Palestinians shouldn't lose connectivity to the internet—their means of studying, working, reporting the news, staying in contact with family, checking the news, surviving—due to our inattention. Power connectivity with eSIMs. Crips for eSIMs is out of funds, yall. bit.ly/esimsUK

on balance, I would rather social media had not achieved a ubiquity that has destroyed, perhaps permanently, the social contract and the very fabric of human connection, but otoh it’s fun that there are astronauts up in space right now who have almost certainly seen the “moon’s haunted” tweet

Not yet at full bloom, but it's definitely bluebell season. 💙🌱

[cool secretaries with tattoos typing up big sheets of paper that all say something like ‘John Wick, confidentio pluribus unum. tenebris lux confitamus $10,000,000’] [across town, John Wick is beating a man with his own shoe]

GUNSMAN: you’re john wick JOHN WICK: I’m john wick GUNSMAN: may I recommend the house shotgun JOHN WICK: [sniffing shell like a cork] excellent. I would also like sixteen kimber warriors [pays with a single pirate coin]

Ocean's 11 heist to steal this thing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excited to share I have curated Ink & Innovation, an exhibition of the @rialibrary.bsky.social earliest printed books for 2026! Check out the blog for more details on our fantastic incunabula on display as well as how to visit and my upcoming talk in April! 🤗📖🎉 www.ria.ie/blog/ink-inn...

The Middle East has not, in fact, been in an constant state of war for thousands of years

but for me, it's symptomatic of the uncountably many ways in which this unforgivable, unjustifiable war inflicts damage, terror and exclusion on millions of people who just want to live in peace, collaboration and hope. I despair and rage for all the lives and lost futures this war has ended 4/4

Instead, as Iraqis like @observer46664.bsky.social are documenting, Baghdad is assailed with drones and bombs every night, a mostly hidden part of the relentless US/Israeli onslaught against the peoples of the Middle East. A cancelled conference is nothing compared to death, fear and ecocide... 3/4

It should have been the first day of a wonderful conference in Baghdad today - the first time ever that the International Association of Assyriology assembled in Iraq for its annual meeting. This conference was to be the culmination of 4 years of hard work by Iraqi and international colleagues. 1/4

I feel a particular kind of insanity every time I read articles like this and then see politicians advocating for more fossil fuel usage. Looking at energy security alone, the war against Iran has proved the economic necessity of abandoning fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A thread 🧵 on Polish palaeontologists in Harbin There used to be (~30k strong) Polish population in the city of Harbin (哈尔滨), during Russian occupation of North China & partition of Poland. The population was composed of Socialist Poles who were banished as punishment for anti-Tsarist uprisings.

I always love the part of Powerwash Simulator where you powerwash books. I'm sure that's good for them.

"Most of the bottles are Villa Maria, which costs £10.75 in the nearest supermarket and is said to pair well with seafood and tangy goat's cheese." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The dream!

Very exciting. There’s still many new fungi yet to be identified and recorded in the UK and the more who get into the subject, the more will be found, plus a greater public awareness of the importance of habitat preservation.

It's going "AI gen ads on tumblr about why Iran is not Vietnam" well.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Personally, I think this might be the most significant Foreign Office failure and scandal in decades. Starmer's Government actively put a friendly relationship with the UAE ahead of preventing a genocide and buried their own analysis to do it.

One of the UK's actual strong points is that our major museums are free to get into, which is great for residents and visitors alike, so obviously we are looking for ways to kick ourselves in the dick about this.

Anything I need to look at multiple tabs for, I'm not doing on my phone.

anyway here's Akira Kurosawa gazing lovingly at Toshiro Mifune on the set of Seven Samurai

New project- 出口🏃🏻‍♂️ Shinjuku Station has over 200 exits, I'm going to draw all of them wrongly, not where they actually take you, but the many worlds that they could take you to.

Heinous.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Mixed messages in the pub loo.

sneak peek of one of the illustrations-in-progress for THE SEA AROUND US 🌊✂️

Stop describing guided tours as "exploring" a country. You are not exploring anything, you are being driven around in a bus.

Detail from Shohizinda tomb. Yea telephoto lens. #Uzbekistan #O‘zbekiston

So, emphasis on "squander" here, I'd purchase Portmeirion and live there and turn it into an artists colony. Residents would not be obliged to dress as characters from "The Prisoner" but it would certainly not be frowned upon.

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

ok but that's just gorillaz

You know you're watching a film from the 1950s when a woman has a disruptive panic attack and gets straight-up tranquilised. Just put that dame to sleep. Blanket on the budgerigar, zzzzz.

But as @iancarter67.bsky.social has pointed out nearly all of the sites where the recovery has happened *are already on access land* where there currently *is* a right to roam in England. Most of our surviving heaths are commons which form part of the 8% of access land dedicated under the CRoW Act.

well this is nice 🧪🦉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Born #onthisday in 1799, the English botanist Anna Atkins. As well as being considered by many to be first woman to create a photograph, her stunning 1843 book of algae cyanotypes is thought to be first book illustrated with photographs: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c... #OTD

Trump may as well apply for a Leverhulme while he's at it and round off the record.

It's such a relief to have one politician that actually cares about trans rights.

the senators recoil in horror as a wounded Caesar rises from the floor and a second health bar appears on the screen

LMFAO SOMEONE MADE IT A REAL THING sweepthestrait.com

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

if you don't want to spend time reading and thinking about other people's research, a PhD is not for you

Feeling stressed this week, pursuing entertaining stuff, mostly successfully! #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ #LastFourWatched

Finding old Dr Who eps in someone's film collection is very, very cool from a film preservation/survival perspective, which is about where my interest ends as a non Dr Who enthusiast. Makes me think about Iranian film Chess of the Wind (1976), thought lost and then rediscovered by chance.

somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps