25 years ago, almost to the day.

This is a CN rail train driving through the flames. The video is insane. But Trudeau's plans were too expensive and divisive, right? God - I loathe Carney more every day.

alright hear me out

What I’ll remember most about Herr Hitler was his love for public speaking and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward...

They could have made this map any color.

Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.

Japan before the Islamic Republic.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Bosnia enter the chat...

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

*Fungal Memory and Minimal Cognition* is now in TopiCS (@cogscisociety.bsky.social). Out yesterday. So is Croatia from the World Cup. 😅 Received in 2024, accepted in 2026. Feels only fair, since the paper argues for cognition at fungal speed. cogsci.online/wp-content/u... #cogsci #philosophy

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/

This Day in Labor History: June 23, 1855. A 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly succeeding in erasing all traces of the crime. Let's talk about the horrors of sex slavery in the antebellum South!!

Demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel's violations of human rights eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/

Vienna love

Now MAGAs need to come up with a split-gender lobster toilet

today in dystopia watch: all your pokemon go scans helped train a system for killer drones

Cartoon dedicating to the coming 37th anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Published with The Age Monday

Ricordiamo quello che è successo a Piazza Tiananmen il 4giugno89 37 anni fa i cingoli dei carri armati dell’Esercito popolare di Liberazione hanno calpestato le pietre di piazza Tiananmen l’Esercito che era nato per proteggere il Popolo dalle vessazioni del precedente governo rivolge le armi 👇

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⭕ #Apple vient de conclure un accord avec #Israël, et les nouveaux #iPhones devraient inclure des puces #Israéliennes.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

now *that* is a moneyshot photo

Unlocked my Redmi Note 13 4G, installed custom ROM Infinity X, Android 16 Plenty of configurations Phone appears 50% faster than on Redmi HyperOS Much improved responsiveness, faster and more reliable fingerprint. 100% happy. Warning: you may have issues with banking & ID apps projectinfinity-x.com

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped x.com/KaihatsuYT/s...

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

#Artemis II - We have the first image from yesterdays Lunar flyby captured by the crew on Orion EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. 🚀🌕🌍

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

this is a banger

Here’s the official image release from NASA: www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Just a meme shared on Lebanese social media And yes this is a real story. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias and explicitly warning Christians and Druze not to shelter them

A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17). A rather unremarkable sliver. At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)? Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4

be still my beating heart bsky.app/profile/bala...

Really interesting figure putting present and future climate change in context with paleoclimate data Read the details on his substack here: open.substack.com/pub/justdean...

This Day in Labor History: March 24, 1934. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. This gave the Philippines eventual independence, so OK, but it happened because California whites freaked out over Filipino workers organizing and, worse, having sex with white women!

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

🧵 overlooked significance to Iran’s strike on Dimona and Israel’s nuclear program 🧵 Thread: 1/4

Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component. As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

Shit, now JK Rowling has to go to work again to define who can be defined as woman.

And I thought this was going to be the problem of Russia & Putin Dagli amici mi guardi Dio, che dai nemici mi guardo io (May God protect me from my friends, I'll take care of the enemies myself)

Sarah Vaci is a "gender critical" artist who set out 4 years ago this month to create 100 portraits of "female detransitioners." To date, worldwide, she hasn't even found 100 to take part in her project, and at her current rate, it will take her 10 to 15 years to finish. Why is this important? 1/

Ed Zitron's a fantastic journalist, capable of turning a close read of AI companies' balance-sheets into an incandescent, exquisitely informed, eye-wateringly profane rant: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl... 1/