Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist.

Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :)

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Women’s suffrage murals that started in Chicago are growing across U.S. The three murals in the Loop pop up regularly as backdrops on social media.

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Nothing wrong with brains being cleaned of foul tory tyrants. Who, as all bullies, enjoy isolating their victims, & hate participating in good sense, conscientious, global communications, for young people’s futures. Young people whom many in WP, seem to want as sex toys, owned by foul rich people.

James Jarché.

General Wavell watches his gardener at work, 1941.

In the reading implied by the title to Jarche's photograph, the general looks at the gardener, who receives this look with his own gaze cast submissively to the ground.

The act of looking.
Power and authority.

This black-and-white portrait captures Maggie Kuhn (1905–1995), the indomitable founder of the Gray Panthers, an activist group that revolutionized the fight against ageism. Seated in a relaxed yet attentive pose, Kuhn is seen in her later years, radiating a sense of sharp-witted wisdom and gentle defiance. She is dressed in a dark, structured, button-down jacket with a small round collar, featuring a prominent circular political button pinned to her left chest—a hallmark of her lifelong commitment to grassroots organizing. Her silver hair is elegantly swept back, and she wears thin-framed glasses that highlight her keen, observant eyes and a slight, knowing smile. Her hands, weathered by time and adorned with simple rings, rest naturally in her lap, one draped over the arm of what appears to be a patterned chair. The background is softly out of focus, showing a glimpse of indoor foliage and a textured wall, suggesting a television studio or public forum setting where she frequently challenged societal norms. The composition is a medium shot that focuses on her presence as a formidable public figure. The mood is one of dignified strength and intellectual vitality, serving as a powerful visual testament to her legacy as a champion for intergenerational justice and the rights of the elderly.

𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴.

Maggie Kuhn was forced to retire at 65 & dedicated the rest of her life to fighting ageism & advocating for older adults' rights. Founded Gray Panthers, 1970. Was instrumental in the ban on mandatory retirement.

Active until her death #OTD in 1995 at 89.

Mobsters let loose in every community. Globally. Law enforcement, & military participation. But many among them all, claim God’s Good Grace. Were that the truth, none would even be thinking about behaving like mobsters. Never mind accommodating them & getting a taste for the profits mobsters make!

Photo of a sculpture resembling a light brown deer walking left, its antlers extend into branches and leaves, all against a grey background

Petal deer, 2012 by Ellen Jewett, sculptor known for her often surreal depictions of animals #WomensArt

#Writing

Are the reasons politicians don’t want jury’s to make final decisions, about them, in courts? That we’d find them guilty of their; criminal actions-law ignoring-deceits, false declarations, self-indulgent financial, Earth, and its people destroying, heinously criminal, tyrannical dictates.

#Writing

To live. Wilfully believing in conscientious souls. With hearts that beat to the music of life’s many good deeds, sights, and harmonious sounds of kindness.
In many dreams that Earth can be admired, cherished, healed, by our love of living here. Balanced wondrously in space.
M.R.A.S.2026.

Scientists Connect Sub-extreme Solar Outbursts to Tree Rings via Poetry As we make our way through the latest solar maximum period, scholars and scientists are looking to similar events in the past to learn more about ancient bouts of solar activity. In particular, they want to know more about solar proton events (SPEs). These outbursts of high-energy particles get triggered by flares and coronal mass ejections.

Scientists Connect Sub-extreme Solar Outbursts to Tree Rings via Poetry

#OtD 21 Apr 1894 a nationwide strike of coal miners in the US against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. Learn more in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...

Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?

KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

a photo of trees on the edge of a forest.

"Learn character from trees, values from roots, and change from leaves."
— Tasneem Harneed

First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

How much the typical worker made last year at 16 top retailers, from Amazon to Walmart For many US workers, retail is a first job; for others, it's a lifelong career. Here's how much the typical workers made last year at top retailers.

Starbucks loves to say their baristas make $30 an hour. Here’s what we really make😳: www.businessinsider.com/how-much-ret...

That’s why we’re demanding a base starting wage of $17 an hour, to raise up the lowest paid baristas. Sbux makes billions in profits, we know they can afford it!

Newspaper clipping from the “Edmonton Journal” of Alberta, Canada. Published September 25, 1945. News report of a public opinion poll. Headline reads “Most Canadians Welcome Return to Standard Time”.

Canadians opposed permanent Daylight Saving Time after experiencing its unnaturally dark winter mornings during World War II. DST is a mandate to start work an hour earlier than Standard Time, which chronically deprives sleep.

Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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Starting February 18, 2027, smartphones and many portable devices sold in the EU must have batteries that users can remove and replace more easily. That means #Apple #Samsung #Google #Xiaomi etc may need to redesign future devices to meet the new rules www.business-standard.com/technology/t...

The president is currently trying to steal 10 BILLION DOLLARS from the American people and it’s not the main news story in the country… not even close

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources

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PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.

By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.

On a cloudy day, in England, in April!

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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Ask your MP to oppose Trump & big pharma’s attack on our NHS! Donald Trump and big pharma have forced the government to make permanent, damaging changes to the safeguards that stop the NHS being ripped off by drug companies. These changes will drive up the pri...

In December the UK government signed a deal with Donald Trump to hike NHS drug prices - putting the NHS and thousands of lives at risk in order to inflate pharma profits.

MPs can now object to these changes - write to yours today and urge them to act!

actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Rain, New Year's Eve By: Maggie Smith The rain is a broken piano, playing the same note over and over. My five-year-old said that. Already she knows loving the world means loving the wobbles you can't shim, the creaks you can't oil silent-the jerry-rigged parts, MacGyvered with twine and chewing gum. Let me love the cold rain's plinking. Let me love the world the way I love my young son, not only when he cups my face in his sticky hands, but when, roughhousing, he accidentally splits my lip. Let me love the world like a mother. Let me be tender when it lets me down. Let me listen to the rain's one note and hear a beginner's song.

#poetry #nationalpoetrymonth
#poem #writingcommunity

HOMELESSNESS SETS THE FLOOR FOR EVERYONE'S WAGES.

FEAR OF HOMELESSNESS KEEPS POORER WORKERS IN LINE.

MIDDLE CLASSES GET TOLD POORER WORKERS ARE "UNSKILLED" AND SO THEY DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE LIVABLE WAGES.

WHISLT THE RICH KEEP PROFIT CREATED BY BOTH OF THEM.

Space breakthrough: British scientists reveal most detailed 3D map of the universe that captures millions of galaxies - United Kingdom British scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever assembled, marking the conclusion of a five-year

Space breakthrough: British scientists reveal most detailed 3D map of the universe that captures millions of galaxies

https://www.europesays.com/uk/908151/

British scientists have unveiled the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever assembled, marking the conclusion of…

Not to be seen on the BBC TV News, doesn’t suit their agenda .

Also not to be seen in the Telegraph, Express, Mail, Sun, etc.

And nowadays not in the Guardian either.

We Gen Xers used to carry loads of phone numbers around in our heads. (I can still trot some of them out.) We relied on payphones, and it was crappy and you needed enough coins to get through... assuming you could find one that worked.. and thank God that world has gone...