everything, alas, Paul Verlaine, tr. C. F. MacIntyre

Ghost.12 I believe.

“But will I be able to carry into another world what I forgot to dream?” — Fernando Pessoa, writing as Álvaro de Campos (trans. Costa and Ferrari)

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

this earthly air, whether ashore or afloat, is terribly infected with the nameless miseries of the numberless mortals who have died exhaling it

"all sorts of fools moon-gaze too... winter prayers" Issa Kobayashi (image: Hiroshige Utagawa)

The government is using technology to identify protestors, and then using that information to track and intimidate them. The people using the devices are wearing masks, but we know the companies creating the technology. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

ICE are running around in the streets using facial recognition on random people and telling anyone filming them they're a domestic terrorist and Democrats solution is to equip every ICE agent with their very own body-worn surveillance camera

“I was distorted by similarity to all that surrounded me. Like a mollusk in its shell, I had my abode in the nineteenth century, which now lies hollow before me like an empty shell. I hold it to my ear. What do I hear?” — Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900

Magnificent article in the recent Winter Issue of Orion. "Watching birds won’t be enough to save them."

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Abolish ICE! For your printer, in both color and black and white.

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Breaking WaPo: The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner.

Erica X Eisen on the overlapping forces at play in Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s spectacular (and flawed) colour photographs of the Russian Empire: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color #longreads

Henri Matisse 'Intérieur avec un chien' 1934

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION with apologies to Richard Scarry - Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive ) - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

the horror of this is compounded by the fact that the whipple building sits on the same military fort where 1600+ Dakota, mostly women and children were held in a concentration camp in 1863, where over 300 died

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Reading Moth by Candlelight Fritz Schwimbeck (1889 - 1972)

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

The world is terrible but this bird is rad. Christmas Island Frigatebird, photographed in Jakarta harbor.

immediately connecting this comrade with the bear tenant union

🪶 Steal the look: Northern Bobwhite 🍁 This fit says: I touch grass, I reflect, & I move at Birkenstock speed…, which is just slow enough to notice every migrating warbler this Fall. Love Bobwhites? RSVP for our FREE webinar: act.abcbirds.org/a/northern-b...

The American Dipper is NA’s only aquatic songbird, and happens to be in my top 2 birds🐦! Here’s one I happened to see at Multnomah Falls just outside a Portland for #SICB2026 doing its namesake “dipping” behavior! They will all walk around underwater looking for 🐛 and lil 🐟 to eat

Interesting article from @thebaltimorebanner.com about osprey reproduction dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay - home to the world’s largest breeding population of ospreys www.thebanner.com/community/cl...

Josef Váchal (Czech, 1884-1969), 1909.

Winter, Edvard Munch, 1899.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Sitting here with friends, scheming to bring more beautiful things into the world. I open bluesky, am met with more horror. Every day more horror. On Sunday, I gave a talk to the scientists where I implored everyone to do *anything*. It's easier to break than make things. Please make something.

Barnacles! A lovely little collection of barnacle larvae, both nauplii and cyprid (the seed-shaped ones), which are the earlier and later stages, respectively. #marineplankton 🦑

Elijah Minnelli :: Clams As A Main Meal aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/01/06/e... London-based sound alchemist Elijah Minnelli pieces together a singular fusion of folk, offbeat dub and Cumbia rhythms on sophomore album Clams As A Main Meal.

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

Choose your Gibbon

Winter, Tove Jansson for #BookWormSat

Charles Burchfield, "The Glow of Christmas", 1952, Watercolor on paper, 20 1/2" x 26 1/4"

You're currently looking at fungus (specifically Gibellula alata) emerging from a spider. Right now, there are only six observations of this species on iNaturalist! 📷 cajqld on iNaturalist 📍 Australia 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Squirrel on a mushroom eating a nut. I think it's a hickory nut. This wasn't on my birding bingo card today, but hey, why not. Beargrass Creek Nature Preserve in Louisville, KY.

Christmas Tree Decorated with Lights, Rudolf Bernhard Willmann, 1868-1919.

'Coastal scene' (c. 1892) by Belgian artist Théo van Rysselberghe - one of my favourite paintings from the 'Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller's Neo-Impressionists' #exhibition on until 8th Feb @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

the English Graduate Studies board is getting a little too real

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez