Just finished watching the first three seasons of #lineofduty , yes guilty as charged and was bloody blown away. Terrific performances by @martin_compston and @Vicky_McClure and the affable Ted Hastings played by amazing #adriandunbar. Spl mention to @Keeley_Hawes too ❤️❤️❤️
If there is precisely one thing you watch today, make it this. French Senator Claude Malhuret. A microphone. And the most magnificently savage dismantling of the Trump administration ever delivered in a language they almost certainly don’t speak.
He covers Iran. He covers corruption. He covers the kind of staggering, industrial-scale incompetence that would get you fired from managing a car park. And he does it with the calm, unhurried certainty of a man who has read every page of the indictment and found it, if anything, worse than expected.
France has never pretended to like these people. But this is contempt elevated to an art form. The kind of refined, aristocratic disdain that takes centuries of civilization to produce and approximately ninety seconds to deploy.
Malhuret sounds like he is four seconds from the button. Not out of panic. Out of sheer, exhausted disgust.
Honestly? Understandable.
Watch it. Share it. The adults are speaking.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
In 1970, a 23-year-old physics student at Imperial College London found himself at a life-altering crossroads.
Brian May was deep into his doctoral research on cosmic dust—specifically the zodiacal dust cloud, the tiny particles that drift through the solar system and scatter sunlight. His PhD was well underway, and a promising academic career in astrophysics lay ahead.
But there was another path calling him.
May was also the lead guitarist of a newly signed rock band named Queen. With a record deal secured and tours on the horizon, the band’s momentum was building fast. Faced with an impossible choice between the guitar and the telescope, May made his decision: he paused his studies and bet everything on music.
Queen’s ascent was meteoric. By the mid-1970s, they had become a global phenomenon. Timeless anthems like “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “We Will Rock You” exploded onto the charts, while May’s iconic homemade guitar, the Red Special, helped define the band’s legendary sound. Stadiums sold out worldwide, and millions of albums flew off the shelves.
Yet throughout his rock stardom, May never fully let go of his scientific passion. Even at the height of Queen’s fame, he stayed connected to astrophysics—reading journals, attending lectures when possible, and maintaining contact with his former supervisor, Professor Michael Rowan-Robinson, who had once told him: “You can always come back and finish.”
Thirty-six years after stepping away, in 2006, May decided the time had finally come. He reached out to Rowan-Robinson, and together they revived the long-dormant project. Though the field had moved forward and his original data needed updating, his early observations still held real scientific value.
Balancing his ongoing music career with late-night research sessions, May updated his work, incorporated new findings, and refined his analysis. In 2007, at the age of 60, Imperial College London officially awarded him a PhD in astrophysics—not an honorary title, but one earned through rigorous research and peer review.
Dr. Brian May had finally completed what he started more than three decades earlier.
His journey is a powerful reminder that passion has no expiration date. Whether on stage under stadium lights or studying the dust between the planets, Brian May proved it’s never too late to finish what you began.
अरण्य ते पृथिवी स्योनमस्तु (अथर्ववेद).
Forests are the Jewel of Earth. Today is #InternationalDayofForests. 80% of biodiversity on this planet is in forests. Protect & conserve.
Trump during a press conference on Iran:
“See that nice drape?…In about 1.5 years you’re gonna see a very very beautiful building...I picked those drapes. I always liked gold. I believe it will be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world”
Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Andrey Rublev, and Daniil Medvedev went fishing together in Doha.
The matching pants are taking me out
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(via @qemopen & @QatarTennis)
Evolving eight categories of Indian Vegetarians -
1 - Pure Vegetarian (Pure vegetarian)
2 - Can eat egg but not chicken (Eggetarian)
3 - Can eat cake (which has egg) but not Omelette or boiled egg (Cakeytarian)
4 - Can eat the gravy but not pieces (Gravyetarian)
5 - Can only eat non-veg outside the house, not inside (Restrictarian)
6 - Eat non veg only while drinking. When not drinking they are vegetarian (Boozytarian)
7 - Eat non veg only when forced by someone to do so (Forcitarian)
8 - Pure Vegetarians on Tuesday, Thursd ay & Saturday. Can eat anything on Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday (calendartarian)
#SundayFun
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