Today, a purple gate with cats in Lancaster, UK

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

the world these goons are trying to summon into being is a world of unimaginable cruelty & depravity & there is no higher purpose to any of our lives greater or more compelling than resisting them to the death

ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.

One of social media’s rare redeeming qualities is the unhinged chaos of Facebook groups like this Princess Diana memorial group

Just got back from my time traveling dinosaur safari and you won’t believe how many butterflies I stepped on! Now to take a big sip of water and check on President Harris’s trip to Davos

Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

there will be fireworks and music and dancing. people will sell bacon-wrapped sausages from portable grills; the sausages will smell great but taste only okay but you will love them anyway. people will meet their future spouses. strangers will make eye contact and hug for no reason, and every reason

i am GOING TO get my hopes up every single time. NOT because i am gullible or desperate but because it is FUN

Awful day yesterday. So first, all these assholes get on the wrong bus

And that’s about it, except for the most important question raised in that first post: Jonathan Swift’s (Lilliputian? Brobdingnagian?) penis? No: “whether cats use the w.c.” of course. Well, thanks to another significant cultural figure – this time a legendary jazz musician – we know:

🚨🚨Check this out👇👇A French judge states that Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Le Pen’s trial for embezzlement. She says he’s done this to other judges around the world. What do you think he’s doing to judges in the US. This is madness‼️

A Bluesky challenge! We've got so many great heritage/GLAM accounts here now, that some are flying under the radar From national organisations to niche collections, these active accounts are all (at time of posting) under 500 followers-lowest at 9-how many can we get over 500? go.bsky.app/U16Nwsw

It's #PenguinAwarenessDay! Love this description of the characteristics of penguins from The Path Through Penguin City (c.1955) by Dr Harry Lillie, conservationist and ship's surgeon. "In the rear comes King with that disdainful rather superior air" #PenguinDay 🐧

Bluesky is fucking great. /1

Join my Board of Peace, or die! Reminiscent of the audience member in Dublin who roared at Yusuf Islam (the former Cat Stevens) 'Play Peace Train you fucking cunt!"

he’s refusing to talk to anyone while he’s driving and is now just driving really fast

Matt Bors

I wish it were just old racist Make A Wish but it seems clear to me that it’s a lot more than just him. A lot of tech new money and former crypto-Nazis (as in hidden, not fiat crime currency) who think it’s now or never for their “carefully laid” fever dream plans.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

It is courage, but it’s ordinary courage. What Minneapolis is doing can happen anywhere. The alternative—ignoring the thousands of masked men with machine guns kidnapping and killing in broad daylight—is simply impossible.

I don’t know how America comes back from this; indeed, I’m not sure anyone would trust the US enough to do so now. It’s constitution & law has been proven to be pliable beyond useful.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

New research on ME/CFS finds unusual cell signals after exercise. Tiny packages released by cells (extracellular vesicles) show problems with energy production, an overactive immune system, and cell stress. Let’s break it down in simple terms.

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

You want to watch this. And you want the sound on. Trust me on this.

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

There is no hole deep enough for scum like Noem

if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street

Apropos of...everything a reminder that I have a list of accounts that regularly post relaxing and random stuff. It features NO NEWS. If you're trapped scrolling and need to shift your attention to something calmer it's a good way to do it. You can also pin it to your feeds bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you've seen folks saying that the ICE guys seemed untrained/ unclear, it's not that. It's intentional. MPD did this to Jess 10 years ago and ICE very likely just did the same thing today.

The order I failed to comply was to move my car. I had one trooper at my driver side window yelling at me to move back, another one behind my car screaming for me to move forward. Which order do I comply with? Saying the Mpls woman should’ve complied is meaningless in a manufactured crisis.

…it should break your heart to kill.

This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

I was looking up “skimo sprint” earlier because, while I was already hyped for skimo at the Olympics, I didn’t know it was this “sprint” version until @lodrina.bsky.social told me, and now I am SO hyped for this ridiculous event.

Anyway, one reporter pushed back. Why wouldn't they go on record? Didn't parents deserve on-the-record comment for such an important change that affects children's health? No, one official said. The reporter rightly called it "terrible!" I'll tell you who if she says its ok.

Here's the rationale "senior officials" gave. 1. A drop in vaccine uptake including the measles vaccine. (Not mentioned, how HHS head RFK JR. personally advocated against vaccines for the last ten years). The official said the overhaul would somehow increase public confidence in the vaccines :/

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

Judge: Are you Nicolas Madura Moros? Maduro: [In Spanish, Inner City Press interpretation] I am the the president of Venezuela, I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured at my home in Caracas Judge: Let me intervene. There will be time for this

Somebody on here quipped earlier that we live in precedented times. It hit home with me. In 2003 I watched US troops roll in to the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and roll straight out the other side to take up defensive positions around the oil refinery. 1/

This analysis piece in the SCMP speculates that seizing control of Venezuela’s facilities is as much about regaining petrodollar hegemony as it is about taking the oil itself. www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

“and in other news, President Trump has ordered the bombing of Venezuela” “Caracas?” “not according to his doctors”

Shocking, but not surprising.

Why can’t she use tinsel?

Excellent analysis

Back in Feb, I asked a film crew to capture the launch for our Sensitive anthology. It smashed everyone's wildest expectations. A stellar "house" band with star turns that included Clare Grogan, Soup Dragons, The Loft, Talulah Gosh, & Sea Urchins alumni. Watch: (£) sensitivealbum.com/sensitive-fi...