
Gray, Chris
Davison, Simon
Davey, George Russell
Probyn, Daniel
Bonner, Darren
Gilyeat, Mike
Sandford, Paul "Sandy"
Downes, Neil "Tony"
Wright, Thomas
Dolan, Sean
Wilkinson, Dave
Hickey, Daryl
Hawkins, Alex
Atherton, David
Keen, Barry
Jones, Michael
Rawson, Tony
Hicks, David
Foster, Robert Graham
McClure, Aaron James
Thrumble, John
Bridge, Christopher
Ford, Ben
Wright, Damian
Botha, Johan
Brelsford, Craig
Violino, Ivano
Newman, Phillip
Tunnicliffe, Brian
Roberts, Alexis
Alderton, Jake
Mcdermid, John
Sadler, Jack
Johnson, Lee
Gardiner, Darryl
Lawrence, Damian Stephen
Mulvihill, Damian
Marsh, David
Thornton, John
Livingstone, Graham Keter
Thompson, Gary
Pearson, Robert
Babakobau, Ratu
Thompson, James Christopher
Gostick, Dale
Cuthbertson, Nathan
Gamble, Daniel
Murray, Charles David
Bateman, James
Doherty, Jeff
Bryant, Sarah
Larkin, Richard
Reeve, Sean Robert
Stout, Paul
Whittaker, Joe
Williams, Michael
Shirley, Dan
Johnson, James
Barnes, Jason Stuart
Rowe, Kenneth Michael
Mathews, Jonathan William
Cowton, Peter Joe
Bland, Wayne
Dempsey, Barry
Cupples, Justin James
O'Donnell, Gary
Rawstron, Jason Lee
Mason, Nicky
Munday, James
Rai, Yubraj
Dunstan, Neil David
McKibben, Robert Joseph
Dura, Krishnabahadur
Lucas, Alexander
Evans, Tony
Sparks, Georgie
Birch, Marc
Davies, Damian
Fellows, Steven
Manuel, John Henry
Lewis, Aaron
Nash, Stuart
Deering, Robert
Whatley, Benjamin
Elms, Liam
Reed, Chris
Mackin, Travis
Sawyer, Tom Herbert John
Winter, Danny
Robinson, Richard "Robbo"
Nield, Daniel "Danny"
Smith, Darren
Kingscott, Stephen
Gaden, Tom
Gunn, Jamie
Laski, Michael "Mick"
Upton, Paul "Uppers"
Harkett, Christopher
John, Dean
Stiff, Graeme
Fasfous, Tobie
Binnie, Sean
Pun, Kumar
Ross, Ben
Sheldon, Adrian
Evison, Mark Lawrence
Mackie, Jason
Suesue, Petero "Pat"
Rossi, Jordan
Richards, Robert Martin
Hill, Kieron
Bolger, Stephen
Moffett, Nigel
Thatcher, Cyrus
McLaren, Robert
Mervis, Paul
Birchall, Sean
Hammond, Joshua
Thorneloe, Rupert
Dennis, David
Laws, Robert
Elson, Dane
Babington Browne, Ben
Whiteside, Christopher
Brackpool, John
Hume, Daniel
Aldridge, William
Backhouse, James
Horne, Jonathan
Murphy, Joseph
Scott, Lee
Simpson, Daniel
Toge, Aminiasi
Etchells, Joseph
Shepherd, Daniel
King, Christopher
Hopson, Craig
Lawrence, Phillip
Upton, Sean
Lombardi, Anthony
Mulligan, Kevin
Hopkins, Dale Thomas
Adams, Kyle
Williams, Jason George
Hale, Mark
Wild, Daniel
Hatton, Matthew
Valentine, Simon
Hunt, Richard
Fullarton, James
Annis, Simon
Carter, Louis
McAleese, Paul
Young, Johnathon
Bush, Shaun
Houltram, Lee Andrew
Millar, Stuart
Elliott, Kevin
Brandon, Richard James
Elliott, Gavin
Harrison, John
Dunn Bridgeman, Jason
McGrath, Stuart
Hall, Brett
Lockett, Michael
Prosser, James
Wojtak, Marcin
Janes, Jamie
Hill, James
Oakland, James
Mason, Thomas
Schmid, Olaf
Chant, Darren
Telford, Matthew
Major, James
Boote, Steven
Webster Smith, Nicholas
Scott, Phillip
Allen, Phillip
Bassett, Samuel
Fentiman, Andrew
Marlton Thomas, Loren
Loughran Dickson, Robert David
Amer, John Paxton
Drane, Adam Paul