When the airport gift shop is selling this...Fair play MN!

👇This is the way!

Ex: * what they said: "economic anxiety" -what they meant: "status anxiety due to Black POTUS" * what they said: "of course I'd vote for a woman, just not that woman" -what they meant: "I will never vote for a woman" * what they said: "egg prices!" -what they meant: "I am having a tantrum"

Good for MS, AL, LA! Great news! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

This looks like Venetian ware. The cultural thread from Rome to Venice is obvious when you see these. Artisans keeping methods alive over the centuries & passing it on, a small flame, waiting for it to catch fire again...

Rule 1: If you let a Nazi stay in your bar, it comes a Nazi bar

Ooh. Lovely! Arcadia & Copenhagen are still the 2 best plays on Science out there. "“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind…"

Jesus! This one burns!

It's like we've invented the car for your brain & now a bunch of people will be tempted to drive everywhere & never exercise (their brains) again. Brain gym is now Critical thinking/Puzzles/Crosswords/Jigsaws/Art/Writing/Music/Science!

Yep, we're terrible at teaching things to non-nerds (not great with nerds too, but self-motivation drives them). It's clear a whole bunch of GOP & their electorate don't understand basic things in the world & are enraged when they discover this.

She rocks!!

Brilliant!

Happy Imbolc to all who celebrate! Imbolg (in the belly, in Irish- possibly first pregnant Spring Lambs?) We're halfway between the darkness of the Winter Solstice & the Spring Equinox. The beginning of Spring in old NW Europe. It's Astronomy all the way down!

Late to this but:

Absolutely stunning! Some of those clumps would easily hide the entire Solar System out to the Kuiper Belt. Presumably there have been epochs over the last ~4.5b.y. where a dust blob from a nearby dying star has drifted across our path. Spectacular sunsets on an ice planet Earth I'd imagine.

Exactly this. None of this is normal. The US is not a reliable partner any more. Maybe in 3yrs, but what about 4yrs after that. Do we oscillate back and forth in & out of madness?

Today's winner! I can imagine a whole season of build up for Papal elections. Plus, any "Papal nephews" getting gigs? Wacky series following the "Pope's nephew" running some org.

Yep. It's the "slipped in shower" of Apartheid South Africa, or "fell from a high floor" in Russia. It's murder. By an arm of the State.

Great speech. Clear thinking and clear words. We survive & rise together.

Very good!

Fantastic! Remarkable that a telescope in the middle of nowhere in a place where clear skies are eh, rare, could change Astronomy.

Ooh! Bronze age town c.1000BC in Wicklow. Potentially largest early prehistoric town in the Islands. Multiple ringforts (wealthy clans, with slave labor?) In Wicklow hills, I wonder if it was centered on mining/quarrying/gold? www.rte.ie/news/leinste...

Gorgeous carnyx from the Iceni territory. Colchester might have heard this as Boudicca arrived...

Gravity Falls, The Detectorists Movie.

Dk should accept the offer of Fr troops & post them in Nuuk.

As always- the court jester tells us the Truth

Ah, FFS!

When you like your sarcasm with a dose of concentrated, fuming nitric acid: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

Jesus, that's a burn!

We are not living in normal times. We are living in the Age of American Madness. It will pass, but the damage is & will be severe.

Tag-line for 2028 & for humanity in general: "Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research!"

Lol!

Today's winner!

Very cool! Ritalin makes you feel like you slept well & primes you for reward (finishing tasks)

Jesus!

"it is the Part of a great Politician to make the Character of his People, to extinguish among them the Follies and Vices that he sees, and to create in them the Virtues and Abilities which he sees wanting. I wish I was sure that America has one such Politician but I fear she has not." (John Adams)

Very well observed. There's an real inertia in American 'received wisdom'. Shrillness (cf Krugman on Iraq & 2008) is worse than being right. No-one admits to having voted for Nixon. It'll be the same for Trump. Those red hats will end up in Landfills & historians will wonder at the Age of Madness.

Fluid dynamics FTW!

It's *always* the cover-up.

Heh. Yeah, no fcuking around! Newgrange FTW!

True, but clearly Labour need to start a massive building effort --houses, rail, infrastructure, esp. ex London, to save the UK from its worst elements & the fash.

I mean...there's the...I want to say Castle?

Jesus, painfully close to the truth!

The longest night is over! For connection to deep human time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...

Brilliant! Google's headstone will read: "To ask the internet for knowledge and receive a series of articles that mostly remind you what your question was, then repeat the same three facts you already knew, padded out with more ad space than information."

The main thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is making sure he can't have a gun.

Today's winner!

Immigrants get the job done! Hero!

I mean yeah. Quantum does that to your head!

So cool!