In an on-the-ground dispatch from Lebanon, displaced residents describe the toll of Israel's relentless attacks, as the Israeli military escalates its assault on the capital and advances in the south. READ: In Beirut, Nowhere Is Safe From Israel's Bombing zeteo.com/p/lebanon-is...

Goethe get me one of these

Some of you need to see an aquamarine fountain pen held aloft by a silver crab. Perhaps even many of you. Certainly, I do. And so. [gestures with a flourish]

It’s even more sinister than this if you take into account extremist evangelical views about the need for conflict in the region before the return of Christ. They require war in SWANA/MENA. Everyone is someone else’s pawn in a colonial, theological, or legal face-off.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Our home was in North Gaza, but war took everything. Now my daughter fights a serious illness, and we can’t afford treatment. 🙏 She survived the war… please help her survive this illness. 🫶 Any donation, even small, can save her life. Please don’t leave my child alone chuffed.org/project/1565...

Baalbek, Lebanon 'This Phoenician city.. was known as Heliopolis during the Hellenistic period... Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the finest examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.' whc.unesco.org/en/list/294/

Let's play a game Your pet gets chosen to be immortalised on a banknote Which picture are you submitting?

Only four European countries have banned trade with the illegal settlements in occupied Palestine Spain The Netherlands Belgium and Slovenia.

This does not look good.

Well, there's something I wasn't expecting to see in a book intro. Thanks for letting me know I can't depend on a single thing you "fact-checked" through ChatGPT!

Also, any femininity influencer telling you that you must change your appearance or personality wants your money. If you are pleasant enough to have friends, you are pleasant enough to have a partner. No additional effort needed.

The operational name "Epic Fury" will be admissible evidence at the war crime trials.

Holy shit. A catastrophic storm just ripped our baby goat shelter out of the ground. And these guys are way too big to confine in these playpens.

This is the kind of humour that I'm here for. Also why I had no friends in school.

Alright fam, here it is Moby-Dick Rocks!!!; or, put down the AI and read a fucking book. by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein earrings by Ear Art by Ebony London

Den absurden Krawall, den die CDU jetzt nach der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg aufführt, sollten sich Wählerinnen und Wähler in Rheinland-Pfalz genau anschauen. Kein Bundesland kann sowas gebrauchen.

Sterbehilfe wird als fortschrittlich und liberal wahrgenommen. Dass gerade vulnerable Gruppen das Angebot annehmen, deutet auf einen Missstand hin.

“And doubts about vaccines are increasingly spilling into refusal of other mainstays of pediatric medicine… At a hospital in Boise, Idaho, for example, three infants died last year after their parents declined a shot of vitamin K, administered to newborns to prevent bleeding, said Dr. Amanda Lee”

The temperature in Gaza has plunged today, leaving Sama'a and her family shivering in the cold. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/157569

They're talking about the Iliad again. Just like they did in 2003...

When White House aides are leaking furiously to the media about how all this isn’t their fault if only someone had listened to them is that usually a sign that insiders are confident the policy is going well

This makes me sad. Only 6 years ago, feels like a lifetime. We knew we were watching our world end. Its a trauma which i think affected many people.

Die Affäre um den Deutschen Buchhandlungspreis geht weiter: Der Beauftragte für Kultur und Medien (BKM) hat die drei ausgeschlossenen Buchhandlungen belogen. In einer E-Mail vom Februar teilte der BKM ihnen mit, die Jury hätte sich nicht für sie entschieden. Das war unwahr. (1/6)

So whilst the self-reported big manly men are accidentally closing a narrow shipping channel by having a big manly war and shouting big manly war things, a reminder of that time a bunch of lads who were much secure in their gender did it deliberately.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

@nikostratis.com has a really excellent piece about this!

In the butterfly house today, pals. This is a swallowtail, apparently.

Cats of Morocco

Kevin wants to know if you've heard the good news about Lap. (The good news is that Lap is good.)

Baicha floof

Mit dem Grünenhass der CDUCSU darf nicht sichtbar werden, dass wir unsere Mitwelt und damit uns (und die ach so geliebte Wirtschaft) vernichten. Dieser Strategie zu folgen aber, geht nur, wenn du Letzteres konsequent verleugnest. DAS muss viel klarer werden! #Kollaps

Geld für die Förderung von Atomkraft, das hat Ursula von der Leyen gestern locker gemacht. Die Abkehr von der Atomkraft sei ein strategischer Fehler gewesen. Ihre Aussage muss vor allem vor dem Hintergrund der militärischen Nutzung gesehen werden

A fun thing about LinkedIn right now is that people who have the words “AI researcher” in their profile are cautioning against the technology while people with the words “AI content creator” are super excited about it

Going Hebridean for this week's #HillfortsWednesday There was nothing quite like the spectacular Dun Carloway broch on Lewis when I biked to it in 2024 😮 This well-built double-skinned drystone tower must have been a bewildering sight to any hillfort builder of the south. Extraordinary! 📷 My own

Wie cool ist das denn!? 🤩 In Lettland werden beschlagnahmte Autos von Alkoholsündern in die Ukraine überführt, um Hilfsorganisationen & Militär zu unterstützen Die Karre ist weg ab 1,5 Promille ... Sollte man in Deutschland auch einführen, dann könnt man die notleidende 🚘Industrie unterstützen 😎

🧵The debacle around the #GermanBookstorePrize / German Minister of Culture #Weimer ("culture tsar" acc. to The Guardian!) reminds me of #HannahArendt accepting the #Lessing prize in 1959. Some thoughts on coercive gift-giving & on solidarity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

By declaring their solidarity with "Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel" (Berlin), "Rote Straße" (Göttingen) and "Golden Shop" (Bremen), those who were tasked to accept a gift by the Minister, refused to play the role in which they were cast. #HannahArendt would have been proud of them all !

Prince would provide me with the peace that I love, along with some awkward staring, but I would allow it! ☝🏽 🤭

Bazookasaurus xkcd.com/3216/

Ein Mann, der sein Leben lang Meinungsjournalismus produziert hat, hat plötzlich Angst vor Meinungen in Buchhandlungen.

Nothing received yet today, please help! 💕💸

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent horses and ponies I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

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This goat knows how to enjoy life. We should all be like this goat. Just saying.

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

This is absolutely horrific.

Intolerant gegenüber Menschen, die in England Englisch sprechen? Der Kleine kann noch was werden. In der CDU oder so.

🚨 This is not just a post — it’s my child’s life. In Gaza, he is fighting for survival while we search for a way to get him the treatment he urgently needs outside. I am pleading with you — don’t scroll away. Please donate or repost — your action could save him. chuffed.org/project/168482