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Word has reached us that Michael Pennington, who played Moff Jerjerrod passed away today.

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Call me old-fashioned, but I preferred society when people weren't openly proud of their racism and bigotry. Hate is not a badge of honour.

Josh Samanski ready to rep Team Germany at the Worlds 🇩🇪 📸: @deb_teams

На Гаваях американский миллионер кинул булыжник в тюленя-монаха, их осталось всего 1500 особей. Он сказал "Мне плевать, выпишите штраф, любой оплачу". После чего был избит местным активистом, и срочно покинул остров. Власти острова дали активисту награду 😀

The grave of legendary Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger. Famous for his biomechanical style and designing the Xenomorph, lies in Cimetière de Gruyères, a short walk from the H.R. Giger Museum and Giger Bar in the medieval town of Gruyères, Switzerland.

85 years ago today, May 9, 1941, a 20-year-old British sub-lieutenant named David Balme rowed across the freezing North Atlantic, climbed down the ladder of a captured Nazi U-boat, and stepped into a scene out of a ghost story. The lights were still on. Meals sat half-eaten on the tables. And bolted to a desk, still wired up and ready to encrypt the next signal to Berlin, was an Enigma machine. The submarine was U-110. Her commander, Fritz-Julius Lemp, was the same officer who on the first day of the war had torpedoed the civilian liner SS Athenia, killing 117 passengers, children among them. He died in the water that morning beside the boat he had just abandoned, convinced his scuttling charges would send her to the bottom before the British could climb aboard. They didn't go off. HMS Bulldog hooked the U-boat under tow, then deliberately let her sink the next day so Berlin would never know she had been boarded. The surviving German crew was shipped to a camp in Iceland and kept incommunicado for the rest of the war. The British sailors who saw it happen were sworn to silence. The Americans weren't told. Most of the Royal Navy wasn't told. The Enigma machine, the codebooks, and the bigram tables for the Offizier cipher were rushed under guard to Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing's hut was waiting for exactly this. Within weeks they were reading the Atlantic U-boat traffic in near real time. King George VI personally pinned the Distinguished Service Cross on Balme and called the boarding "perhaps the most thrilling episode of the war at sea." The official British intelligence history estimates the codebreaking that followed shortened the Second World War by roughly two years and saved untold millions of lives. Churchill called the codebreakers "the geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled." The entire operation, codenamed Primrose, stayed classified for 30 years. In 2000, Hollywood released U-571, a film in which Americans capture the Enigma machine. Prime Minister Tony Blair called it "an affront to the memory of the British sailors who lost their lives in this action." The truth is that the course of the war turned, in part, on a 20-year-old going down a ladder alone, into a still-warm submarine, on a Friday morning in the middle of the ocean.

You Can’t Park There!!! @CTVVancouver

So who's actually behind the disinformation in Alberta? 🇷🇺 Russian state media: COVERTLY, working through networks like Pravda News 🇺🇸 MAGA operatives: OVERTLY, meeting with Alberta separatist leaders in Washington and amplified by Steve Bannon and Trump allies 🤖 AI slop content farms outside of Canada flooding our feeds with fake political commentary. Last week, the Centurion Project, a separatist outfit, was caught using a MAGA-built app to weaponize Alberta's voter list, illegally leaked to them by the MAGA-adjacent Alberta Republican Party. This is foreign interference in real time.

Not standing up to data centers will be one of the last mistakes we make.

Tom Gazzola today confirmed that Ken Holland offered Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg contract extensions in the 2023-24 season when both players were in the minors in January, 2024. Who would sign an extension when you’re in the AHL?! Probably got low balled like crazy. 🤦‍♂️

Postmedia Trump hedge fund owned: National Post Ottawa Citizen Calgary Herald Toronto Sun Edmonton Journal The Vancouver Sun The Gazette The Province If we want to win the war against Trump tariffs etc we need action to re-patriate our press @MarkJCarney @RRYGTR

When Danielle Smith says Alberta is “ending woke culture.” remember it is all performative nonsense designed to distract and keep her core base onside. Focus on the damage she is doing to our province, our country and our future prosperity. #abpoli

Kyrgyzstan has a lake the Soviets used to test torpedoes. It sits a mile up in the air, surrounded by snow-capped peaks, and never freezes. The water is twice as deep as the Eiffel Tower is tall, slightly salty, and 25 million years old. They call it Issyk-Kul: “warm lake.” One lake. The country has more than 2,000. About 90% of Kyrgyzstan is mountains. Almost half the country sits above 10,000 feet. The country’s average elevation is higher than most ski resorts. Victory Peak, the tallest, rises to 24,400 feet, taller than every mountain in North or South America. It also has the largest wild walnut forest on Earth. The Arslanbob grove is almost twice the size of Manhattan, with some trees over 500 years old and the forest itself around 1,000. A quarter of every walnut Russia imports comes from this one forest. Snow leopards still live up there. More than 350 of them roam the mountains, one of the densest wild populations on Earth. Kyrgyzstan led the push for the international snow leopard treaty, signed in 2013. Visiting is cheap. Backpackers spend around $25 a day on everything: food, beds, transport, even guided treks. A two-day horse trek with a guide, meals, and a night in a traditional yurt (a round nomad tent) runs about $45. As of January 2026, citizens of more than 55 countries can fly in visa-free. Two-thirds of the population is rural. Every spring, thousands of families pack their yurts onto trucks or horses and head up to the high pastures with their sheep and horses. They milk the mares up to six times a day. The milk is fermented into a slightly fizzy drink called kumis, sold at roadside stalls. The country invented the World Nomad Games in 2014. Think Olympics, but for wrestling on horseback, archery from a galloping horse, and hunting with trained eagles. The next games happen this September, on the shores of Issyk-Kul. The screenshots are not exaggerated. The country actually looks like that.

At the end of the day they realy are a family

Canadian think tanks have documented a systematic russian influence operation aimed at stoking separatism in Canadian province of Alberta Website “albertaseparatist,” which masqueraded as “grassroots” Alberta initiative, has been identified as part of russian Storm-1516 network

Gazzola says there's a desire for the #Oilers to bring back Murphy, Dickinson, and Ingram. If they can rid themselves of Jarry or upgrade the team defense something fierce, I support this.

I love this guy, and frankly at the right cap hit I'd love to have him back. He's played a shit ton of minutes on SJS since arriving there and was putting up some pretty decent defensive minutes, and he's a monster on the PK.