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Éric Vautier
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Web developer. History enthusiast (especially about Reformation). London-based. Opinionated — but tolerant.
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purrinink.bsky.social
Happy year of the horse 🐴🐾🤍
February 17, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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sanders.senate.gov
February 17, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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nbcnews.com
BREAKING: Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.
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February 17, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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jensnotroff.com
Archaeological survey through ... #folklore:

New study sheds light on #Ireland​'s #cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth without been baptised.

🏺 www.atu.ie/news/forgott...

TW: stillbirth, miscarriage, child death.
Forgotten children of Ireland: Lost burial grounds rediscovered through folklore - Atlantic Technological University
A new study by Dr Marion Dowd, lecturer in archaeology at ATU, sheds light on Ireland’s cillíní - unconsecrated burial grounds used for babies that were stillborn, miscarried or who died at birth with...
www.atu.ie
February 9, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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mortenmorland.bsky.social
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
February 14, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)
February 15, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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pjrfoto.bsky.social
A very happy Larryversary to @number10cat.bsky.social - 15 years of tireless mousing on the mean streets of Westminster.
February 15, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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ebradstock.bsky.social
My first paper: “Song structure and dialects in a peninsula population of the endangered Eastern Bristlebird”

Published in IBIS @bou.org.uk: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.70000

Research in collaboration with the University of Wollongong, @westsyduhie.bsky.social @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social

#ornithology 🐦🪶
A satellite map of Bherwerre Peninsula, depicting the locations of 20 Eastern Bristlebird’s and the three dialect groups they belong to. Several images depicting the spectrograms of three different types of Eastern Bristlebird songs known as A-songs, B-songs and Trill-songs.
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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edwyplenel.bsky.social
Ce pouvoir nous fait honte : alors qu’il ne prend aucune sanction contre Benyamin Nétanyahou et son gouvernement, auteurs avérés d’une guerre génocidaire à Gaza, il en demande contre l’onusienne Francesca Albanese pour des propos qu’elle n’a jamais tenus.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
Attaquée par la France, Francesca Albanese est menacée dans son poste à l’ONU
Jean-Noël Barrot, rejoint par plusieurs ministres des affaires étrangères européens, demande la démission de la rapporteuse spéciale pour les territoires palestiniens, à partir de propos qu’elle n’a …
www.mediapart.fr
February 13, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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nicolashenin.net
Après des élus macronistes, Jean-Noël Barrot, le chef de la diplomatie française, réclame le départ de Francesca Albanese sur la base d’une phrase qu’elle n’a pas prononcée.
Barrot réclame le départ de la porte-voix des Palestiniens à l’ONU, on vous raconte
Après des élus macronistes, Jean-Noël Barrot, le chef de la Diplomatie française, réclame le départ de Francesca Albanese sur la base d’une phrase qu’elle n’a pas prononcée.
www.huffingtonpost.fr
February 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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vivelefeu.bsky.social
L’ignominie est un métier.
Jean-Noël Barrot appelle à la démission de Francesca Albanese, la rapporteuse spéciale de l’ONU pour les territoires palestiniens
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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drnereide.bsky.social
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This fantastic image shows NGC 3576, an emission nebula in the Sagittarius arm of our galaxy, dubbed 'The Statue of Liberty Nebula' because of the peculiar shape of the nebulous object in the center.

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap16092...

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #astronomy #space #universe #galactic

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It's a big, colorful shot of the Statue of Liberty Nebula (NGC 3576). Right in the middle, you can actually see why they call it that – there's this bright pinkish-red patch with a shape that really does look like the statue raising her torch. The whole thing glows in warm reds and pinks from hydrogen gas. Scattered across it are several small, perfectly dark blobs – those are dust globules. A few super-bright, almost glaring blue-white stars pop out against the nebula, and there are some faint wispy loops of gas curving off to the sides. About 100 light-years wide.
February 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
ericvautier.bsky.social
Mind blown.
February 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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ursulakleguin.com
A new edition of The Compass Rose is now available in France from Le Livre de Poche!

Les Quatre Vents du Désir is translated by Martine Laroche, Françoise Levie-Howe, Jean-Pierre Pugi, Philippe Rouille, and France-Marie Watkins. Cover design by Studio LGF.
The cover of Les Quatre Vents du Désir is largely pink, with the title in a stylized compass rose in the center. A black cat sits primly at the bottom of the image, tail alert; a phoenix hovers over the upper right corner. There is also a harp, a donkey (I think), and a flower.
February 12, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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davidjbradley.bsky.social
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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joef-3.bsky.social
At the end of this clip, Jim and Kermit talk about how the puppeteer can just kinda vanish as the puppet draws all the attention, and that exact thing happens as he goes on. It’s magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHl...
Jim Henson on Kermit the Frog
YouTube video by Technology for Storytelling
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
The Prime Minister says he changed the Labour Party.

He's right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war.

Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government's legacy.
February 11, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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stefscribbles.bsky.social
squidgel
3 doodles of a tiny squirrel creature
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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mediatellthetruth.bsky.social
There's no better way of communicating the insane trajectory of humanity in the 21st century than cartoons and no-one did it better than Jon Kudelka. Rest in power Jon.

Here's his top ten.

1. Asteroid mitigation program
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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dancow.bsky.social
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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truthout.org
The DHS has filed an expedited request to terminate the asylum claims of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy, and his family. If successful, the family — none of whom have broken any rules during their asylum — could be deported, though it’s unclear where they may be deported to.
DHS Files Request to Terminate Asylum Cases of Family of Liam Conejo Ramos
There’s “no reason that this should be expedited,” the family’s lawyer said, adding that the action felt “retaliatory.”…
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February 6, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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gusrinaldi.bsky.social
🏴‍☠️🦑

Just a little drawing to finish the week :)

#illustration #fantasyart #kidlitart #BRart
Drawing of a pirate balancing over some planks in the middle of a storm in the ocean trying to capture a giant squid-like creature with a swimming pool skimmer.
February 6, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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helengittos.bsky.social
New!
The first comparative, international, cross-disciplinary study of silver in late antique Europe. And includes full catalogues of major UK hacksilver hoards: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex).
www.sidestone.com/books/silver...
February 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
ericvautier.bsky.social
Upgraded to #MacOS #Tahoe and really don't like the glossy #UI. I might get used to it but are there any tools to revert to a general appearance that doesn't glow, shine and border everything it shouldn't?
February 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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number10cat.bsky.social
Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM