In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler…

One of the most interesting phenomena in modern society is the conspiracy theory. Even defining the concept is hard, since one person's conspiracy theory is another person's shrewd assessment of the…

The status quo is what the AI industry wants, and it is bought and paid for.

For various reasons, I have decided to move as many services and subscriptions as possible from non-EU countries to the EU or to switch to European service providers. The reasons for this are the…

One week at number one on 14th March 1987 “My favourite song has to be My Favourite Dress. David has managed to perfectly distil the tortuous agonising feelings of jealousy into three minutes of…

Neoliberalism is the political-economic system that has dominated the world for 40 years, but what does it really mean and how does it relate to Bitcoin?

The World The Iran conflict enters its fourth week! Trump calls allies cowards for not helping open the Strait of Hormuz. Gas prices are terrible. Trump has given a 48-hour ultimatum to open the…

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-21/la-county-ceo-who-got-2-million-settlement-is-resigning News like this makes me glad I left LA!!! The post L.A. County CEO, who got $2-million…

FINNISS (Lib vs ALP 6.7%, Lib vs IND 0.7%) David Basham (Lib) vs Lou Nicholson (IND) Nicholson appears best placed but needs to stay in third ahead of Labor ( Link to tallyboard thread ) The Victor…

Via: Peak Prosperity:

This is an addendum to OS-Level Age Attestation is the Good One, where I talk about the potential of legal standards for age attestation as an alternative to age verification. Not already convinced…

There’s a coordinated effort to use the “child safety” euphemism to cripple the internet with identity verification mandates. That’s bad. But buried in the mix there’s a genuinely good idea with…

Hammond (Lib 5.1%) Robert Roylance (ON) vs Simone Bailey (ALP) vs Adrian Pederick (Lib) Roylance should remain in top two and win on Liberal preferences ( Link to tallyboard thread ) The rural lower…

Note: Welcome to a post in my “Ramblings” category. This is category is reserved for the occasional semi-off-topic post. Today’s entry is a look at the “W” social media…

Pakistan was not the result of a territorial dispute. Its founders didn't argue about where to draw a line on a map. They argued about whether two communities could share a future, concluded…

 A Russian Navy Pr. 11982 Seliger Class research ship has been photographed in Novorossiysk fitted with a drone cage and bolt-on electronic countermeasures…

So what if we poison and scorch the Earth? A stable climate and healthy biosphere is for suckers.

I just got home from the counter-protest against UKIP who thought they could march through Liverpool today in the name of Jesus and Lent or whatever. They call themselves the party of mass…

…it's a break from Everyday Madness in DC, where right now the #1 seed is in trouble against #16. But March Madness is supposed to be about entertainment, thus this platter's selections.1…

In his column today in the NY Times, Nicholas Kristof calculated that our war in Iran is costing about $1.3M per day. He points out that this is a conservative estimate, since it does not take into…

I just watched Bernie vs Claude (9 min, youtube) and I have thoughts: This is pure vintage Black Mirror stuff, down to the eerie music, the washed in blue shots, had to do a double take to check if…

This vulnerability was such a gaping hole in the Windows Error Reporting service that Microsoft completely removed the affected feature. A low privilege user could simply send a specially crafted…

It’s the 22nd day of complete internet blackout here in Iran and I just could get connected with a help of a friend for some time. Never thought we would experience such situation. Just hope…

They say that the moment you conceive of the club is the moment you use it. Once you imagine a stick to be something other than a tool but potentially a weapon, you are moments away from smashing…

Robin Opsahl, Brooklyn Draisey, and Cami Koons collaborated on this article, which was first published by Iowa Capital Dispatch. Following the second “funnel” deadline of the Iowa legislative…

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the Chinese system has a telos. The Chinese…

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations The Board of Peace might be destined to fail, but it still threatens to undermine an international system in which the U.S. was once the linchpin. - Ishaan…

Rebecca Solnit: Climate change is caused by many human actions, and the solutions are likewise manifold: change how we design our residences, towns and cities, transit systems, agriculture, land…

There’s a common refrain that “Bitcoin fixes this.” Sometimes it’s used well and other times less so (it would often be more accurate to say "bitcoiners fix this"), but I’m being very serious when I…

Pete Hegseth either has no idea what a pocket square is and/or what it’s for, or he uses the American flag as facial tissue, for blowing his nose. You might point this out to any flag patriots…

 /  /  An AEGIR-W uncrewed surface vessel (USV) has washed up on a Turkish beach. The vessel…

Millions of victims worldwide… In a hearing of the Corona Inquiry Commission in the German Bundestag in March 2026, former Pfizer toxicologist Dr. Helmut Sterz voiced sharp criticism regarding…

Two things long axiomatic to me have been shaken by the criminally insane war on Iran. One is that US presidents preside on sufferance of their country’s ruling elites; primarily the corporate…

Regime Change Without Nation Building by Jonathan Schanzer None of Trump’s war critics question American military competence right now. What they question is the cost of the war, Trump’s endgame, and…

On one side of the world the US and Israel are pursuing an ill-conceived attack on Iran that has hugely impacted the flow of fossil fuel in the region. This is already having a grim impact on daily…

Footage from a club night in Falkenberg, Germany shows teenagers chanting "Germany for Germans, Foreigners Out" to Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours,"

Source: Reuters By Guest Blogger Ryan Lewenza . The single most important variable for the global economy and financial markets right now is the price of oil. President Trump’s decision to invade…

SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 2026 You know it when you see it: "Presidential timber" is hard to find. You know it when see you see it. There are one hundred United States senators. Within the political realm,…

2017 Today we had some time to visit the Tunel Spaza in Sarajevo. During the Bosnian Civil War in the early 1990s, Sarajevo was under siege by the Bosnian Serbs. In order to facilitate the movement…

Just an old picture from my archive, and from my time in Paris, of the Palais Bourbon, home to the French National Assembly (i.e. the lower house of parliament).I can’t remember why it was all…

Christian Nationalist Reality Check #4. This is part of an ongoing series examining how religious language is used in modern politics. This is the fourth part of a weekly series, you can find the…

What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? What if we are really witnessing, in the Middle East and more widely, a carefully…

It's been rumoured for months, and finally this week there was official confimation: Trenitalia has the location for its maintenance facility for its Frecciarossa high speed trains in France.…

The biggest issue plaguing the U.S. Imagine an automotive industry that sold cars and trucks with no recommendations as to oil changes or other servicing, so that motor vehicles would start breaking…

For a record number of Americans in this ever more secular era, their real religion is politics, their faith is their political ideology, and their church is their political party. This seems…

The left-wing group Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) , a major ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has unveiled a plan to combat hate and keep Jews and other minorities safe that…

bogleech:croaksac:the complete and total defeat in the prosecutor’s voice at the very end….. im 💀💀💀Havent seen a lot about this on tumblr so maybe not a lot of people know:He was…

An ABC News (the Australian one) investigation has shown how good the deepfakes are, usually right-wing-supporting content to fool the public. Matt Martino shared this link on Linkedin, to a story…

This week: Energy supply concerns, the Singapore High Commissioner to Australia gets pissy about a radio segment, and more support needed for people with special needs and mental health conditions.

Everyone makes mistakes. Journalists work under pressure. Deadlines are real. A fuel crisis two days before an election is genuinely stressful - for reporters and citizens alike. But what happened on…