Leicester has long been one of the leading universities nationally for palaeontology & geology - this would be a terrible loss, as would the loss of other subjects such as modern languages: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

No one else was doing well in the economy anyway, glad its catching up to the wealthy

This is the future Alex Jones feared, but he is silent because he is now complicit

if every person who encounters your product wants to know how to turn it off or break it, i am sorry to say, you do not have viable product. i am a marketing consultant, that will be one million dollars

I could eat.

www.extremetech.com/science/scie... So, with viable RNA scientists are one step closer to bringing back the Wooly Mammoth

Whenever anyone mentions Reagan... youtu.be/4FPzfgWshqY?...

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.070 (lookback time 964.3 million years) with coordinates (231.15823, 11.28941). 42 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

OPINION: "As a wildlife veterinarian specializing in monkeys, I can assure you that there are ways to prevent the tragedy that occurred on Oct. 28, 2025 in Mississippi when eight monkeys escaped during transport from Tulane University’s Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans," Talkington writes.

“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”

Bridget Riley: Learning to See review – optical mastery leaves you gasping for air

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

Stock trading by members of Congress could be banned in bipartisan push sourcenm.com/2025/11/19/r...

It’s rich people The problem is rich people

this is not the greatest bug in the world, no. this is just a trilobite.

Oralè Resisters #BadPiggy #USDemocracy

When a President calls for the death of lawmakers protecting the oath military members take to the Constitution (NOT the President), you are watching a full-blown Constitutional Crisis. This is the ultimate test of our democracy. We cannot look away.

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Agate is common in the basalt flows of the Jurassic Period here in Nova Scotia, which form the spectacular hills around the Bay of Fundy. Agate became the provincial gemstone of Nova Scotia in 1999. #NovaScotia #geology

SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social

This is the indecent where the agent rammed her with his car, pulled a gun on her, and said “do something, bitch.” He later bragged about it in text messages.

"Not since Watergate has a president so intently focused on, and risked his political capital by, keeping a set of documents secret. Being repeatedly confronted with stark evidence he was actually at the side of Epstein is causing a political fissure Trump cannot undo." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols

Writing "hard scifi" rpgs is difficult, you want things to seem "plausible" with existing science and the future of tech, but without it being extremely unfun to play.

A single line of a Beastie Boys song "I like girlies when they are underage" makes me suspect everyone living in New York in the 80s and 90s might be in the Epstein files.

Of course they are

Trump Weaponizes Jewish Identity in His Attack on Free Speech

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’ George Orwell, Animal Farm

Seems like nosferatu wants the troops to follow unlawful orders.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

I remember a time, a long, long time ago now, when I used to go entire seconds without hearing something about the President of the United States of America.

Gems and minerals from “Erdgeschichte” by Melchior Neumayr. Leipzig; Bibliographisches Institut 1897. #naturalhistory #sciart #chromolithography #minerals #mineralogy

Interstellar #comet #3I/ATLAS in the early hours of November 20 as seen from Crete, as the weather was favorable. A faint ion tail and anti-tail can be seen as the comet is past perihelion. Nothing out of the ordinary but cool to see such a bright interstellar object. #cometWatch

Choose your Fear

BREAKING: The FBI trainee that was fired for displaying a Pride Flag is SUING the government, saying his removal was illegal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

Oh my. James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists. Get this man in the Senate.

private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money

Morning.

The stakes are too high to wait: we need to impeach Trump now. I’ll be speaking at the Remove the Regime rally in Washington, DC this Saturday. I hope to see you there! @flareusa.bsky.social @removalcoalition.bsky.social

Really old walls in Mesa Verde. #wallsonwednesday #photography #architecture #mesaverde #eastcoastkin

This was my son's first complete trilobite - a goldbug! This is a Triarthrus eatoni from the famous Ordovician Beecher's Bed of New York. This site preserves soft tissues like legs, gills and antennae with pyrite or fool's gold. #TrilobiteTuesday

Bernie @sanders.senate.gov clears up any misconceptions for the real intentions of the MBS visit to the White House. Trump has betrayed our country on multiple levels and knows what the implications are, but he doesn't care. #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace