OTD in 1999 NI solicitor Rosemary Nelson was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries. Even a British inquiry found it was facilitated, and possibly colluded, byindividuals in the police. It sometimes easy to forget how many awful events of the Troubles - inc the Omagh bombing - happened after the GFA.
Happy Mother’s Day to all who do the work of mothering! Here’s my beautiful mum, me plus kids when they were small and a poem, abecedarian for maternity ward, previously in The North & in my forthcoming pamphlet from @thebraag.bsky.social
#mothersday #poetrysky #motheringsunday
It’s not the largest, but here’s an animal I HAVE successfully expelled from a building, and to my surprise without incident! #2026MMM 🦨❤️ Sometimes, when I need a moment of joy I watch this video 10 times in a row. You should too
Also, buried in the article—Lord Howe Island is now rat-free and the bird population has rebounded SPECTACULARLY—Black-winged Petrels went from under 3% breeding success rate to 67%! mousefreemarion.org/australias-l...
Thousands of scientists died in Siberian gulags for the crime of pointing out that Lysenko was simply wrong
(and, in many cases, also for being Jewish)
millions more died from the famines
Bhattacharya’s trajectory has uncanny parallels, including mortal vendettas against entire scientific fields
like celebrating cluster munitions
it's time 🔪
mamdani's like if you asked the universe for the opposite of donald trump in literally every possible way. honestly how does he exist
this is true, but also obscures that white people are killing non-white people, with impunity, in a pattern which isn't just about fossil fuels
we need to address both things
both will be hard, and they may sometimes overlap, but they are not the same
hydrocarbons alone aren't killing -us-
feeling this in the UK today
Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.
Happy Proto-Indo-European Day to all who Celebrate!!
They hatched! At first I thought the nest was empty and something had eaten the eggs, but there were actually two minuscule balls of fluff in there. They've grown so fast, and now the nest can hardly fit the whole family.
“About a third of the global seaborne trade in fertilisers passes through the strait of Hormuz”
Time to plant more peas, beans & other nitrogen-fixing legumes, and cut down on excess fertiliser applications - which are also killing rivers & wildflowers:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
this time, like all the other times, it's personal
Happy #PiDay to Girls Aloud featuring Richard Hurndall
Downing Street attempts to revive their last remaining cdragon
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi aka Yoshitoshi Tsukioka aka 月岡 芳年 aka Taiso Yoshitoshi aka 大蘇 芳年 (Japanese, 1839-1892, b. Edo, Japan) - Komori No Godan (Bats), c. 1880-1883, Woodblock Prints: Ink, Color on Paper
The Heavenly Twins. 💕 Postcard from my collection, no date.
serene, demure
Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!
I was surprised to hear Ash Sarkar on it (the program broadcast just now, I think the same one) but I'm clearly a bit out of touch, and she barely had much time compared to the others
anyway, I found it dissonant to hear so much laughter while they talked about such a horrific subject
Brat is back!
Meanwhile, “A severe sandstorm has hit the Gaza Strip, exposing displaced Palestinians to more health risks and destroying their make-shift shelters.”
Not mentioned in the report, but one assumes that the pulverizing to rubble of so much of Gaza is significantly contributing to the dust cloud.
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
I just read about Jody Potts-Joseph, who is the first Hän Gwich'in musher to start the Iditarod, this morning: www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/03/12/t...
😻 how beautiful is she
POV: you let the squirrel food run out. #sqrlpix #SquirrelsOfBluesky #Squirrelsky
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
