There are two! One that is barely popping its head out. And possibly a third hiding by the first.

Ooh is that a cheeky little pneume?

I'm feeling angry about generative AI again, so I'm posting this image from last autumn, when I was researching a thirteenth-century Danish fragment in Odense. The materiality of such fragments is a good antidote to the vapid bullshit of genAI. [Odense katedralskolebibliotek 25285]

O'DONNELL: Why not allow the world to see whatever this deal is you signed with Iran? JD VANCE: So, there is frankly some diplomatic protocols that I don't fully understand

🇬🇷 🐡 Invasive pufferfish devastate Greece's fishing industry Off the coast of Crete, fishermen are seeing their catch dwindle because of the silver-cheeked Lagocephalus sceleratus menace, a pufferfish which typically measures between 40 and 60 cm

How courtrooms are deciding the fate of whales

Ooh, I like this! One like, one archive or library I have visited, plus my thoughts/recollections on it

I did not doubt her bravery when I saw what she was flying in at the Science Museum's Cosmonauts exhibition.

Oh huh, Rupert does not like

Has anyone been able to confirm that the original agreement was written by the Iranians and that the US signed without undertaking a professional translation by, you know, a trained diplomatic professional?

as someone who studies peace processes, my expert opinion is that this is why you try to keep weapons-grade turnips from running your country

This genre is a reminder of why so many immigrants love America. It was also my first experience of the US as a summer worker at a theme park in Tennessee at the age of 20.

Welcome to another installment of the squad in analog on Fuji instant film that expired in the 1990s 

Get more and better quality sleep. Find relationships where you feel loved/cared for. Define success for yourself. Spend time playing.

If this is the text of the MOU with Iran, it is an absolute disaster. Iran gives almost nothing, the U.S. makes many concessions. This is what happens when Congress goes MIA, and people with no experience and understating of the issues run the show. www.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m...

Hey I’m on a train so let’s do a book thread! In 2021 me & @lollardfish.bsky.social published THE BRIGHT AGES, as a way of rethinking how we talk about the European Middle Ages. It’s an appetizer to the period, showing that it’s permeable & knowable Available in paper, ebook, & audio

Wow. This is remarkable, and disturbing.

This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.

This dad (and grumpy old court reporter) can recommend this terrific book.

The official number U.S. casualty count stands at 426, an ~11% increase since the first ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was struck on April 8. This tally, however, is missing hundreds of casualties, including two soldiers wounded in action earlier this month. theintercept.com/2026/06/16/u...

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

"Cape Verde is one of 50 countries whose citizens are required by the Trump administration to pay a bond of up to $15,000...The [State Department] official also noted that the bond is waived for “all relatives of players.” clear ass covering but I hope she gets here www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/s...

My reflecting pool green My Iran war lost My democracy sick Messi hat trick

I’m sorry for BBC News colleagues facing more job cuts today. We all need well researched, balanced news now more than ever. For all the focus on its mistakes and controversies, the BBC does a job no other state broadcaster in the world can match.

It seems a good day to remind people that in the UK 3 times as many people work in Indian restaurants or for McDonalds as in the whole coal and steel industry. 5 times as many are academic staff at universities. If Labour does not understand its electorate, there is no way to appeal to it.

Beverley and Trevor have accepted today’s Hand-Taxi ride because it is taking them to Treaties!

I've mentioned this before, but when Parliament debated the "mods & rockers" violence of the early 1960s, Labour & Tories alike united to say that it was a governmental responsibility to provide facilities for young people to employ their time well.

LOL, surfing youtube videos instead of writing like I should be and ran into one that references ACOUP and saw these comments, made my day. "a loving but wistful reminder of how the internet used to be" - yeah, yeah, that's about right.

🚢 Strait of Hormuz tracker status No new transits detected in the last 10 minutes. Queued transit alerts: 0 Monitoring remains active. #StraitOfHormuz #Shipping #MaritimeTraffic

If the Party tells you there is no algae in the reflecting pool, then there is no algae...

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

Oh, sole focus on quantitative metrics that measure only a part of a complex system may crowd out attention paid to structural, societal, or human factors?

Interesting point in a longer article about the state of science, which probably deserves its own feature (or book). Metrics about declining productivity come from science of science studies that look for novelty in citation trees which, well... 🤷‍♂️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...

Gonna sign the deal that Israel has already vowed they will not abide by and which Iran has confirmed will not stand if Israel violates it. Great use of everyone’s time.

Today is election day in Washington, DC, Georgia, Alabama, and Oklahoma! Want to keep up with the coverage? Follow these local newsrooms and reporters for the very latest:

"[The judge] berated a boy from El Salvador as 'a beggar, piece of garbage' and told him he would report him to state child protective workers, who he said would alert ICE agents to take his mother. 'Your mother’s going to get deported. You are going to end your mother’s life,' he told the boy."

So excited to share that The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks has been published in Japanese by Jimbun Shein Publisher translated by Prof. Fumiko Sakashita at Sophia University!

Listen, I don't eat Cheetos because I think they're healthy

The service we’ll charge in exchange for the fee is to not sink you as you go past.

You rely on critical infrastructure maintained by your state and local governments. My new story explains why those governments may now be struggling to protect that infrastructure from hackers.

Being the ultimate master of presenting the complexity and significance of Black identity to the world is what makes Dr. David Levering Lewis the foremost scholar of the African American experience.

My knowledge of Occitan might have been more useful in my visit to Barcelona if people used more feudal vocabulary in their daily lives. (Obviously I did just fine once I got to the medieval exhibits at the Catalan art museum!)

Trump: "Israel's fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed. And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses. And they're not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you."

European arms consortium Eurosam just happens to be rolling out its advanced SAMP/T NG system at exactly the right moment: the continent and the US are feuding, and Patriot missiles are scarce.

Exclusive: A detailed project summary of the ballroom prepared for the White House by a contractor estimated the total construction cost at $600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers, according to a copy obtained by The Post.

FOX & FRIENDS: There's also the $300 billion in reparations that's gonna come from Qatar and some of the Gulf states, and then $24 billion in unfrozen assets. Is any of that true? JD VANCE: Most of that is basically Iranian propaganda (That's not a no!)

Vietnam adds health checks as tourism boom strains airports New paperwork risks worsening long waits as Russian and Chinese arrivals surge trib.al/ynxac3Y

I now demand of you to speak out