Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
A different perspective.
Always helpful.
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy:
Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog
Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud..
www.nasa.gov/learning-res...
Interesting fact, I always assumed it was because of the golden ratio 😳 but reality is far more interesting.
"This is fixable. We just haven’t got people who care enough about other people to make the changes."
Such a wonderful interview with Hannah Spencer. Really captures both my brilliant friend and colleague. 👇🏼
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
An opening from a medieval manuscript of Peraldus' Theological miscellany, showing illustrations of dragons and serpents.
How to Train Your Dragon 🐉🐉
Peraldus' Theological Miscellany, 1236-c.1250 (Harley MS 3244, f. 59r)
searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...
Workers clearing the slums of London’s Sidney Street & Clarendon Street c.1931 mark the last stages of their work by burning effigies of the vermin that had infested the old buildings. There’s something very powerful & ancient & Fortean about this & someone has surely spun a horror tale out of it.
It is extremely difficult to construct a practical case against this position. Net Zero is now as much about patriotism as it is about climate change.
![LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.
[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].
After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:
Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon.
bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,
Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon
To earth's hard oblivion.
[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibpyscry7bddmufqnk7wsfuxsflv4fkn4brwvkzxqurjkz7z67yoi)
LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]
Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore
A thread 🧵 where I will use maps to try and explain the War on Iran. Hopefully this helps.
Our first map is a true size map from truesizeof.com
It shows the United States compared to the region. Notice how #Iran is much larger than #Iraq and #Afghanistan and its central location.
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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
What absolutely marvellous news, congratulations MP Hannah. Can't remember ever having been quite so chuffed at a political result. Lets hope there are many, many more to come.
The reaction from our volunteers in Manchester! 💚
It is time to join our movement of hope 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk/
British.
tweet by the late Dawn Foster from Sep 4th 2020 "Matt Goodwin once emailed me to accuse him of being racist when I called him a “racist whisperer” and I had to explain to him that horse whisperers aren’t horses."
RIP to a real one
Probably why it resonated with with me so much as a youngster too. Though hearing the original series as it was broadcast are my earliest Douglas Adams memories. Just hearing a bit of Journey of the Sorceror still spikes my dopamine :)
At such moments, we touch the border of those feelings which only music can express. We can never emulate music, because to arrive at the condition of music would be the annihilation of poetry, and especially of dramatic poetry.
- T. S. Eliot, "Poetry and Drama"
tseliot.com/essays/poetr...
In Greek myth, Orion fell in love with the "Seven Sisters". To escape, they prayed to Zeus, who transformed them into doves and flung them into the sky, forming the Pleiades.
High-resolution app.astrobin.com/i/26mg5q
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny
I've never seen this, something I intend to rectify soonest, Švankmajer’s Alice being an all time favourite. Interestingly, whilst showing my youngest some of my favourite animation, we watched it back to back with Akira, and discovered they were made in the same year - 1988. Vastly different, yet..
New study: People who had COVID were more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes for at least three years afterward. We need long-term post-COVID care and monitoring.
Fascinating study. One thing I’ve said a lot is that in a post-skinnerian field we are finding cognitive complexity wherever we look in the animal kingdom and this study starts by saying that where sentience can’t be confidently stated it’s in cephalopod species that haven’t been studied much.
