Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A gallery of army ants.

A moment from the past frozen in time. About 2,000 years ago, it seems a dog stood on a wet clay tile in Verulanium (modern St Albans) and someone (the tiler?) threw a stone at it. The stone lodged in the tile along with the paw print. What a wonderful thing. 🏛️Verulanium Museum 📷 my own

This is easy to coordinate but climate action was hard. Ok.

🎬 Mêlant archives, images de fiction et vidéo personnelles, la cinéaste Lana Daher parcourt soixante-dix ans d’histoire et compose, au terme d’un travail de montage impressionnant, le portrait diffracté de son Beyrouth natal et adoré. La critique de «Do You Love Me» :

Why handcraft with artisanal love every missive I send when I can just [insert words here]?

Literally the best email I've ever received. No notes.

'The Tea Table.' (c1946) Edward Le Bas was a member of the London Group of artists, an exhibiting society founded in 1913 that included Duncan Grant, John Nash, and Walter Sickert. This work illustrates his fondness for subjects of interesting arrangements of shape and colour.

Wellness influencers and MAHA types have so much suffering to answer for. apple.news/AILfklhbqToO...

Traduction dans l'ALT de l'image. #Pulitzer 2026

Nos félicitation au photographe Saher Alghorra, photographe palestinien et lauréat du prix #Pulitzer 2026, pigiste pour le New York Times. www.pulitzer.org/winners/sahe...

Beurre doux ou beurre salé? Non, c’est pas la guerre des beurres, c’est ma cloche a beurre, fabriquée à la main avec de la cire d’abeille, un objet artisanal. J’espère que vous allez l’aimer. #GalleriaObscura #faitalamain #artisan #madeinfrance

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

This is the sort of headline you used to get in comic books and movies about dystopian states.

Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?

Happy New Murderbot for those who celebrate!

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Alternative take: Europe is falling behind in the dark money bribery scheme

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Encore ??? www.huffingtonpost.fr/internationa...

World: *through sobs* You can't use infinite wealth to make everything worse Techbros: <points at dog> Worse

The theme that reverberates in all of these chatbot companion pitches is that these dudes want relationships that don't require any work. They want a dog they don't have to take care of. Friends who don't have their own problems or needs. Sexual partners who don't have their own desires. 1/

Forthwith the May be you!

Bluesky is great for tracking particular political milieus in Europe, US, to an extent Latin America, but X-Twitter and Telegram, even Facebook still, are necessary for much of the rest of the world. This site struggles to generate substantial traffic from MENA, Ecowas, Indian Ocean World and so on

For all "Bluesky is dying" tropes, the SPD, Grüne and Linke moving off Twitter to use Bluesky to reach specific milieus while doubling down on Insta and TikTok to reach the wider public is an indicator of how shifts in digital discourse push various successors to the Dorsey model into niche roles

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Quel complete et total cringe ce type. 🤯 Comment être si à côté de la plaque. Quatre fois… #smdh.

Calico cat in a calico coat! #kidlitart

« Mediapart » révèle que le mythique jouet en caoutchouc naturel vendu par l’entreprise Vulli, censé être fabriqué en France, est, depuis de nombreuses années, massivement produit en Chine. www.mediapart.fr/journal/econ...

Side note to the everything is AI slop: walked along the whole Rue Rivoli yesterday. All those awful souvenir shops (mostly plastic shit made in China) are now FULL with AI slop decorated souvenirs, from an idiot machine’s idea of Paris. Well done everyone, and especially those who buy that shit.

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

One thousand percent. Having never actually read anything beyond new-atheism and airport psychology, they assume they’ve exhausted the supply of human ideas and possibility.

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

Vous n’achèteriez pas votre pain à un boulanger pédophile – enfin j’espère. Pourquoi achetez-vous votre voiture à un type qui laisse éclater sa joie en faisant non pas un mais deux saluts nazis aux caméras du monde entier ? Je connais la réponse, hein, j’aimerais juste que ce soit vous qui la disiez

Our rose’s clippings.

Well, dang, 23 years since this song. Speechless about time passing. open.spotify.com/track/3sddYh...

Award winning poet, Mosab Abu Toha’s aunt was shot in the chest in Jabalia camp, while sitting with her young children, holding her one month old baby, and it fighting for her life. This, under a “ceasefire” #Gaza

How does one even react to such daily savagery

Kim Novak for Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock (1958)

A clown at a lunch counter, Reno, Nevada Thomas Hoepker, 1963

I had my first review of my butter bell, today: “beautiful and very practical”. Entirely handcrafted from beeswax, Spring Butter Bell. 🐝🐝🪻#GalleriaObscura #handcrafted #beeswax

“before I go, I’m gonna say something positive”😅 (sorry Ed)

I overheard a conversation on a train.The mum discovered on her phone email that the kid of about 10yo had loads of homework to do during the vacation and some books to read. She then handed her phone to the kid to order the books on Amazon. My heart sunk: the bookstores, the libraries. #sigh