Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person. /1

I think this might be the funniest thing I've read on trawling back through the last couple of weeks of science-sky after an Xmas detox...

I think the Greenland threat is a troll. I think. But it would sure be nice for some senators and GOP house members to speak up now and make it clear that an attack on a nato ally would lead to removal from office

🚨🧵on Venezuela While the final US military operation last weekend might have been under cover of darkness, the build-up to it was out in the open for all to see. I've constructed some timelines of the immediate build-up covering both the strikes and the supporting actions... 1/11

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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

Lastly, many thanks to the Editors at @plosbiology.org for a serious, efficient, and scholarly approach to peer review. My first time submitting to this journal, and I was very impressed.

Starting 2026 with a thread a very recent manuscripts at Ryan Lab @tcddublin.bsky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social "Extinction and subsequent updating of innate fear responses to a visual looming stimulus rely on hippocampus-dependent mechanisms" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @PLOSBiology

'Todi Umbria,' by contemporary British watercolorist Alan Reed

Never forget this: The forces undermining our democracy, rigging our economy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. We must keep fighting in 2026 and beyond.

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Three of the top five British grid electricity records smashed in 2025! This is a huge success story, despite what Russian bots and U.S fossil fuel shills scream on X. Every unit of clean domestic energy we produce means a safer future for our children…🥳

Good morning. Let's make a collective resolution: this will be the year in which we start to turn things round.

Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Every week, Nature publishes yet another breathless puff piece about some AI startup, based only unpublished claims from the company and interviewing only those who work there. How can the leading scientific journal publish piece after piece that would make Kevin Roose blush? I think it's that...

Why we have to take ‘toxic masculinity’ literally Some men may downplay climate change risks to avoid appearing feminine www.psypost.org/some-men-may... 🧪

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

A relative moved back to the UK with their US partner, and neither of them could believe the level of service provided by the NHS Medicare for 65+ and those who qualify (which isn't free) is nothing like NHS provision, and basic health insurance in the USA is $450–$680 PER MONTH It's jaw dropping

Doesn't it strike you as strange that the people who shout long and loud that America is a Christian nation founded on Christian principles are the very people who don't want Christ's teachings of tolerance, pacifism, and generosity codified in law?

Actually, it's exactly the duty of an artist. To take a stand through their art.

Hunting is completely impractical, causes immense damage to farming, benefits nobody and is very cruel indeed. No wonder Britain's leading Brexiter backs it.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com

Old Ladybird books updated. ‘Daddy learns to get involved' (1964 and 1974) Artist: Harry Wingfield

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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025

Best explanation of the liar's dividend that I've ever seen.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22 Durham Cathedral Artist: SRBadmin

My four favorites from January 2025. Let me know which one of these you like the best. . *All SOLD

Gregory Packard, “The Embrace,” oil, 30 x 36 in.

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Surprised not to see Trump named here. He’s probably going to sue Nature now. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

The EPSTEIN Files are a much quicker read than I expected.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

As dusk settles on the field #art #landscape #abstract