Sending so much love to our Somali siblings right now. What is happening right now is disgusting and directly out of the worst pages of history.

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

This is pizza-gate stupidity all over again. But this time it's targeting and harassing children and caregivers. It's vile and should be shut down before they do more damage.

📷️Nikon Zf 📸smc PENTAX-FA 77mm F1.8 Limited #photography #fotografía #Nikon #Zf

These nights I’m running four projects in parallel that require many hours of acquisition, so I’m piling up gigabytes of data, but for now I haven’t started processing any of it yet. So, to kill time, I’m reprocessing some images from last summer, like the Trifid Nebula (M20). 🔭 #Astrophotography

Lime Rock Quarry - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104508

Holkham Beach, North Norfolk

ESP_017244_2050 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/e1SB47

"Bread and circuses stop the poor from revolting" "We put the circus behind a $19.99 paywall, we've also clamped down on people logging into the circus from their friend's account" "And the bread?" "We've just introduced Bread+, $29.99 a month for the chance to buy bread!"

ESP_013849_2030 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/24LHuPo

People would change careers, go to school, recover from illness and burnout, move to different places. Because UBI would alter all manner of exploitative power relationships, *everything* would suddenly shift toward greater wellbeing, justice, safety, more. Anyway there's my dream. UBI. That's it.

It’s not “patriotic” to bail out Argentina while Americans are struggling, to build a ballroom while cutting SNAP benefits, or to pad your own pockets while claiming “affordability” is a hoax.

PSA: You don’t owe anyone an explanation about the health reasons why you are wearing a mask. Badgering others about the tools they need to survive is stigmatizing and ableist, and should have no place in decent society.

We’re outside the @DHSgov @ICEgov field office in Phoenix demanding the urgent release of my constituent, Yari, who’s dying of leukemia and needs medical care NOW. #FreeYari

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

To clarify, Putin and Trump don’t want peace, they want Ukraine to surrender

UBI isn’t charity as some claim . It’s restitution. Since the 1970s, productivity has risen sharply while real wages stagnated. The gap became profits, executive pay, and shareholder returns. UBI reallocates a portion of that extracted value back to the public that generated it.

The November election was the final battle of World Information War I. America lost (after barely defending ourselves) to a coalition of oligarchs, neo-confederates, and neo-nazis, and is now under a malevolent occupation government. This is the framing with the most explanatory power.

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead The undertaker makes a tactless holiday call on an invalid. “Just call’d in to wish you a merry Christmas & a happy new year.” c. 1830 wellcomecollection.org/works/rgesjrpv

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Yet another failed redacted allegation: "Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct." #doj #epstein files 👀⚖️‼️

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

🌳🍁🍂 #trees #woodland #treeclub

Somerset sunsets have been many this December. #iphone15pro #raw #photograohy #trees #grass #sun #sky #colour #somerset

Let's just say it - right-wingers are fucking STUPID. #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #history #RemoveTrump #Trump #TRUMP #MAGA #FuckTrump #fuckmaga #antifa #AntiTrump #AntiMAGA #tuckfrump #FightOligarchy #antibillionaire #DefundBillionaires #TrumPedo

Oh, I know. But I also know that every time I give a talk about the actual biology of sex and gender, people come up to me and thank me for helping them understand and changing their minds Maybe it's niave, but I refuse to give up hope. Thoughtful people still exist

A favourite painting from last year (no longer available): The Song of the Sea. 20% off all available work until Thursday (+ free p&p within Europe - other destinations ask for quote - Payment plans to suit you upon request) www.artachart.com/available-work

L'air et la chanson / The air and the song https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113587

Well Stranger Things just jumped the shark, none of the radio station LPs are stamped "FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY."

This basically sums up 2025.

My contribution to the Peanuts Reillustrated collab! Thank you to @waggtoon.bsky.social for running the @peanutscollab.bsky.social, very cool to be one of the 75 artists to celebrate 75 years of Peanuts!

Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

And now a Muusoctopus! Graneledone & Muusoctopus are the 2 octos I've seen most at these depths. Graneledone have 1 row of alternating suckers, while Muusoctopus have 2 rows. @Schmidt Ocean 🌊 dive 887 #argentiniandeepseeps #CONICET #MarineLife

A doubly old 'Christmas tree' this #FossilFriday! This was taken on Dec. 23 2010 during my 1st trip to Antarctica & shows a large fossil tree from the Triassic, 240 million years ago. The locality is high in the Transantarctic Mountains, above the Antarctic icesheet 🌿⛏️🏔️ Happy holidays! #paleobotany

“Separate” has never been equal because separation exists solely to justify unequal power. trib.al/soPCg6j

Seasons greetings.

Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), “Fungus” (1959), watercolour with drybrush.

#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #communityovercapitalizm #Ethics #SocialJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #topoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness

@raskin.house.gov @repaprildelaney.bsky.social @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov Constituents in 21782 expect you, & as many of your colleagues as you can convince, to sign on to impeach RFK. stevens.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Homo erectus KNM-ER 3883 #sciart

“We were transferred from one prison to another, and during the strip searches I was raped.” That’s what German journalist Anna Liedtke, who was abducted by Israel from the freedom flotilla boat Conscience, says Israeli soldiers did to her while she was being held in captivity.

For #FossilFriday today it has to be Mary Anning's 1823 near-complete Plesiosaurus. On 26 December 1823 she wrote to Sir Charles Bunbury sending a scale drawing of the specimen. This was one of several drawings she sent to potential buyers. For more check out www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Today is the anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Let’s hope history repeats itself with its successor.