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@thesundaysport She's like a terrorist nutjob Charlotte Church

Best description you will read today. Or on Sunday once we've nicked it.

@FurkanGozukara @jamie247 Can't be arsed to watch the excerpt, save to say that Jared Kushner in Trump 1 did more for Middle Eastern peace than pretty much anyone, ever. grokipedia.com/page/middle_ea…

Absolute bombshell on Sky News. A prominent Middle East expert reveals Trump completely purged the State Department of real diplomats, leaving the entire Iran crisis to real estate developers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff. The incompetence is staggering.

@shatners144143 @unherd @Jimfam What a wanker 👌

@unherd @Jimfam Pseuds corner

NOTES FROM GRAVY ISLAND, by Jimi Famurewa (@jimfam) What had once been associated with, if not exactly luxury, then attainable, Victorian-era abundance had, by the first years of the new millennium, begun to feel like an overpriced, ill-kept human trough. This was the version of Toby Carvery I first encountered as a snakebite-bloated undergraduate: a cavernous mock-Tudor inn near Windsor where my strongest memories are of silty bowls of mint sauce, grey slices of meat and, of course, the haunting fug of gravy. I wasn’t optimistic that the 2026 version would be any improvement — we are living in an age of skimpflation, razor-thin hospitality margins and precipitous food costs. But Eden Park surprised me, three times over. The first surprise was the price. Midweek, the signature deal of roast meats and as many trimmings as you like is £10.99; an all-you-can-eat breakfast is £7.99. The second was the visual impact of the hot counter: a rolling massif of roast potatoes, burnished fists of Yorkshire pudding, lacquered joints of beef, gammon, ham and turkey, all carved by a chirpy server in chef’s whites: ‘Wanna know why you’ve come at the best time? Because I’m here!’ Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/ORjp9rq

@VinnieSull1van @Britains___Pubs You're several days late for an April Fool mate 👌

I'm going to make the switch to wine for health reasons soon. I'll still have the odd pint now and then, obviously. From my understanding, I'm better off with red? What's a good one to start on that isn't going to put me off it altogether? 🍷

@captain_mrs I never knew til 2025 that you could ask for more or less unlimited top ups of sandwiches and cakes at Afternoon Teas. Had always eaten only what was first set before me, despite being a major glutton and value lover! 😨

when I was younger we always had nivea creme in the blue tub and I always hated applying it because it was so globby and hard to spread on my face but kept using it because it was objectively the best night moisturiser for me, and then like 6 years ago I saw a makeup tutorial where they got a bit, rubbed it between their hands to warm it up and spread it out and THEN applied it to their face and I tried it and realised it just easily applies in one thin smooth layer and my mind was blown that I could have been using it incorrectly for literally decades anyway there must be a lot of things like that in the world

@Rule3O3 The whole 'slick' coincidence is also frankly embarrassing. Take that away and they've got nothing

This is, in fact, one of the film’s biggest problems. We keep hearing how this is the slickest crew ever - they do this sharp, they do that sharp - but you as the viewer know they negligently hired a psycho moron for a non essential role, botched his termination by having no back up plan, failed to follow up, then proceeded to undertake huge risks while a known hostile party with inside information remained at large. Heat doesn’t get tagged on lists of “1990s films where the plot depends on everyone being bad at their jobs” but really it’s among the worst.

@pendefig @isnit0 Agreed, but this just makes everyone look silly and disingenuous

@kennyzool @isnit0 True. But no one actually put any effort in to make sure that was the case. They let the state play games, and now we use immigration as a means to keep the merry go round afloat. Systemic change is required.

For the retired people in the comments claiming "I paid more than my fair share". Actually, most of you didn't. You're being subsidised by me, my peers, and the children we won't be able to have.

@thhmuseum Needs a haircut!

Today we’re dropping the needle for a true architect of the culture. Wishing a massive happy birthday to the legendary Prince Paul! From the whimsical, sample-heavy genius of De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising to the dark, cinematic grit of Gravediggaz’ 6 Feet Deep,

@Fahadnaimb @thepollycat

Picture this: you're half-asleep on a Lufthansa flight when the cabin lights suddenly flip on. Turns out a big orange cat had escaped its carrier and decided to go exploring. Passengers stayed super quiet, flight attendants grabbed flashlights at first, and everyone teamed up to gently catch the fluffy escape artist without freaking it out. In the end, the cat was safe and the whole cabin handled it like pros.

@Sargon_of_Akkad If it forces Europe's hand to fully and finally ditch all the green crap (and face up to some uncomfortable trade offs) then it's worth the pain. That or the IMF will come in at some point and it will be worse still. Either way we've brought it entirely on ourselves

America blew up the Nordstream pipeline, and now has closed the Strait of Hormuz. Hard not to see this as a deliberate strategy of denying energy to Europe, whilst America can produce its own. Callous.

@PolitlcsUK With that quote he seems to be leaving the door open to maybe reducing the pension, or abandoning the lock, for people under a certain age?

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into the system"

@Danjsalt @richardmarcj @Frencheconomics Reform need to not mention Triple Lock at all, get elected, bin it on day 1 (yes, a total con job), hope over the next 5 years things turn around enough it will be moot. Or just accept they'll be a 1 term govt but their brief is to do the difficult stuff and fix things

As @Frencheconomics quite rightly points out - by all means abolish these institutions just do it from a position of strength - the entire gilt market is an accident waiting to happen - that's not very strong - as for the triple lock I don't know how anyone can get elected with the policy to get rid of it now

Put a Cameroon Tory in charge of your economics policy, get a Cameroon Tory economics policy. Bank of England independence, OBR oversight, pension triple lock... Rob Jenrick is ensuring Reform is a party of neoliberal fiscal constraints from the starting block.

@excel_ranger What you do is charge them a good deal more the first time they come crawling back and a massive extra wack on top for raw materials the second time. This can all be fixed by raising prices on disloyal clients with form 🤷‍♂️

Bought a business in 2024. Largest customer decided to take all of their work in house.. painful revenue hit. In 2025 their internal company sh*t the bed, and they called us to work for them again. “Ok no problem” I said. Busted our as* to keep the account, I even made my dad drive from Kansas to Alabama on a Sunday night in a storm to pick up materials to keep timelines as agreed. Beginning of 2026, without notice or even a phone call, they take the work internally, and we have to call over to the customer like idiots “hey just checking in”, and we get the news we were fired and they are going back internally. Fast forward to today, customer has no stock on hand.. and they are blowing up everyone’s phones asking us to sell them our raw materials. Welp I can appreciate that you think I might not need these materials, but do you honestly expect me to sell to you after our recent history? Ha no. Good day.

"We've been designing ASI:Chain from the ground up to be quantum-oriented, not just quantum-resistant but quantum-leveraging." Our CEO, Dr. @bengoertzel, discusses how our infrastructure is designed to adapt to and capitalize on AGI–quantum convergence: beincrypto.com/goertzel-asi-a…

@anishmoonka Why would he want a woman to dub his voice?

MrBeast hired the actual voice actress behind Naruto to dub his videos in Japanese. Then signed a merch deal with the Naruto franchise. Then bought a money app for teenagers. Then tweeted, "I'm curious what's popping on Japanese YouTube," as if it just crossed his mind. He runs a company valued at $5 billion. It brought in around $500 million last year. And the wildest part: his YouTube channel actually loses money. The videos, the stunts, Beast Games on Amazon, all of it lost about $80 million in 2024, even though it made $250 million. What turned a profit was his chocolate bar brand, Feastables, which generated $20 million in revenue on $250 million in sales. The YouTube channel is basically one giant ad for the chocolate. So why Japan? A single YouTube viewer in Japan spends more money on the platform than a viewer in the US. Japan has 79 million YouTube users, compared to America's 253 million, but Japanese users generate $20 million in spending, versus $35 million in the US. A third of the people, more than half the spending. Advertisers pay a premium to reach them. Japan also has over 56,000 convenience stores (7-Eleven, FamilyMart, Lawson) packed into practically every city block. That's the same setup that made Feastables blow up in America through Walmart and 7-Eleven. Internal company documents name Asia as the next market to crack, pointing out that his YouTube reach has already made people aware of the brand without spending a cent on traditional ads. MrBeast has 473 million subscribers. Japan's biggest YouTuber, Junya, has 38 million subscribers. That's a 12-to-1 gap. And he's not planning to just show up with dubbed videos. In February 2026, he bought Step, a money app used by 7 million young people, so he can sell financial tools to the same fans who watch his videos and buy his chocolate. When Feastables bars show up in Japanese 7-Elevens, remember this tweet.

@Thesecretinves2 @ArekRex1 Always sir!

@kennyzool @ArekRex1 Unfortunately I am but appreciate the respectfulness behind the question

A client came to me with 28,000+ crypto transactions and a letter from HMRC. He'd been trading across multiple exchanges for years and had never filed a return. Here's what we found 🧵 First job: get everything into one place. Binance, Coinbase. Multiple wallets. Years of history. The Koinly report alone was overwhelming. But buried inside were thousands of transactions his previous accountant had never even looked at. The problem with ignoring crypto tax isn't just the bill. It's the interest. The penalties. And the fact that HMRC now has blockchain analytics tools that can find wallets you forgot you had. Once we reconstructed the full picture, the liability was significant -- but manageable. More importantly, it was accurate. Not a worst-case HMRC estimate. His number, calculated properly, with every allowance and loss accounted for. We submitted a voluntary disclosure, presented the workings clearly, and avoided the higher penalties that come with HMRC finding you first. The lesson: The size of your crypto history doesn't matter. What matters is whether someone has actually looked at it properly. Most people haven't. Most accountants won't. If this sounds familiar, DM me or arrange a chat

@rohindhar I totally agree with this, by the end my mind was utterly blown (and I am now a world class spider expert)

Just finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky Was a bit more about spiders than I was anticipating, but has to be one of the best contemporary science fiction novels I’ve read😅 Anyone have any other recommendations for recently written sci-fi (say written in the last 20 years)?

@AutismCapital Lame final sentence. I mean...commit

Everything feels different lately. Not sure what's going on. But it feels like everyone is quiet quitting. There's an air of resignation. Vibes are really off. Communities drifting apart. Regardless, hope everyone is healthy and happy and living their joy: whatever that may be.

@ArekRex1 @Thesecretinves2 Exactly, what's the point of deferring to software when the software is only barely fit for purpose if you just buy and sell Bitcoin and never stake or trade weird coins! No disrespect to our Accountant friend here, but he's not really wading through 25000 manual lines is he?

@kennyzool @Thesecretinves2 One of hundreds, maybe thousands, of problems that occur in such programs