a gang of six tiny penguins on a beach leaning forward like theyre ready for a rumble
3 tiny slightly mad-eyed penguin chicks in a burrow
today i learned there is an official smallest penguin, and they're called fairy penguins, and they're so cuuuuuuute
Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:
Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine
"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."
something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.
A square cross stitch piece on beige Aida cloth. Hearts, flowers, and flourishes in red and blue form a frame. Text in the center reads, “we are here to make art.”
Not slop. Not war.
Adapted for personal use from free sampler “Old Times” from DMC. Still needs pressing, mounting, etc.
This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.
Here’s the wild part, every room was full of books and all the books in each room had a theme. So this bedroom, every book there is about Harlem! There was another room with all general history. Cookbooks in the dining room. Main bedroom has erotica. Pretty amazing.
This is a crucial report, shining a spotlight on the funding links between Russia, Hungary and the British mainstream right
Some writers are great at being public figures but others write, a solitary profession, exactly because we aren’t good at that.
Even a fantastic sum of money might not be enough to make you change your basic nature. What to do?
If you’re Helen DeWitt you write something funny & honest.
A shepherd sipping tea in a mossy covered forest, looking at a giant, mossy, resting skull.
Anyway it’s a new day. Let’s make more art and post more art. 🌱
The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment
The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II
they really said "they should have sent a poet"
Perhaps the greatest accidental marketing moment in the Universe. #ArtemisII #nutella
BSFA award trophy for best novel 2025 against a garden backdrop in the sunshine
BSFA award trophy for best novel 2025 and a copy of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift against a sunny garden backdrop
Photo of E. J. Swift with the BSFA award trophy for best novel
Over the moon and can't quite believe this happened, When There Are Wolves Again won the BSFA Award for Best Novel 🐺 Thanks so much to everyone who voted and congrats again to all the brilliant finalists.
Followed you at the other place for years and you're a wonderfully sound voice of reason. Fascinating how you weighed adjectives carefully because of our febrile environment. Will be preordering for our household including A-Level politics daughter. Viel Erfolg
This is a wonderful listen. Look forward to reading the book
In less than two weeks, Kaleidotrope will re-open to fiction and poetry submissions for one week. April 19-25. One of only three weeks the zine will be open this year!
"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.
The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.
View across the bar in a punk pub.
Wandered into a random bar here in Bremen four hours ago. It had a "NO FASCISTS. EVERYONE ELSE WELCOME" sign outside.
Spent the time since then sat at the bar in the antifash, cash-only German punk boozer drinking and reading scifi. And that, my friends, is all i have ever wanted out of life.
8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com
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it has occurred to me recently that black snot is no longer a thing in London. It used to be a standard feature of a day in town.
a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.
But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:
A massacre.
He decided to act. 1/28
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. 🔦
TfL uses as much electricity as 600,000 homes, but the network is officially shifting to be part-solar powered.
We’re on the fast track to a 100% renewable commute by 2030.
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods
