Kit Byatt

A thing of beauty. Also underlines why you should ignore ‘changes’ by pollster of +- 2-3 percentage points between their polls and just follow the trends.

Mom of the year

Fair point!

Most just internalise the dysphoria and/or take it out on colleagues, friends, and family — you have done a great job in collecting data and sharing the phenomenon.

When you now upload a GIF it will behave like a proper GIF and not like a video (no progress bar or controls). Another milestone thanks to @samuel.fm 😎

Demonstration of where the Germ DM button appears on your Bluesky profile after you pair your accounts within the Germ DM app.

we just rolled out an experimental integration with @germnetwork.com, an E2E encrypted chat app that integrates with atproto.

Germ users can add a button to their profile so others can message them from Bluesky.

we're exploring ways to connect your profile with other apps in the Atmosphere.

An important paper from a courageous and principled consultant who noticed, noted and dared to put her head above the parapet.

You see the melting snow in Kyiv.
I see the hope that it will be warmer in the apartments left without heating after russian attacks.

The same picture can tell different stories.

We are hoping and praying for you!

Meanwhile it's a damp, grey, cold winter here in the UK!

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

I thought this was a fake quote.

It's not. It's verbatim. From the head of the Health & Human Services Dept.

The guy in complete control of Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, the CDC, the FDA & the NIH.

This is what 77.2 million Trump voters & ~85 million 3rd party/non-voters enabled.

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner Finally! A chance to talk about IMMIGRANTs & not corruption!

Oh look!

We’re talking about immigration again!

Instead of corruption money & pedos permeating our politics! 🤩 Brilliant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZk...

Perhaps not if their assets are big enough to mange their affairs offshore?!

(Did someone say billionaire oligarchs?)

We really need to understand more about China's development rather than just simply discussing the scare stories. Though this is not made easy by their own limited engagement.

I hear you—Rymans and WH Smith are dangerous places to be near (even when one isn't stressed, tbh!).

Beware, though, after you fill in the last question (#13) and press the button, you cannot go back and review or edit the questionnaire, it automatically submits it and closes!

I have spent quite a bit of time/energy already on this and it is going to be my primary focus for the next few months. Please highlight widely. 🙏 #Ireland #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME

You are in my thoughts, Yara.

Just sorry I can't do more, right now.

You are the heroes.

Coomaraswamy Prize - Association for Asian Studies Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize The Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize honors a distinguished work of scholarship in South Asian Studies that promises to define or redefine the understandin...

I am thrilled that my book Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral 1748–1858 has now won the 2026 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy prize (Association for Asian Studies/South Asia Council)! www.asianstudies.org/grants-award...

Honoured to share it with the great Charu Gupta.

If you care about proposed government changes to UK immigration policy I urge you to fill in the consultation response before the deadline tomorrow.

Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

"We, as Western nations, must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies, or open and prosperous ones." Pedro Sánchez in der @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance.

As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.

The question of whether to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide” — an idea that is intensely debated by scholars, legal experts and human rights advocates, but rejected by the Israeli government and many American Jewish leaders — has come up in other Democratic primaries.

If by "intensely debated" the New York Times meant near universally agreed upon, then sure. The disagreement is between the experts and the general liberal public on the one hand and Jewish American political establishment and the bipartisan consensus in Congress on the other.

Three advertising cards each depicting skeletons clothed doing various jobs. The main card (biggest) shows a skeleton wearing pinstripe trousers and a waist coat.

The Antikamnia Chemical Company marketed an analgesic powder to pharmacists using these darkly illustrated limited edition calendars from 1897 to 1901. The name of the company means “opposed to pain.” Ironically, the product could be fatal as it contained acetanilide, which impairs red blood cells.

Moderna says FDA refuses to review its application for experimental flu shot Moderna said the move is inconsistent with previous feedback from the FDA on the experimental influenza shot, called mRNA-1010.

So, the FDA under the administration's anti-vaccine leadership is now rejecting approval to important new vaccines. The USA is getting poorer and sicker under Trump's regime. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/m...

"FFP2 masks are part of the [German] Olympic team's hygiene concept to stay healthy and perform successfully!"

"FFP2-Masken gehören beim olympischen Team zum Hygienekonzept, um gesund zu bleiben und erfolgreich zu sein!"

#MaskUp

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Any day grownups want to get back to running these things is fine with me

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