This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

JUST IN - Artemis launch director has just given the “GO” to begin loading cryogenic liquid propellant into the SLS. A big moment in the final testing, before a potential launch as early as Sunday 8th. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

Let's talk about who funds Reform. Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been. Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform. Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?

Twenty-three years ago today, seven astronauts never made it home when we lost space shuttle Columbia. It was a tragedy that changed space exploration and reminded us of its incredible risks. I think about their families every Feb. 1st. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Brilliant letter in The Economist from Professor Ian Wray Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool www.economist.com/letters/2026...

It was a very still, calm morning today in Glastonbury. Photo was taken about an hour before sunrise.

The man behind donations of £200,000 to Reform is a church warden from Potters Bar, who just happens to work for a billionaire from Kazakhstan. But it's definitely not money laundering or interference in UK politics by a foreign national.

California seems to be building a massive amount of renewable energy and storage while not building a massive volume of new data centres. That seems to be having the effect of actual drops in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly as batteries cut deep into gas

...but if you're going to commit crimes, please focus on people who would happily sell out their neighbours to the Gestapo.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

Me too, kid, me too...

If you're a US citizen, you'll be free to go after agents briefly break your windows, beat the shit out of you, and leave you lying concussed in the street

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

The right way to get into the Epstein files.

Bruce Springsteen is currently number one in iTunes in 19 countries.

Happy first day of Black History Month. Remember, slavery isn't black history. It is white history.

Labor once again cleverly avoiding lining up with other middle powers to support international institutions.

Good night, #FlowerReport. Thank you for encouraging different ways of seeing life. Dream well. Alt text would have been: On the end of a stem is a bead of water. Refracted, upside down within the bead is a bright pink and white wild radish flower, that can also be seen, blurred, beyond.

Have we suddenly become a nation of gullible xenophobes overnight? No, of course not. We were always a nation of gullible xenophobes www.theguardian.com/...

I finally decided to start cultivating more and more this platform since Twitter has become a major contributor to the worsening of my mental health sooo... can I ask you to help me building back here some visibility? I make colorful maps with lots of detail, thanks if you want to share them! 🙏

Ok, let’s do this🙄 We’ll start with an explainer covering: 🕒What is a 15-minute city 🏫What on Earth is going on with Oxford 👽Where the conspiracy theories have come from And then we’ll look at the Telegraph article 🧵 1/25

Israel to end Doctors Without Borders work in Gaza

Headline should read, UN in danger of collapse because of unpaid United States dues. “Make no mistake, this is a rupture.” U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

A tiny few Lords are simply refusing to allow the House to come to any decisions on assisted dying. This is profoundly undemocratic. MPs put huge time into listening to the public during the Commons stages, and then had the courage to make difficult decisions there. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘21 wind turbines, was first opened by Bord Na Móna in 1992 and could supply about 6.5 megawatts at 30 kW each…height 46-53 metres at tip…replaced w/18 new turbines (adding to 60 others nearby)…a tip height of 176m and a capacity to produce 192 megawatts - 2.5 MW each’

One of my favorite tidbits from this development is that not only did grass start growing in the desert for the first time, but that it grew so tall to the point it started covering the solar panels and becoming a massive issue, and the best solution was to just let sheep eat the grass.

You need a lot of confidence to rock a hairstyle like this 😆 A pink cockatoo at Kinchega National Park, New South Wales.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #EyeContact. Blue-faced honeyeater grabbing a drink from a water fountain in Brisbane, Australia.

...they told her no, didn't they

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car. Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX. /1

I don't think people appreciate enough the fact that, at a time where global warming was approaching an inflection point yet renewable energy was finally becoming economically viable, we decided to squander that opportunity because literal death cultists decided we needed Infinite Bullshit Machines.

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"paint me like one of your little French footknights," she said #minipainting #wargaming

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

WHY is this government content to leave private renters stuck in homes not fit for habitation for another DECADE? The state of private rented homes is appalling. Renters deserve better than this disappointment from Labour. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 2013, women in Paris are officially allowed to wear trousers. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, lifted the ban as “incompatible with the principles of equality between women and men”. The 1799 law had been widely ignored. 1/3

It's O-Rings all the way when it comes to masking bombs #HistScaleModels

All right, time for a #TTRPG timeline cleanse. If you like using ambient sounds in your RPG sessions (or streams), check out one of my favorite websites, myNoise. It's a huge collection of looping sound generators, free to use but well worth supporting with a donation. 🧵 1/6

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

This is the correct way to police ICE. And it drives the far right nuts. Good.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

⚽ Funding now open for local clubs and community groups ❤️ £85m is available to improve pitches, lighting, changing rooms and inclusive facilities. Nearly 1,000 projects already benefiting. Know a group that could apply? Tag and share so South Norfolk does not miss out. footballfoundation.org.uk

Extinctions driven by fire driven by climate change

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

A moment from the British satirical magazine PRIVATE EYE. (12/n)