Norr

Hey #FC2026 attendees, I’ve got a deal on the golden cat mask at table 41, on sale for $1000. Clear Vision through the eye and an open back to keep you cool!

US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules Amid rising EU-US tensions, a new report has accused Big Tech of courting far-right MEPs to weaken the EU's regulatory power on AI and data.

Meta, Microsoft and Google are all coordinating with the European far right in order to dismantle EU digital laws designed to protect citizens, according to a new report.

The recent 🇺🇸NSS strategy outlined regime change plans to support the European far right.

A public-private partnership.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Got years of therapy for The Thing, been functioning better in spite of The Thing, but today is one of those days where it's just me and The Thing.

Gym's closed, too.

I volunteered to help digitize the university herbarium today! It's super fun but I got to open up so many envelopes with the most impossible tiny bits of duckweed in it, haha :') It's like dealing with a practical joke another biologist made in 1854, amazing.

You put one behind you, and put the fin (!!) underneath you so it can't slip away when you lean back slightly on it. You hold on to the second one so your arms are someone decent, and put a pillow (or a third shark??) between your knees.

nice!! my physiotherapist deviced a whole blåhaj-based solution for side-sleepers and it's amazing actually??

A photo of a newspaper advertisement, showing a zoomed in photo of a hand holding a Pilot brand fountain pen. "Make AI Jealous" is written in Japanese next to the hand, with "Write what AI can't touch" in English underneath.

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it

Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

I got one of these and it quickly became one of my favourite shirts!!

absolutely haunted forever by 7 ppl I love at once serving me "oh, I don't know what to think" (so I won't), leaving all the work and horror and loss for me to carry alone, them never speaking up, never questioning that guy, but politely informing me they just aaah can't decide, it's so hard.

I'll apparently never stop dreaming about my old friends. I don't want to make new ones, I liked these, I felt at home in those friendships.
I need to keep remembering they weren't ripped away from me, they chose to believe nonsense about me, chose to hate me.

plant lab is very cool the plant team just wants to show us the plants because they are very cool and weird

oh no, I'm missing Halloween parties AND the lab about mosses and ferns 🦇💔🌿

man I've gotten every fucking virus the past two months, but now I've got the "horrible face pain" one and I don't like it one bit

same here! My parents are getting older so it's important to me!!

Belgian friends!! You can currently get COVID and flu shots at your pharmacy. One is free, the other is a couple of euros. Sometimes you need to book, sometimes they just give it there and then, just ask about it :)

Dutch friends!! go fucking vote

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

okay but if we change the hour another three times my delayed sleep phase syndrome is cured actually

I'm an adult that can just be asked whether I want to throw away my clothes or not.

heh, she tried to throw out a sweater I indeed don't wear often, but listen, I had to fight a man over it in 2010 and I won so the fucking sweater is staying, it's part of the lore

I've helped plenty of them do damage control, recover scraps of evidence they did the work, rewrite papers on a borrowed pc, etc. Really wish there was someone here for me right now to sift through the remnants of my stuff.

I've been an art teacher so I know I wasn't the only child this happens to, regularly a kid shows up having to explain everything they were working on is just ...gone because someone decided their child should own nothing and be reminded it is mere property.

every year I tell them the same thing: do not do this shit.

As a kid I thought they were trying to teach me a harsh lesson on the impermanence of things, as an adult I just ...I need pants. Don't throw out my pants.

you'd think it's dementia but no, my parents pull shit like this every year or so, preferably when I'm in the hospital or very busy.

I hate this because I like feeling like at least some of the stuff I own won't just disappear at any given moment like it's my wallet on the Brussels metro.

cool I had a very hard week so my mom decided to: throw half my clothes out randomly while I wasn't around.

An abstract character in red screaming and erupting, falling apart, everything is pulled upward.

Even the smallest mote of divinity shivers with the lingering note of creation, pure and overwhelming in barely its faintest echo.

Ascension by screaming to meet its painful volume, agony harmonizing pressed together from every reality.

A soul pulled howling into holy focus.

Deeply hate how people that wake unusually early are considered more moral than people that wake up unusually late.

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.