Sincerely hope doesn't cover it, but if there really is hope of peace - or more accurately a silencing of the weapons then how come this couldn't have happened earlier? Apols . My cynicism is showing.

Wife of synagogue terrorist says he showed no signs of extremism

I.e. you need quite specific political economic conditions for a club culture that can afford to take risks and a bar culture that can afford to stay open until dawn even if it's just you and three other guys who are the only one still knocking off vodkas at 6am

Can't even imagine the level of threats and rage that went into coercing Netanyahu to get the deal done before the Peace Prize is announced Friday.

When growth goes wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When the books' ain't black as the hour of night – – A pint of plain is your only man. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Netanyahu realça regresso de todos os reféns após anúncio de Trump

It’s taken me a long time to leave the house again after being attacked in the street. But today, I walked to the shops by myself. Just me. No panic, no turning back. After everything, I felt calm. I felt proud. I’m getting my confidence back.

Homeless people 'deeply failed' as deaths in UK reach record high www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

9 October 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Erdos, was born in Miskolc. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Um representante do Hamas, segundo fontes israelitas, terá aceitado um acordo para Gaza. A confirmar-se, será assinado na quinta-feira, no Egipto.

"Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use." 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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They arrested Rosa Luxemburg!

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

One of the big stories underway in Turkey is the process by which the ruling party is pulling in opposition leaders at both the municipal level and, more importantly, in parliament It has both symbolic importance and direct political implications, moving TR towards a consolidated autocracy

"I too, would not recoil from destroying ten thousand officers if they opposed themselves to my will. What is that in a nation of eighty millions? I do not want men of intelligence. I want men of brutality." Adolf Hitler after hearing of Josef Stalin's purge

Pope Leo in new letter to Catholic Charities USA: Migrants are "living witnesses of hope" with an "intrinsic human dignity" who should be "invited to participate fully in community life."

Belarus rarely makes Western headlines — but it should this week. A quiet move by the Trump administration has just handed Alexander Lukashenka, and indirectly Vladimir Putin, an unexpected gift. 🧵👇

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

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A powerful paragraph from Macpherson, 1999 'The nature of them must surely make us all determined that ... by all available means, society does all it can to ensure the minds of present and future generations are not allowed to become violent and maliciously prejudiced' (But we could do better)

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Al-Mayadeen says that the deal is done and Hamas and other factions have agreed.

Hamas and Israel have agreed to implement the first phase of the Gaza peace plan. Qatari media says that includes the release of the 20 living hostages in one go. Sky News Arabia says it will also include an Israeli withdrawal from 70% of the Gaza Strip.

The head of the UN’s Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said more than 100 minors have been detained this year for acts of sabotage that they have been recruited to do over social media platforms like Telegram.

𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚒𝚛𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚆𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚑𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚖, 𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗— 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚢. #DepthOfMetaphysics

An impressive harvest awaits.This family are assured an abundance of the good oil on their table, with plenty to spare. ( Not my galega 🫒 - pruning year)

In his call for generals to use US cities, especially ones run by “radical-left Democrats” as “training grounds” an increasingly unhinged Trump confirmed his own dreams of authoritarianism. The military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amidst the maelstrom. @kschake.bsky.social

🗣 #WPSWednesday: “As global backlash against gender equality resounds ever-louder through the halls of the UN, clear political messaging for ensuring gender equality is urgently needed to protect the rights of women & girls in conflict zones.” @passblue.bsky.social passblue.com/2025/10/05/t...

Madam SG: Can the UN Finally Smash Its Glass Ceiling? passblue.com/2025/10/07/m...

"Push for growth" - or because it's 2025 and frankly we all need another drink..?

Massive fall in number of children in care as progressive policies work to reduce poverty and as violent crime reduces but, hey, you don’t need to know that do you? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/08/m...

“A lot of people say Lincoln was the greatest. Honest Abe they call him. Did you know that? A lot of people don’t know that. He suspended habeas corpus, which was very weak. Failing Abe, very sad. We’re gonna do much better. We’re gonna fire habeas corpus, a dangerous, radical leftist.”

Common darters (Sympetrum striolatum) dispersing eggs across the lake. It’s a rather precarious way to ‘lay’ eggs - the male attaches himself to the female and they fly around together as she sprays eggs all over the place 😳 #LondonWildlife #Insects #Dragonflies #NaturePhotography

Good lord. @apnews.com

Worth remembering that Labour MPs sat on their hands as the British Government basically did the same to our international development ministry at around the same time - what little money is still in the "international aid" budget is overwhelmingly spent in the UK

Sumy, Ukraine. The moment an "Italmas" drone hit a residential building. The video shows it deliberately descending. The Russians are capable of controlling this UAV, so this was a planned act of terror.

The first, maybe the only time in my life when I look forward to reading something on Truth Social.

Running out of words to describe what’s happening in America. How about fucking outrageous.

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help. www.help99.co/patches/timo...

It's a really important moment for us to take the extra step and diversify what businesses we support, and indie bookstores go the extra mile to make our towns and cities better, support good writing for its own sake, and enrich our lives with community and culture!

Standing room only for @ldfreedman.bsky.social's superb "Hennessy Lecture" at the @mileendinstitute.bsky.social this evening, on "As long as it takes: What does it mean to commit to Ukraine's security?" Really good questions from the audience, too. Thanks to everyone who came.

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together. Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant. No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

As Jews we beg you: do not let the Manchester attack be weaponised I was humbled to be invited to sign this letter as a strong ally of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and thank all colleagues here for their tireless commitment to peace www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2552...

PFAS were found in the blood of all the EU ministers sampled, the tests found.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.