This beats the easy willingness of exchange of selfies and emojiis.
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This beats the easy willingness of exchange of selfies and emojiis.
1. Terrific that a US politician is holding Farage to account for his free speech hypocrisy 2. Why can’t we do this in the UK?? 3. Farage lies in this clip - claiming he doesn’t ban journalists from Reform conferences. I’ve been banned from the past two.
Sorry for the miserable post.
So are the people who voted 'against wind' pro-oil climate deniers who are for the oil-dependent status quo in Norway .. or do they just have that blessed 'not in my back yard' syndrome? Sometimes I despair of my homeland.
Genuinely massive project - but also a remarkably huge annual payment to the local council. Norway's main anti-wind group, Motvind, was involved in the campaign to vote 'no' to the project vind.no/ringvirkning...
AOC: Millionaires are very overrepresented in congress… If we want a congress that reflects the actual country we seek to represent and fight for, we need to have working class people who work here
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“.. governors of the three states said that the C.D.C. had become ‘a political tool that increasingly peddles ideology instead of science, ideology that will lead to severe health consequences.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
I still love my homeland 🙄 but I do hate the environmentally- & climate-friendly superiority bullshit it exports so here's a few home truths & also quite funny .. that is if you disregard that this expletive-riddled message also carries the truth! Always worth being honest in love. Do better Norway!
"For so many years, it felt like Epstein's criminal behavior was an open secret." “We’re not going away. We’re not staying quiet. We’re not going to give up.” Annie Farmer (Epstein survivor)
This should be telling everyone to follow and read @bylinetimes
So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference. Has never happened before under any previous leader bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
Cheers! It was almost posing so very easy to capture.
A reminder of the importance of reaching out and also not allowing language to become a barrier. Made me cry.
"I saw people die, particularly children, entirely and only of malnutrition, because they were being starved by the Israeli blockade..." UK medic Nick Maynard talks @goldbergradio.bsky.social through his recent trip to #Gaza @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/3231e2
Well of course they are
The book continues to recount the film in some lurid detail for several sentences more. It’s a truly horrifying scene, done very skilfully in the book, to show us how compassion has been killed and replaced with faux-hilarity. Can’t imagine why that stuck.
Spent five minutes staring at this trying to work out what it had reminded me of. Realised it was this horrifying passage from George Orwell’s 1984.
Ahh great images of the dusky Dunnock Rob and thanks for choosing it as #BirdOfTheDay! Love this bird that makes its home in my #allotment every spring when its general shyness is replaced by sheer bravado.
We’ve been banned from Reform Party events for two years now. Why does Nigel Farage lie to Congress about this? @bylinetimes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news
Come on now repost this again and then again please
Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.
I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽
This is the sound of the revolution of the sun, moon, earth & stars Here is one center in the revolution of the sun, moon, earth & stars & this center is the human being who is centered around the human heart As salaam alaikum Damian Marley - Speak Life (Official Video) youtu.be/ebfeumBDymc?...
England remains invisible in the UK’s devolved constitutional set-up. Could this be the real root of English grievance that Farage so successfully taps into – not Brussels, not migrants, but Westminster itself? @eastangliabylines.co.uk
My recommendation is simple turn off all the Media that isn't reporting Nigel Farage's colossal embarrassment yesterday. It's just lies and always will be.
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👉NEW -- Wael al-Dahdouh: ‘The mainstream media failed Gaza’ by Hamza Yusuf Al-Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief accuses Western journalists of ‘capitulating to the Israeli narrative’. www.declassifieduk.org/wael-al-dahd...
Today was sunny and a bit warm, but the air already carries the scent of autumn. 🪶😊 朝晩は肌寒いくらいになりました😨 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Hawfinch #シメ #birds #野鳥
All the debaters (ha) bar you, were forwarding views for their own benefits or their benefactors and sitting on them tight like their own arses. There's no debating with arses.
I was on the Moral Maze last night, and I have to say, with the blazing self-deception of Tim Stanley and Paul Baldwin, and the failure of other contributors to grasp some basic realities, it was an almost perfect showcase of everything that is wrong with the media. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The media, with a few glowing exceptions, is a propaganda system for economic power. Yet every aspect of our political lives has to pass through its filter. Trying to use outlets like the BBC to discuss serious issues honestly and deeply is immensely frustrating and can feel pretty lonely.
Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
Brandon Marsh S.S.S.I. this morning before it chucked it down. Great White Egret,Common Blue Damselfly, a lone Meadow Brown and Small Coppers popping up all over the place. Nice to see. @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
Simply brilliant yet again Raskin! Oh .. boo.. hoo how Mr "freedom-of-speech" protests too much 😂
Brilliant Raskin as ever .. here giving it to Mr "freedom-of-speech-guy 👏
RASKIN: The freedom of speech applies 365 days a year here under the 1st Amendment FARAGE: We have allowed massive mass pro-Gaza demonstrations in London weekend after weekend RASKIN: No thanks to you
No Greenfinch from me as they're sorely hard to come by here it seems in coastal Sussex .. so just a cheeky Great tit wondering if its bum looks big in the photo! #BirdOfTheDay
Some great reds there Rob! Here are mine for #RedWed #ColourADay ..
DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro demeans and disrespects the good men and women of DC who serve as grand jurors. substack.com/@glennkirsch...
I bet the hallowed terf witch adores him.
This guy once edited a photograph of me to draw specific attention to particular scarring I have had on my body since I was a young teenager. He then wrote a blog post speculating on my mental health, and his followers in the comments described my body as looking like "carnage" & "horrible".
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Big PASS on debating you then!
I find this immature, over-simplistic. Polanski is nothing like SWP on matters of Europe, for example. This kind of quick-put-him-in-a-box thinking is where a lot of mainstream media is turning off intelligent readership. It’s lazy and mis-educational rather than genuinely educational. Pass.
Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Now!!! #TrumpPedoFiles
And Norway where merging counties (fylker) into mega admin units in 2020 failed and many had to be reversed or adjusted just 4 years later: ekvis.com/en/p/the-fyl...
In France, even a village of 400 has its own mayor, councillors and real local power. Why does Britain keep moving in the opposite direction? Letter to the editor from Trevor Stables
Those who can channel our anger at 15 years of misrule, who can speak the language of outrage and hope, are the politicians of the moment. They will contribute to what could be, in 2029, the greatest electoral reset in our modern history. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump Crawls Out of Hiding—Straight Back Into His Epstein Scandal
As many as 100 victims will show up to today's Epstein victim press conference. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Hey Labour perhaps you should do some research and learn from other nation's attempts at merging counties into mega admin units! It didn't work in Norway: ekvis.com/en/p/the-fyl...
Excellent article... In making unitary councils we get... "The Labour government’s plan for yet more merges, to make even bigger mega-local authorities, is most certainly a backwood step as it makes council services ever more remote." & the alleged cost savings have been debunked ... oh dear.
Some visual memories of observing wildlife in May along clifftop paths & fields surrounding atmospheric #StAldhelm’sChapel. Forever grateful 2 my lovely sons & friends 4 this special birthday treat allowing me the pleasure of watching #hares, #cornbuntings & #Lulworthskipper; such rare sights 4 me!
I'll be speaking at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social press conference today, ahead of the pro-Palestine protests this weekend. Already, seven of its spokespeople have been pre-emptively arrested, in a gross infringement of their right to free speech and free assembly. This is what police states do.
On Tuesday night, Democrats won two special elections in the Sunshine State.
Obviously you shouldn’t measure violent crime reduction success solely on ‘are people dead?’, but that last statistic does seem quite impressive, given summer holidays are normally a peak for youth violence.
It's really not that hard, is it? Good on you Zack Polanski!
The point of the European Convention on Human Rights is that it is a set of basic rights provisions, the interpretation of which can move with the times. There is already a 'margin of appreciation' given to states, frequently VERY generously, in that interpretation, by the Court.
Starmer the 'human rights lawyer' apparently knows less than my undergrads after Week 1 of human rights class.
Read people read!
Repost please and keep reposting!
From friend in Leeds .. mins ago! "The flags are being taken down 👏 So many of us, me 4 one, do not see patriotism in the hanging of these flags, but racism, intimidation, persecution, & so entirely disagree w using the flag in this way, & don’t want to walk down community streets adorned by them."
Has that decade + in opposition made Labour so hungry to maintain power they've turned themselves inside-out for fear of the Fascist flag-shaggers?
This should be on a loop in every street of every town for at least a week.
This. All of this. If you listen to one thing today 👏👏👏 @mrjamesob.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @newsagents.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @thetimes.com @scotnational.bsky.social
think, people!
From friend in Leeds .. mins ago! "The flags are being taken down 👏 So many of us, me 4 one, do not see patriotism in the hanging of these flags, but racism, intimidation, persecution, & so entirely disagree w using the flag in this way, & don’t want to walk down community streets adorned by them."
⚠️ Women in the UK don’t need to be told what danger looks like — we live it every day. ⛔ One woman is killed by a man every three days in this country (Femicide Census, 2023) ⛔ In 2023, 1.7 million women experienced domestic abuse (ONS, 2023). It is not trans people who perpetrate these crimes.
Interesting in depth conversation of the complexities, nuances and sometimes problematic issues of identity and belonging really worth listening to.
Interesting in depth conversation of the complexities, nuances and sometimes problematic issues of identity and belonging really worth listening to.
"The only time the issues of belonging or community or identity are discussed is around immigration..." @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social says it's time for a different conversation about identity. With @goldbergradio.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...
Your actors, your billionaires, your politicians, none of them will dare stand up to Israel. But Greta will, she shames them all.
An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
#TonguesoutTuesday
Perhaps THE most vital political lesson of our time. Will it get through to Irish parties? (Thinking especially of you, Sinn Féin.)
A sunny start to the day soon turned cloudy with showers as we cut and raked grassland at KIlsby Lane LWS nr. Rugby today. The green strips are previously cut paths,pic 1 is a path going from East to West across the site that hadn't been cut for a year
So long, A23a. 🥹
Some visual .. possibly nostalgic end-of-summer memories of gorgeous walk with my son on the Long Mynd in Shropshire this May ..
Gorgeous little bird and gorgeous late summer image!
Alas, the end of #summer is nigh😔 #Whinchat stopping on its way south for the winter #Sunflower hanging on to its #yellow petals just a wee bit longer 🌻🍂 R the seasons changing where u r? #birds #autumn #birding #birdphotography #naturephotography #nature #photography #photographer #birdwatching
Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky
Retired Army Lt. General Mark Hertling calls out Donald Trump for giving military funeral honors to January 6th rioter Ashli Babbitt: “She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
AMOC is a climate-driven overturning current that supports northern Europe's warm climate. It's collapse would result in a colder Europe. The Gulf Stream is powered by the rotation of the Earth. For it to collapse, the planet would have to stop spinning. That, the physicists tell me, would be bad.
Journalist Nour Aborokba breaks down on AlJazeera live as she reports on her own family whose displaced on the streets with no where safe to go.
September observes the largest losses of #Arctic sea ice concentration compared to any other month of the year. And NO increases. The largest declines are in parts of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. Sea ice concentration = fraction of ice-cover. More info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
The Guardian's Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips will be speaking to forest experts at a Greenpeace webinar on 5 September to discuss the future of the Amazon rainforest. Sign up for free today: greenpeace.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_arikknvrTC24383h91pulQ
State-owned Scotrail scrapped peak fares this week. Meanwhile rail fares across the UK could go up 5.8%. Public transport finance could & should be radically overhauled to release it from dependence on fares. Read our guest blog from @farefreelondon.bsky.social on the case for fare-free transport.
Owning one of these gets you accused of being an elitist who's imposing his lifestyle on other people.
Ok so Twitter of old was set up to function better than Bluesky.social has yet to but that's no reason to stay on what it became & in any case w proactive reciprocity I find this platform functions well! A case of "ask not what I can do 4 you but what you all can all do 4 each other!" perhaps?
Well done Mothin Ali, a great man and an allotment holder to boot 😍!
“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division.” I've joined @palomafaith.music-social.com @zarahsultana.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social and many more in signing this
The right have been radicalised, while abuse forces moderators off platforms. This can’t go on ✏️ @jamesrball.com
They both were/are systems of Fascism w 2 differences being most people in Germany in the 30s could not escape, poor or unaware, as many were. Those that did, had the awareness of centuries of persecution on their side, & leaving X carries not a jot of pain except for feeble excuse of greater reach!
There were no doubt many decent people supporting the 3rd Reich too but most of support was due to fear or because it was beneficial to them. There are many ways other than through social media or TV to positively influence public. Don't underestimate face-to-face interaction! Packham does not.
Alabama town’s first Black mayor, Patrick Braxton, who had been locked out of office, wins election!! The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after residents locked him out of the town hall & refused to let him serve. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/u...
I'd trade ethics for quantity of likes any day.
