wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

I was too tired to go anywhere so I stayed home to see if I could see the #Crew11 capsule from the backyard in one opening I have in the trees. It made it and I have photographic evidence but that's about it. Pretty epic to watch even for a few seconds and that thing was hauling ass!

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

'You can vote at 16 but can't use social media at 15 and 364 days' is not a coherent policy platform.

Was introduced to the marvelous @helleborezine.bsky.social over Xmas. Picked up issue one which delightfully has a piece on bog bodies. If you’ve read my graphic novel BOUDICCA to the last page, you know why that’s my swampy jam.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

please do not read any of the secret documents I left in my unlocked car when I ran away before. I was scared and had to run away to get a bigger gun and it’s not fair for you guys to grab those documents while I was gone. those are mine, and I need them for my big mission. please give them back

“Learning to engage with complexity is a necessary skill if we are to drag ourselves out of the puerile swamp of the culture wars. But if we continue to reduce art to moralistic soundbites, we will only succeed in stripping it of its capacity to transform us” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

QR codes for ICE is hilarious, like they’re a restaurant menu that shoots people in the face.

I suddenly understand the political importance of Flat Earthers.

AI may not need massive training data after all www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/… #AI #brain

🌍 The Global Climate Highlights 2025 report is out now 🌍 Data from the #CopernicusClimate service show that 2025 was the third-warmest year on record. Explore key findings, charts and data from the report. Start here: climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima... @ecmwf.int

jack, i want you to mispronounce me like one of your french words

"Choose Denmark. Choose bacon and Lurpak. Choose Sandi Toksvig and Hans Christian Andersen. Choose a strong welfare state, hygge and a stroll through Tivoli Gardens..."

Yesterday I bought some trousers & last night I went to the Atlantic (the local disco). There was some nice blokes there, about 3 or 4 Punk blokes & lots of punk girls. My zip broke while I was pogoing & no one seemed to have any safety pins, even the punks.

I will stop talking about Heated Rivalry, but one of the reasons it has become such a big thing is this is the way Hollywood is supposed to work! Two actors working as waiters who get a shot and made the most of it and now are going to be stars! It feels like that never happens anymore.

Got a @thedailytism.com shirt for Xmas. I only read it for the articles.

That's a Russian Shahed drone in the middle

Europe has been meticulous in teaching the world how easily it can be bullied. Expect more of this sort of thing. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

In the US, it shouldn't be that unreasonable to expect Renee Goode to get the same justice all those shot kids at all those schools got.

I'm going to see your 'Abolish ICE' and raise you a 'Get rid of the entire Department of Homeland Security'

NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

There should be a much, MUCH larger discourse and reporting on how whoever is running DHS' social media is an overt white supremacist who is literally posting Nazi memes on a daily basis. Doesn't matter that it's almost certainly some edgelord 4chan intern; it's still happening and it's obscene.

New climate comedy in CAMDEN this Weds at 7pm! dice.fm/event/oeqpea...

slightly diminish a game Age Of Autonomous States With Very Strong Trade Relations

If you see this post an archer

you can't kill bugs bunny you idiot, you fool

I would know if I was being slowly corrupted by insidious forces beyond my comprehension. I would comprehend it easily

Feel like these must be written by a Trump AI by now, right?

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

4 hours???? Somebody need they ass beat for this

*slams laptop closed like a muhfucka*

Yeah, history's tyrants weren't complex paradox-ridden antiheroes. Just insufferable dicks. Napoleon - insufferable dick. Hitler - insufferable dick. Julius Caesar - you know that guy was an absolutely insufferable dick. It's the Insufferable Dick Theory of history that has stood the test of time.

hey nice tension you've got there, looks palpable af

If a man takes you home and you see War and Peace on his bookshelf that’s a red flag girl. he’s likely to have been influenced by Tolstoy’s heterodox opinions on the historicity of the individual and the causes of the burning of Moscow in 1812. Run.

British Palaeontologist Richard Forrest, a Brief Obituary tetzoo.com/blog/2026/1/...

Tomorrow I'm on a virtual panel for the BFS day long event on social justice- britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen... Come along! Get that positive rage @britfantasysoc.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @georgiacooked.bsky.social @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social

The thing about any UK Twitter/X ban is that our political class are addicted to it. McSweeney bases his entire ideology on what weirdos on there are saying, Farage uses it because it boosts his reach and its where Kemi Badenoch finds all her favourite conspiracy theories.

One thing I would do in Jeopardy is I’d really shine during the ending where everyone huddles up to chat like they’re all friends as the credits roll, but I would use that time to air my grievances

Oh, shove your 'smart speaker' up your arse, Radio 3. "All without touching a button!" I DON'T MIND TOUCHING A BUTTON! I CAN COPE WITH TOUCHING A FUCKING BUTTON! Good morning.

They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Some thoughts about the murder by ICE in Minnesota. This is the time for all of us to demand much better and to show what’s right.

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

"erm we can't get a conviction." fucking arrest the guy. perp walk him as a spectacle to make sure his name and face are broadcast around the world. make them fight his way out of jail. be so loud and obnoxious about it that it plants that seed of doubt in every ICE agent's head

Friends, thank you for stepping up! Over $40,000 worth of dash cams have been ordered so far for ICE observers in the Twin Cities! Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?