🥼 🐕 A therapy dog treating a cat for (perhaps) melancholy, Detail of a 15th-c. manuscript, unknown artist. Edinburgh University Library. On the right the reduced version. 🗃️ #arthistory #art #cat #catsofbluesky #caturday #dog #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #medievalsky

keep seeing this do the rounds but statistically it's nonsense: the Cybertruck numbers are too small to extrapolate from meaningfully, and all their drivers are deeply stupid asshats — not representative of the population at large, need help wiping their own bums, miracle they've made it this far

prove you aren't a heartless robot

Look how Laura Kuenssberg refuses to examine Farage’s own specific history of hatred, despite it being at the core of his offering. In 2026, that’s not only a choice, it’s wilful normalisation.

people dying people torn apart people in utter terror

To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. These first 2 months have seen so many heavy developments. But making art helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 10 more.

an additional external wrinkle on what's in this thread I was a bit thrown in Pretoria several decades ago, I think in Paul Kruger's old home/Ditsong Kruger Museum now two letters of moral support, laid side by side, for the plucky Boers against the violent Imperial global hegemon of their day…

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

like the home secretary, I ✅ visited recently ✅ misunderstood ✅ lined up targets

catastrophising but good 😻

was thinking yesterday that one of the sweetest things I regularly see is the awkward smile on the face of the Bangla woman in my block that means "I am scared of dogs, I recognise your right to have a dog, also that is a cute dog" all at once. the people insulting my neighbours can fuck off.

pulverising Zanzibar gunboat diplomacy gleeful Gattling gun massacres so horrific we've collectively burnt away the cultural memories of how triumphant the Empire felt about it's utter dominance

As a Danish person who came of age during the ramping up of anti-migrant politics and Islamophobia and then moved to the UK, I find this so baffling. The UK is hardly perfect, but it is so much better at integration than so many other countries - why is that not a source of pride?

Alice Augusta Ball (1892 – 1916) was an African-American chemist whose groundbreaking work produced the first effective treatment for leprosy. She died at age 24 before she could publish her findings, and others took credit for her work, but her legacy has now been acknowledged. #CelebratingWomen

what is wrong with you people?

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I'm starting to dislike the word 'progressive'. I'm not progressive. My political positions are not only sane, but a reflection of where we actually are already. We should label people who are subservient to abusers and billionaires, who hate migration and diversity as 'regressive'

care less ❤️‍🩹

from a rooftop bar in an Islamic country

St David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Artist: H Woolley (1954)

I'm going to be sitting with this one for a while. Thank you, Naomi 🙏

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it. Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Having considered for 48 hours the best way to protect the autonomy, the equal voice and the equal right to cast a secret ballot of south Asian women at the polling station, Nigel Farage has concluded it is important to "go further" and to disenfranchise as many Asian women [+ men] as possible

That whole "we can rebuild our ties with the Commonwealth to be stronger after Brexit" disappeared quickly, didn't it?

also applies to the manufactured panic around trans people as well

Genuine racism is a problem in British politics, but a lot of where we are is because of something else: UK politicians, journalists, poli-sci types have no mental map for the fact that the "electoral discontent around immigration" has no real connection to the level of immigration. 1/4

Long February 😣

should at least have a golf club membership

the legendary Catberus guarding the portal to the Outerworld

There has never been a better time to accept and vocalize that Jews and the Israeli government are not the same thing. Yes, the Israeli government has worked hard for decades to make us believe opposing its actions is inherently antisemitic. But it isn’t true. It never was.

there were many warnings but some voices are worth less

may lose their spot may lose their lives all their loved ones

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PrimaryColors or #Colours, if you prefer Masked Flowerpiercer, Ecuador

#plumbers #plasterers

Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

Never forget that shutting down your local arms factory is infinitely more useful to the victims of war than voyeuristically consuming imagery of mutilation.

the current unhinged US regime actually wants an unholy war, sees Iran as a competing vision for theocracy, as well as all the other stupid things

so many of the very first photos my parents took of me are taken in Iran. I was born in India, but lived in Iran, before during and after the Revolution. My father worked in a remote rural hospital for 8 years. These are real people, not the bogeymen of silly Hollywood films. Its always real people.

disagree with this 👇🏽

I agree. Also: people often associate sociopaths with toddlers because they remain in pre-moral state And here is the link for the Gathered Meeting Project If anyone is interested

Sunny celandines 🌞 I do love them.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

What's the absolutely unimaginably worst thing Starmer could do, right now, and then that

Every dead child is my child.

I think this will be a problem for the Department of War — and how this is perceived at home the USA has become used to overwhelming but seemingly effortless dominance it's a bedrock of white supremacy, and the flip side of great replacement anxieties

What an opening passage! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yep.

the top hemisphere, and the side hemisphere he's not threatened New Zealand, yet

Shockingly, Starmer doesn’t care about international law

US-Israeli strike on an apartment building in central Tehran. Residents can be heard asking their relatives to leave their houses and wondering, "Why did they hit an apartment?"