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Okay apparently a lot of people need to hear this, so here's the link.

Something benefiting you personally is not necessarily a good thing. Something that inconveniences you personally is not necessarily a bad thing.

It's always worth reiterating that freedom of movement is a two way thing. As someone who benefited from it as a student in the 1990s, I'm very glad that the issue is being discussed again in the UK. It would be nice if it could be in a sensible way this time.

#ShareGoodNews - science is giving new hope in so many ways to so many people. #FollowTheScience

Willows near Burrator reservoir, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #moss

27th of Owltober! A burrito-wrapped Burrowing Owl was admitted to a wildlife clinic to treat eye ulcers from suspected head trauma. The sender (anonymous) said "his favorite meal in care is mice and mealworms and he is very vocal now that he’s feeling better!" #owlsintowels 💛🦉

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Big if we can do it because the NC GOP control the statehouse through pretty wild gerrymanders that normally give them super-majorities when the state is evenly split. If you break those permanently, NC government gets really competitive, really fast in a way that will be good for the state.

It's that special time of year when they give the danger-kitties pumpkins to play with at The Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, Minnesota. A much-needed timeline cleanse. 🐯🎃 (📷: wildcatsanctuary.org)

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

Got hit with a nasty bill, getting work is much appreciated ! 🖤

PSA: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data. You can then export the photo from Signal if you want to post it publicly. More on this feature here: https://signal.org/blog/blur-tools/

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No motorcyclists, loud pipes don't save lives. You're confusing them with sticking to the fucking speed limit.

Some more rainbow magic. Photo taken yesterday in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. The little blobs are raindrops, it wasn't easy keeping the rain off my lens 😂Despite a coat I was absolutely drenched as the rain and wind were a bit intense.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Imagine if, for once, Labour decided to tell the truth about immigration | Gaby Hinsliff

wait until everyone learns that PHP actually stands for Pretty Huge Pigs

This happened. Wolverhampton. On the grounds that the bullshit Supreme Court ruling apparently meant Joelle couldn’t be placed in either a male or female ward. I’m assuming your question is in good faith and you just haven’t seen this horrible recent news.

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

Georgia: 40% increase in first-day turnout compared with the 2022 midterms, and more than double the first-day participation seen during the 2018 midterms. "Early ballots in North Carolina and Maine are up 38% from the last midterms, while Iowa has seen a 61% increase" www.kark.com/news/early-v...

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

"All the people that are saying they're anti-data center, that they're anti-AI in general, they're using it..." No. We aren't. What's wrong with you?

“There are people who are openly white supremacists who are consolidating power at record speed...If that don’t move you, it ain’t nothing that I can say that can move you.” LaTosha Brown from the @blackvotersmatterfund.org joins us on this week's More To The Story:

Some came from East Anglia, writes Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams. Others from Kent, London and the West Midlands. The coins they carried to Rome 1,100 years ago have now revealed something remarkable about Anglo-Saxon life beside the Vatican.

#FindsFriday Decorated copper strigil (body scraper). Of eastern Mediterranean origin. Late 2nd century #Glass flask for bath-oil Late 2nd-early 3rd century AD. #Archaeology #Health #Roman #Caerleon #History 📸 My own.

Wow, the world’s oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey! “A time capsule at the bottom of the sea” 🌊 A trade ship heading for Troy or Minoan Crete sank with a cargo of storage jars. Residue tests will show what they contained c. 4,700 years ago! #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is heavily traveled section of PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) between Newport Beach and Laguna. Ouch www.surfer.com/news/super-e...

for decades of my adult life, in stories about rape, hazing, alcohol poisoning, death and other violence, I've had to read statements from frat governing bodies about their commitment to public service, community goods and molding men into leaders, and my entire considered response is: Fuck OFF

Ban all frats on all campuses, forever. University of Chicago over the weekend: "A group of as many as 5 men were 'cheering and appearing to encourage the activity inside' a frat house bathroom & the group tried to block two of the woman’s friends from entering" blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/13/g...

"A 2025 study proposed combining rice husk ash, wood ash and rice straw to make a low-cost, carbon-negative material that could eliminate the need for cement [which accounts for ~1/12 of global emissions]."