I saw an older man fall on a busy road today. I did a u-turn to help him and 3 other people joined. Two of us helped get him back on his feet while another took down his information. He was shaking from the impact and a bit scraped and bloody. He asked for help to the bus stop, instead he was […]

Turns out, they were right. #USpol #Iran

“The bombing will continue until we achieve peace” is right up there with “we had to destroy the village in order to save it”.

"Accelerated ageing tests on written voxels in borosilicate suggest data lifetimes exceeding 10,000 years." *Well, how "Long Now" of them https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w

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Douglas Adams, once again getting it right. (Quote from: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” of six novels, beginning with the 1979 book of the same name.)

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

A quotation from **Terry Pratchett** > Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway. **Terry Pratchett** […]

A candidate for the title of greatest physicist of the 20th century was a Chinese woman. One of my heroes. The only Chinese person on the Manhattan project. Only she could figure out Uranium separation. Her greatest work came later, when she devised a mind-blowing experiment that showed that […]

Brilliant! I did not know they made Where's my cow and released it at the same time as Thud! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_My_Cow%3F #discworld

1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state. This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process. Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Academia: There's no job for you in eight countries. Also Academia: Here's a new book chapter that cites one of your books and two of your journal papers! #academia #archaeology

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/116131724167833288 "Bring the girls" And with that, his legacy turned to shit. #epsteinClass #deepakchopra

#discworld re-read: Book 7, Pyramids. Now's here a reference I didn't get the first time. #pratchett #pyramids #books #scifi #genewolf

Also, this book follows directly on from Wyrd Sisters and both books use as a viewpoint character a king who dies and becomes a ghost, both of whom are rather thick in life but find greater clarity of thought in death. #discworld #pratchett #books #scifi #pyramids

DJT will have a LOT of things to say about 1776 this year. But don't think for a minute he appreciates or understands the history and meaning of the American Revolution. What he loves about 1776 is idea of affixing its stamp to the hierarchies of power and wealth and identity which have […]

US border patrol dropped him off in freezing weather in Buffalo NY 5 miles from his previous home and did not notify his family His body was found yesterday. 2/2

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, was a Rohingya refugee from Burma. He had been granted refugee status by the US government. Blind and speaking no English, in February 2025 he accidentally wandered into a neighbor's yard. She called the police, who tasered him, beat him up, and arrested him. After being […]

"Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump." https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell The missing files are about accusations that Trump sexually assaulted a child and hit her in the head. The FBI interviewed the […]

The current administration is legitimately evil. There’s no other way to describe it. “500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives at a cost of $167,000.” […]

When asked why the missing pages of the Epstein Files were withheld, the White House resorted to gaslighting […]

America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

'The Trump Administration is Trafficking Pregnant Children to Texas So They Can't Get Abortions At least half of these unaccompanied migrant kids are rape victims, and all are being denied adequate medical care for high-risk pregnancies in a state with sky-high maternal mortality rates.' […]

Northern Hawk Owl from yesterday's road trip

Apparently Trump's plan for defeating Greenland involves making everyone there fill out forms and wait on hold with the insurance company until they surrender. Could actually work, come to think of it.

Sequoia National Park in California 😍

Breaking: The U.S. dispatches health insurance claim denial ship to Greenland.

My Life as a “Terrorist” - bsjcbn https://jacobin.com/2026/02/philadelphia-sixties-sds-terrorism-repression/

She thoroughly approved of such sentiments so long as there was, of course, no suggestion that they applied to her. The Wyrd Sisters Terry Pratchett #SundaySentence #TerryPratchett #bookstodon #discworld

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Nobody that’s ever gone to this place has ever lived to tell the tale.

I did not foresee that the ignorance and stupidity of voters would become one of the main governing forces in world politics. I was way past 40 when I stopped believing that smart, educated people would always prevail in medium-to-high-functioning democracies. I am deeply disappointed and […]

NSW's dodgy apartment crisis continues. For a long time, Australia has accepted shoddy construction in housing. In detatched single-family housing, the costs and risks are limited to a single household. But applying the same free market approach to apartment construction leads to dangerous […]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a country where citizens must prove citizenship to masked strangers who don’t have to prove they’re law enforcement and can snatch you from work, school or your home because of the color of your skin is NOT a free one… It’s just not.

they're. made. out. of meat. 🎥 :https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg?si=_nCjt6d0FCF_BDzp #scifi #shortfilm #adaptation #sff #aliens #alien #terrybisson #classicscifi

Bisson's original short story is also worth a read in full, especially since the short film misses my favorite line: "Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone." 🔗 : https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html #scifi […]

Putin's Stooge Viktor Orbán... Hungary blocks European Union's €90,000,000,000 loan to Ukraine. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #zelensky #War #Breaking #breakingnews

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/116104919958954997 This here; when the tools are fit for purpose and make engineers’ jobs easier, you have to pry them from our fingers. All you have to do is look at the dedication to vim/emacs adaptations you’ll see in older coders to see the lengths to which […]

#uspol #norway #taxes #TAX

Still, the prevailing mood in Kyiv was that the US warnings were overegged. Ukraine had been fighting Russian proxy forces in the Donbas for eight years, but the idea of a full-fledged war – with missile attacks, tank columns and a march on Kyiv – seemed unimaginable […]

The signs were always there

How’s my day going? Well, I haven’t been arrested for leaking insider financial data to a notorious child rapist, nor have I been sentenced to life imprisonment for declaring martial law in service of a coup against my democratic government. So pretty good, I suppose.