Solidarity with the staff at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, the people who actually make the place work, in the face of wretched management.

Even as a Tory I must admit Reform MPs are devoted to serving their constituencies. For example Lee Anderson selling his ‘funny’ 30p football shirts in Ashdown & Nigel Farage’s outstanding work in Clacton. Oh & here is Richard Tice working hard in his constituency of Skegness. 📃

Tony Blair reportedly dropped from Trump’s Gaza ‘board of peace’ shortlist - what? they don't want a war criminal?

No Prince Philip either

anyoneinracks

And 100% of Labour MPs are doing fuck all about it. Listen to your remaining members Labour.

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

Another hell hole pig fHarm 👺Pigs covered with and lying in their own excrements 😱Why are you still consuming animal flesh? Why are you still supporting this? #LiveVegan stop the abuse in your name 🙏

@berliedoherty.bsky.social #poetry

Since the 1970s there has been a 71% decline in shark and ray species Shark finning is the cruel practice of removing any fins from a shark (including the tail) before discarding the remainder of the shark at-sea to die a cruel miserable death Photo Antony Dickson www.msc.org/what-we-are-...

But still the MSM scream about how good he is. How bad Labour are doing & Nigel will save the country. 24 hours a day. 7 days a week. It’s brainwashing. We all know how bad it will be if Farage comes to power. However, most of the electorate are brain dead anyway. As you said, they voted for Boris

If Christopher Harborne can afford to hand fascist Nigel Farage £9million he can afford to pay more tax, the little fucking parasite.

Americans will no longer get free entry to federal parks on Martin Luther King Day. They will, however, on Trump’s June 14 birthday. Literally the sort of thing dictators do. www.sfgate.com/national-par...

My favourite! Here’s another fabulous ‘berserker ’ chomping away at the National Museum of Scotland

The Lewis Chessmen These 12th-century chess pieces are packed with personality, and have such charmingly expressive eyes! ♟️ 👀 From a large gaming hoard discovered on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

This series shows how a damselfly reaches a dewdrop on a horsetail stem, turns its head, touches its eye to the drop, and brings it onto its face for a drink.

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too? action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

Daily Mail owner’s wife donates £50,000 to Reform UK Nothing to see here... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/dai...

Revisiting the greatest Christmas story since that one with all the ghosts in it.

dear Penguin, hire more proofreaders

THIS 💯 💯 💯

So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

You still think our animal food system is not a cruel horrible broken and failed system? 👺Hundreds of millions of chickens perish in agony in awful sheds by floods heatwaves disease and fires. These poor birds died by failed ventilation: failing humans #LiveVegan #EndAnimalAg NOW

All because selfish c***s can’t live without ‘real’ cheese 💔 This isn’t a one off, I’ve seen this long ago in horrific slaughterhouse footage. Eyes blinking, skin peeling. THIS is the price vulnerable animals are paying in a world where time =💰and sentient beings are diminished to mere commodities.

Today is a day for a Winter Dragon!

Today is a day for a Winter Dragon!

If people don't wake up & acknowledge what the current govt is a tally achieving, & how much the MSM is manipulating the 'news', this is what we might get in 2029. A horrifying prospect tbh.

Oh no, that’s just embarrassing (original aspect ratio all the way…)

Why is British politics so lousy with people who have no interest in solving problems?

Oh look! ⬇️ But for some reason this isn't the top headline on the BBC after three days of them headlining the opposite. I guess the right wing press aren't running with this latest twist. That must be the reason why. 🤔 #Reeves #Budget #obr

No. I am as disappointed with this Labour government as anyone, but absolutely nobody could claim that Starmer and his cabinet have been given equal treatment by the BBC. Think back to Emily Maitliss getting hooked for telling the truth as an example. The BBC is run by Tories. Fact.

Michelle Mone who got paid nearly triple the cost of her useless PPE, is still jetting and sailing around the world in her megayacht with her £232m. Crime pays when you are rich, because they never send you to jail.

People working in the dairy industry are a shameless, disgraceful & disconnected group of people Imagine decorating a #STOLEN baby and their prison cell to celebrate a holiday that is supposed to represent peace on Earth 😔 Wake up dairy consumers- you’re $upporting an atrocity.

There is no neutral ground to stand on once you realize that the walls we've built to hide their suffering are also the walls that define the limits of your own sense of justice and morality.

`and toast me a marshmallow and a muffin....'

1 in 13 UK children aged 5 to 8 do not have a book of their own at home. Children without books are 15 times less likely to be good readers than their book-owning peers. Help bridge that gap and brighten a child's festive season by donating to @booktrust.org.uk's #MagicOfBooks appeal. 👇🏼🎄👇🏼📚👇🏼🎁👇🏼

Whatever happened to Leveson 2? Chris Mason, Kuntsberg et al now completely out of control & Reform continue to be given a disproportionate amount of air time. This will continue until the BBC board is dismantled

If freedom is considered a privilege reserved only for those at the top of hierarchies then it's nothing more than tyranny disguised as 'natural order'.

For context this "independent voice" is a former Conservative candidate and the sister-in-law of David Cameron

I’m reading The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Two final points. In 2019 Boris Johnson celebrated his General Election Victory with Alexander Lebedev In 2022, Canada sanctioned Alexander Lebedev for being on of Putin’s inner circle Just ponder that.

Let's see what our team are reading this week! Bert is reading next year's Patrick Gale, "Love Lane". If you've read "A Place Called Winter", then this is the story of what happened next... - Michael

I can hardly bear it. Guaranteed my permanently angry father is nodding along furiously in his £240,000 house

Let's all concentrate on Tulip Siddiq & Rachel Reeves - that way we probably won't remember Farage's racism or think about Russian interference in our media/parliament. Good job guys 👏👏👏

I'm really trying not to prejudge but honestly, Tulip Siddiq - the woman who helped the Zaghari-Ratcliffes? Not a chance, but let's focus on powerful women in parliament eh?

`and toast me a marshmallow and a muffin....'