(0649) Morning all … sun, fetid air, light 8/8 cloud cover. (0830)

 

5. Canada

4. Germany

3. Steve corner

Given the overheated mood of our people right now – produces a slew of posts on X, including Elon..

|https://x.com/real_shirelass/status/2058272671645786396

|https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2058539807349838294

|https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2058563554161172843

|https://x.com/blaiklockBP/status/2058629980297232576

At 1392

• President Trump Issues Savage Memorial Day Greeting and Nickname for His Democrat Enemies
• Nobody Knows Where Iran’s Disfigured Supreme Leader Khamenei Is Hiding
• Germany in Rapid Decline: Foreign Investment Plunges to 17-Year Low as Economic Model Falters
• Russia Raises The Tempo: Gains In Dobropillia, Sumy And Kharkiv Sectors
• Vaccine shedding is real: Hormones’ role in vaccinated people causing symptoms in the unvaccinated
• Cyprus election sees parliament fragment as anti-establishment parties gain ground
• German taxpayers bled dry: Mass migration cost €40 billion in 2025
• Morocco launches mass deportations to block Europe migration route
• Much more.

JH: There were two in particular I did not signpost and won’t. One was the GWP and clickbait … I refuse to run some site’s clickbait here … it mentioned four names being announced, but does not give them. Clickbait. I’ll wait till some tweet announces them. The second was about a drone Iran shot down … headline mentioned “changes everything”, giving no idea how. Clickbait again.

The model Unherdables follows is to give all relevant points in the same two lines, openly … if readers wish to read on, the url is across the way. We can’t always do that but that’s our aim. Readers come here to see summaries from us (plural) and a link to the relevant url.

One big issue is masses of X account links all at once. Four expanding links in a row are fine within the comments thread … just click on them in turn and go to your X account. The problem comes if I post them without the bar | … they expand and involve long scrolling to get past the guff part, the embellishments by the Xer, to the vital part … which is NOT how HQ works … the whole point of HQ is to cut out the guff for readers so they don’t need to … not to give them even more guff to wade through..

How to resolve this redacting issue? Well, for readers without X accounts … obviously for me to go through those articles, choosing the key points … but that must be after all the other reading and redacting in the early morn. Better would be for readers to have an X account themselves and the reason is that usually, comments under the Xer’s article are more revealing.

The fallback position is that the urls stay hyper in our comments thread and it’s up to readers after that. It’s one I’m going to have to think through.

2. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/05/all-hell-breaks-loose-this-morning-on-x.html

H/T DAD

1. DAD at 1392

aa) In the sordid tale of the Murrells there are an awful lot of villains and only a few heroes worth mentioning. This affair is a failure of the SNP, of government, of the prosecution system and of the media and it should be a turning point in Scottish political culture.

a) Pope Leo XIV has called for the “disarming” of artificial intelligence (AI) and urged the faithful to “fast” from the technology in his long-awaited first encyclical, warning of “new forms of slavery” tied to its rise. (JH: Interesting one, requiring a response post)

b) Tram hits self-driving bus on first day of passenger service in Gothenburg….

c) There will be two Pride marches in Lyon in 2026: the local LGBT movement is fracturing… after the marches banned to white people, the front of the Pride reserved for racialized trans people, as well as the pro-Palestinian and pro-prostitution slogans.

d) Four score years, roughly four generations: Is that the natural life span of any democratic welfare state?