Shame upon the architects, publically

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

My mother voted green at 80

In July, we reported that a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, was letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would be struck down in court. www.wired.com/story/cantor...

The newly discovered Spinosaurus mirabilis possessed a unique scimitar-shaped cranial crest which suggests that this dinosaur was a wading shoreline predator rather than being a fully aquatic hunter! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

HELLO?!? We’ve only been saying this for 16 months now!!!!

I know I already reposted this but I just wanted to make sure you've all seen the little fella

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Just look at medieval history

Drowned in malmsey etc

On Jan. 7, a European Robin was spotted in Montreal. The bird was authenticated by the Cornell Ornithology Lab. No one knows how he could have crossed the Atlantic.🌻🙂

New research found this approach meant an increase in spawning fish. This is good news for fishers. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/plummet...

Lakeview, Chicago

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

Tim 'freedom commissioner' Wilson ran such a dirty and brutalising campaign to win #Goldstein (by <200 votes) that it was still being reported months afterward. Volunteers told of harassment, anti-semitism, and threats while campaigning against his constant lies and misrepresentation. #Auspol

Happy lunar new year! 🧧🏮🌕

(🚨) This is just the beginning. But it is one hell of a beginning. You will never see the Epstein Scandal the same way again. And Part II is on the way. You can read this for free by clicking the red button at the link. Or subscribe for free and use this as your free article.

It is not human to be without shame and desire. Le Guin

Snickers

Well, he could convert to Islam and marry all of them

A really filthy pun came to mind

Thinks of Rum Corps

BREAKING NEWS!- PM Aurora Maccormicki replaces PM Tuxley II amid Bird Flu crisis. “Women should be in charge during crisis. I only won the tariff war because I delegated my Bluesky and [TrustMe Social] media account to a female staffer who threatened America with total annihilation.” -Tuxley II

Must have gone senile to forget Mr Ahmed of Bondi fame

Netsuke of a hare. Artist : 'Ranko', 19th century, Japan

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Wow.

Everything is quite awful so here are some fab moustachioed gentlemen on a poster advertising their thunderously prancing a la Loïe Fuller's serpentine act and Gaiety Girls skirt dances.

A government has responsibility for its citizens no matter what

I wish more people knew this

Sounds deeply suspicious.

Rooting in Australia has an entirely different meaning

Funny definition of saved

Surprise!

A plate of soggy tomatoes?

Howard Lutnick stole most of the 9/11 insurance settlement money for himself and the other senior executives, leaving the 600 Cantor Fitzgerald victims' families with nothing.

And smallpox?

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

The Weekly Novelist Nov 8, 1879, Vol 7 #19 Won by Fraud; The Marriage of Mystery by St. George Henry Rathborne. Featuring a clandestine midnight marriage ceremony, two rivals for the affections of the lady, a wealthy father determined to prevent the marriage, and treachery. #romance #romancelandia

It's the Valentine Planet ❤️ With the Heart Shape Yes will Always be a Planet 😀 @jameswebbdiscovery.com @lalawriter71.bsky.social @tebarrett.bsky.social @tammykomoff.bsky.social @rockafowlers.bsky.social @starfarerscafe.bsky.social @tamclaughlin.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social

And another.

There is a sf short story with this theme

Forget goblin mode. It's all about amorous mothers of radioactive hybrid terror pigs mode from now on.

Still true #auspol #Australia

And it was after she had an elevator installed so she did not have to worry about falling down her stairs.