Enki 🍀
@enki.bsky.social
Not a god. Rockin' in the Free World. We may not agree on everything, but I hope we agree on enough. Do you by any chance need an umbrella?
The kind of journalist who'd report that the D-Day landings took place in Nebraska.
The war drum beats again, it echoes around the globe.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last wk.Iran considered firing a ballistic missile with a small warhead at Ukraine, probably one of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, in response to Ukraine strike against an Iranian ship in the Caspian sea earlier this week.-NYT
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make this #worldcup not the most cringeworthy event of the year. Mission: Impossible.
"Your rhetoric puts me in danger!" "What about when you call people traitors?" "But they ARE traitors!" - Zia Yusuf, age 6.
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3w agoAsked by the BBC if he should look at his own language, for example calling opposition politicians "traitors", Yusuf says it is "demonstrable" that the Conservative party are traitors.
Farage is claiming once again he's the most attacked public figure of recent times. I can think of two MP's who sadly aren't here to disagree with his assessment.
Did he have a problem when the Pope editorialised peoples sex lives?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoBARTIROMO: The Pope said AI could make civilization 'less human.' Why is the Pope commenting on AI right now? BURGUM: I didn't know that tech editorializing was part of the role of being Pope
"I am not a crook" I thought that money was for security Nige, try and keep your story straight.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe standards committee must decide if this gift could be related to political/public role. A defence could that a £5m gift was "purely private" + "wasn't political in any sense at all" (May 5th) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... To say "reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years" disrupts that
Starmer's message to cabinet seems to be that they haven't followed proper process for a leadership contest and as such he's remaining PM.
Starmer's not beating the charge he can't pivot from campaign mode to governing.
Do you think he meant "without equivocation"? Kinda ironic considering the content.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump: “Candace Owens’ stock, which was never very high, has fallen a long way. Her attack on the First Lady of France is despicable. I believe, in this case, without verification, she is an extremely Low IQ individual!”
Matt Vickers is giving a shocker of a performance on #newsnight, but at least he's not still calling people "paedopals".
I'm increasing convinced Starmer took on the Labour leadership to rebuild the party before stepping down a few years later, and has become Prime Minister by mistake.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4mo agoAn all-time classic entry in the hall of fame 'does the person saying this realise how damning it is?' quotes:
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One Labour official who knows Starmer well said that while McSweeney, a protégé of Mandelson’s, wanted to send him to Washington, Starmer was never that close to him.
“Keir didn’t even really like Mandy, and suspended his judgment as he does so often,” the person said. “At that point, the machine took it [Mandelson’s appointment] as his intention and does what the British state does, which is bend the process to the signal it thinks is being broadcast from the principal.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreiahacitqx2pija6wp6zpsqloak2ukhpsfz5oiptr4x2vgbvn3vtiq)
"He's a low IQ, nasty Pope. Some people are saying he's the worst Pope of all time. Worse than Pope Palpatine."
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew reporting reveals the Pentagon threatened Pope Leo's top American diplomat in a meeting after the Pope's state of the world address, where he criticized Trump's war in Iran. Pope Leo has reportedly cancelled a planned visit to the US later this year in response.
Choose life.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo agoMaking life harder sounds deeply unfun, but it might be good for your brain. We talked to experts to find out how modern ease affects brain health, and how you can try friction-maxxing, a way of reintroducing challenges to enhance cognitive function: https://wapo.st/4meA4j1
I'm still of the opinion that people worried Trump might nuke Iran are wrong, but less so than I was 5 minutes ago.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrump on deadline:
I hope they end up arming the rebellion that topples them.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo agoIran has launched a volunteer recruitment drive - Janfada- “Sacrificing Life”- in advance of a possible US ground invasion, WSJ reports. A nationwide text message urged citizens to prepare to defend the country against “American-Zionist” threats. Meanwhile, masked forces are setting up checkpoints
The Iranians running the country would rather martyr themselves than surrender, at this point regime change is probably the most viable option to end this.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4mo agoPresident Trump is considering "a significant action" soon to 'shake' the Iranians and pressure them to advance the talks.-i24 News
Some hits, a fair amount of decent, a few OK's and some bad misses, but it finished on "WHAT KIND OF IRISH IS YOU'RE GRANDAD!?" so worth a series link imo. #SNLUK