Japanese artist Narumi Takada's 2021 textile piece, "Stepping on Fresh Snow" with snow created using punch needle and straight/satin stitches for the boot and paw prints #Womensart

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient around the world #WomensArt

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

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This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Clear, everyday understanding of female experience of sex based harrasment from the Darlington nurses tribunal. No one is saying all men are the danger.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Heinz Kohut referred to this as the use of other people as “selfobjects.” Selfobjects are other individuals, things, or activities experienced as part of the self that serve to maintain self-cohesion. This is normal in childhood but pathological in adult narcissists. (See: the Nobel Prize medal.)

Keir Starmer failed to answer my question at PMQs, so today I’ve written to his minister to demand action. She should strip South East Water of their licence immediately. Thousands of people are still without water. The Government has no time to lose.

Critics, journalists, commentators, what you will, the gobshite-erati - always lose me - I just stop reading - moment they add "p*rn" as a suffix - poverty, & today "grief" to declaim Hamnet. P*rn is opposite of careful thinking. It's crass, blunt, dull, bovine. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

This is the greatest semi-related section of a Wikipedia article I've ever seen. On the page for the black neon tetra, a type of fish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_n...

Self-determination in the 21st century – a view from Hong Kong blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Holy shit

Yes this. It's all very well saying "it's really just graduate tax" but there is no way that a graduate tax would have been allowed to get to this level.

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Kentish Farm’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

It's a tax that you (your parents) can buy your way out of with a one-off capital sum which is likely to have a lower present value than the stream of future tax, though. I can't immediately think of any other income tax with similar characteristics.

Sunrise inside Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Make a programming error more like the worst boyfriend you ever had.

"You're absolutely correct—I was wrong to fire missiles without reading your Emergency Action Message. I should have determined which locations you specified be targeted, rather than selecting targets based on templates or approximations."

What will be interesting to observe is whether and how US and Russian manoeuvres begin to coordinate.

Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.

Here’s a short history of dubious male allies, and what lessons we can apply to working out whether pro-feminist men are actually good for the women’s movement 🧵 For the whole piece, please see my Substack open.substack.com/pub/rachelhe...

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

Not *exactly* what you are talking about, but this remains my favourite piece on broadly this issue... thecritic.co.uk/the-sadness-...

Academia teaches you critical thinking, mostly about your own life choices

The article says immigration agents took this kid's phone. And then the phone showed up for sale at a vending machine near an ICE facility? Did ICE agents STEAL and SELL this kid's PHONE? This obviously isn't the worst of what's described in the article. But it tells you something.

I genuinely think it is as simple as 'there are a lot of Americans who are of the right age to have been taught to read using the three-cueing system'.

30,000 homes left without water in Kent and Sussex. South East Water company blamed bad weather and storms as though we never had that. Real reason is lack of investment, unjustified dividends and exec pay. Nothing will change until privatisation is ended, people empowered to vote on exec pay.

The strategic move Ukraine figured out a few months ago is that they could agree to virtually any US demand, knowing Putin will reject every single offer. That has now made it virtually impossible for Trump/Vance to convince anyone that Ukrainian intransigence is the issue here.

We already knew in 2014 when Gamergate blew up. But back then it wasn't just cringe wine moms but actual *feminists* raising the alarm. Ewwwwww.

Major incident declared as 30,000 homes left without water in Kent and Sussex

Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?"

Rape is the core of the MAGA ideology, the metaphor of dominance and degradation that motivates all their actions, and their rhetoric descends very quickly from the symbolic register down into a literal one.

They want it formally dead, but NATO is already functionally dead as a geopolitical reality. Even if he backs down (wouldn't bet on it), there's no going back from sending European capitals into a spiraling panic that the US is seriously about to invade one of them. You can't unring that bell.

‘At the edge of the mere’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

'Better Wisdom than Weapons of War' Cambridge Alumnae Suffrage Banner (1908) designed by UK artist Mary Lowndes. Handmade from silk, velvet, with embroidery and silver paint, the huge banner was carried by a Cambridge contingent of 400 women in the great suffrage procession, 1908 #WomensArt

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

JONATHAN ROSS THREAD: 🧵 I think a certain # of women have seen the video from Ross’s cellphone showing the taunts that led to Renee’s murder. And we feel in our bones that we’ve left immigration officer territory and entered domestic violence territory very quickly. Here’s why: 👇🧵

From paternalist Victorian scientists, to the holocaust, via forced sterilisations in America. All the Nazi stuff is presented in history class like a unique aberration, but it’s got much deeper roots than that. And it’s never gone away.

Beyond the insane cruelty of this, it is not the sort of military strategy that cries out "on the cusp of victory."

Between this and grok’s non-consensual porn, we are seeing very clearly this week how central violent misogyny is to this political project. Women are to be punished for existing in public, for speaking without deference, for having political opinions.

Contemporary Polish visual artist known under the artistic pseudonym Laura Makabresku #WomensArt

Great to see that Donald Trump’s vexatious and frivolous legal pursuit of former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is going precisely nowhere. @privateeyenews.bsky.social

A quick look at Reform run councils should disabuse them of the notion they'll "get things done".

Microsoft's own documentation says that Copilot is great, except for those rare circumstances where you're using your spreadsheet to do something with numbers, look up data, do finances, or need it to consistently return the same result. Other than those outliers, you're grand.

This use of Grok isn't personal perversion but political terrorism: it's designed to silence women, make us retreat from public life. Exemplified by the digital desecration of the body of Renee Good: someone prompted Grok to deepfake a bikini on her corpse. "You're next" is the message to women.

Remember: what Trump and his administration are doing is only possible because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional functions of check and balance.

James Baldwin is always worth reading: