Philip had to wait an hour for his dinner yesterday. This is him forgiving me.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

Halo Jones, by Ian Gibson, on the cover of February 23rd 1985’s 2000AD #406. It was but 41 years ago.

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

This is Tucker. He's a dedicated service dog who earned a trip to Build-A-Bear. Carefully sniffed the bins and selected a fluffy golden friend that looks just like him. Watched intently as they added the heart. Now they're inseparable.

Also Philip stole a brownie from a human friend in the park on the 14th and had the explosive shits for days, but he’s back to normal today

Today I got to watch a common buzzard and a red kite trying to intimidate each other by soaring in circles and may your day be equally blessed

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

ICE is detaining LGBT+ asylum seekers with no criminal record and separating same-sex families, even when people are following the law. This is happening right now. I just signed this petition – can you add your name too? a.allout.org/s/O53MQ/

Fungal Misadventure: a short story in the form of a Bluesky thread... "Have you ever wondered?" he asked, as they picked mushrooms in the forest near her house. "How many people died from fungal misadventure during prehistory before we found out which of these were safe to eat?"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Whenever Farage says jump, [Labour] say how high. You will never appease the right by doing that. They will just get more and more extreme" Spot on. This is what people mean when they say Labour is ushering in the far right.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

And you’ll have seven fingers in the photo, and the Matterhorn will be in the background.

Roses are red Rainbows are queer fascist white supremacy has always been here

Roses are red but that's implicit fight back against fascism or else you're complicit

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

But (whisper it) it's *always* just you and your conscience, really. The End Times won't feel any different; in a fundamental sense they won't *be* any different. People will still be people. You will never get the license you fantasise about to murder human-shaped monsters on a whim.

Art requires a creative flexible mindset, and empathy for others. Both of those things will lead you far away from conservative ideology. In short and with a broad brush, MAGA art sucks because they're hacks who have never experienced their own emotions fully and don't understand other peoples'.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel... hey #dogsofbluesky can we boost this fundraiser to get diamond and her owner veterinary care and warmer clothes, respectively? it's deathly cold out! the original post on facebook (link in alt text) has updates that the gfm doesn't yet so i've included a screencap!

Speaking truth as usual-

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Love is chill, love is dank. It does not thirst, it does not flex, it is not extra. It does not cancel others, it is not sus, it is not salty, it keeps no receipts. Love does not spill tea but rejoices with the woke. It always stans, is always fam, is always G.O.A.T, always slays

Brockman had to have INTENTIONALLY avoided inviting non-white scientists to these events where Epstein would show up because Epstein didn't believe in the intellectual equality of non-white scientists to white ones If you're a white scientist in an all white space, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Billionaires can't be happy with their money because it is impossible to become a billionaire without being a gaping sucking void of desperate ravenous mindless hunger. The only way to become a billionaire is by transforming yourself into a wendigo.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Want a spell I wrote mmmm 5-ish years ago but is still really unpleasantly pertinent? Okay, here's "A Simple Banishing Ritual For The Age Of Shitty People (Usually Men, But Feel Free To Adapt For Other Genders As Necessary)."

FRUIT FOR THE FRUIT DOG, now with the vid that wouldn’t upload as a top level. I think store bought apples are bigger and firmer than he was expecting.

Fruit for the fruit dog

I'll repost this tomorrow, but if you're commemorating the Boston Mooninite Scare anniversary today, one of its heroes is nearing the end of his life, and you can let him know how much that moment meant to you and help his family out here @universalhub.com

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...

imagine being so rotted that Bruce Springsteen writes a brand new song about how much you suck shit and announces it by saying “by the way I’m so fucking mad that I banged this out in 24 hours” how are you still up and walking around after being slammed like that

You can’t just say AI tutors are going to teach disadvantaged kids. You might as well say inflatable dentists will solve the NHS backlog. The casual anthropomorphising of AI has got to stop. They’re not ‘tutors’, it’s software. It’s not ‘one-to-one’, it’s a kid on a screen on their own.

Millionaires of the world, unite! Brian Eno writes: Nobody needs trillionaires

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

ICE is detaining LGBT+ asylum seekers with no criminal record and separating same-sex families, even when people are following the law. This is happening right now. I just signed this petition – can you add your name too? a.allout.org/s/O53MQ/

I was going to post an ASMR video of Philip eating a whole apple, but he found a banana in the park so he’s at his fruit limit for today

🙌 NEIL YOUNG TRASHES AMAZON, GIVES HIS COMPLETE MUSICAL CATALOG TO GREENLAND FOR FREE “Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,” Young writes to fans. “My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos”

Okay, so I was at this table with my friend the bubble letterer, who wrote “Free” in their PROFESSIONAL-grade bubble letters. It made someone big mad. So bubble person and I made some #popupleftistsupplydepot merch. Proceeds to MIRAC MN. Popupsupplies.printful.me

Yeah, y'all need to go back to treating us as soothsayers and mystics, and start listening to our guidance and predictions.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, it's magic."

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