It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

All three living Democratic presidents have said nothing about any of this. I don’t mean just today, I mean any of it. Obama’s last two tweets are about basketball and wishing his wife happy birthday. Nothing on Renee Good who was murdered 17 days ago

I know Will wasn’t the first to say it, but I cant stop thinking about “we will never have as many guns as they have/they will never have as many people as we have” and how easy that makes it to pick a strategy

Just so we're clear, and so a tiny handful of wankers online don't create the wrong impression, the vast majority of your European friends are incredibly impressed by Minnesotans' courage against both the ice and ICE.

I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup

I wrote something for Politico about the real issue with Greg Bovino's overcoat. IMO, it isn't about whether the overcoat is tied to any particular regime, but about how immigration enforcement has become increasingly warlike in terms of strategy, discourse, and dress. 🧵

We get doorstep delivery of milk and apple juice, and I always like seeing the bottles that have wandered afar from their original source.

"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.

These puzzles were training us to spot AI images. We need to bring them back.

Three errors here. First, in confusing some kind of SEND classification (20%) with EHCPs (5.5%). Secondly in assuming it gives automatic right to DLA. Though there is a strong ECHP/DLA overlap. Third in assuming that those moving to DLA to PIP never work (it's not an out of work benefit).

A rally is planned in Radcliffe Square on 22nd February to mark the 4th anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Organisers ask residents to attend in numbers: They say the message is to governments, but also to Ukrainians in freezing cities or at the front - we stand with you.

Currently reading this. 🤣

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

FAO my comics pals

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?" "I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands." After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?" "This, too, it's magic."

Species' ability to migrate to different latitudes aids their survival when responding to climate change, according to a study of the fossil record of coastal marine animals over the last 535 million years by an international team of researchers led by Cooper Malanoski and Erin Saupe at Oxford.

Roads outside schools, residential streets, and the city centre thoroughfare of St Giles all feature in Oxford’s ten worst roads for speeding. We take a look at the data: oxfordclarion.uk/the-oxford-r...

This week I acquired some Monster Munch mayo and it was everything I hoped it would be.

I love every single thing about this.

This is a cool article - on the retrofit of mobile data (and emergency radio etc) to the London Underground www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how...

This is the point in an interesting thread when someone who properly knows something moves from "this pop history book maybe has some issues" to "what? What the hell is this?" Interesting cautionary stuff.

Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.

You CAN sink the Titanic in around 3 hours, however

Magpie (Pica pica) displaying its fantastically colourful tail feathers for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #TailsUp. And to think many people think of Magpies as just being black and white! #birds #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin #LyeValley #WildlifePhotography

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Looking through some old copies of Sandie comic from 1973, I thought this panel from ‘The Captives of Madam Karma’ was too good to pass up a snip of. (Written by Pat Mills and drawn by Jaume Rumeu)

“Reader, I Married My Brooding Boss Who Imprisoned His Mentally Ill Wife in the Attic”

I Stopped Aging but My Rancid Hidden Attic Portrait Sure as Hell Didn't

Looking through some old copies of Sandie comic from 1973, I thought this panel from ‘The Captives of Madam Karma’ was too good to pass up a snip of. (Written by Pat Mills and drawn by Jaume Rumeu)

Still remember the university careers pamphlet that listed one of the skills acquired during a PhD as "dealing with disappointment".

The Bayeux Tapestry is cool as hell. A 230 foot-long textile account of the Norman Conquest from the 11th C., with lots of fun details, including 626 people, 190 horses, 35 dogs, 32 ships, & 93 penises. "Are there eels?" you ask. Of course there are eels! Let's take a look! 1/8 🗃️🧪

If fifteen episodes of ANT WARS is too much for you they helpfully did the entire story in one panel

For my author, illustrator & comic creator friends. Did you know it's the National Year of Reading? "UK-wide campaign designed to help more people rediscover the joy of reading" If you want to get involved they have an author and illustrator toolkit on their website goallin.org.uk/get-involved...

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

In a blow to Donald Trump, children across the UK have voted for “peace” as the Oxford University Press Children’s Word of the Year. OUP says that many of the respondents, aged 6-14, mentioned specific conflicts such as Ukraine and Gaza when choosing the word. corp.oup.com/news/peace-n...

“we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality. To build our strength at home and act together” Mark Carney at Davos We can all say what we see, and that is a START 👏

Why gardeners should take more photos: www.gwenfarsgarden.info/2026/01/gard... This concept has a much wider application. Most big wins come from incremental progress, which is hard to see when you're in it. You need to take snapshots of your starting point to see how far you've come!

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.

It's a 'meat is hung, men are hanged' thing, no? Meat is ground, men are grinded against.

"The car is being pushed out of Dutch cities because doing so offers answers to several of the challenges these cities face today." bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/w... (Bicycle Dutch)

Nice to see cartoonists for Gaza picking up an award. Well done Rachael and Krent Here's hoping it doesn't need any sequels...

Meanwhile in France, it’s Churchill Anus Society all over again. www.ladepeche.fr/2019/09/11/s...

No need for an army then I guess.

* “average resurfacing cycle for all types of roads in England is every 103 years” factoid actualy just statistical error. average resurfacing cycle is every 12 years. Stonesfield megalosaurus pothole, which was caused by a 700kg dinosaur 166mn yrs ago, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Brianna Ghey was targeted by classmates who knew her offline. Online, she made friends and a community, and was making content to help other trans kids like her. This is a grieving mother pushing for legislation that would have further isolated her trans child, that is supported by transphobes.

this is a WILD story

The thing is none of this goes away with a change of admin. Anyone can elect someone stupid once - and so in 2016 the world thought, eh, this is unfortunate but everyone makes mistakes. But then in 2024 American voters looked the world straight in the eye and stuffed that fork right in the socket.