Chris Clegg 💙

The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet. Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon. But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while. The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached. Latest 👇 gandalv.substack.com/p/ukraine-the-…

Wow. This graph puts the speed of this outbreak into context. It's not an illusion. This is *very fast*. 👀 x.com/i/status/20569…

🚨Football in 2026 is a complete MESS - Southampton win over 210 minutes, then Middlesbrough take their place despite losing, completely ruining Hull preparation. - Celtic practically handed the SPL by VAR. - Arsenal given the Premier League title thanks to VAR. - Senegal protest an incorrect VAR call, go on to win the game, then have the AFCON taken off them. Football should be decided between 22 blokes on a pitch not in offices or VAR rooms. Absolute shambles. It’s not football anymore.

@BerisfordRon 12 minutes to 11. Could be am or pm.

‘Time’ to buy a new clock!

It’s incredible how “if we meet people’s basic needs, they’ll stop working” and “billionaires are hard workers” coexist in people’s minds.

Last week, I thought the pandemic potential for ANDV was small Infinitesimally small Less than 1%

The UK voted the Tories out of office with a vengeance after more than a decade of mismanagement, corruption and scandals, so naturally the UK then opts to vote them all back into power again, under a different name, alongside the architect of the UKs decline via Brexit. FFS.

The Forth looking particularly attractive on this May morning.

@elementalPaul I saw someone taking a picture of the first kind of blossom this morning, but no blue sky then, so couldn’t have been you. Very photogenic blossom there though, evidently.

Leith Links blossom. #photography #Pixel9Pro

According to retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson: During an emergency meeting On Saturday Trump tried to “use the nuclear codes” on Iran and he was stopped by General Dan Caine. According to Johnson “there is seriously something wrong with Trump”:

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

@edinpotter63 @4golfonline I’m going to have to switch to my right pocket… …obviously where I’ve been going wrong all these years.

@4golfonline You won't let it go will you 🤣

Just imagine how far ahead Rosey would be if he sorted his marker pocket issues.

@edinpotter63 @Wayne_adams83 You must care a little bit @edinpotter63 because it’s Blackburn today!

@Wayne_adams83 Morning and don't care🤣

Morning 🔴⚪️

@BerisfordRon To be fair, they haven’t actually missed it yet on their current trajectory. I’m reserving judgement until they actually go past.

We’re going around The Moon🌘

@BerisfordRon Slept in my Iron Maiden t-shirt and woke up bleeding profusely from several holes.

Slept in my Yes t-shirt and woke up Close To The Edge of the bed!😳

@1dailyshot @Pergament_F I think it might be Armchair Books on West Port. Looks just like it to me.

@Pergament_F So right. Where is this bookshop? There's one in Edinburgh which used to look like this.

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better." Ray Bradbury Good night

@Pergament_F @ReReadingWolfe That looks very much like Armchair Books in Edinburgh.

@Bailyan12 youtu.be/uX5yhpO52AA?si…

🎶 Name a great song in which someone plays a harmonica!

@CarlBovisNature Goldcrest?

There's a bird in this sunset photo from last night. 🧐 Can you find it? Bonus points if you know what it is! 😁🐦