This is how barricades worked in Paris during 1848 and 1871, just, fun fact. If you make a large enough area with such blockades at the entrances...

Shoutout to whoever filled out the Marsalis brothers Wikipedia pages ‘Personal Life’ sections with simply ‘raised catholic’ It’s truly none of my business, just being nosy.

Cannot seem to find a good temperature today. Cursed to pursue the ever elusive homeostasis

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

FREE at Libro: a book with specific, workable goals to help you do what you can right now, for Minnesota and for your neighbors, too: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Mutual Aid by Dean Spade is free on Libro for the next week (until 2/2).  We know that books can't fix everything, but they can help us show up for and strengthen our communities. Our employee book club read this last year, leading to a great discussion. We hope that it helps others do the same 💗 ⏬

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

Rain? Didn’t see that coming

A mountain lion was spotted on video in San Francisco overnight Sunday and may still be at large in the city, S.F. Animal Care and Control said on Monday.

This is a more direct link for Victor Manuel Diaz's fundraiser to help his mother repatriate his body to Nicaragua. The total is still only at $2,859. PayPal-friendly payment. www.facebook.com/share/p/16Cd...

Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.

Man on the street: You just get your hair done? Me: haha no Man: Well it looks good, can I get your number? Me: No, but I hope you have a good Monday! Man: You got a boyfriend? Me: [mumbling] that's none of your business Man: What's that? Me: haha, I don't know you Man: Well have a nice day I guess!

The bakery housed in the former Black Panther Party Oakland headquarters quietly shuttered in mid January.

I’m reposting this again because the need is great. So many of our vulnerable neighbors cannot go out to work and earn money right now. We need to raise funds so that they can still pay their rent and not get evicted. This is a totally legitimate organization. #MePolitics

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

One trend I’ve noticed is that my richer, Whiter, friends are moving out of the country and my poorer, Browner friends are staying. I don’t know if it’s a larger trend and if it’ll continue, but I’m really curious about where it leads us demographically.

It's not just the extremes. Sure, we found >1300 special issues with >75% of the articles authored by guest editors themselves. But the bulk of PISS, endogeny beyond any existing threshold, comes from systematic mild abuse. The real danger is how we've normalised mild abuse, not the extremes. 7/n

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

I was reading about spiders and now I want a pet spider so bad 🥹

I’ve started referring to it as ‘Civil-World-War-III’ in my head

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Going to start referring to my living room as a pop-up leftist supply depot.

My flower paintings are back from exhibiting and now available in my online shop! These are about 12x12 (the tulip one is 20" high), and some of the larger botanical paintings I've done. 🌸🌷🌼 If you're looking for a special original work, check it out! nimasprout.shop

ADDING ONTO THIS THREAD - Beware of INPRNT folks. About a month ago my account vanished - no email, no indication why. All my prints were up and there was money in that account. They have not responded to ANY of my attempts to find out more info on this.

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Sinkholes are cool, like sometimes the earth just swallows us up

Hoping to cast a wide net to find the right candidates for a Science Fellow (2 yr position) @ucs.org . Looking for PhD with expertise and interest in working on just land transitions and grid resilience, in California and beyond. job posting: apply.workable.com/j/41E7503CD5...

if you’re feeling inspired by the photos from minneapolis,drop a note of appreciation at www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-... !

About to try a new recipe for peanut butter cookies

Stop killing people, please

The amount of salt provided for these heat and eat soft pretzels was truly comical

I would like to gently request that AI pharmacy bots stop trying to kill my mother

Are you in San Francisco and see stuff like this and get inspired about oyster restoration? If so you can help the SF Bay. The wild Oyster project needs volunteers. They clean restaurant oysters to use as substrate for native oyster reefs. It's a cool project. wildoysters.org

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!" "Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!' - two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

🎵’[We’re] gonna make it after all’

I can’t believe I have to do laundry again

“Maybe I’m tall and right” -Abbott Elementary

When your glasses fall behind the nightstand and you think ‘what if I don’t?’ (Pick them up, move at all today, see anything but smudges again,…)

"Ian" is hard at work pruning cherry trees in Sunnyside WA in 29° weather. Holding these shears up all day long as you climb up and down ladders causes serious strain on workers' arms, shoulders and back. When it's this cold, the work is even harder. #WeFeedYou

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

You should take a moment to check out the Oakland Syllabus from @oaklandreviewofbooks.org because: 1. I helped make it and I feel proud. 2. I *guarantee* you will discover something new, no matter how well you know Oakland. 3. It is a living document! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

"Andrea" shares, "Picking strawberries is always a hard job as it requires a lot of bending. Bput it is way harder in the rain. It is wet and cold and very slippery. Even in times like our lunch hour right now, means enduring the environment. There's no dry break room." #WeFeedYou

Just saw a coyote in the street because why the fuck not? 2026 is off to a wild-ass start

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

I don’t want to die in a detention center