Edward Luce:
“The truth inside Trump’s tornado of piffle is that he wants to get out of the mess he created. All the other reasons he gives — from regime overthrow to regime alteration — are noise. At this point, were Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for being allowed to develop nuclear weapons, nobody could be sure Trump would turn it down. If Iran made him the inaugural winner of the Cyrus the Great peace prize, those odds would improve."

https://www.ft.com/content/2656f791-c17c-4b44-8a1e-1892fef5374a?syn-25a6b1a6=1
#UsPol
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"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.

by Jayme Stayer

https://www.americamagazine.org/ideas/2026/03/06/dylan-thomas-was-a-difficult-person-but-fern-hill-is-a-perfect-poem/

#books #literature #literarycriticism #poetry

Report: US investigators say the US military probably carried out the double-tap strike that killed 165, mostly young girls, at an Iranian elementary school.

A "double-tap strike" kills one group, then waits for medics & other civilians - teachers, parents, neighbours, etc - to arrive in order to kill them as well.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-investigators-say-american-strike-most-likely-responsible-iranian-school-massacre

#USWarCrimes #USPol #EUPol #IranWar #IranSchoolAttack #news .

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reminder that Archipelago exists and is absolutely incredible:

https://archipelago.gg/

it lets you create “multiplayer games” where you and your friend play two completely different singleplayer games and find items for each other in your games

for example I could be playing Doom ‘93 and instead of getting the super-shotgun and a soulsphere, I might find the PokeFlute and some rare candies for my friend playing Pokemon

and then they might be exploring a cave and find the BFG and the red key for E1M4

I can’t believe that something like this can exist. and there are a surprising number of supported games too