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From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...

How to scare people around the world: UK: Boo! FI: pöö! FR: hou! DE: buh! ES: uhh! JP: kekeke! CZ: baf! RU: oo-oo! MX: ¡Buu! NL: boe! IT: bù!

16mm footage of chicago i shot on a bolex camera from the 1930s

But he didn’t become British by getting famous. He became British by building a life here. Just as a factory worker, or a doctor, or anybody else does. Billionaires want you to hate immigrants, so we don’t blame them for our problems. We won’t fall for it.

Hey @dailymail.co.uk we fixed your newspapers for you 💋 Lord Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail pays NO TAX in the UK. The rest of us fund public services, he CHOSES not to. Yet we’re supposed to believe problems in the NHS are migrants’ fault? The utter cheek.

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.” - Wole Soyinka

"The United States has revoked the visa of Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, who became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Please save the British Council www.ft.com/content/af61...

Bull Moose. #wildlife #photography #moose #bullmoose #nature

Brilliant journalism as always from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social & @thenerve.news This needs amplifying. Perhaps @ZackPolanski.bsky.social could give it volume on Kuenssberg tomorrow, as he did during #bbcqt Who else is on? Bring it up. Force it into the discussion if necessary!

#NoKings Miami!

I welcome the news that the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has lost her appeal and failed to block the legal challenge to the proscription of Palestine Action:

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

Lib Dem's Daisy Cooper calls for an assessment into the threat Elon Musk poses to UK democracy after Tommy Robinson said Musk is paying for his legal fees

Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years to “restore pride” in Britain’s poorest areas? That’s less than the EU, in its time, gave us every year. Ambitious? Hardly.

Reminder to look up!

A better world is possible

Tip of the hat to @mrphoenix.bsky.social. Those are pages from his amazing graphic novel, "Crash Course," on the wall in the background. Another book that should definitely be in your collection if you care about safe streets. bookshop.org/a/9252/97819...

Apropos of universities jumping on the AI bandwagon. Are we not supposed to be, you know, trying to come back from the brink of extinction? Rather than increasing emissions by 50%? FIFTY per cent? Delusional. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Turning this description over to my colleague with the headline “frisky business” which I recognize is probably too much of a deep cut pun—but cheers to all my frisket fans out there.

Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars. Source: airparif

Wilson's Warbler, Pool area, Central Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birdphotography #naturephotography #wildlifeplanet #nycbirdalliance #birdsSeenIn2025 #wildlifephotography #conservationphotography #birds #ecobiodiversity #wilsonswarbler #birdcpp #bird seen 09.05.25

Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with 📚 dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Here's one that I haven't shown for a very long time.: this is "The International Telephone Exchange, London" by John Cooper which was a poster design that was commissioned & printed for the GPO in 1935. #JohnCooper #EastLondonGroup

Profoundly important from @davidallengreen.bsky.social. The lack of meaningful restraints against executing power in our system leaves us utterly exposed in the face of a Reform government. They could do whatever they want. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

Entry in the growing file of Bears With Good Manners - - he broke into the ice cream parlor, went straight for the ice cream, ate it all, but caused no damage. Police state there was 'no cleanup.' He couldn't find his way out when a security guard found him like this. He was shown the way out.

Trump suggested that Washington, D.C.’s national parks could be converted into golf courses during a event with police and military officials. Speaking from the U.S. Park Police’s Anacostia Operations Facility,

#LangSky #Romance #French #Linguistics #LearningSpanish

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months 8% of people think it fell Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023 [It is falling further in 2025] Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

While riding the B or Q trains between Dekalb Ave station and the Manhattan Bridge, you may catch a glimpse of "Masstransiscope," a public art installation by Bill Brand. It was added to the #NYCsubway system in 1980.

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

In the age of online information, it feels harder than ever to stay informed. To help you cut through the noise, each Friday we publish a roundup of the key stories covering free expression. From Iran to Guinea-Bissau, here are our top stories: www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/08/week...

NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.” UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza. The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes. (🎥 BBC News)

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of most buildings in the five boroughs of New York City. (Each dot on the map is a photo!) 1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40...

How did making banners help women to express themselves and support one another at Greenham Common Peace Camp? Maisie Jepson (@girlinthewrongera.bsky.social) explores this creative process and explains why motherhood was such a prominent theme.

Historical Reading Habit: Until the 17th century, most people read aloud! Silent reading became common later. Imagine bustling ancient libraries! 🗣️ #HistoryOfReading #BookLore

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Every day I look at the photos and videos of people in Gaza and I feel horrified and paralyzed. We are committing a genocide. We are doing this. We are bombing humans, killing humans, and starving humans. We are doing this.

📚 The Institute of Governmental Studies Library at @UCBerkeley has digitized over 5,000 local government documents from California, preserving rare reports & essential records for researchers & the public. Learn more ➡️ archive.org/details/igsc... 🧵 @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Elsa Lanchester, Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak in, Bell Book and Candle (1958).

@bookshop.org is now my GO-TO online book seller! It's a fantastic online store -- you can link to your local indie book store, too. 13/10 recommend that you all ditch the other place (🤮) and get allllll of those glorious books you read from @bookshop.org beginning today!

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

NEW: Mass layoffs began today at NOAA. Workers were fired by email at the agency which runs the National Weather Service, National Hurricane Centre & Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre. Services are already shutting down. The most dangerous regime in the world for US citizens is now their own.