Interesting non-academic text on a really fast-moving language policy

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

real men know they’re our equals

lol this is kinda the antithesis of AI...

While legislation to reopen the government has been passed, we continue to face a moral reckoning for our country. Congress must act with urgency to extend the health care premium tax credits and unequivocally assert its power of the purse.

I mean, who wants to stay in a country actively stripping away your rights and personhood?

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Our latest power sector analysis out today shows that in the first three quarters of 2025, solar and wind exceeded the growth in electricity demand globally. Combined with an increase in nuclear generation and falls in hydro power, fossil generation saw a minor decline in Q1-Q3.

I’d propose letting people know that “reading” doesn’t just mean “fiction” and “novels”. That’d help.

If it is, objectively, raining, then being neutral between people who say it is & people who say it isn't is colluding in a falsehood. See also: poverty, exploitation, pollution, corruption, etc, etc, etc...

Starmer is now more unpopular than Liz Truss. Read that sentence, pause, step outside, take a deep breath, then come back in and read it again: more unpopular than Liz Truss. He’s not just toast, he’s croutons. It’s now all but guaranteed that Starmer will be ousted come May’s elections

It’s wild how many of the ICE/CBP detentions are turning out to be illegal — and yet in the US system, there are no consequences for the agents and no recourse for the victims.

"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

Oh, to be a Fly... In a Choirbook? #ThingsInBooks

Some 1,500 years ago, a child was buried with a set of game pieces made of animal bones. Single game pieces are frequently found in early medieval graves in south-west Germany, but complete sets are rare. Found in Herbolzheim, 500-550 AD. 📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺 #archaeology

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Every time I read it, it’s an engine of change. Historical contingency? The complexity of reading sources and/or translation? All alive there. A great re/read! 🗃️

Every stage of our lives offers fresh opportunities. Responding to divine guidance, try to discern the right time to undertake or relinquish responsibilities without undue pride or guilt. Attend to what love requires of you, which may not be great busyness. — Britain Yearly Meeting Advices #28

Once again, I am asking the powers that be to have a basic grasp of how the Internet and actual online safety works. It isn't VPNs which are putting people at risk... Signed, a journalist who has been covering cybersecurity for well over a decade.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Here is my Bond idea: I'm imagining a Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead treatment, where the Bond movie is background to two hapless MI5 newbies.

UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.

Style it out. Bond walks into Ms office. "Bond? I thought you were dead!". "Well, so do a lot of people." Move on to the crisis plot and never mention it again.

You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that: 1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people. 2. Most drug-takers are not a problem. 3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich. 4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.

Quaker climate activist @marcusdecker.bsky.social has won his appeal against deportation 🥳 His case had the support of @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, Quakers and a wide range of campaigners. The Home Office is expected to challenge the ruling. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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I have thoughts. radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/3

Holy Spirit, the life that gives life: You are the cause of all movement. You are the breath of all creatures. You are the salve that purifies our souls. You are the ointment that heals our wounds. You are the fire that warms our hearts. You are the light that guides our feet.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Politico: "Veteran BBC presenter David Dimbleby told Channel 4 last night that it is “one of the most violent assaults on the BBC’s independence that I’ve seen in my lifetime,” while Playbook is told staff have been voicing “a lot of anger towards [right wing BBC board member] Robbie Gibb.”

Studies of his six servants in the 1750s: masterful oil sketch by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697.

Worth knowing the story behind a truly great song

It's live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...

Dorothy Vaughan | NASA mathematician, programmer & manager died #OTD in 2008 First Black female supervisor at NACA (precursor to NASA), expert programmer, Scout Launch Vehicle Program contributor & more. #WomenInSTEM Learn more about this "Hidden Figure:" nasa.gov/people/dorot...

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think. New piece from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Charles Schulz letter to a young fan, 1970.

Well, that's quite a lucky shot!

Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut. Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect! 2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse... #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

I *still* believe that the BBC is excellent, despite its ever growing list of flaws. *When* it's sold off for parts future generations won't know what they missed

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. https://to.pbs.org/4qSZcNU

OTD 50 years ago the Great Lakes Freighter Edmund Fitzgerald foundered and sank with all 29 crew lost; Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the tragedy in his 1976 song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, two versions of which are featured on today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses at 2 pm.

If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.

Mamdani created vision that shamed this cowardice: by having standards, and then showing everyone what his standards are, and then proving that he truly held those standards by standing for something without shame. This tapped into something powerful. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...

Whether life has a Deep Inside, whether existence has a Meaning we did not create & cannot control, is a first order issue, which goes to the very heart of our coherence as a community. Quakerism cannot be itself and be anything someone might want.