It's really nice seeing people prove that anarchism in action works just fine and does so extremely efficiently while minimising visible available revolutionary figureheads to decapitate.

Just grabbed myself a ticket for this - an excellent group of writers

meanwhile it's already free on itch! if a book about two variously nonbinary youths making horny bad decisions in magic 1820s Paris sounds fun to you, I would recommend you download it there. ~10 sex scenes, some murders, zero dollars feliciadavin.itch.io/vandj

Ephemeral springs...

oh to be that one monk at the monastery with 50 anatomically accurate native bird species on lock....

the "medieval people didn't know how to draw animals" crowd has been real quiet ever since john siferwas dropped the Perfect Woodcock

For Holocaust Memorial Day, the extraordinary story of Peter Kien, the Jewish artist who depicted life in the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the 55 year-long battle to retrieve them. His artworks will now be held by the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/517f...

This is correct but it still doesn’t make sense until you understand just how tiny the in-group of “everyone important enough to have an opinion” really is, and that it has shrunk to a fraction of what it was even at the start of this century, when it wasn’t exactly broad.

This reminds of a quote I saw online, that the reason ADHD appeared to disappear in adulthood is that men outsourced their executive function issues to their secretaries and wives, and ouch (and ADHD women were either undiagnosed or burnt out by trying to compensate without support)

On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.

#Dartmoor #Moors Devon - Jan 2026

I read this with megalithic monuments in mind:

Looking for the Spring.

We've had a good weekend, visiting a dear friend who has been not too long bereaved, helping with her house.

“Starlings are flying in converging flocks towards their roosting place” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

New Review - a trip to nonfiction today but this is a biography of one of SF’s greatest writers Positive Obsession - The Life And Times of Octavia E Butler by Susana M Morris highly recommended www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/1/...

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

Too often, a loud minority claims to speak for women. But women are diverse - and most of us reject the idea that feminism means exclusion. This campaign gives women a platform to show that we will not be misrepresented. ✍️ Sign the letter at notinourname.org.uk #WhyWeSigned #Feminism #WithTheT

This whole thread, but in particular, this:

stop calling them "immigration enforcement" (or for that matter "incidents"). That's not what's happening here. If you work for a media organization, call for a review of the style guide or call a meeting of the editorial board. this language is not accurate or acceptable.

If you’re outside of Minnesota and you’re wondering how to help, this guide is excellent. And seriously. Take down your Ring doorbell TODAY.

You don't need to watch the video of someone being killed to know that someone was killed. On an emotional level, your amygdala can't really tell the difference between the video and being there. Depending on your personal history, this could be mildly shocking or enduring trauma. Why bother?

Latte art class, just up the road. #smalljoys @cogenthippo.bsky.social

#Booksky Welcome back! We were on strike yesterday, but we’re back today and we have 2 Pride tables and a local book festival table to pay for. In short, it’s a great day to buy a terrific queer read from a a small press in Minneapolis! queenofswordspress.com

Board of Peace - Season 1

Narcissi on a windowsill. #SmallJoys @thomasinapots.bsky.social

On Isherwood posts: Cabaret is a great film and an outstanding play, but to get a real feel about early 1930s read the Isherwood source material: the Berlin stories and diaries. Like Zone of Interest the menace and horror is what you can sense off-page/off-screen. And it was written at the time.

When you are admiring the media cut through that the Greens have made in the last 6 months, remember that we've done it on a shoestring. The huge flood of new members has brought more funds, but we don't do corporate backing and big donors. This is on passion, creativity and commitment.

Timeline cleanse: ten-day-old Clydesdale foal goes berserk.

This morning’s small joy: a white amaryllis I planted in November is flowering. It’s been a good shout, planting shitloads of bulbs for this slightly murky part of the year. #smalljoys @cogenthippo.bsky.social

🤩 This is how it's done, folks! 'A lesbian couple at the centre of their community and a pair of brothers said to have been among the first people to medically transition are among the people whose stories are told in the Queer Norfolk archive.' 🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️📜🗃️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #queerhistory

#WeekCforCloseUp The ginormous Roman Snails, helix pomatia, found at North Leigh Roman Villa - a popular delicacy of Romano-British cuisine, brought in over c.1,800 years ago! #snail #ecology #history #archaeology #cuisine

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I'm absolutely fucked today, I'm having trouble walking even with a stick. Yesterday's siezures have left me exhausted. I'm trying really hard not to be flat about it. Lovely Decorator has gone out to buy some coloured paint for the stairwell, though, and that's cheering me up!

🛒🇪🇺💪 The best time to quit your dependence on the US was years ago. The second-best time is TODAY (not the day after tomorrow). #BuyEuropean 🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺💪 ✅ buy-european.net/en/alternati... ✅ european-alternatives.eu ✅ hardno.eu ✅ www.goeuropean.org ✅ euroalternative.co #Grønland #tariffs #greenland #trump

I bought these little felt coasters bloody years ago, and have often tried to find more of them since, sadly without success. But every time I see them the bright colours cheer me up, so they are today’s small joy. #smalljoys @cogenthippo.bsky.social

Apps for boycotting American products surge to the top of the Danish App Store

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

And I think that sometimes it's easy to forget that we can do things because we like them, because they're interesting, because they're the right thing to do. The system is designed that way (5/?)

There's also a mental cost to spending all your energy avoiding calamity rather than adding value to the world.

I was trying to give them a chance to respond, but it's been 15 hrs and nothing so: LA WorldCon is using genAI "art" on their website and promo materials. Given everything that went down last year (and with SWFA recently), it's pretty disheartening to see this.

how far is Davos from Dignitas

I am taking refuge in Cecilia Grant's Blackshear trilogy. It's been a bad siezure day.

Farah Mendlesohn's Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore - artist Judith Clute. Out March 31, launch at Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social. You can pre-order now, paperback and ebook, in the Luna store and all other retailers. #booksfromscotland @effjayem.bsky.social

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

Just finished reading "Sociopath: A Memoir", and one interesting aspect was that sociopaths literally don't know what they don't understand in regards to normal human interactions, the fact that people mold their behavior according to what others expect of them (in terms of shame, guilt).

I just found this wolf in the wintery woods in my image files, so cute! (Deceptively so I'm sure...) Perfect for #WolfWednesday 🖤🌒🐺 Artwork by Carmen Saldaña

Minnesota folks and beyond: Here’s a growing list of the businesses participating in the 1/23 General Strike/ICE Out Of Minnesota - are your favs on the list? Please support these businesses and any other participating ones you know about! bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...

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