These are the same people who think we're weird for using a bicycle to pick up some groceries.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

That urge to hide, either hide yourself completely, hide out from the world, or hide parts of you that feel shameful or "unforgivable"-- that's trauma conditioning f*cking w/ you. Hiding is not "safe" the way we think it is. Real internal safety doesn't actually require hiding.

85 cities now have May Day strikes next week. As more unions & groups like Indivisible support them, the list is growing paydayreport.com/map-65-citie...

Well, wonder no more, my friends.

A blue whale’s heart is large enough for a human adult to swim inside of, however the whales hate this so it was banned globally starting in the early 70’s.

People keep talking about e-bikes, e-trikes, e-scooters, and other power-assisted mobility like they are toys, shortcuts, or something to sneer at. But for a lot of people they are freedom machines. They turn impossible trips into possible ones. They turn pain into manageability, distance into

Exactly - bikes were freedom machines then, and still are now, with e-bikes expanding that freedom further. More access, more independence, more dignity, and more ways for ordinary people to get around without needing a car. Thats why bikes and e-bikes need to be a much bigger part of everyday life.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance Service operates across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Rising fuel costs and supply issues could affect its ability to reach patients quickly. Donations help keep it saving lives 👇

That seems like a lot

So much for competition forcing down prices. Pseudo monopoly. And look at that tiny sliver of tax

"Maugham used social media to describe the Good Law Project’s podcast as looking into 'what happens when you take an antichrist-obsessed billionaire and a company named after an evil seeing stone in The Lord of the Rings and you put them at the heart of the NHS'."

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

✨Dancing with Apollo✨ This stunning Roman fresco comes from the Villa Moregine which is located just outside Pompeii. The figure wears gorgeous diaphanous robes in blues and seems to float against the red background while strumming a lyre. #FrescoFriday

Just armadillo having fun to bless your scroll

I am here for the notable rise of this amongst the young

I am absolutely shite at recognising when someone is flirting with me. Like, comically bad at it. My mates would mock me about it. But something happened today that made me so happy. 1/?

If I were a German airline, busy asking people to remember my long history in a special anniversary year, then there is probably one company I would very definitely avoid getting to design my new cabin uniforms. That would be Hugo Boss. I probably wouldn't go for black either.

WHOA! Ivan Moore, the best Alaska pollster, shows that Peltola has a solid lead in #AKSen against Dan Sullivan. The Alaska Senate race is definitely in play!

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

the Dutch resistance developed the best ever knock knock joke that only works with nazis. You knock on their door, and then when they answer, you shoot them dead. (And then ride away on a bicycle, it's the Netherlands). Best part about this joke is you can do it over and over. Never gets old!

Paging @sardonicus.eu 😉

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Tortoise Media has celebrated the one year takeover of the Observer by axing two photographers. They’d been with the paper for more than half a century. No notice, no warning, no pay off.

@carisa.bsky.social Very excited to see you tonight at the Palladium - welcome to London! We are taking bets on what colour you'll wear 💙💜💖🩵❤️

Watching an auroral corona develop right overhead is one of the most spectacular things you can see

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

💖 Hope this Quokka brings ya joy 🌿 Happy Everything 💚🤎

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

What he had was a gun.

mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk

"We built a locomotive that's going to run over a large portion of our userbase," is one hell of a sales pitch.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

"Birds see fast enough that TV is a just slideshow of still images but slow enough they can see which direction the stars are moving" is really doing a number on me

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself! And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

The 21st century will be won by the states that, in a developed world where skilled young people are increasingly in short supply, are able to overcome their own xenophobia to welcome the future

If you ever wanted a reason to donate & support the Good Law Project, this would be good one.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

this is cool because it's a very obvious concept but it's neat to see it laid out in data!

"A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert – himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt" -GK Chesterton

Also, "woke" in the now-common white supremacist appropriated vernacular just means "I'm a bigoted and/or complacent piece of shit, and every reminder of the vastness of human diversity—up to and including simple basic acts of human decency—confront me with my moral failing, causing me to lash out."

Hey yesterday I emailed an archivist with, and I quote, “do you know what ‘bundle dated 1190-1200,46’ might be?” And they emailed me back within an hour with the full text of a deed and a translation so yeah, ask a librarian (and archivists)

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew. An oligarchy virus.

Decarbonisation is the answer. This is the second fossil fuel crisis in just a few years. The evidence is clear: dependency on fossil fuels remains the most expensive option for Europe — and citizens are feeling it at the petrol station, in the supermarket, and on their bills.

People don't want to risk being kidnapped and shipped to a Salvadoran gulag never to be seen again? Crazy www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

The rich have said they will not stop harming people, they will not allow the law to stop them from harming people, they will not go to jail and they will not respect the authority of a democratic government. So when the inevitable result of this defiance occurs, yes. People will cheer.

Bro misunderstands. This is not the degredation of society. These are the *results.* When the rich and powerful refuse to be restrained by our laws, they violate the social contract and leave people desperate and with no legal recourse. They have fucked around, and are finding out.