Cruising in my Edwardian underwear ad. Eaton's Fall and Winter Catalogue 1909-10. Toronto Public Library, ref ARCTC 658.871 E13.2

Christ I thought these were some kind of hideous eye barnacles lol

girlfriends

Once again, concentration camps.

First they decided to strip nursing of its “professional” designation. Now they’re removing a requirement that ensured nursing homes receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding had an RN available 24/7. This regime doesn’t care about the elderly & disabled. This policy change will kill people.

Glad they got this picture of the Toilet Woman on the toilet, at least.

Nuclear SMRs were never really meant to work. For the companies it's a pump-and-dump fraud and for the offtakers it's perpetually-around-the-corner greenwashing so they can build filthy fossil gas for data centres today and tomorrow Oklo the worst of the lot: far-right climate deniers all 'round

“The people that have taken part in this hunger strike feel like they have no other choice left to them but to take this into their own hands."

Ukrainian POWs ‘being systematically executed’ by Russia, says top commander

Gotta love a magpies warble. 🥰

Winter floods wreak havoc on Gaza displacement camps as Israel blocks aid https://aje.io/nu8pwm

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Getting away with Mordor.

'Three Plateau culture area men, who are salmon fishing with dip nets, standing on individual hanging wooden platforms suspended by ropes over the edge of a cliff at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, between Klickitat County and Oregon, c.1952' www.washingtonhistory.org/research/col...

Dirty Van Art (8 Photos) This collection focuses on drawings made directly into layers of dust and road grime on parked vans and trucks. The works range from detailed portraits and animals to pop-culture figures and quiet narrative scenes. Featured here are pieces by ProBoyNick (Nikita Golubev) in…

Snapdragon seed cases look like tiny little screaming heads of doom

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ghalya. Ghalya is only 15 years old. She wants to study and become a pharmacist. Her father was killed during the Nuseirat Massacre a she has been struggling to take care of her family including her siblings Marah, 17, Sama, 11 and Abdul, 11.

China is getting rid of retractable door handles, while the EU is getting rid of essential controls hidden in touch screen menus. The world is healing. ♥️

Conwy Castle, 1875

calling a military tech company Anduril: honestly, solid name, vibes of Aragorn's sword positive calling a data company Palantir: sinister, but at least in a way that makes sense calling your home security company *Sauron*, a cartoonishly evil villain famously undone by poor threat monitoring: ???

Don’t know what to say or do but each has massive expenses, including: three cases of children with hepatitis, a young woman whose health deteriorating from lupus, a single mom & baby who are getting thrown out of their apartment, a whole camp getting flooded tonight Give. Act

Storks Nesting, 1932

We rated poorly for: AI regulation Employment Inflation Public housing Housing affordability Incomes Climate change Suicides Prisons Gangs Child poverty Mental health Homelessness Migration In short, many of the things that matter to everyday people. #nzpol

I write these words with a heavy heart feeling suffocated and helpless as donations decline and life in Gaza grows harsher day by day.💔 Last night’s rain tore our tent apart and washed away what little we had left. We urgently need your donations and support.🙏 Donation link ⤵️ gofund.me/522073ed

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it turns out the Avelo ICE Air deportation flights are plagued with severe safety violations. excellent reporting from @gbrockell.bsky.social prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...

#MedievalMonday On Feast Day of #StThomasBecket, this exceptional font in Lyngsjö Church, Sweden, where saint was v popular. Made 20 years after Becket's 1170 assassination, Henry II shown as instigating murder. On L he holds a scroll inscribed REX H[EN]ricus. On R knights attack the archbishop.

People often defend these killer ‘trucks’ by blaming pedestrians for being hit. Or they blame ‘poor drivers.’ But it’s the same argument used to oppose restrictions on assault rifles common in school shootings. Both should be banned.

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Dr Hu 🥰✊👍✌️❤️ #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

Be like Norway 🇳🇴not the UK 🇬🇧 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment

#nzpol 🧵 ⬇️ IMHO, a smart political party's policies for campaigning would include a decent roof top solar power installation subsidy.

And detainees are held for much long periods of time than needed so that these companies can charge more and make billions extra. It’s state sanctioned human trafficking.

You know that AI “coat fence” story that went viral yesterday? Well this story is real

#nzpol Ah, yes, I remember Dunedin varsity landlords well. 🤬

Freezing rain floods Gaza camps as displaced Palestinians face even worse conditions

Yeah there's some shit drivers out there - this on SH1 near here - look for the red MG on the left:

This is wonderful.

Trump is dynamiting through National Park property and critical jaguar habitat in Arizona's San Rafael Valley to construct 27 miles of border wall.

“Car bloat”—increasingly oversized automobiles—worsens road safety, affordability and the environment. Here are some of the stories I wrote in 2025 examining the trend and proposing solutions. 🧵 In @vox.com, I likened car bloat to secondhand smoke (which helped bring down the US tobacco industry).

Russian submarine followed spy ship into British waters as it mapped gas pipeline

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...

Wonderful, exciting news – my Reynard the Fox is now an audiobook! Completely unabridged and read by the perfect narrator, Joseph Edward Degnan. It's available now at all the usual places, see below for links and a clip!

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Worth your time to read/listen.

Don't think I've spoken to a single artist who didn't struggle this Christmas, and I spoke to a lot, so even if it's not my work I'd really encourage people to try to support a local artist that you like instead of big corporations - every single sale makes a real, tangible difference to their life.

Man seated in a railroad car Laton A. Huffman, c.1900 www.cartermuseum.org/collection/m...