Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

I can't remember which YouTuber I saw call Bill Clinton a "severely under-hated president", but the description has been living in my head since I heard it.

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

Did you notice how quickly the debate moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration” to “people with indefinite leave to remain should have their status retrospectively removed” The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Shhh let them cook

Even aside from the xenophobia, this kind of rhetoric is infuriating because of how much TIME and MONEY and STRESS it took me to immigrate. & I've been watching the laws change since; I wouldn't even have qualified now for some of my early visas, and if I did it would take longer and cost way more.

Four generic frogs? No! These are members of four different FAMILIES from Europe, Borneo, Madagascar, and East Africa, convergently evolved on the generic brown frog morphotype! 🧪🐸

In Nepal, protests earlier this month culminated with the toppling of the government. To get a clearer understanding of the background of the insurrection and the dynamics within it, we interviewed Black Book Distro, an anarchist collective and library in Kathmandu. crimethinc.com/Nepal2025

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

"Why do queen bumblebees emerge from hibernation during weekends?" I love this framing about bias in hobbyist-collected data.

this, too, is political violence

Absolutely required reading. We all know that centrist politicians and the media are doing this -- we can see it -- but if you need a cogent explanation for someone questioning how, here it is.

Lenin Riefenstahl had a scheduled visit to Hollywood, but the Nazis did Kristallnacht the week befofe her trip, so everyone boycotted her EXCEPT WALT, who gave her a whole day long tour of his studio (although he wouldn't show her new work because the projectionists might realize what was happening)

It's also worth noting that some sports—including mine, roller derby, which is full-contact and famously pretty physically brutal—have decided for ourselves that that standard is "fuck off, trans women are women and trans athletes' hormones are their own business and no one else's"

We had a tortie who was the sweetest smoosh, even at the vet. I've also met lots of sweet, gentle torties while volunteering at our local shelter every week. I think if people are looking for "tortitude" they will find it because that's just how confirmation bias works.

This is so validating! I had never heard of this alleged orange cat stereotype before Jorts, but people kept insisting to me that it was A Thing and that I was just missing something. Me and nearly everyone else, it seems.

It's wild. If I post (for example) 10 similar videos of different kittens chewing on my camera at the shelter, people will comment "typical orange behavior" on the orange one, even though all the kittens are doing the exact same thing.

Now that you're (justly) angry about Jimmy Kimmel, did you know that Palestinian Americans were evicted in 2023 and 2024 for flying Palestinian flags in their windows? It's true. I have a case before the Seventh Circuit about it.

They are grabbing people off the streets, sending them to camps, and then deporting them to their Pentecostal allies in Ghana so they can be sent back to countries that are trying to kill them and everyone is arguing about Charlie Kirk. WHAT THE FUCK Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This thread was about Shymaa. It turned out she was shot by a quadcopter, and she may lose her leg. Im so so scared for her and her baby, I really need yall to support her if you can

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

Every time you apologize or "walk back" an antifascist statement, you allow fascism to advance forward.

In Little Village, residents are blowing actual whistles to warn neighbors about ICE. blockclubchi.co/46mVKSq

They're like the Willy Wonka Experience of conservation genetics

We’re already living through Trump’s crackdown on the left. Troops to cities, ICE targeting, mass firings, higher ed, media, science, etc. They don’t have some big cards they’ve been holding back. They do, however, constantly try to pretend they have more to scare people into acting as if they do.

@teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

⚠️ Gaza City is reportedly under relentless attack tonight. It’s challenging to find news from people on the ground because Israel has assassinated most of the journalists.

The proper way to deal with someone who wants to debate race science is to walk around them the same way you'd do with a pile of dog shit on the sidewalk.

WSJ when an American conservative gets killed versus when Arab children get killed:

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

randomly found this post again after completely forgetting in absolute totality that I wanted to inject "the fucking serfs won't slap the pond" into my lexicon.

Guys it's ok. He only called for violence against gays and trans people and declared the Civil Rights Act a mistake for the money and power.

This Mattie Lubchansky comic seems topical again.

huh that all-billionaires-are-evil thing keeps being true.

Reminder that DS9 is the best Star Trek

More peaceful protesters in London being arrested for holding placards that read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” Under a Labour government, UK 2025 www.instagram.com/reel/DORiNmE...

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

“Holocaust museum attacked for opposition to genocide” is fully through the looking glass

UNLIMITED VELOCITY

Leg braces - $20-$30k, I’ve had at LEAST 6 leg braces. Wheelchairs - $5k for manual with no bells and whistles, I’ve had 2 Medications - anywhere between $100-$2000 /month pending health issues Surgeries - 19 surgeries $40k to - $1m inc. hospital stays I had polio. This is the cost.

a thing I'm struck by: not even after 9/11 did this measure of support dip below 50%

Note: 80% drop *from the preceding week*. I for one already gave up on sending a parcel to the US back in May, b/c I didn't know about de minimis & the previously straightforward customs declaration had become VERY onerous and confusing, so I thought my fam would have to pay a tarriff to receive it.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

It will never stop being ironic how the ‘we are so British we are not European’ people are comfortable copying the USA on everything

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