dash it, mane

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Why don’t you know what Labour are doing/already achieved? 🌹 Labour’s getting it done. 17 Manifesto pledges delivered, 18 on track, 19 in progress. That’s real change in just 15 months. #Labour #DeliveringChange #Starmer fullfact.org/government-t...

A house in Clacton bought with unknown finances, a Russian funded Welsh leader and now an investigation into the finances and tax affairs of one of Farage’s key ally. The treachery and corruption is right in front of the media’s eyes and they do and say, NOTHING!

We don't take enough time to appreciate that I'm able to write this sentence on the other side of the planet from most of you and faster than a blink you see it I can pick up the phone and do a video WiFi call with someone 15,000 miles away like they're sitting across the table This shit is magic

The developing world that could not afford green transition is doing it; the world that had all the money and alleged industrial policies for greening is back to fossil fuels and militarization.

Thanks, New Yorker

people like greta thunberg feel as close to modern-day saints as i can think. just someone absolutely committed to the cause of human justice. i feel totally inadequate when faced with that moral clarity

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Years ago a jewish ma who loves me invited me to break fast with her family after Yom Kippur. It was a revealing experience and profound honour. In a small act of solidarity to jewish friends, we will eat tonight at 7:24. I have made lemon chicken soup, potato salad, and honey cake. 1/

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

I was talking to a kid reader about penguins and mentioned that a "penguin scientist" had found some ancient fossils and the kid said PENGUINS CAN BE SCIENTISTS?! Naturally it reminded me of this pic, which I had to reshare with you all.

Perhaps one of the most interesting elements of a lunar landing mission to think through: when and how do you launch?

Dr. Seuss, 1941. library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb...

nails it 100% !

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

I may have to register a honey badger as an emotional support animal, because increasingly the emotion with which I need support is epic savage boundless violent wrath. Mondays, huh?

Burnham at fringe #Lab25 event: "Look at the last decade we've had. Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that #Brexit has been, more directly? They are the people who took us down this path. That's their doing. And we've got to absolutely hold them accountable for that." ~AA

Nigel farage wants you to think that Britain has an immigration problem. It doesn't. Britain had a problem with millionaires hoarding wealth, egged on by politicians and the press. Britain has a problem with racism. Britain has a Nigel farage problem. #nigelfarage

To my American friends… 🙏

Conformity is never a good fit.

. From 'Deus Meus' (2025) —K. Sermonté #poetry #poem #poems

Sorry for the corny joke

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Around £75m of assets linked to Baroness Mone, 53, and her 60-year-old husband have been frozen or restrained by court order. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles. Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This man has left his nation in a state of total isolation. He is disaster for Israel's international standing and security.

These days I am fascinated by wave formation; the blue-gray sea roiling up in frantic arches only to come booming down, Sisyphus unable to escape, dredging a few #nasty bits from the deep: glops of seaweed; a rack of stark, unforgiving bone; an empty home, picked clean #emoetry

Seems about right.

This movie hits harder these days for some reason.

I played squaredle.com 09/25: *61/61 words (+28 bonus words) 📖 In the top 2% by bonus words 🔥 Solve streak: 3

> @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

New dice from The Dice Lab (me and Robert Fathauer), which may (?) be useful if you regularly write equations. youtube.com/shorts/fgMox...

Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US! www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Top Programming Languages 2025. Pay attentions if you need that job. spectrum.ieee.org/top-programm...

"I don't think a moral compass will let you ban books about..." STOP. Stop right there. What the books are "about" is neither here nor there. Censorship is wrong, period. And differentiating between books based on what they're "about" is just the thin end of the wedge.

A slogan that is going to be used again and again by the Lib Dem’s when talking about fossil fuels, gun laws, privatising the NHS etc.

Have you guys seen Tylenol’s response to #Shitler’s beyond ridiculous accusation that the medication is causing autism? 💥💥💥

In the Buddhist version of the Rapture you stay where you are and get restored to factory settings.

Tick all the squares containing the saved. #rapture

Thursley Common, Surrey: September 2025 I love this place. (I remember when it was still called Thursley Bog)

Washington, D.C. is debuting a new monument: a 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein holding hands. The installation appeared early today, courtesy of an anonymous group known as The Secret Handshake. (Daily Beast)

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage's change is a change towards Trump's America" "Where there's no NHS so patients are hit with crippling insurance bills or denied healthcare altogether" "That is Trump's America, don't let it become Farage's Britain"

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage is on the side of Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump" "The LibDems are on the side of the British people" "Unlike Farage I love Britain, I'm proud of our country"