This is doing the rounds of Facebook again. Pages getting 100s of shares & using it to boost their following with their own watermark and no acknowledge of the source. Fuck all you can really do about it. It's not by "Unknown". It's from my book Ring The Hill: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Don’t leave them alone in Gaza. Hammam is a volunteer who hasn’t stopped caring for the injured for three years without a salary. His family is homeless and hungry, and his brother is disabled and needs urgent treatment for epilepsy. Any donation even small one can help chuffed.org/project/1844...

"I don't know that she necessarily helped with the firefighting effort" said Colorado Springs Fire Department Lt. Trevor Leland. Extremely goat.

In Minnesota, girls sell lemonade on the street to help their sisters arrested by ICE. Stephen Miller’s goons are very much still here. Sign reads, “Please help us raise money for my sisters because they were arrested by ICE” & this has been confirmed by trusted community members.

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Sama'a's daughter broke her phone, the kind of thing that happens to every family, but in this case it means her access to our support has become even more tenuous. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

Nazism AND cash cow! Patriot Front report. (I deleted the image because the Metro woman deserves sanctuary.) www.npr.org/2026/07/11/n...

#books The non-fiction book this week is the illuminating, informative, and incredibly depressing 'The Dictator's Handbook' by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith. It's what it says it is on the cover, and after reading it, you'll be able to take over a country–or at least understand the news.

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

Me: Wheeeeeee! Charon, the River Styx ferryman: Stop it.

Seems like there is a lot of shit going down, a lot of good people & good programs under attack. Please remember you are not personally responsible for fending off the slings & arrows for the whole planet. Eat some ice cream, cuddle a cat, read a fun book. You're allowed to protect yourself.

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The remarkable folks at @shadowsatthedoor.bsky.social are crowdfunding for their new show. Becks End is classic UK folk horror with an incredible cast and an incredible crew. Please help fund it if you can.

Well it’s 8 am and I haven’t had a seizure yet but I have been very clumsy & I can’t spell for shit today, so my brain is still irritated. Anyway pls repost my art today, it’s my birthday. I’m very poor and possibly going to be quite disabled by something I can’t seem to even get a dx as an adult w

"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." -Steven Wright

Well, this is fucking terrifying. Texas also has vast "game" ranches full of exotic animals for rich white people to shoot.

Very cool thread.

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This is the key point: Academic freedom is not just about protecting higher education, it is about preventing state control of civil society institutions to promote its ideology and suppress dissent.

There really is no overstating how horrific the 2026 KSCIE guidance from the UK government is. It takes on board all of the punitive, coercive, ill-conceived musings of the Cass Review, and turns them into a recipe for making kids' lives hell on earth.

This comes directly from the use of sewage as fertilizer. "Organic" certified farms are banned from use of sludge. Safest strategy? Buy from farmers you know and trust. Which is impossible for much of the US.

I’ll spell it out for anyone who’s not already aware. Trans people’s life expectancy is low because of suicide and murder

Next up is Who Will You Save? by @garethlpowell.bsky.social This has been on my TBR pile for a bit and looking forward to it

Housing Bill just became law, *And* Trump didn't get his voting restrictions bill. A good start to the day.

Hey! khōréō is a SUPER COOL magazine of speculative immigrant and diaspora fiction, and they only have 4 days left to fundraise year 6! Please consider chipping in. There are unclaimed query critiques in the pledge options if that is a thing you are looking for www.kickstarter.com/projects/kho...

Our job at that point will be to militantly remember, to refuse moral amnesty, and to reject the re-entry of the indecent into any kind of leadership capacity. Including "thought" leadership, punditry, etc.

I don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.

Honored to share a name with this sweet elder husky in Georgia who needs a home 🥺

Price of #science jacked up yet again. ‘The exploitation still remains’: Stats journal associate editors resign over $3,000 publishing charge – Retraction Watch share.google/4XQprhkLhof2...

I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵

Did you know if you have a following of any size, some percentage of them rely on alt text because of vision, neurological, or crappy internet connection issues? Adding alt text also makes it more likely your image gets reposted. It is also a great and thoughtful kindness in a world that needs it 💜

This article describes the situation were all facing really well (and why it's impossible to solve easily)

I also am an authorized biologist to handle desert tortoises and started about the same time as Randy and we worked together for quite some time. Fun fact, we both started our tortoise conservation careers at age five!

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.

But you know my theory about the pattern matching abilities of the human brain, yadda. Here's a paper about one of the previous times researchers were able to identify the "manufacturing division" playbook being run: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

OH is out of town so I am being Bad & taking myself out to dine. Last night was duck confit & pavlova. Tonight is prime rib night at the local, & the new bartender has learned he does not need to hold my card & I like Bulleit rye in my old-fashioned. I love my neighborhood.

so a core tenet of Vatican II that SSPX rejects is the idea that you can be friends with someone of a different religion. they believe that Catholicism (their way, specifically) is the ONLY path to God, everyone else is going to hell, and not trying to convert them is a hate crime against their soul

Happy #FossilFriday from this gorgeous Anzu claw fresh out of the ground in the Hell Creek Formation! This is from a very productive microsite that we visit every year to see what's eroded out over the winter. It's best to get these things excavated before the cows trample on them.

"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

It's amazing to watch these schismatics write in the unmistakable register of persecuted free speech substackers

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

I will be signing at The ARC festival this Sunday from 1-2pm at the @goshcomics.bsky.social table. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social is an exciting, new, free comics festival in London on the 11th and 12th of July. Come along! www.arc-london.uk

“…Because of this, the sources say, officials at the White House, DHS, and elsewhere have spent a significant amount of time planning where to launch operations out of the public eye.”

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PEMBERLY DRIFT Oh this is outstanding, 100% I want a movie poster of it

THE FURIOUS AND THE FETCHING: Pemberley Drift The new cross genre sensation