It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Fucking *hell*, I had not realised this

This is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.

This is the piece to send people to get them off the fence about this, I've bookmarked it in a new folder I've called 'weaponry' lol

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

You may think that there is a progressive case for the principle of assisted suicide. You may be right. But this is not about the principle, it is about a specific bill The bill's sponsors are telling us what sort of world they want it to create. I'm begging you to listen

It is not progressive for a terminally ill person who is wealthy to receive private care while one who is poor is killed by the state It is not progressive to pass a bill so filled with loopholes it puts learning disabled, mentally ill and poor people at risk

Just fyi. On Friday, Lord Falconer, who's shepherding the assisted dying bill through the Lords, admitted that he thought it was fine if someone chose to die because they didn't have enough money for care If you're left wing and support the principle, I really need you to look at the bill's details

I always think that GPS is close to being magic - just a bunch of (very accurate) clocks, up in orbit, yelling what they think the time is into the void... and from that, these technological marvels can figure out where you are to a footprint the size of a small car. Thanks, Dr West.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

crab exoskeletons are about 27% calcium carbonate, better known to geologists as calcite, so this is technically correct. which is my favourite kind of correct.

Some folks were asking if this is AI. It's not. It's a video made from panning across this image taken by the New Horizons probe on July 14, 2015 15 minutes after its closest approach. The mountains on the left (informally Norgay Montes) are up to 3,500m tall according to NASA. Absolutely beautiful.

This site is rapidly approaching the "Wow thanks for sharing your childhood memories but some of us have C-PTSD" level of responses from strangers. Nothing but punching bags for other people's frustrations as people convince themselves venting anger is the same as taking useful action.

If you didnt live in a country with huge amounts of people with their head in the ground or the clouds you wouldn't be dealing with modern nazis. It's not different over here, where I personally know lots of english people who dont get eg how horrific this country is to disabled and trans people.

It takes a level of discipline to see something that touches one part of your identity - like your culture or place of birth - and then see qualifiers that dont apply to you and go "It's not about me. This stranger isnt talking to or about me" and move on from it. Social media dissuades this.

There's loads of americans still clueless about how reviled it is as a country across the world and loads going "Yeah we fucking know". Whatever you say online the people its not about will turn up and go "This is about me, the protagonist".

This is a symptom of how social media has turned every user into the protagonist and every other person into a generic board onto which we project.

Man, late-night terrestrial TV is great. Where else could you get the amazing tonal whiplash of watching “Schindler’s List” and immediately following it up with “Inseminoid”

GOOD. He's an artist, not a public utility. He owes us nothing.

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.

Fantastic photo from Phil Laybourne capturing the moment a Red Deer steps on some Lego.

Rest well, king.

Another bad anniversary rolls around

People who are interested in trains are ambivalent about maps, I'm sure it'll be fine.

Politicians: don't use AI to make your maps.

Keir Starmer often takes 2-3 days to issue very mild criticism of US actions. This is both direct and issued fast. I think there is a serious risk that the US miscalculated quite what a big deal the Greenland thing is to Europe (and in Europe).

“I am right here,” said Frog.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

After an intense discussion about geopolitics, these are the last two things my Uber driver said to me: “As I see it, World War Three is inevitable. Please rate me five stars.”

Some good news for today

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

if you havent cancelled spotify yet and this isnt the final nail in the coffin for you, i really dont know what else to say other than i hope some introspection finds you soon

Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!

People performatively mispronouncing Irish names is one of my pet paimhs

"You might argue that I'm super-annuated and far too much of a coward to take the Americans on alone - I certainly did - but when King, country and young Greenlandic fillies demand it, let it be known that Flashman will answer the call."

We don’t need to be naive about it, but we do need not to succumb to despair. That plays right into the hands of governments

The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win

This is why you can't afford RAM anymore

This little boy has been very poorly. He’s out of hospital and seems to be recovering well now, so that’s one bit of good news at least

"I'm stopping for coffee. DM me your order" "I'm passing multiple stores before I pass your place. I'll grab whatever you want."

thank you to everyone who is helping, whether or not that's work you can get acknowledgement for in public

every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help

As a more general point, those who worry about the rise of British nationalism should remember that there is more than one form of nationalism within the U.K., and that those different forces may be pulling the country in different directions. You underestimate that underlying tension at your peril.

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

for once, « woman fixing the man she’s dating » gets proper credit

We used to do real science

How can ecology be for everyone when green choices are a luxury good? Over a third of the UK can't afford them. The Greens' answer is to flip the script: tax extreme wealth to fund a public-led transition. The question isn't personal virtue; it's economic justice.