My four favourite facts about the cockchafer beetle: 1. It's called a cockchafer beetle. 2. It’s also sometimes known as a “billywitch”. 3. It’s unusually loud and clumsy by beetle standards and bangs into lots of things when it flies into your house by mistake. 4. It looks like this, close up.

Now THIS is what bluesky needed: a proper, original viral thread. Joining such Twitter greats as Took Ketamine and Served Drinks to the Irish President, and Accidentally Ordered a Truck of Rice.

We should know where every on-duty cop is for every hour of their work day on a short delay (one week, one month, something like that). That information should be published and able to be FOIA requested when it is redacted.

"No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence". The lack of awareness from McDaniel is stunning. This is exactly what ICE is doing right now.

Police chief details persistent criminal misconduct by ICE officers.

Yes. When we say all their accusations are confessions, this is the point. The accuser believes that everyone thinks the same way and would thus act on the basest instincts they assume we all have in common. Except that we don't.

What can I say, I'm not the same person from this morning who said you'd have a draft this afternoon

i like how mamdani is doing red vienna shit while the rest of the world goes to hell

that’s not a joke btws , on her old account Jane died on the hill of advocating for a transsexual apartheid nation . you know, a normal thing that credible journalists believe.

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

it's,,, fuckin,,,,,,,,,,,

🚨 Breaking | 🇵🇸 Jerusalem For the first time in UN history, Israeli occupation authorities have raised their flag over UNRWA’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem, while bulldozers demolish facilities inside the UN compound—an unprecedented escalation against a UN body.

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Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

Northern Lights from Phoenix Park now. #SpeirGorm

*screams in Foucault* *screams again, louder, in Emily Bender* *roars to the heavens in Philip K Dick*

You think NATO should break up because its most powerful member is openly threatening to annex the territories of other members. I think NATO should break up because almost half its members don't actually border the North Atlantic. We are not the same.

20 January 1910 | A Polish woman, Janina Obtułowicz, was born in Jaworzno. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943. No. 29860 In 1944 she was transferred to KL Natzweiler and liberated there.

Speechless, jaw-dropping displays tonight. Fairbanks, Alaska. iPhone photos.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Fascists think that they can scare and coerce and manipulate people into loving and respecting them but it never works that way. No amount of sanctioned murder of government PR is going to convince people that they want to associate with ICE agents.

It’s the middle of the night and Trump has posted: An AI generated image of him placing a US flag on Greenland An image of people in the Oval Office with a map showing Canada as part of the US A private text message from Emmanuel Macron 25th. Now.

Oh my god this dude is for real trying to claim that this quippy iteration of the poem that has been circulating online for at least a decade & that I saw on protest signs in like 2014 is only popular because he tweeted about it like 3 years ago This man does not have any juice, let alone The Juice™️

I hope our government listens to this grieving parent. It’s such an important message precisely because of who he is and how and why his daughter Molly died.

This should apply to all countries across the board

prospect.org/2026/01/14/i... You don't need to share Pink News' regurgitation of a story broken by other outlets, you can share original reporting instead.

as a white voter without a college degree, it's good to see i am part of the working class. a common man of the people. engaged in that oldest and most respectable of the manual trades, podcasting.

it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time

Yesterday I taught a class about the historiography of Stonewall. I used the official defacing of the Stonewall National Monument - removing the TQ+ by the administration - to illustrate how public memory and debates about history, aka historiography, have relevance today. Next year I'll use this.

Unfortunately, Starmer et al are the horse in this scenario. (Also, Kyle has a dog called Dante because of course he does.) www.ft.com/content/73c8...

There is a legit general strike in the entire state of Minnesota on Friday. The first in an entire US state. The AFL-CIO and dozens of unions are involved. All power to the workers. Fuck the Gestapo.

My 16 year old son asked me why we can't just have a revolution and overthrow governments, billionaires etc. Bless him, he's 16 and a sweetheart and not even remotely violent. The problem is I couldn't think of a good reason why not.

Applause for @heawood.bsky.social

Unfortunately, Starmer et al are the horse in this scenario. (Also, Kyle has a dog called Dante because of course he does.) www.ft.com/content/73c8...

The dog is all of us. www.ft.com/content/73c8...

free feet!? in this economy!?

Post a moment you love from Kathleen Kennedy’s stewardship of Lucasfilm. Hairs on the back of the neck stuff.

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In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

Nobody sells it quite like our Liv 😊🥰💜

If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.

Their response is that they can't control who turns up. A) they could try. B) There's photos of them hugging the Nazis.

The idea that 'gender critical' activists are feminists has long been a joke. But I have to wonder if they ever ask themselves why it is that an (alleged) paedophilic rapist agrees with gender critical ideology.

If anyone works at major HR firms and platforms (Salesforce, Workday, etc.) and has info about what drove adding these questions to job applications in the last few months my DMs are open and my Signal is SydneyBauer.30 You will have anonymity.

Why tf do you need to know what marker was on my birth certificate for employment?

Fondly remembering the time in 2009 when my friend texted me from a Bolt Bus “haha this is so weird, a cop pulled over our bus AND is making the driver do a field sobriety test??” and then five minutes later texted me “oh my God he failed”

I recently heard historian Robert Kagan say: “What's at risk right now is literally our democracy in the sense that I don't think Trump is going to allow free and fair elections in 2026.” My job is to fight in court to prove him wrong even while I fear he may be right.

I originally drew this over five years ago and somehow it's relevant again, sadly

ICE agents pose as utility workers to get inside immigrants’ homes to detain them. The utility company has posted guidelines on how to recognize real utility employees. I have no words!