Duncan Parsons

@penfriendrocks @lizzlipscombe @johnhackettband Oh.. and a video I'm very pleased with, quirky pop about Temptation - Lead Us Not Literal vibes. youtube.com/watch?v=hIUk5d… Bass on this by @lelandsklar :-)

<sigh/>It's the time of year when the (in)famous Suchard Dr Who Easter Egg pictures reappear. But I would like to point out that it was clearly well researched and an accurate portrayal of an important moment in broadcasting. #DrWho #Suchard #Chocolate #EasterEgg

@timrollpickerin @JonathanPieNews @Greekbluenose b.b.but.. it was accurate..

@JonathanPieNews @Greekbluenose And let's not forget this egg, perhaps the most unfortunate piece of Doctor Who merchandise ever: (Courtesy of doctorwho.livejournal.com/2181194.html )

Here are some Easter eggs from the 1980's with no mention of Easter on the packaging. My personal favourite was the Lion Bar one. Can we all move on from this now please?

@JonathanPieNews In fairness, it was at least accurate

Oh this is magnificent.

BREAKING. Thirty-six hours ago President Donald Trump said “obliterate.” This morning he said “productive conversations.” The question every trader, diplomat, and general is asking: what broke between Saturday night and Monday morning? Six things broke simultaneously. Not one of them was Iranian. First. The bill arrived. The Pentagon requested over $200 billion in supplemental funding. The war cost $11.3 billion in six days, $16.5 billion in twelve. At $1.38 billion per day and accelerating, congressional resistance to the supplemental is real. The money that was supposed to fund “days not weeks” now needs a vote that may not pass. Second. The Fed killed the rate-cut thesis. On March 18, the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.5 to 3.75 percent and revised its 2026 PCE inflation forecast to 2.7 percent from 2.4, citing the Iran war energy shock. The dot plot shows one cut in all of 2026, down from two. Every basis point of delayed easing is pain for housing, credit, and the Magnificent Seven. The war that was supposed to demonstrate strength is demonstrating inflation. Third. The allies revolted politely. Twenty-two countries signed up to coordinate on Hormuz. Zero committed a warship during combat. Japan is releasing strategic reserves. South Korea’s Kospi has fallen 12 percent. Europe’s gas surged 35 percent after Qatar’s LNG was knocked offline & declared force majeure up to 5 years. Trump called NATO “cowards” and got a press release. The coalition of the willing is a coalition of the waiting. Fourth. TSMC sent the signal. Taiwan imports nearly 97 percent of its energy. Its LNG reserves cover 11 days. Qatar supplies a third of global helium, which TSMC needs for chip fabrication. The helium is bottled behind a closed strait. Every Nvidia GPU, every Apple chip, every AI cluster depends on a fab in Hsinchu counting its gas in single-digit days. The Magnificent Seven have shed hundreds of billions as energy rotation crushes tech. Fifth. Birol named the damage. The IEA chief told Australia this morning that 40 energy assets across nine countries are severely damaged, global oil supply has fallen 11 million barrels per day, the crisis exceeds both 1970s shocks combined, and no country is immune. He named fertilisers and helium as interrupted flows. The man who runs global energy security called the war Trump started the worst energy crisis in modern history. Sixth. The midterms. Gas prices are up 93 cents per gallon. Sixty-six percent of Americans call this a war of choice. Sixty percent disapprove. Fifty-seven percent say it is going badly. The numbers that matter in Washington are not barrels per day. They are approval ratings in swing states where voters fill their tanks every Tuesday. Six pressures. One post. President Trump did not discover diplomacy. He discovered arithmetic. The 48-hour ultimatum was a threat. The 5-day pause is a confession that the threat’s consequences were worse than its target. Destroying power plants would have sealed the strait permanently, triggered Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” Gulf desalination and energy infrastructure, crashed TSMC’s supply chain, spiked inflation past 3 percent, and handed the midterms to the opposition on a platter of $7 gasoline. The pause is real. The relief is not. The strait is still closed. The 40 assets are still damaged. The fertiliser is still blocked. The planting window is still closing. The five-day clock is already ticking. The molecules do not negotiate. The molecules wait. Full deep dive analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

You shouldn't need to be told that if you are traveling for pleasure, business, family, or aid to wear a fucking mask. Travel is how shit spreads. This isn't fucking new. It has been happening for as long as humans have traveled to foreign lands.

1) Right after the treasury made massive shorts on oil, and before the markets open. 2) While Iran has said there are no on going talks. 3) While Israel has said there are more planned strikes. At this point it’s hard to believe the President isn’t just trying to manipulate markets out of desperation.

@maitlis Salem is getting worried

Witch

@adamndsmith Palantir is the corporate manifestation of a computer virus

The government is giving Palantir access to huge quantities of our data. They’re already in the NHS, the police, and the military. There was only *one* other (unnamed) competitor for this FCA contract. And nobody trusts Palantir not to share what it has found with their friends, so they can avoid their money laundering being detected. Palantir shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near our services.

BREAKING: Iranian media is reporting that the Iranian regime says: “There is no contact with Trump, not even through an intermediary; Trump backed down after hearing that our targets would be all the power stations in West Asia.” Who’s lying?

Reminder on the “anniversary of lockdown” that many disabled people had already been shielding with zero support for at least 5 days and we’d later get precisely fuck all help when you all got to go to pubs. They reopened pubs before vital drs check ups

when i was 4 or 5, my mom was a prof at a college and she used to hand me the scantron sheet before she wrote the exam and let me colour whatever lettered bubble i wanted for each answer. if i coloured two by accident, she made an 'all of the above' option. one time she gave me it and i coloured the 'a' bubble for each of the 130 questions except for the second last one and she just went with it later on, she told me that it was the most entertaining exam she had ever watched her students take

@TeresaC123 @EdConwaySky Salem is worried

@EdConwaySky *Witch* Trumps spelling is poor,much like his character.

So... it's over?

@maitlis WITCH? Should women in Salem be worried?

Does Trump think this war is over ?

Meningitis and many other infections are airborne, per the NIH. This post is nearly 3 years old.

@GrammarUpdates I was telling a friend about it ereyesterday

Overmorrow: the English word for the day after tomorrow

When you kick a hornet's nest, it's the hornets which decide when it's over

The first UK lockdown began six years ago, and we all started stockpiling toilet paper, yeast and pasta. Those were some of the worst meals I've ever eaten.

🔥 Absolutely brilliant article by @davidcarel. “THE NEW PARADIGM OF AIRBORNE DISEASE” “The COVID-19 pandemic shattered established views of airborne disease. Although it represents a paradigm shift in public health, the field has yet to catch up.” ssir.org/articles/entry…

So the whole world is demanding Iran opens up the Strait to all, condemning Iran, threatening Iran... In Cuba, every single person on a ventilator in hospital died overnight, because of Trump blocking fuel. Why aren't you condemning him? Why has there not been a peep?

We are potentially less than 24H from the end of the modern economy. To think that the fate of the whole world hinges on the whim of one angry man. All because the US system of government gives the person at the top ludicrous levels of power with no viable checks and balances.