Lisa D : Naturally Different

"Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe. We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless ‘information’ that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility." from "Deep in Admiration" by Ursula K. Le Guin

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

Horrifying. Thank any far right racist who fear mongers about Muslims and ‘immigrants’/ ‘fighting age men’.

YouTube video by domshaw Stanley Unwin

Sneak peak of Trump’s State of the Union address courtesy of the late great Stanley Unwin.

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Ireland Makes Basic Income Program for Artists Permanent After a successful pilot, artists will be paid hundreds of euros weekly over three years.

The Irish government will give 2,000 artists unrestricted weekly stipends.

Low income tickets for our Australia and New Zealand dates go on sale at 8am AEDT this Thursday. They’re for people who are struggling, so don’t take the piss.

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For everything. I make art to find out what I’m thinking, I make texts to work out what I want to say and how I want to say it, I make exhibitions to work out how I [want to] feel.

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What?! How?! That's amazing, and astounding! He's amazing.

Fluffy ginger cat (Rufus) curled up and asleep on an equally fluffy rug

i wonder if this is of any interest to anyone at my workplace, which just signed a $3.1M contract with this company... 🤔

"securing the future of civilization..." from what?

William Castle. ..you may obtain immediate relief by screaming.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan Responding To Flock's Comment's To My Video(s)

Responding to one of Flock Safety's public testimonies about my video and research.
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ICE buys $87M warehouse in Berks County Deed records show the Trump administration purchased a 520,000-square-foot warehouse in Hamburg, PA, for $87.4 million on Feb. 2.

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Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."

"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

I'm starting to think that someone has built a Trump Character AI of sorts. Enter the bugbear of the moment and out pops a (too?) perfectly structured diatribe ready to be used.

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

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The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here

The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere.

Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration.

I lay it out in my latest post.

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I'm sure everything will be fine and nothing untoward will come of this.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:

"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

Tidligere forsvarssjef om Trumps USA: – Neo-fascistisk bananrepublikk (+) Tidligere forsvarssjef Sverre Diesen mener USA er blitt «en normløs og fiendtlig innstilt stormakt», og advarer samtidig mot å feste vår lit til Europa. Harald Sunde mener det haster med en plan B.

The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry?

New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com.

Thread tomorrow.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Norway’s PM says Trump sent letter tying Nobel prize snub to Greenland ambitions American president says his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize has shifted his focus, as he ramps up bid to take over huge Arctic island.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has confirmed he received a message from Donald Trump at the weekend saying he was no longer interested “purely” in peace due to not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

This map exposes the Greenland lie.

The US used to have a massive military footprint here.

Today, they operate just ONE base.

If Trump were actually worried about Russian vessels, he would simply open more bases, which Denmark allows

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

a mini barbie dreamhouse atop a giant (relative to the house) chicken legs

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.

It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.

No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.