This should be a good cultural read. airguide.info/hawaiian-air...

Recording on Godzilla and Mothra this weekend! TIL Kim Jong Il kidnapped a South Korean director to force him to produce a Marxist remake of Godzilla. According to historian Barak Kushner, this is perhaps the only time that North Korea has willingly copied any facet of Japanese popular culture.

And you can just watch it, anytime!

“When asked by the interviewer, Sikka also agreed that we should forget about AI agents running nuclear power plants and other strident promises thrown around by AI boosters.”

My favorite Big Island punk rockers. elsanchohawaii.bandcamp.com/album/heads-...

For most people, Antarctic #krill are invisible. They are too small to inspire awe, too distant to provoke alarm, and too easily reduced to an ingredient on a label, a commodity in a global supply chain. Yet krill are not a “resource” in any ethical or ecological sense.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife recently satellite-collared five gray wolves in northern California. Sadly, an adult female from the Harvey pack died during capture. The cause is under investigation. Read more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/4rcIk4D

Alvin Jardine fought for nearly a decade to be paid under the state's wrongful conviction compensation law. He died before receiving payment.

NYT: These Four States Are in Denial Over a Looming Water Crisis Reality: These six continents are in denial over a looming biosphere collapse.

The Latest Animal Research News: —Remembering the Brown Dog Affair; —Truth behind EPA’s, FDA’s, and NIH’s promises to cut back animal research; —Protecting horseshoe crabs; —Animal rights group sues Ridglan Farms; —And more: www.riseforanimals.org/news/news-fe... #animalrights #stopanimaltesting

Torture memo, war criminal John Yoo resides in Tiburon

🏈🥑 On #SuperBowlSunday more people in the U.S. eat avocados than any other day. To produce all that guac, the industry is scarfing up swaths of Mexican forest. Join us in urging U.S. grocers to adopt avocado-sourcing policies that prevent #deforestation ➡️ bit.ly/4tlE1oZ

Every day more than 10 football fields' worth of Mexican forest are cleared for avocado production. These forests are where millions of #MonarchButterflies migrate for the winter and other imperiled wildlife struggle to survive 🦋🦋

The rapidly expanding avocado industry has destroyed 2,400 acres of the world-famous #MonarchButterflyBiosphereReserve. It doesn't have to be this way. Grocery stores can end deforestation in their avocado supply chains by requiring Pro-Forest Avocado certification.

Antifascist Maja T convicted in Budapest, faces 8 years News, Feb 6th Verdict follows extended show-trial under deplorable arrest conditions ~ Josefine Peters ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/06/a...

Washington lawmakers are considering restrictions to keep cities and counties from criminalizing camping on public property. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/05/s...

Hungary has charged the Mayor of Budapest for helping organize a peaceful Pride march after it was banned. Punishing peaceful assembly threatens freedom and democracy for everyone. The EU must act. Sign and speak out. a.allout.org/s/P29lG/

This must be the plot of Godzilla -0.0

If homeless people can't have guns, then nobody should.

Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan giving lip service and saying nothing about the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Dan will never be serious about protecting us from toxic chemicals because he will protect his families toxic paint and chemical corporation RPM first. #akelect

RPM International is a Fortune 500 company started by Dan Sullivan’s grandfather. His brother is CEO. They have been sued for their products causing cancer. They extensively use petroleum products and chemicals. Sullivan has an extensive history conflicts of interest:

“when anyone deploys chemical agents into an environment, EVERYTHING is affected. The air, the plants, the streets, children, wildlife, clothing, houses, waterways. . . All of it. Imagine thinking to yourself ‘that's how I want to resolve conflict’. Then ask yourself if you’re the baddie.”

Hey mature content creators! Don't forget to inform your followers to turn on their settings so they can view your work!

Colombian writer Ospina (Variations on the Body, a story collection) dismantles the illusion of man-made borders in her beautiful debut novel, which tracks the migrations of five animals. This is revelatory. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

This site is full of collaborators. Many from the LGBT community. It's sickening and infuriating. So many good Germans indeed.

