All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

An amazing essay by art historian Dr. Denva Gallant. 😇 hyperallergic.com/all-about-lo... for @hyperallergic.com

“I spent 2025 compiling lists of academic projects that I consider ‘activist’ and ‘progressive’ bc I must save the humanities from those who would destroy it through monetary grants. I am very smart and acting in good faith.”

On the latest Warblers Podcast, we learn about the issues facing Canada’s North, and species like Hudsonian Godwits and Whimbrels. Locals, Indigenous Elders, and wildlife biologists – it takes a team to help habitats and shorebirds.

Listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

The 5p Solution: How clean air is transforming attendance and learning in one Hampshire school Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught.

www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

For almost all of the past at 4 years since Sask Govt declared “COVID over” in Feb 2022, Saskatoon hospitals have continued over adult capacity, with ERs backed up with as many as 100+ pts admitted, but no beds. This continues this week. 1/

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

This was a chilling, scary read. "...the institute said it “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America...The agency also points to an executive order...and one titled Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again." First the NEH and now the IMLS.

AI generated image - Olympic medal winners on the podium posing with their medals while wearing N95 respirator masks

N95s could be a significant performance advantage

Not just in the Olympics

But in Life

Fishing ban revives Yangtze finless porpoises The population of the Yangtze finless porpoise, the only freshwater porpoise species in China's longest river, has risen to 1,426 in 2025, indicating that the fishing ban and other conservation…

In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS
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Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Lying and not caring about harm.

”You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.”

@strandjunker.com

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The Sewer Was Always Beneath Us The dystopia is not that we discovered the sewer. It is that we were told — repeatedly, by people like Kendzior, by survivors, by whistleblowers, by journalists who paid with their careers, their safety, and sometimes their lives — that it was there. Danny Casolaro knew. The victims of Jeffrey Epstein knew when they were children. Kendzior knew and documented it across two meticulously researched books, Hiding in Plain Sight and They Knew, and was threatened with death for the trouble. The dystopia is that the sewer was mapped, its contents catalogued, its architects named — and the response of institutions, media, and the public was to look away, shoot the messenger, or simply wait for someone else to act.

NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake @witnessblower.net on Epstein revelations:

“It is not merely that bad people did evil and terrible things. It is that the institutions designed to prevent those things…were captured, compromised, or rendered inert.”

eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Department of Subjects.
Department of Objects.

Agitprop university

oooh, he wants a bridge monopoly for himself!

95.4% of mass shootings have been by men.

Trans people, at 3% of the population, are not your problem.

[source: rockinst.org/gun-violence...

We’re treating COVID like a memory instead of a continuing risk. Data exists, but governments aren’t translating it into clear guidance on ventilation, vaccination, or avoiding crowded indoor spaces. Public health messaging has drifted into silence just when we should be preparing for the next pandemic. We need honest communication, resilient data systems, and a culture of everyday risk literacy — or we’ll be surprised by predictable events.

Messaging has faded but COVID hasn’t.
Data keeps warning us, yet without clear guidance on ventilation, vaccination, and indoor risk, people navigate blind.
Treating the pandemic as over weakens readiness for the next one.
Honest communication and resilient data systems are needed now.

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned.

(Yes it’s good character detail.)

The Birds Canada avian ambassador for 2026! That means I get to see one this year, right? #birds

House passes dangerous voter suppression act, calls it the “Save America” Act, which is a lie unless they’re trying to save America from democracy and fair elections.

You don’t have to use fancy tech to steal an election. You just have to suppress the vote that’s more likely to vote against you.

Case dismissed against LA protester accused of assaulting federal officer with cloth hat Judge says US government acted in ‘bad faith’ in case of Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, 36, who spent six months in jail

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.*

A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

crucial for 🇨🇦Canada to resist and reverse the normalization of widespread civilian gun ownership.
There are powerful forces ranged on the other side though.
Take, for example, the Canadian Coalition for “Firearm Rights”.
They are leaders of the 🍁gun cult who’ve been working for years to…
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Being trans is not a problem. It’s not a mental illness, nor is it something to be ashamed of.

Transphobia is real, it gets people killed. The hateful rhetoric coming from Canadians is absolutely abhorrent, Canadians have a problem with homophobia, transphobia and racism that yall do

How religious leaders are responding to Trump's immigration crackdown The actions of faith leaders stand in stark contrast to the conservative Christianity touted by the administration.

The relationship between religion and social activism is far from new. But how is that relationship evolving in the current political moment? Find out on a new episode of @npr.org's 1A with RNS national reporter @jackjenkins.me.

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.

Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre. Anne Brontë wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

How did three variously traumatized sisters from a remote parsonage all become bestselling authors? Find out this week on Vulgar History! pod.link/1489560920/e...

Moose are generally calm and just ignore us, but..

Obvious signs of a pissed off moose:

-ears back
-head low
-hair on neck up
-smacking lips
-snorting or grunting
-stomping feet

or..there may be little to no sign before a moose charges.

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After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.”

(Published Dec. 2025)

An American Badger is seen heading into its burrow on the grasslands.

Habitat loss in Canada’s grasslands has threatened many species.
That includes the American badger, which Fisher described as “one of the most important, central and iconic species that remains of the North American grassland ecosystem.”
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

somewhere with indoor humidity and plants! and a bench