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Standing here in Padley Gorge, serenaded by wrens, I watched the endless bubble of Burbage Brook as it frothed over the mossy rocks and under the narrow bridges.

📍 Padley Gorge, Peak District, England

Good morning everybody!!
I didn't know snow tubing existed until just now but it's definitely on my bucket list.

History teaches us that the greatest harms often begin with the quiet acceptance of the unacceptable. I have seen where that road leads, and I will not walk it again without resistance.

There's a fuckton of stuff going on. Horrible stuff. But don't let it stop you from reading books. Reading is more important now than ever. Reading educates. Reading is resistance. #BookSky

Small Prophets. What a lovely opening episode. Gentle, strange, funny and so full of warmth. God bless the BBC.

Jet helping to clean my short ears. 💞 Then..wait for it.. 🥱 he starts his own shower 🚿 🤭

#bunny #rabbit

Remember, every time you spread misinformation, a librarian's blood pressure goes up. Keep librarians healthy by verifying before you post.

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

Interesting 🤔 Makes You Wonder About The Assassination Attempt, The Election, And What Is In The Epstein Files….

Hey, things are awful, we're all stressed, but it's still good to read books and encourage others to read, especially nonreaders. Reading novels can build empathy, and we could use even more empathy right about now.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

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I keep going back to Star Trek lately.
Not for the future.
For a place where adults are in charge.
Where choices matter.
Where harm has consequences.

Beam me up.
Shields up.
Warp 10.
Make it so.

🖖🏾

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

image of the villainous tablet in Toy Story 5

I'm glad the villain of the new Toy Story is a child's tablet. I hope the film conveys how screens eat up a child's hobbies, interests, literacy, ability to function socially. I hope it provokes millions of parents to think twice before making the iPad a babysitter.

🐕🐕🐕

Happiest Horse in the World

A special relationship: Norwich remembers the ‘friendly invasion’ Recently, Norwich Heritage Week hosted an exhibition remembering the role of US personnel in the region during WW2, and the iconic ‘Memphis Belle’

On Remembrance Sunday we reflect on the thousands of US servicemen, East Anglia's 'friendly invasion', who lived, loved and died during those turbulent WW2 times...

Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.

There's a guy who knocked down the East Wing that couldn't pull this off.

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

James Watson the perverted racist is dead?! Well that means it's time to celebrate the true hero of DNA discovery: Rosalind Franklin

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

This 1964 photo of the Starship Enterprise studio model used in filming Star Trek was taken outside the production model shop in Burbank, California. It was commissioned by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, a Texan who was born in El Paso in 1921.

It's hard when you're Orange.
#Caturday
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PHOTOS: Austria is turning drab power lines into giant metal animals — and they are fully functional It’s part of an effort to increase public acceptance of expanding electrification.

Pylons.... a very contentious issue for East Anglia as residents fear scarring of landscape from the proposed 50m pylons to bring windfarm energy south - see🧵

But does Austria provide a possible solution?