Rev Peter W Nimmo

Springer is at this shit again, they never saw a chatbot they didn't like

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Civilian donations to the Russian army have collapsed ahead of the imminent ban on Telegram.

The Russian army is dependent on volunteer donations for a huge amount of equipment, ranging from medicines, to generators, to vehicles.

Moscow Police Detain Iranian Students Celebrating Death Of Ayatollah Khamenei Moscow police detained Iranian nationals after a park meetup on Khamenei’s death; courts issued arrests and fines, per OVD-Info.

⚡ Dozens of Iranians were detained in Moscow after gathering to mark the death of Iran’s supreme leader.

Live updates: Drone strike near Dubai airport as Iran’s president apologises to Gulf nations for attacks President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran won't attack first - but Qatar defence ministry says it has intercepted a missile.

After Iran's president apologized to neighboring states, promising Tehran would not attack them again "unless attacked first," Qatar intercepted a missile and a drone exploded near Dubai's airport. www.bbc.com/news/live/ceqvwry...

Black background graphic featuring a black-and-white portrait of Archibald Alexander (1772–1851), a Presbyterian minister. His name and dates appear on the left, with the title The Ethics of St. Paul. On the right is a quotation stating that Paul trusted the gospel’s power to redeem the world by transforming hearts, not by denouncing individual abuses, but by curing the unbrotherly spirit at their root.

Archibald Alexander, #Presybterian, said the brutality of Roman games directly led to slave abuse. The apostle Paul reformed these with the filial spirt inevitable from the Gospel.

Do we accept as our faith leaders, those who preach unfilial spirits?
#christian #hampdensydney #brotherhood

In German military analysis they called it the Sedan and Sadowa syndrome: the officer corps of 1914 were raised on the idea that fast victories against major European neighbours were their birthright.

Shelter, Goods & Activities x The Sameer Project The inititaive was originally formed to secure, purchase, and distribute tents in Southern Gaza but in January 2026, the campaign was rebranded to "Shelter, Goods & Activities" to cover not only tents...

With everything else going on worth remembering there’s still terrible situations in Sudan & Gaza.

One option for supporting people in the latter: Shelter, Goods & Activities x The Sameer Project chuffed.org/project/1132...

Scottish Parliament Polls this week
Yougov/Ipsos/Survation

Constituency
SNP 34/36/37%
Reform 18/16/17%
Labour 14/20/18%
Green 11/7/6%
Conservative 10/9/12%
LD 10/10/9%

Region
SNP 28/26/33%
Reform 19/16/17%
Labour 14/19/17%
Green 16/16/9%
Conservative 10/11/13%
LD 10/10/9%

Three Scottish Parliament Election polls this week. (Yougov/Ipsos/Survation)

Two months out, the SNP are still well in front, with seat projections from 57-64. Some shuffling in all other positions with Labour and Reform battling for a poor second. Two polls show substantial Green gains.
#SP2026

We now have the technology to do without oil and gas, just get on with it for God’s sake

In case this isn’t enough, we also have your household finances going to pot every time some foreign leader gets the itch

As Ukraine’s air defenses weaken, Russia is able to strike infrastructure and cities more easily. At the same time, higher oil prices from the conflict are boosting Russia’s economy, giving Moscow an additional advantage.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇦 The U.S. conflict with Iran is rapidly consuming Patriot interceptor missiles, reducing supplies Ukraine relies on to defend against Russian attacks, - WSJ

Production limits already left Ukraine short of interceptors, and the new demand from the Middle East is worsening the shortage.

Unpopular opinion: it is in fact not good if prisoners aren’t safe in prison and can be harmed or killed by other prisoners.

Reform, there. Shitheads.

Reform UK KCC Cabinet Member David Wimble’s Looker Accused of Misleading Readers on Kent County Council Debt The Shepway Vox Team went back to the documents. What we found was not a careful picture of Kent County Council’s current debt costs, but an old snapshot repackaged as a live daily crisis. That mat…

Reform UK Kent Cabinet Member David Wimble’s Looker “Magazine” Accused of Misleading Readers on Kent Council Debt

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Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 10, injure 40 over past day Russia launched 480 drones, including Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicles, and 29 missiles, including hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile and Iskander-M ballistic missiles, overnight, the Air Force r...

⚡️Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 10, injure 40 over past day.

Russia launched 480 drones, including Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicles, and 29 missiles, including hypersonic Zircon anti-ship missile and Iskander-M ballistic missiles, overnight, the Air Force reported.

Oracle and OpenAI scrap deal to expand flagship Texas data centre Meta in talks to take up additional computing capacity that the ChatGPT maker will not take up

Oracle and OpenAI scrap deal to expand flagship Texas data centre
Meta in talks to take up additional computing capacity that the ChatGPT maker will not take up

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can confirm, this is GOOD news for AI

'I was suspended from Reform over row about clipboards' says Walsall councillor, six months after shock by-election win Walsall's first Reform councillor says he was suspended from the party, six months after a shock by-election win, following a row about clipboards.

Reform UK’s suspended councillor Graham Eardley has joined Restore Britain:

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As someone noted, the fossil fuel dunkelflaute

I'm shocked by this- I had no idea the US Congress was still a thing

US skips congressional review to approve munitions sale to Israel The U.S. State Department said ​on Friday it has approved a sale worth $151.8 million to Israel for munitions and ‌munitions support, without submitting it for congressional review.

THE LATEST NEWS AT THIS HOUR:

RUBIO SIDESTEPS CONGRESS ON $151 MILLION ARMS SALE: On Friday, the U.S. State Department approved a $151.8 million munitions sale to Israel without submitting it for congressional review.

It's patently obvious that flags on lampposts are meant to exclude and intimidate. The fascists wouldn't bother getting their ladders out otherwise

1/ Civilian donations to the Russian army are said to have collapsed ahead of the imminent ban on Telegram. It's a consequence, predicted by warbloggers, of the Russian government's apparent decision to ban the app. The impact on the front line is likely to be severe. ⬇️

here in the latest issue of "Chicago Studies" the text of my 2024 Paluch Lecture at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary: "A Crisis in the Meaning of Catholic Tradition. The Fundamentalist Temptation of Canceling the Past"

The laws of armed conflict are reasonably clear on the restrictions on a national warship firing on a national warship of an opposing combatant that is not carrying ammunition for its main armament.

Namely: there aren’t any.

There isn’t any requirement for immediate threat or anything similar.

In passing, what Hegseth et al are doing in the Caribbean is not armed conflict, for all their lies and bull on the subject; and, even if it were, would be a breach of the LOAC (as in the Peleus case v. the Laconia Order).

It’s simple murder, and a very different beast.

Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour | Stella Creasy We must get back to the party’s roots before it is too late. That means embracing difference, rejecting division – and f

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@stellacreasy.bsky.social: "When we ask ourselves what is holding Britain back from being more productive, it is not immigrants or women who don’t have enough babies – whatever the claims of the right. Instead, tackling the cost of living crisis and confronting division should be our priorities."

Slightly odd how this keeps resurfacing as a new story when the basics have remained unchanged for over a year.

If we survive that long!