In a world dominated by insecure, mindlessly violent failuremen, Eileen Gu is a study in human excellence. In just about every field of endeavour, from sports to academia to sense of self, this is a real-life superhero.

NPR follows @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social in finding Trump’s DOJ has omitted or pulled Epstein pages related to accusations against the president, including regarding sexual assault of a child

And that image choice 🤌

What "AI" cheerleaders don't understand, because they've never experienced it, is that art *is the process*. Whether it's painting or music or writing, creativity is not a product but a practice. And that's where life, and joy, are found.

With its fawning, wall-to-wall pandering to Reform, the BBC is now promoting the violent ethnic cleansing of the United Kingdom.

🚨The political effects of X's feed algorithm, in Nature: " .. initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

“it turns out that the engine of Musk’s X — its algorithmic ‘For You’ page — is an ideological ratchet.” - @jwherrman.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...

Growing evidence that "AI" isn't impacting employment and productivity in the way that its boosters claim. As @graceblakeley.substack.com has pointed out, it's more likely that this is just a rebranded recession.

If you want concentration camps in the UK, people being grabbed off the streets, or murdered on them, five year olds being separated from their parents and locked up #VoteReform

In the UK, powerful men are looking at what's happening in the United States and saying "that's good - we should be doing that."

Our food systems are absurdly fragile and fundamental to the entire economy - yet astonishingly, climate risk assessments don't take into account their collapse.

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said. It is simple economics.... "EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

This awesome thread w AI/energy/politics counterfactual drew in none other than @jigarshahdc.bsky.social who is COOKING a thread here. @davidrvetter.bsky.social @adambell.bsky.social @ketanjoshi.co @amyjaffeenergy.bsky.social @edwardluce.bsky.social #energysky

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

Folks,

Some excellent writing right here about lakes and mussels and humans who are learning that there are better ways to protect yourself from big waves than building a fortress of rocks along the beach. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/s...

I know I am approximately the 4343th person to say this but why are these people so whiny about flatly factual descriptions of their politics? Going on about how ancestry is what matters then having an attack of the vapours about people saying 'sounds like racism'.

Elon Musk is v invested in Rupert Lowe's political project - to reverse ethnic change {white "race extinction"] in Britain "Our ancestral land must not fall" "there has been unrelenting hate and poisonous propaganda in the West against anyone White, straight or male over the past decade or more!"

Exactly right @sianberry.bsky.social: UK has “sleepwalked into a situation that carries enormous risk” by relying on U.S. tech companies" www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Leeches cure everything, says Dr Hoffmann of Stuttgart, owner of the largest leech farm in Europe

I just saw video of the moment Farage berated FT journalist Anna Gross in front of a roomful of braying goons, and it was pure, stomach-turning Trump.

@evanhalper.bsky.social on one of the most important developments in the US power sector: the tech industry's push to power data centers without a grid connection. The effect of this fossil gas buildout is massive damage to the climate & local air and water w minimal regulatory or public input.

⚖️ 🌐 🛢️ #ClimateLitigation update: court hearings continue at Paris Judicial Court in landmark case against TotalEnergies. The hearing continues, with focus on the review of Total's vigilance plan & of injunctions sought by NGOs & municipalities. 🧵 Live coverage in thread 👇

Rare British w.

USA: venezuela and china are corrupt autocracies also USA:

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

The Democratic Party talking to Republicans vs their base. Incredible work by @ senzerules on IG and Tiktok. Brits, you can replace the text with the obvious suspects.

Sometimes all you have to hold on to is that you're not the only one feeling this way.

British far-right figures with close ties to the oil and gas industry see the infinite slop machine as a way of keeping the country hooked on fossil fuels. Read this by the brilliant @rtakver.bsky.social

Legions of fossil fuel-powered British AI - the next anti-climate fantasy of the British right. ...Labour still won't comment on whether it will support UK AI data centres that want to power their operations with gas. Read more about the ongoing battle @desmog.com

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

TC Tuggers

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

If Britain had a functioning fourth estate, Reform would not exist. To put it another way, the collapse of journalism directly enabled this firm of spivs and charlatans to lie their way to prominence.

In the battle for our energy future, it's Electrons vs. Molecules. A great primer from @ember-energy.org

OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone.... Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!! ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

As measles sweeps through London, a reminder:

If anything, democracy in the UK is even less representative than in the US. Every five years, between three and four men who own newspapers decide who they'll allow to be in Downing Street, and that's ... it.

"Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation ... potentially a good thing for the species." - Jeffrey Epstein

This is the definition of cultural genocide, and the British Museum is carrying it out.

Not a novel observation, but this guy understands nothing about anything of significance - least of all the country he immigrated to.

In excruciatingly petty news: the Trump administration is attempting to do away with the start-stop function in cars, because it improves fuel efficiency.

#BREAKING: The high court has ruled that the UK’s ban on Palestine Action is unlawful. Back in September, dag#BREAKING:argued the government had likely overreached in proscribing the organisation under terrorism law

From the braintrust that brought you Peter Mandelson, the Dodgy Dossier, and AI Will Solve Everything, among other hits:

What we know (and still don’t know) about the Trump admin’s most significant attack ever on US climate law: heatmap.news/climate/enda...

Labour govt policies have already caused a surge in suicides among trans young people, but it's not enough for ministers. When the Lemkin Institute warned of a genocide, they were referring to precisely this intentionality.