Kate Anderson

Y’all do get that you have to do Jeans Modeling to work out the Joort Constants, yes?

Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

Ahem, @hobscowboy.bsky.social

Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression

So the guy with the Nazi tattoo is now sayi...

...never mind

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.

This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Also the audience should know there's an *actual* bear being held in reserve backstage for "This is more of an observation than a question..."

And make no mistake - this matters

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The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan

Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Oof. I can't imagine these are good conditions.

Ack! Typo. 'content'.

I just watched Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime show. Did I understand his words and all the conent? No. Did that stop me enjoying it? Also, no. It was glorious. London 2012 opening ceremony glorious.

Photograph of family with Mrs Snoddy shaking hands with LCC officer

Happy Valentine's Day❤️. On this day in 1951, Mr and Mrs Snoddy, their two children and pet tortoise moved into a three-bedroomed flat in Gladstone House, the first residents of the Lansbury Estate in east London. We built 162,584 new council homes that year.

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.

But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.

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"Remember that product you use every day at work? We removed the most useful features & replaced them with a chatbot you didn't ask for that's wrong a bunch & we've made it unavoidable. We also did this for your search engine, your graphic design app, & for even more inexplicable reasons Adobe PDF"

When reviewing The Muppet Movie, Roger Ebert said he could find out how they made Kermit ride a bike, but he didn’t want to know. He preferred to think he did it himself. I think about that all the time.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

It's incredible to have a party of 404 MPs with so few acceptable leadership options. It's like having a kitchen full of food but it's all gone off and so you're left wondering how many calories there are in shampoo.

Something compelled me to make this

Elon's building a colony on the Moon, but he needs to build a colony within himself.

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(Weeps gently remembering Wordstar 3 for DOS.)

YOUNG MAN

what’s that thing that you found, I said

YOUNG MAN

it’s a leaf on the ground, I said

YOUNG MAN

it will make a cool sound, when you

PUT
IT
IN
YOUR LEAF HOLE

[WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP
WOMP]

It’s fun to eat a cool LEAF FROM THE GROUND

Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.

Erasure. Just like the Nazis.

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billybraggofficial 2 hours ago Keir MY PLEDGES TO YOU Starmer ANOTHER FUTURE IS POSSIBLE My promise to you is that I will maintain our radical values and work tirelessly to get Labour in to power - so that we can advance the interests of the people our Party was created to serve. Based on the moral case for socialism, here is where I stand. 1. Economic justice Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners, reverse the Tories' cuts in corporation tax and clamp down on tax avoidance, particularly of large corporations. No stepping back from our core principles. 2. Social justice Abolish Universal Credit and end the Tories' cruel sanctions regime. Set a national goal for wellbeing to make health as important as GDP; invest in services that help shift to a preventative approach. Stand up for universal services and defend our NHS. Support the abolition of tuition fees and invest in lifelong learning. 3. Climate justice Put the Green New Deal at the heart of everything we do. There is no issue more important to our future than the climate emergency. A Clean Air Act to tackle pollution locally. Demand international action on climate rights. 4. Promote peace and human rights No more illegal wars. Introduce a Prevention of Military Intervention Act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice. 5. Common ownership Public services should be in public hands, not making profits for shareholders. Support common ownership of rail, mail, energy and water; end outsourcing out NHS, local government and justice system. 6. Defend migrants' rights Full voting rights for EU nationals. Defend free movement as we leave the EU. An immigration system based on compassion and dignity. End indefinite detention and call for the closure of centres such as Yarl's Wood.

A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn

Oddly enough, exactly true to Tolkien's vision, where he offers Rings of Power to elves, dwarves, and humans to ostensibly empower them, but the Ruling Ring is the embodiment of totalitarianism with an Eye that can search out whenever you use a Ring.

Throw the crap down an active volcano.

Macbeth: SHIT

Something magnificent about Kemi Badenoch's self-confidence, and her claim that the Mandelson affair is entirely down to her asking questions at PMQs. Like a toddler who thinks their plastic steering wheel is controlling the car.