Saara Tikka • From Nature • night Venticelli •

On World Octopus Day please remember that an octopus feels pain. Its heart can be broken. All three of them. When an octopus is attacked, and squirts out ink, it's actually writing a poem in the water, hoping to escape while its attacker is enraptured by the poem’s song of yearning for lost love.

BREAKING: Trump is now calling for the arrests of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Just hours after deploying the Texas National Guard into their state without consent.

This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political warfare. Wake up.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

It's grimly funny to read these 'subtle slow drip maneuvering' theories, when the defeated candidate had his supporters march on the seat of government, the richest man in the world made nazi salutes at investiture, and they summoned the higher officers of the Department of War for a dressing down

Mandatory recommendation for 'Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness' by Peter Godfrey-Smith - one of the best science books I've ever read.

Huge respect to Lord Heseltine, stoically turning up, at 92, in that racist sandpit of halfwitted baby freaks, to teach them some history, remind them what an electable Tory party looked like and tolerate inanities that must be insufferable for a political titan of his standing.

Matthew Hasty • The Delta II •

Matthew Hasty • Untitled • night Venticelli •

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

I’m not an uncritical fan of Hezza, but when he’s right, he’s right.

They also meant the council was somewhere people could go, in person, for help, advice or to raise a concern. Not any more....

I've made this point before, so apologies in advance but: those Victorian town halls often on the High Street *said something* about how people felt about their home town. 1/2

(The clothes are beautiful too: Chanel, but not cliché Chanel)

I'm not a fashion person at all, but the end of the Chanel finale is one of the most joyful things I've seen in ages: www.instagram.com/reel/DPg7XCh...

Fantastic, vital piece

Lethal skewering this, in particular this paragraph skewering the idea that Handswortg is an integration failure when it is a multi-ethnic integration success story.

As Mrs Merton might say “what is it about this 9% white ward that led you to frame it as an integration failure?”

Sometimes you think 'oh it can't really be that bad can it' and then you click on the link and it turns out it is exactly that bad www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looking quite well-rounded there, Parkin

Can we pause and imagine the well of sympathy in the Telegraph for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of overstaying foreigners in the UK who don't speak English. Polluting the culture.

People breaking immigration law can be deported. EVEN IF THEY'RE BRITISH.

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

It does just feel like there's something Jenrick is trying to say.
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OH GOD MY EYES