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“The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia.” Bucky Fuller “An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.” Hafiz The Dog (1820-1823) by Francisco Goya
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But, but, but WHY ARE YOU WEARING A COSTUME? So much DISRESPECT.

If this were play’d upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Call me unduly cynical, but there is a reason why the invite did not specify locations that were near any major population centres.

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

How foreign workers are helping to boost Spain’s economy and outpace the rest of Europe.

When I saw the disgusting "trump Gaza" video this morning, the bile rose to my throat. I won't share it. Instead, help me promote this counter narrative by Tala, from Gaza. "Gaza is not yours to take. Gaza is ours, and we are still here. This is our land." BRAVO to her strength and DEFIANCE. 🥹💪

Jesse Welles sings about Trump’s Plan for Gaza in an NYC subway👇🏽😳 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZFj0n...

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

On climate disinformation, a valuable presentation from @imranahmed.bsky.social, warning that gen AI offers "a perpetual self-powering bullshit machine", lowering the barrier to entry for producing convincing-sounding climate denial material. @counterhate.com

Review of the Derna flood disaster in #Libya highlights the risks that political instability, #ClimateChange and aging infrastructure create, drawing attention to similar threats in #Syria, #Afghanistan, #Iraq and #Ukraine www.nature.com/articles/s44...

"New study finds that people listen to—and follow—expert climate advice" www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/02/new-... Hooray @katharinehayhoe.com @leahstokes.bsky.social

“The goal of practice is simply to be a compassionate mess” Rob Nairn, from various lessons on meditation.

“In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny.” Jose Arguelles

Please anyone who cares about #wildlife sign this. We need 500,000 signatures asap! This is a disgrace. Populist decision not based #science. Real investments in #herd protection (dogs, fences etc.) are needed to help #farmers but definitely not this! #wolves ❤️‍🩹 secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

What stage of climate crisis is bulldozing abandoned luxury cars to make way for firetrucks?

Take a moment to reflect

Premiere Pro's Warp Stabilizer tool is woefully ill prepared to deal with penguins.

“This world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, other worlds, previously unimaginable.” Lana Wachowski

Enjoying Wolf Hall? Our latest blog post explores Thomas Cromwell's considerable impact on the University of Cambridge in the 1530s. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=29565

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII.” “A hereditary head of state, as Thomas Paine so crisply phrased it, is as absurd a proposition as a hereditary physician or a hereditary astronomer.” slate.com/news-and-pol... This, from Hitch, a gem.

Fall in love with someone that enjoys your, um, weirdness. Not someone that, um, tries to talk you into being normal.

Any random bluesky user apparently: "you know what will improve people's moods? A really close up picture of Donald Trump or Elon Musk's sweaty face for some reason"

wait why does the dept of government efficiency have two co-chairs

A new friend who looks like me

Daniel Norgren, Everything you know melts away youtu.be/n-CxaAcsO64?...

People of Blue Sky, post one of your favourite movies, with gif only!

No thoughts, just photosynthesis.

“I’m after a book - ‘don’t mention Brexit or trade deals’ by Tories against farm tax” i.ytimg.com/vi/uj8qktWBY...

This place is quickly becoming the art community I hoped it would be. I hope it just continues to grow and grow.

7 Tonnes 3 de Nicolas Deveaux

A spectacular talk by Dr Brian Marien.

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it

A meme that helps you grasp the basics of alt text: #socialwork

Can’t get an appt with a GP? Yet there are 1000s of GPs out of work or struggling to find work NHS England have cut the equivalent of 2 full-time GPs in funding from an average practice, whilst funding ‘additional’ roles via ARRS £2bn cut in real term Not additional then🤷🏻‍♂️ youtu.be/tI69wqP1_3g?...