I have, in fact, encountered several anonymous accounts over the last 5-6 months who have given out bad tear gas advice and I suspect that they may have done so on purpose. When in doubt, come to me for the straight dope.

14 October 1943 | At 15.30 prisoners of the German extermination center at #Sobibor began a revolt. Most of the SS guards were killed. Around 300 prisoners managed to escape, some 50 of them survived the war. Learn more: https://t.co/YxFnsWN4lI

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk - Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The flood-prone Worcestershire town being abandoned by insurers - One more deluge could bankrupt Tenbury Wells yet its application for flood defence funding has been rejected www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New post, in which I argue the government's attempt to pin the blame for the collapse of the China spy trial on a single official will not wash constitutionally. Ministers must bear responsibility for an apparently deeply flawed decision-making process. publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/13/c...

Insurance companies don’t care if you don’t believe in #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

None of my Nighthawks photos are staged, they are all real scenes photographed on the streets as I came across them.

The ancient ones performed feats of memory, as their culture required them to commit long strings of numbers to their mind palaces.

BREAKING NEWS In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Genocidal Peace

in case anyone out there still doesn't believe that the #broligarchs are planning to destroy the global economy and the US dollar denominated financial system so they can rebuild it with bitcoin, here's the Nerd Reich's favourite thought leader and author of […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is not peace. It is the first stage in returning agreed rules to warfare and occupation Without an end to occupation, the release of Palestinian leaders from captivity and return of justice through The Hague we are just seeing rich and powerful leaders toying with people’s devastated lives.

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills. The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This carefully worded, long-form article doesn’t actually -say- that the finance and crypto bros are setting us up for a crash that’s likely to wipe out the retirement accounts of millions of Americans … … not directly … … but that’s -exactly- what it means. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The release of the BBC story on this year’s dinosaur track excavation at Dewars Farm means I can finally post these team photos. Thanks so much to quarry manager Mark Stanway & all his team at Smiths Bletchington for being utterly amazing & supporting our work at the site.

I'm seeing a lot of JPL love in my mentions - and rightly so. Good Night Oppy gives you such a beautiful sense of the people who work there, and what they do: (Yes, you should watch it) Losing any fraction of this is such a tremendous loss, and another thing for this admin to answer for.

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier. t.co/joY390u4V0

NSW minister urges people to 'vote early and vote often' in 2025 bird of the year – video

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

And now the govt pays more than a billion interest TO the rich instead of taxing the rich. Funny how that works.

How austerity hit young people. In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%. By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed. Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

What's funny — unbearably sad and pathetic — is they mostly seem (these days and since recently, circa 2019) totally bought out by the tech industry. theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

Executives of companies operate with impunity. Companies don't "do" things, executives do. But it's the companies that pay fines, etc, not the executives who did things. A company is not a sentient entity, it is a contract. Hold the bad actors accountable or nothing changes.

Lloyds warns car finance scandal could cost it £2bn. No one forced it to mis-sell financial products. Execs got bigger bonuses but won't bear any of the cost. Lloyds promised to investigate HBOS frauds, promised a report by 2018. Still waiting. FCA does nothing.

Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!

This policy is evidence-based. COVID-19 ↗️ risk of complications such as blood clots, diabetes,& heart disease. Vaccination is required for all transplant recipients to optimize health before & after surgery. Organs are a scarce and we want to ensure they are used to achieve the best outcomes.

Why Gardena said "no" to Soul Housing, and a possible reason their recuperative care facilities have shuttered in L.A. and Fresno Plus red alert and opportunities to speak out for MacArthur Park (fenced?) and Beaulyland (demolished?) esotouric.substack.com/soulhousing

The Labour Position is weird. "we absolutely won‘t do something about that thing we think is really bad for the Country, and for which we blame the Tories." Sounds like being invited late to a party you always wanted to attend, except now you are declining out of pique.

file under: the subtle humour of a homepage editor.

If I misidentified the "M" in TIME Magazine for a tiny crown on my head, I would delete my social media account and find all new friends who didn't know me, and this guy is just going to go back to being president tomorrow

OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels. New from me @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

Gianni Infantino's latest Instagram post on how FIFA is going to help the Palestinians is only for those with strong stomachs. Infantino appears to be laying the ground to buy off the Palestinian Football Association and get them to drop their complaint against Israel, which has FIFA in a corner.

A clarinet player is apparently being held without bail on no specific charges at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver after her husband said she was arrested Sunday during a protest across the street from the ICE facility in South Portland. 

Personnel desperation, as the economy tanks and infrastructure crumbles. Complex attrition intensifying.

Ah yes, everyone knows that the stalk of modern maize arose after the toupee of parret, plakes, and eveertaliation

In 2020 we published in TIME about the $50 trillion upward redistribution of income since 1975. The editors told us it was one of their most widely read online pieces ever, and begged us for more. Four years later we pitched an update ($79 trillion)—they weren't interested. time.com/5888024/50-t...

The risk the administration is running is: if it gets Red State Valley State and Liberty University, but it never does manage to pick up UVA etc., it starts to raise questions about the moral and even legal viability of redirecting large swaths of federal scientific grants to the signers alone.

This presents an organizing opportunity for students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, actually EVERYONE AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH ANY COLLEGE IN THE UNITED STATES, to get involved with the project of making sure your college doesn't sign this thing. Take a cue from an inspiring group of students:

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover. But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

from now on they're called dickheads

“The Pope from Chicago quoted Hannah Arendt on fascism, who herself long taught at University of Chicago‘s Committee on Social Thought,” is an amazing true sentence.

ICE is going to look absolutely pathetic when they stage some big operation to go confiscate those costumes

Remarkable recovery of the Klamath River salmon. Many thanks to the agencies, Tribes, and NGOs who came together to remove dams and monitor the recovery of the Klamath River salmon. And kudos, too, to the indigenous youth who paddled source to sea on the newly freed river

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Why aren't we sending people to this actually very useful city page that has a lot of information about this particular storm with detailed maps? emergency.lacity.gov/rain This page needs translation and a text-only version but these graphics actually help people assess the risk to their home