Today, 31 unions & labor organizations representing over 130,000 workers in Portland and OR sent a letter to @mayorkwilson.bsky.social & District Attorney Vasquez demanding that they enforce the law and get justice for the children, elderly, & working people tear gassed by ICE on 1/31.

Band member Spencer Edgers said festival leadership called him and expressed concerns about bringing politics into the festival. But Interim Director Alex Serio said fear of political pushback was not part of their concerns.

At Xerces, we feel that a conservation organization should not accept money from companies whose products are harming the very animals that we are charged with protecting. Learn about how we choose which partners to work with ⤵️ xerces.org/blog/why-we-...

Minimal penalties for animal cruelty send a dangerous message. In Wyoming, a wolf was tortured and paraded through a bar, another left to die in a trap, and a family dog killed, fines as low as $150. These policies fail to protect animals. This must change. Read more: https://bit.ly/46xKIdM

Our situation in the West won't improve until we recognise that we need economic democracy as well as political democracy. Having a vote once every few years is irrelevant if politics is dominated by money, corporations are free to do as they like and workers cannot own/run their own workplaces

Federal agencies like the EPA, FDA, and NIH keep making promises to move beyond animal testing—but they mean little without laws, deadlines, and accountability to back them up. Read more: riseforanimals.org/news/promises #animalrights #stopanimaltesting #endanimallabs

NIH needs to stand by its promises to end animal research. wjla.com/features/i-t...

Ice black bagged a live streamer this morning out of his home in a no knock early morning raid breaking out the windows to his apartment building and flooding his entire apartment with militarized police. They are targeting observers. They are targeting activist and they are terrorizing the city.

You cannot have progressive leaders peddling this unenforceable snake oil. Listen to the experts on what kinds of constraints and demands are actually useful in reducing the harm and violence of an institution like ICE. It's *not* the things in Schumer's list. Stop giving him cover.

U.S. citizens who have had violent encounters with federal immigration agents testified before Congress on Tuesday. Amid harrowing testimony by victims and the brothers of Renee Good, congressional Democrats offered promises of accountability. Not a single Republican lawmaker showed up.

🚨 OHSU's Board of Directors is deciding whether to shut down its primate lab—urge them to vote YES and transition the facility into a sanctuary for thousands of monkeys. Send your letter by noon PT on Friday, 2/6 to make it count: actionnetwork.org/letters/shut...

Check out the newest breakthroughs in non-animal and human-relevant science from January 2026, including: —Animal-free cosmetic allergen testing; —AI avatars; —Mini human livers; —And more: riseforanimals.org/news/sci-news-jan-2026 #animalrights #animalprotection #stopanimaltesting #endanimallabs

More from the annals of 'no one asked for this' ~ SpaceX adding a *million* satellites & data centers to orbit means seeing oligarchs' mess even in the heavens That's a 6800% increase in #astronomy (& beauty) -killing space junk from today's < 15,000 satellites Public comment period is open:

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

What about gay? Where’s the gay voice in all of this? It’s all been erased, forgotten, lost to AIDS or thrown out. I’ve literally been working on this for 16 years trying to amplify this underground gay music scene. - Josh Cheon interviewed by the Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Fears South Australia's endangered glossy black-cockatoo eggs will 'cook' in nesting boxes during heatwave. Insulated human built nesting boxes may be needed to prevent their eggs from "cooking" during increasing numbers of hot summer days. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The national level Democrats are entrenching fascism further with every action they take or don’t take and at the scale of the damage they are doing, and allowing to be done There is no difference between negligence and malice with these actions. This is complicity and corruption at massive scales.

Filton acquittals: The start of a sea change News, Feb 5th The public is clearly uncomfortable with jailing peaceniks for trying to stop weapons supplies to a genocidal regime ~ Andy Meinke ~ freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/05/f...

"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." - James Baldwin

"Some #plasticgoonerbros use the plastic to get them there and a hand to take them over the edge so they don't ruin their plastic."

Photosynthesizing. ☀️🌱