So, I knew Terry Pratchett for a long time. I don’t know that I’d be presumptive enough to say we were friends, but we had each other’s numbers and would text and meetup back in the days when I was doing stuff for the CBDLF. (He once said that I was young Granny Weatherwax. A compliment indeed, although I’m way more Nanny Ogg if honest.)

When he died, I was devastated. Literally like I lost a brother. Even typing this, I’m trying not to cry. His books saved my life, and I do not say that lightly. I never read his last book: The Shepherd’s Crown, because if I didn’t, there was always one more Witch book waiting.

I don’t drink. On my home, I picked up cheeses I never let myself buy because of cost, two of the best bottles of wine I could justify to myself, and some fresh berries from the farm down the street.

I’m so afraid that this is the end of all times, that I’m going to drink wine, eat cheese and read Pratchett, just in case it’s my last chance to pretend we’re gonna be ok.

New, from me: Hackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/russia-hacked-routers-to-steal-microsoft-office-tokens/

Another *insert worst swear word you can imagine*: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/07/jd-vance-budapest-viktor-orban-hungary-election-france-nicolas-sarkozy-denmark-coalition-russia-ukraine-europe-latest-updates-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d4f8c58f088f86f872446c#block-69d4f8c58f088f86f872446c

Info for the USA: Orban is one of the most fascist leaders in the EU, trying to destroy the EU. He already destroyed press freedom, LGBTQ+ rights and a lot more of democracy in Hungary. Everybody hopes that he will loose the elections next WE but the USA pay propaganda for him in social media ... and well, this.

Any political analyst – and indeed, anyone of us – can see from these few lines how completely out of touch with reality and any semblance of logic that evil scoundrel is. But this isn’t just dementia; it shows how he embraces a toxic, patholocial, and highly dangerous mix of eugenics, longtermism, and narcissist's megalomania. This man has control over the nuclear weapons. They let him work.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/07/iran-war-live-updates-trump-hormuz-threats-deadline-strikes-middle-east-conflict?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69d4f5358f087f6d3658e650#block-69d4f5358f087f6d3658e650 (click for getting the news from 13.18 BST)