Organizers in Minnesota have transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. On Thursday, those organizers and MN leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/...

44 NANTES La station de bus de la place du Commerce vers 1975.

happy birthday gromit

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

Happy Birthday, Gromit!

Matt Wuerker, Politico

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because we’ve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning.

So often I think about the theory - Nietzsche, Freud, D.H. Lawrence - that civilisation is a thin veneer and under it is a bubbling cauldron of fervid emotions, often directed against ‘the other’, that will break loose as soon as cracks appear.

Whenever someone says no politics there’s a lot of politics going on.

I understand & feel the same. Also believe 'it takes all kinds' of people to get things done. Some are proactive, reactive, or behind. But everyone can help. I expect we will be successful in time.

President Macron: “In France, we believe in science. Around forty leading researchers have chosen France [since May 5]. Through “France 2030”, we have invested more than €30M to advance health, climate action, artificial intelligence, and fundamental sciences. Science has found its home.”

The Washington Post is getting rid of its Books section. We’re losing the institutions—journalism, middle-class artistic and intellectual culture—that once made life bearable. Those things were a threat to the super-rich who increasingly govern us. Democracy dies in illiteracy.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Former Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper: “In these perilous times, both parties, whatever their other differences, come together against external forces that threaten our independence and against domestic policies that threaten our unity.”

Escaping the ongoing....everything....by reminiscing about some good moments from a few years ago. What beauties these two were.

Borrowdale

1/3 Ruskin wasn't a fan of Bradford's Wool Exchange (now a Waterstones bookshop): 'My good Yorkshire friends, you have asked me here that I may talk to you about this Exchange you're going to build; but most simply and sorrowfully I have to tell you that I do not care about it, because you don't.'

Help hedgehogs with a #SundayShare 🦔 💚 Love wildlife? Pass on this quick garden tip to help protect our beloved hedgehogs and create a safer space for them 🦔

Carnival is where identity, belonging, dignity, joy & collective futures are made visible. This week, we launch new research with Brazil's Ministry of Culture, treating Carnival not as temporary spectacle but as an enduring economy—studying what it reveals about public value & the creative economy.

Australia urged to release "terrifying" climate security analysis after UK report flags ecosystem collapse by 2030 reneweconomy.com.au/australia-ur...

Yet again a Labour minister lets the cat out of the bag. They are expecting to come third in Gorton and Denton. Only the Green Party can stop Reform. Lower bills, tax the rich, protect the NHS. We will win.

Bright limestone cliffs of marine beds record a former subtropical shelf, built from shell debris and carbonate mud. Tectonic uplift tilted the strata; persistent wave action carved caves and benches, revealing an ancient seabed now facing the Levantine Sea ...

rétro trafic automobile à Berlin 1960.

This map shows the Eurasian land mass. We see Eurasia from a different angle, we gain a new perspective. Richard Edes Harrison shaped the way Americans viewed the world during and after WWII like no other. A true master of the craft. Source: buff.ly/3qCX7r7

Special shout out to this guy for the extra help

Hi, I'm Darrell, I create 3D art projects with, and for kids mainly using cardboard. My book 'Art Shaped' has twice been top of Amazon's 'craft book' chart, and has over 150 five-star recommendations from parents, teachers, and homeschoolers! 🙂 It's here ... www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Shaped-s...

21 years ago, just as I set out as a self-employed artist, I painted a picture of the place where my career began, to remind me of what it meant to me. This is Ingestre Hall Arts Centre in Staffordshire, where everything I do now began to take shape. 🙂 www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #sykart #UKEd

I've worked with every single Year-Group from Woodloes Primary this week (including Nursery) and they have all collaborated to create this 'timeline'. I loved helping them to make this, I think it's got some magical 'humanity' running through it. 🙂 www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #skyart #UKEd

I've been up in Bristol for a couple of days helping the children from Northleaze Primary to create a 'welcome' display. I thought this was a lovely positive piece of work and summed the kids up nicely. www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky #UKEd

The Year 1 & 2 kids from Calmore Infants School built this display piece today in just 4 hours. They made every part of this, including the huge Earth shape. I was in charge of glue and encouragement 😁👍 www.darrellwakelam.com

An energising week at #IPBES12. From this year, I’ll be taking on a new role as a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel ( #MEP ) of @ipbes.net. Having been involved since 2019 ( #IAS #GA2, #TF-SCM, and GA2), it’s a privilege to continue contributing to the platform.

The GEMINI AND MERCURY REMASTERED EXHIBITION is now open at London's @royalalberthall.bsky.social 🚀 It runs until March 15th and can be viewed when attending a performance at the Hall, or on one of the FREE open days: tinyurl.com/4kyrvf86 📅Book signing Monday 16th Feb 10am-1pm

Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera Patience premiered in 1881, satirizing aestheticism and Victorian trends. Its success helped define English comic opera and shaped musical theatre with sharp wit, memorable melodies, and social commentary. #MusicHistory

Place Colignon, Schaerbeek. Incomers acquiring plots here were forced to choose a façade for their new home from among the prize-winning entries in an 1896 public competition. These had to reflect the values of art "that the Renaissance spread among the civilized nations."

In 1872, Montgomery Ward launched the first mail-order catalog in the U.S., cutting out middlemen and bringing fixed prices to rural customers. It transformed retail economics and reshaped how goods reached mass markets. #HistoryOfEconomics

#ThisWeek in 1969, after #Apollo8's flight to the Moon, US astronaut Frank Borman made a goodwill tour of Europe (UK, Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. BP News clip from 4 February in 1969👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Py1r... @nl.esa.int @fr.esa.int @ita.esa.int @es.esa.int @de.esa.int

Time to dig up "The X-Files" again. #AntichristVance #Trump

We sure do. Just keep busy there with the otter memes, Steve.

Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk: "More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services." www.reuters.com/world/poland...

Todd Blanche says the Epstein files provide no basis for criminal investigations. But as of this morning they have fueled the opening of criminal probes in the UK, France, Germany, Slovakia, Poland and Norway... and that's only the ones that have become public.

Emails and other documents show that Epstein was in contact with at least 20 prominent tech executives, investors and researchers, including some current CEOs, according to an NBC News review of a portion of the documents. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

People are not focused enough on how central Governor's and state legislatures are in fighting authoritarianism. Virginia went from a collaborator to the leading edge of the resistance simply by replacing the Governor and AG. The Dems need to win big in the states in November.

I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.

Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.