Violets are blue Roses are red Linguistic in-jokes Abound in this thread

We're having Saturday-at-home #cocktails this week instead of Friday-at-home cocktails. Still nice, though! These are blackthorns. Cheers!

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Living in Minnesota right now feels like being in the emergency room. Literally everyone is suffering in different ways, even if it's "just" a badly twisted ankle rather than a kidney stone or a full-on heart attack. The staff are working as hard as they can but energy and resources are dwindling.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

No, but seriously, that dog

The James Webb Space Telescope sent back pictures of the Helix Nebula in phenomenal clarity. The space telescope’s website has the photographs in all their glory, along with comparisons to photographs of Helix taken by older space telescopes like VISTA and Hubble buff.ly/IZ8gDdC #ShareGoodNewsToo

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Trump is badly losing the war over ICE, not just on the streets, but also in the culture. As Bad Bunny shows, this has become a culture war unto itself. Trump-MAGA's initial hubris has been utterly deflated. I've got fresh data illustrating the point. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

This is just part of patrol. ICE threatens you, points guns at you, brutalizes or kills someone in front of you. Every day it's somebody new in our circle. We gather around them while they work through the stress and fear and then, to the person, they go back out. My friends are so insanely brave.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

On the heaths in early February, visitors get their best opportunity to hear woodlarks sing. In 1986 there were just 250 breeding pairs in Southern England. Thanks to heathland restoration projects, the bird has recovered well, with over 3,000 breeding pairs across the UK. 📷 Derek Middleton

This is a fun puzzle game that teaches you how to solve cryptic crossword clues! Minute Cryptic - 7 February, 2026 "Anagram indicator? Yes - here, every single word is!" (10) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (40,588 solvers so far). www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Friday again! Imagine that. Now imagine it with Friday-at-home #cocktails . There, that's better, isn't it? This week, we're having millionaire's martinis. Cheers!

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Breakfast Café at the End of the Universe

In Neil Gaiman’s “I did nothing wrong ever” statement he says there’s been no good journalism about him or his assaults. There has been, of course. Thing is, he said the same thing in 2018 when @moryan.bsky.social reported on issues behind the scenes on American Gods www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

"I never thought the Leopards Eating People's Faces party would open a face-eating restaurant in my street"

These were so much fun. Check 'em out if you haven't seen them before!

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...

What a long week, and month, it's been, right? But here we are. Friday. Have a night in with Friday-at-home #cocktails . You deserve it. We're having Bloody Bronxes. Cheers!

tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY

Spammers' made-up names are getting weirder. I've just been messaged by one "Estebankitoo Alisonlybabe". It's like they dropped several fishing topics, in several languages each, into a blender.

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time. This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

I was recently asked what it takes to be a successful senior product manager. It boils down to these skills. The ability to 1. Organize and lead large teams without authority 2. Understand and relay the perspective of executive leadership 3. Establish yourself as an independent decision maker

It's Friday! Relax, stay inside, have a drink, that's what I say. These Friday-at-home #cocktails are a negroni variant called a "Charlie Pie". Cheers!

Well, that was the first morning commute since I started working again which was totally unpleasant. Cold rain; overcrowded, delayed trains; a row between passengers on the train - great fun

Holy shit, this thread

It's not totally irrational for the Euros to think they can suck up to him in-person at Davos and that might calm him down, it has before. The problem is even if that works, it only lasts a few days at best. You can't beat the creeps actually in the West Wing at the "last person he talked to" game.

Please, #BBCSport, take Wayne Rooney off of #MOTD. Sure, Shearer wasn't great when he started, but was he this poor? Rob Green was coherent, insightful, and energised in his recent appearances. Rooney is none of those things. Let him go try to learn the trade somewhere less prominent.

This map exposes the Greenland lie. The US used to have a massive military footprint here. Today, they operate just ONE base. If Trump were actually worried about Russian vessels, he would simply open more bases, which Denmark allows

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

It's Friday! Dunno about you, but as far as I'm concerned, it's a good night to stay in and have some nice Friday-at-home #cocktails . These are "coolman"s. Cheers!

OH DAMN *bows in admiration*

This dude is intense and correct

And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my lone and level sandes And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

This is a favorite question to ask. Favorite little moment of kindness in a movie? I'm thinking of Tim Blake Nelson leaving money on the sill after they steal a pie in O Brother.

Just realised that the Grateful Dead were, in one sense, the antithesis of Spinal Tap. Of the long-serving members, only the drummers are now left alive. RIP, Bob Weir.

You only live nine times

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

New Bond titles just dropped

It's Friday! Though I'm not sure how, 'cause yesterday was surely Saturday, wasn't it? Never mind, we're staying in, with Friday-at-home #cocktails . Today we've got blue champagne*. Cheers! And happy new year! (*actually made with cava)

Sorry, those are called what? *raises eyebrows in British*

Last year at this time, I posted a thread of a few of my favourite human-made things from the past year. Just a little celebration of some good stuff, in a world that needs good stuff. Doing it again this year, for the same reason. #BestOf2025

I think there's a lot of wisdom here