One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

Some more history youtu.be/_FGJMoBZLAU?...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.

A grisly thread.

The CIA formally withdrew nearly 20 intelligence reports it issued over the last decade, including analysis on cultural topics such as white nationalism and family planning, after a review determined they were biased or an inappropriate use of resources.

Leontine, 1901 by Carl Larsson

worst hospital logo ever

“Where do you get your ideas from, Ms Le Guin?” From forgetting Dostoyevsky and reading road signs backwards, naturally. Where else?

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good. Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies. So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat... Why is Trump such a moron? What's he going to try next, Sending the Netherlands a box of beads?

Fridge magnets.

Prospects after 4 years of war. youtu.be/EVcQqPgZJ6U?...

You’ve got to click through to really be able to read this, but note that the box on the top right says this will actually be a two-level facility, with around 5,200 beds on the ground floor (if I’m reading the blurry text right) and around 3,100 on the “mezzanine.”

Let me get this straight: 🔹Trump tells the EU to build up its own defences 🔹Trump threatens the EU repeatedly and signals unreliability as a defence partner 🔹Now Trump is upset the EU wants a buy-EU defence policy to build local manufacturing? What did you expect to happen??

“we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality, propelled at breathtaking speed by the implementation of untested AI tools.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How tech turned against women

A new exhibition - called Typecasting: Photographing the Peoples of India, 1855-1920 www.bbc.com/news/article...

And for the weekend Financial Times I put my public procurement hat on to set out - from a close reading of public domain documents - why the Palantir contracts with MoD are so concerning. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Started the day with a deep dive. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

just saw this shirt on Instagram and I’m buying one for all of you

They say this painting is kept in the kremlin and hidden from public view. moscow on Fire, 1851 🇺🇦 Ivan Aivazovsky

Pretty obvious who benefits from Trump being president.

SUSPICIOUS SHIP IN DENMARK: Danish authorities are currently holding an Iranian vessel sailing under a false flag. My latest story: nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2026-0... — and thanks to @pa.nton.cx for the help.

Alla kalsonger var trasiga. Snodde ett par trosor från frun. Be inte om en dick-pic.

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, a panel made up of President Donald Trump's appointees, on Thursday approved his proposal to build a ballroom larger than the White House itself, where the East Wing once stood. https://to.pbs.org/46gKUhL

And how they can be used by terrorists and other murderers.

The rare case of a paper retracted twice! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... This paper on "Spiritual Energy Therapy" was published in one journal, retracted, then a revised version was published by another journal (same publisher!) but has now been retracted again. 🤔

Alt text: Pub sign on wall adorned with portrait of Andrew and named THE DUKE OF YORK. Small sign hanging below ”Under 18s welcome”

Let this be the first of many dominos that bring about the overdue reckoning. You know what to do, America.

What we ban here in Europe is mainly stuff in the neo-Nazi realm so this sounds an awful lot like Völkischer Beobachter dot gov

When incentives backfire. Quite literally in this case. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

If you’ve ever wondered www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/b...

1/ Russia's Supreme Court upheld a judgment against Google for an astronomical 91.5 quintillion rubles (approximately $1.2 quintillion), which is approximately one million times the world's gross domestic product. ⬇️

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

📷 Water from the #Jordan River was exported to the United States for use in baptismal ceremonies with the permission of the Ottoman Sultan, 1905. The Ottoman and #American flags are visible in the photograph.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Olympic highlight in this house.

If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2026, there could be evidence of the president raping and threatening to kill children, and he would *still* be allowed to stay in office, I would have politely asked them to put down the meth pipe.

When incentives backfire. Quite literally in this case. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

People making a big deal about this, but the DOGE boys will be on it any second now, right?

Chaser: "In a survey of 6,000 CEOs, the vast majority said that had seen no increase in productivity or profits from integrating AI into their products and processes." fortune.com/2026/02/17/a...

”Unlike karaage, or Japanese fried chicken, tatsutaage is less well known around the world.” It should not be like that. www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/02...

"In terms of expression and versatility, I am nothing to her." Greta Garbo on Asta Nielsen

The best part of this Lindsey Graham temper tantrum story is the Danish Prime Minister’s response to South Carolina’s most famous man-child.

So, the US government is going into the hate speech business. Or rather, the Trump Administration has found a new way to expand its active participation in the hate speech business.

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

This is what the real world looks like outside the online noise. Away from bot-driven hate, you see people choosing empathy and standing with Ukraine in public. The internet can be engineered. Reality is harder to fake.

Asbestos lingers on. youtu.be/cMx139eTxoc?...