Staff at the Wiener Holocaust Library unpack rare Theresienstadt ghetto drawings in the WOlfson Reading ROom

A photograph of one page of 681 artworks now at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. It is a yellowed A3 sheet of paper containing various portrait sketches

Staff at the Library pose with Peter Kien's suitcase and one cache of drawings in the Wolfson Reading Room, alongside Judy King, Peter Barber and Renee Pfister

A significant collection, generously donated by the daughter of a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto, arrived at our archive last month!

The cache of drawings by celebrated Jewish poet and artist, Peter Kien, has been donated to our collection by the daughter of Kien's partner in the ghetto...

US Attorney General Pam Bondi with Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt sitting on a stage talking. Eric Schmitt is wearing a navy suit with a white or light blue dress shirt, solid red tie, and black cowboy boots. His pants are very slim causing them to ride up high when he sits down and revealing a bit of leg betwen his pant hem and the tops of his cowboy boots.

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Tesla not doing so well in some European countries, either.

Tesla not doing so well in China

CCTV video captured the moment a huge sinkhole swallowed part of a busy road in Shanghai, China on Wednesday. Authorities said the cause was a leak at a subway construction site.

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

The quote is so awful I didn’t want to investigate any further. It’s bad enough keeping up with what’s going on here. 😕

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

Rich variety of wildlife and plants added to threatened list Twenty-five plants (including a seaweed), five reptiles, one marsupial, a fish, an insect and a mollusc have been added to Australia’s threatened species…

Twenty-five plants (including a seaweed), five reptiles, one marsupial, a fish, an insect and a mollusc have been added to Australia’s threatened species list. #auspol #nature #wildoz www.acf.org.au/news/rich-va...

I’ll never forget when Phillip died in the middle of a Vera episode. We were FURIOUS about the curtailment. 🤣

Oh! I was going to switch it on at half past but not if the “news” is on.

EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

You received the fan mail today? TODAY? 14 years after the piece was published?

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension.

Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects.

In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

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

He must mean walking 2 kms a day, borrowing books from the local library, attending large protests, playing the bass guitar, working a volunteer job one day a week, doing a bit of yoga and growing a few veggies in the garden. That’s my #WayOfLife so he couldn’t mean anything else. 😏

Apparently, men are playing hockey in the Olympics now.

Weird.

That thing where the man is walking his baby in the pram but he’s using one hand and is off to the side. It screams, “I feel stupid walking my child. I’m a MAN. I can do this with one hand, unlike a woman. No, no I won’t look you in the eye as I saunter casually past. I’m too cool.” You dipshit.

I saw, “…window opens” and went 😱

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves"

Poster seen in Sydney denouncing NSW Premier Chris Minns who ordered a brutal police attack on Palestine protesters this week, justified under the totalitarian mantra of "Social Cohesion".

via @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

I’ve tried 3 different library networks to see if I can borrow and watch the video, but alas…

I remember the money-burning and maybe, if I heard some tunes, I’d recognise a riff or two. 🤷🏻‍♀️

(I sometimes use child-rearing and uni as the reasons for some gaps in my musical and cultural knowledge, but I must have been listening to SOMEthing!)

A dramatic scene as an Icelandic volcano erupts at sunrise. The Sun's glow is visible on the left and paints the rocky hill on the right with golden light. In the center of the frame, vibrant yellow and orange lava erupts hundreds of feet into the air from a deep black spatter cone, with a significant plume of white gasses rising into the air above the volcano. Sprawling outward in all directions from the cone, solidified black lava creeps over and covers the surrounding landscape. Along the lava's edges are numerous moss fires that generate white puffs of smoke. In the foreground's center are three tiny little people standing in awe at the lava's edge, providing a sense of scale for the scene. Note that they are 1,500-2,000 ft in front of the volcanic cone and even still they are dwarfed by it! The volcano is much larger than it looks.

Volcanic sunrise. #Photography

This is so important.

- Splendid Fairy-wren (Malurus splendens) in Australia
- Photo courtesy of Muneer Al Shanti.

Gonna have to move faster than this if everyone is to get a turn before the next election.

And so, some balance.

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Yeuch. I can smell it from here!