Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Pronghorn can run 11 kilometers in 10 minutes, achieving bursts of 97 km/hour. But after a fast-moving Wyoming wildfire, at least 70 pronghorn died, overtaken by the flames. A Wyoming writer whose roots are intertwined with pronghorn asks: Can our fastest land mammal outrun a warming climate?

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

I pullled these photos from the Library of Congress which houses a large collection of great depression era photos of Puerto Rico as a result of New Deal work programs such as the WPA. These were all from my hometown in Cidra, PR which is up in the mountains. (El campo).

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

A few snaps from the end of January at #Plora Wood in #Innerleithen. Thanks to all who braved the rain & muddy slopes! 🌱 Top marks to those that cycled there too. 👏🚲️

I didn't know I could love this dude more.

Gonna say that said debating society should just not have responded at all - student error. They're not obliged to talk to Reform folk, to invite them, or even humour them with a response. They fell for her bait.

I'm fairly sure I messed up the dev on one roll. Massive contrast. Nevertheless. OSAKA NOIR! #BelieveInFilm

The US Army recruiting commercial with the 10th Mountain Division during a Winter Olympics is fine. Highlighting fighting in Italy, against Italians (and Germans), during an Olympics in Italy? I'd say that's A Choice but honestly not sure the Pentagon is smart enough to have connected those dots.

OMG: “The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at birth at 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 139 pounds… While it was a natural birth, zoo staffers were on hand and created a soft-landing area to cushion the calf’s 6-foot drop during delivery.”

This piece is about drystone walling, and about belonging. About building something solid before building something beautiful. About making a life, and a place in it, with your own hands. kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/the-work-o... #Scotland #UK #Books #Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Women

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

Just beyond parody at this point

All these "professional skiers" and "downhill experts" on here slamming Lindsey Vonn... take a walk, go do what you do best- which is likely nothing. All the way off.

Anyone fancy some Orkney isles in b&w? Here you go, magical place, so much atmosphere. 1/3

Nothing draws visitors like an easy meal during adverse conditions. 😄 Here's a small sampling during a recent snow. Northern Cardinals #BirdOfTheDay #red #StunDay #winter #snow #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Heard the first curlew this morning & a mass of lapwings this afternoon. It’s probably the earliest return I’ve known on the Pennines but it’s so beautiful to see & hear them again. (Tea toned Cyanotype on Japanese paper)

This is a really incredible episode of @revealnews.org, in part bc reporters @artiscuriskis.bsky.social and Nate Halverson are MN natives. Esp love the postal carrier perspective on what has happened to people on his route revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

Bus Painting: Sawston Cemetery Chapel from the bus to the Shoes

“We couldn’t use the word ‘black’ in Black History Month. We would have to abbreviate it,” she said. “I was very angry and baffled because this is a Historically Black College and University, and for them to say we can’t use the word ‘black’ was kind of insane.”

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

"Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter… He remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from 8 skull fractures and 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages." Abolish + PROSECUTE ICE

AI is not alive. It cannot translate human experiences. It cannot feel for you, and even if it could, it would only be that much clearer that its output is not something YOU made. It has no relation to you.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

For anyone interested if you're out and about in Inverness like I was last night there's a time portal in Rose St Car Park that takes you back to 1978 and the height of disco fever. Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive

What the hell is the New York Times doing? In its article on Trump posting a video that included a clip of the Obamas as apes, NYT tries to help him come up with an excuse: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it." WTF.

Volunteers? All those private jets & helicopters ferrying people in to an Irish billionaire's golf course, and the wealth is trickling down to...volunteers?

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Those who have enjoyed this thread might also enjoy this story about the time a toad decided to live in my dad's shoe: www.tom-cox.com/my-dad-and-t...

OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??

It’s politicians like Sarwar who have broken politics. They come with no principles or vision apart from their own tawdry ambition and the pursuit of power for the mere sake of power. Decades of their lies and failures and venality have brought Britain to the sorry state it’s in today.

🚨🚨 #Mandelson falls even more in disgrace as @ec.europa.eu is examining and will likely conclude that British politician broke the EU Ethics code due to his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey #Epstein. This is welcome news: 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/mand...

There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2 Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?

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Incredible work here by local Chicago journalists investigating two of the especially violent DHS agents terrorizing people in Chicago & MSP. Using body cam footage, after-action reports, social media videos & much more, @unraveledpress.com tells a jarring and must read story:

This should be front page news. There should be hearings about it.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

they've downsized into the washington post-it

Well beyond time for the British Gov to end all contracts with Palantir.

you can literally travel to Mongolia, take a taxi from Ulaanbaatar to Choirin, find the last house in the outskirt, and ask Munkhbat who's about fifty or eighty, no one knows for sure, he spent his entire life drinking and throwing rocks at passing cars, he would say "Peter Mandelson? He's a c*nt."

🚨🚨Given current situation and with the sharply deteriorating situation in #trumpland, I think it is unwise, imprudent and just a very bad idea for the EU to go ahead with plans to grant #US border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...

This isn’t about awards it’s about the idea that ordinary people, standing together, can push back against fear, defend their neighbors, and demand accountability from those in power. That’s how democratic values stay alive!

Sacre bleu

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Ever completed a woodland creation application at your kitchen table? Andrew Adamson of Netherurd Home #Farm in West Linton has & he's ready to share his learning in an online webinar 📅 Tue 17 Feb 2026 🕖️ 7:00 pm Book ➡️ buff.ly/5TI63NG #treesonfarms #RightTreeRightPlace #Agroforestry