Deutsche Bank here using the Ankh Morpork Defence Policy “That’s my pike you’re pointing at me. And my shield you’re holding. And take my helmet off when you talk to me you horrible little debtor” From Feet of Clay.

Current non-fiction read is this 100 year old text by Jeremiah Curtin narrating his travels in Mongolia and including descriptions of several rituals and myths. #history 📚💙

Calling on Manchester’s storytellers 📜 I’m collecting folklore, urban legends, and local tales from Central Manchester, especially around the Manchester Art Gallery and nearby buildings. Do share if you have any to pass on.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

To the extent to which you approach yourself, and yet you are present to yourself and inseparable from yourself, you approach #Being as well. - #Porphyry, 𝑺𝙚𝒏𝙩𝒆𝙣𝒕𝙞𝒂𝙚 40

Double fraudsters get pardoned. It’s a club of fraudsters. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

Somehow Democratic leaders will see photos like this and think the solution is to “re-train” ICE when the only path forward is to dissolve the entire agency and prosecute the animals inside it

From what I have been able to gather, “internal bleeding” feels an awful lot like “being full of crap.”

After a document leak from DHS outed him, Enrique Tarrio, head of the Proud Boys militia group, acknowledged that he was now an ICE officer. www.telemundo.com/noticias/not...

The Economist has conducted a poll of Venezuelans' political mood — they overwhelmingly support the ouster of Nicolas Maduro and almost-universally want a genuine democracy, not a Trump rebrand of the existing autocracy. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I hope they follow it up with a “Monday Morning Wake ‘n Bake.”

Gotta make up for that Canadian boycott somehow www.fooddive.com/news/brown-f...

Next, from The Toronto Sun: “Why The Epstein Files are best left sealed.”

A teenage boy was walking home in Minneapolis yesterday when four masked men jumped out of a van & questioned him - with no parent or guardian present. He was bundled into the van & taken away. Bystanders heard the boy say: “Can I just go home?” I don’t know how America comes back from all this.

Your altar is adorned with all good things, white bread, beer, mulled wine, myrrh, incense, meat namely oxen, oryx, ibex, gazelles. (OGC)

Zora and I both highly recommend this short speculative fiction novel “Inverted World” by Christopher Priest. (He also wrote the novel Nolan’s movie “The Prestige” was based on. Very inventive and compelling. 🪐📚💙 🐈‍⬛📷

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

This liquid of the life force is for your ka; you live, you are strong thanks to it. This white beverage, it protects you; the protection that resides in it provides you with thousands of jubilee festivals, it descends into your stomach, it makes your body stronger. (OGC)

In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.

Proshoot of a 1970s production of King Lear with James Earl Jones for PBS. youtu.be/EXDz6QSTrKM?...

We’ve analysed the use of force in previous immigration raids in Washington DC, Illinois and Los Angeles. You can read our reporting here: www.bellingcat.com?s=immigration

My god, Gander, Newfoundland. When the news is dire, you just come through. Damn, but you are lighting the darkness. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...

May I guide the hearts of the gods, and may they protect me, may I be mighty among those who suspend themselves on high. (BDF)

'if you can float enough disinformation into circulation you will totally abolish everyone's contact with reality, probably your own included.' PKD, Transmigration of Timothy Archer. 1982!!!

Charles E. Burchfield

In the Maduro capture operation, the Trump administration relies on Bill Barr’s (discredited) 1989 memo claiming a President can disregard the UN Charter (CNN report). That is a loaded gun. The legal analysis is utterly flawed. My assessment just published: www.justsecurity.org/127962/madur...

O Osiris the King, this Eye of Horus is strong, I give it to you that you may be strong and that your foe may fear you; the morning bread is in its due time. (PTF)

House Judiciary Committee releases on New Years Eve (in an obvious attempt to bury this info) the Jack Smith deposition transcript. I recommend doing a word search for "proof beyond a reasonable doubt." And explanation of disenfranchisement of urban areas. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Dune be late!

It’s kind of crazy how much the right is splintering over what makes for the best proportion of treason and paedophilia.

The power of the effective unsaid, the unseen projection, the reflection of the self upon unstill waters mixing your face with broken pieces of light and dark.

“the energy in the room shifted” is so funny no it didn’t absolutely no one else saw or cared you are the only one ruining your own experience like this

Somebody tell Keith Richards they found his boat.

Imagine objecting to sexual assault of, well anyone really, but children in particular, not because you think it’s bad, but because you think it would help politically. Trash.

I suppose you could say this is all very much on brand.

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

I just posted this Internet Archive link to Facebook, where the aunts & uncles, grandmas & grandpas who watch 60 Minutes after football games live. It’s important that this story doesn’t just circulate on Bluesky.

Happy solstice! Put darkness to heel, and greet the return of the light.

HAPPY SOLSTICE ONE AND ALL!

I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the god in me. - #CarlJung, ‘The Red Book’

"None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe" Pius XI, 1937

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

Don't make me tap the sign!

Not a portent.

I do not like AI a bit I do not like it in Fitbit I do not want AI at all I do not want it on my calls I do not like it, Sam Altman