sparrowhawk having its breakfast in our garden this morning. #ukbirds #birds

The fungal kingdom has some very beautiful specimens like this Sarcoscpha. It could be coccinea or audtriaca. Both grow in our damp woody area.🌱

Did you know that nuthatches like to plaster mud around the entrance hole to their nests? This helps prevent predators entering but can sometimes be overdone leading to the nuthatch struggling to squeeze in to their own nests! 🌳 🪹 #Scotland #wildlife #FunFactFriday #birdingScotland

Uh huh Private Eye

The principles of A Land for All provide a new pathway for Palestinians & Israelis alike: · Democracy for all · Freedom of movement for all · Sovereignty to all · A homeland for all · Justice for all · Jerusalem for all · A confederate for all · Security for all www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr

In case you’re not sure how it’s going down here, America.

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

Second round of layoffs at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency definitely happening now. I've heard from at least two laid-off employees tonight.

You ain’t getting me on no plane, fool!

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Tackling hunger & hardship must be at the heart of the government's coming child poverty strategy. 😲c 2/3 (63%) @TrussellUK emergency food parcels go to families with children. 😲1/4 children aged 0-4 face hunger & hardship – higher than for any other age group.

Employee of the week.

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

For #BlackHistoryMonth: #mathematician & geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930)! 🧪👩🏾‍🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Shown with satellite tracks & 3 satellites important to her career: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. Her work, using math to precisely model the shape of Earth, laid the groundwork for GPS! 🧵

Normalize calling Republicans Nazis.

This Sunday! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/ath...

"There's actual evidence to back it up" but all the residential and Indian boarding school survivors are lying. Every Indigenous person has family who were taken to the schools, our ancestors were among the millions of Indigenous people who were slaughtered. Typical Canadian white supremacist.

convinced that any time you add the word "ethical" to the front of a phrase, there's a 97.83% chance it is not actually "ethical"

Two DOGE workers are now at CISA (DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) I've confirmed. Edward Coristine, the 19-yr-old known as Big Balls, and Kyle Schutt, a 37-yr-old software engineer. Marisa Kabas (bsky.app/profile/mari...) was first to report about Coristine. My piece for Wired

I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

Not getting verbally, physically assaulted, or killed for not giving women our number.

Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

i’m sorry i bit a hole in your car tire but in my defense i had just watched the news

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

If you use Signal and your threat model includes Russian state actors, make sure your version of Signal is up to date in order to harden your account against these attacks: cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

If you believe race doesn't matter, it's because you're racist. Only a bigot would overlook racism impacting Black communities' access to food, clean air and water, housing, education, jobs, and investment. If anything, you're worse than outright racists cause you try to hide it

Things are not developing as I would wish. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

Remember when billionaires just bought and ruined sports teams instead of whole countries

Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.

🌿☕ God morgen☀️ The word meadow comes from Old English mædwe meaning mown land or land used for hay, not just a wild grassy field Originally, a meadow was a place managed for hay, not just an untouched field The meaning expanded to include natural grassland, particularly rich in wildflowers🌸🥀💐🌿

a reminder that the dumb motherfuckers who ignored subpoenas, refused to obey court orders, failed to pay people they owed money to, and refused to disclose tax returns among many other things are the same dumb motherfuckers who want you to comply and fall in line with their fascism

A lot of locals were very surprised to get the notice from the senior center that they just lost a huge chunk of their meals on wheels funding. As this shit starts hitting people closer to home it’s going to be pretty radicalizing! I had a lot of raging grannies (complimentary) blowing up my phone.

Marco Rubio's collaboration with Russia's Sergei Lavrov and Putin is one of the most disgusting acts of betrayal to democracy and our nation. Rubio has secured his place in history of infamy.

I was privileged to be at Parliament yesterday to witness the passage into law of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara/Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bil. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The Pleiades. 18 February 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

These are war crimes under the Geneva Convention and its 1977 Additional Protocols. qudsnen.co/oxfam-israel...

For those of us who are increasingly in positions where we cannot count on the rule of law to protect our digital privacy or security, here are some thoughts on how to threat model for your community: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers this morning in Zoom call. This included workers who had completed a 1-yr requisite probation and shouldn't have been included in termination but were suddenly told recently that the 1-yr should have been 2-yrs, revoking their permanent status.

Anything that kills you you can get drunk off it. Aerosols. Chocolate milk. Subway trains

Here are Ed Wilson's sightings from Priorslee Lake and The Flash, Telford, Shropshire Today's Photo: A Long-tailed Tit #shropshirebirding friendsofpriorsleelake.blogspot.com/2025/02/18-f...

everyone in this picture shold feel deeply ashamed