Photographer 'over the Moon' with iconic ET recreation two years in the making. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

we are not afraid radicalized wine moms everywhere are deciding what they would like to say knowing it might be their last burn 🔥 we will win

Several people on here reported getting suspicious password reset emails recently, this might be why…

Duran Duran paying tribute to Renee Good in Sacramento - what a perfect response to the brutality of ICE. “This song is dedicated to the memory of Renee Good. We believe that people in this world have a right to live their lives in peace and lives of freedom and happiness in their own country."

good post, very true

Slinking along the fringes of the reeds, a Bittern catching the low sun at Gosforth NR, one of three there today #NEbirding

"They expect us to keep our mouths shut—to not speak out, to not say that she was murdered by a man who was empowered by this regime to act violently and lawlessly in pursuit of a hateful deportation agenda that makes America meaner, uglier and more deadly...This must stop."

My favorite signs from today's ICE Out for Good protest in Pasadena. #ICEOut

Tonight I added 2.5 hours worth of data to the Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Orion. This stack is now nearly 5 hours in total. Such a great area to capture #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

11 January 1939 | Czech Jewish girl Věra Vohryzková was born (right). She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943 with her mother Štěpánka and brother Jiří. None of them survived.

Happening now: “ICE out” protests from East Coast to West Coast in solidarity 🔥

A few tips for a more pleasurable experience here… Curate your own feed by who you follow but also don’t hesitate to block anyone who is rude or upsets you. Bluesky’s ‘nuclear block’ will remove them from your mentions so your followers will benefit too.

I’m at an anti-ICE protest in Encinitas, California. Protesters have gathered on both sides of 10 lanes of traffic. Hard to get more Californian than that.

What a protest, in 6° weather thousands and thousands out here standing for our Immagrant neighbors!!

Performative neutrality isn’t neutrality. It’s an active alignment with the status quo and existing power structures. When scientific institutions do this, they don’t protect credibility or public trust; they undermine both, weakening science’s legitimacy as a force for the public good.

finally got my personal music server going with all my old mp3s (about 500+ albums) so I can serve up music, just bought my first bandcamp albums of 2026 and feeling good about supporting musicians directly. It's small, but something.

If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2

Still here. Still waiting.

Always the finest bird videos from Mr Denton.

Seamus Heaney, painting by Tai-Shan Schierenberg, 2004 (National Portrait Gallery, London).

We are off to see David Bowie tonight, so I'll let you know what he's like live.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

Night all. 🎧 Episode 42 - Night beside a stream in Wales (60mins) It is 3am. All the creatures are sleeping other than a few owls at the start. bit.ly/LenKerry3

If you don’t think misogyny is a huge part of MAGA and Trump ever since Bannon activated the ‘monster energy’ of Gamergate against Hillary Clinton, think again. As in Putin’s Russia, the desire to dominate, subjugate and kill women is the key psychopathology of Trumpism

I really wish the government would start posting on here. It's very frustrating not having access to updates because I don't want to look at the toxic, bigoted, racist, CSAM site. A lot of edutwitter is here. Where is the DfE please? @ofstednews.bsky.social @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.

Timeline cleansing

I feel like "It sounds like old telly music" is perhaps underselling it here, but it's not wrong. It's great - you should definitely listen.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Ooo! New followers! 🤗 Hello everyone! (and thanks @themerl.bsky.social 😘) We're a mahoosive roman site on the south coast of England. If you like mosaics then you'll love us. We also have a golden retriever called Huxley. Everything else, you'll find online.

The exhibition is lit so that whenever you take a photo, the lights reflect in the cases and x marks the spot! Cute, or what?

Everyone on here who cares about truth and social justice should be following @orgreavejustice.bsky.social. Decades of campaigning for the truth shows incredible resilience and commitment. Orgreave was the most shameful event in uk policing history and that’s a high bar.

Summer in Aotearoa

ATTENTION PEOPLE IN AND NEAR SHREWSBURY! There are now only a few seats left for The Night Sky Show at @theatresevern I expect it will sell out very soon, so book now to avoid disappointment www.theatresevern.co.uk/whats-on/the...

This is the playbook Lie, lie and lie again use your outriders to spark endless discussions about whether what you saw is real Deracinate facts until truth is meaningless Then democracy itself becomes meaningless

I love clapper bridges. Usually medieval or earlier the simple stone bridge is made of large, flat slabs ("clappers") resting on stone piers or banks. They were used by foot traffic and probably more precariously by packhorses. The nearest one to me is the Druids .

I think we forget sometimes that barometers are miracle machines. It’s not windy yet at home; it is raining but nothing exceptional. Without the barometer, if you were just relying on local observations (like most mariners for most of history) you would have no idea it was time to run for your life.

'The Adventure of the Clapham Cook', the first episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot, was broadcast on this day in 1989.

Hello new friends (courtesy of the ever magnanimous @themerl.bsky.social) We are the Merchant Adventurers' Hall - a medieval guild hall in York. What we lack in serious museum content we make up for in big roof energy. 👇

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

bsky.app/profile/chri... Video here, for the people doubting. It's at 1:58 or so.

Make it viral.

A walk from Thorne to Goole, via the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Keadby Wind Farm, the River Trent, the River Ouse and the Dutch River, 9.25pm Saturday 3 January to 9.25am Sunday 4 January. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Ident on BBC News. "We don't just report the news. We live it." Actually I'd rather you did just report the news. You're not bloody method actors.

Meanwhile, Jeez.

This is forecast to result in storm surges ~1 metre on the English Channel and Bristol Channel. Fortunately it is not a spring tide, but the total water levels will be fairly high. There will also be large waves. Please follow local warnings and stay safe.

#LFC Listening to John Oliver's recent show on the @meninblazers.bsky.social podcast and some things surfaced for me. We had 7 players move in, which means we had 7 move out. All are considered first-team players (maybe not Leoni). But essentially half the squad. That's big churn for any team. 1/?

The small folder which I used during the Outsiders project. I showed the prints to prospective participants in the project when talking to them on the street, so they could see what type of photography the project consisted of. I think it helped me to win their trust. I got the idea from Bruce

The Drake Jewel, given to Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth in 1588. Included miniature portrait of herself (w/ her bird, the phoenix) by Nicholas Hilliard, whose day is today.