View towards a country church on a #SilentSunday in Devon. #Photography #Landscape #River #Winter #Devon

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Tories screamed that taxing private schools would “destroy” them. Reality check: there are more private schools now. Turns out Tory hysteria was nonsense, as usual - rich schools thriving, Tories still lying. Source: Guardian #UKPolitics

View towards a country church on a #SilentSunday in Devon. #Photography #Landscape #River #Winter #Devon

No snow here this week, but I didn't want to feel left out, so here's a picture from the last time we did... #Photography #Winter #Snow

'Instrument' #FotoVorschlag Kirchenorgel.

We need to realize that we've been dropped into 1933 Germany and our challenge is to fight back and make it turn out differently this time.

#OtD 10 Jan 1934 disabled anti-fascist construction worker, Marinus van der Lubbe, was executed by the Nazis for setting fire to the Reichstag. He'd hoped to inspire resistance to fascism; instead, the Nazis used it as a pretext to repress dissent stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8195...

💥🇬🇧💥🇬🇧 This is a prospective REFORM MP. Both Farage and Badenoch support creating a UK ICE force. You ask how did the Nazis take over Germany? By dividing the populace, media propaganda and lies. This is how Trump was elected. We still have a few more years … but I see it creeping into our discourse

No snow here this week, but I didn't want to feel left out, so here's a picture from the last time we did... #Photography #Winter #Snow

And it really is a basket case industry. Investors will run a mile from any oil company who tries to get Venezuela's rusty oil infrastructure going again

If you don’t think misogyny is a huge part of MAGA and Trump ever since Bannon activated the ‘monster energy’ of Gamergate against Hillary Clinton, think again. As in Putin’s Russia, the desire to dominate, subjugate and kill women is the key psychopathology of Trumpism

Pure evil from Elon Musk and Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson.

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Wonder why the illegal sex abuse image factory and racist promotion service owned by the world vilest man has such a poor reputation? It really is a mystery.

British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month. Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

'Hinter den Kulissen' #FotoVorschlag Kohlezeichnung von Sigmund Freuds Schreibtisch und Stuhl von Robert Longo, mit der Kunstgalerie, die sich in dessen Glas spiegelt.

The motley collection of roofs, windows, and towers, that is Wawel Cathedral. The building was begun in the C14th, but "expanded by successive rulers, resulting in a versatile and eclectic architectural composition" (to quote Wikipedia). #Photography #FensterFreitag #Church #Architecture #Krakow

The plight of disadvantaged people generally is of absolutely no consequence to him. He can't be bothered helping people. He can't be bothered with Parliament. He can't be bothered with his constituency. Add to that that he and his cult thrive on cruelty. He simply couldn't care less.

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Scathing words from No 10 on X making the Grok image tool available only to paying users: “That simply turns an AI feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service. It's not a solution. In fact, it's insulting to victims of misogyny and sexual violence."

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‘Strong support for proportional representation among Labour members’ Despite winning a majority at GE2024 under first-past-the post on under 34% of the votes cast, 66% of members would back a shift away from first-past-the-post in favour of PR for future elections. labourlist.org/2026/01/elec...

The Mercator projection is widely used for navigation charts, but is less practical for world maps, because the scale is distorted and areas farther away from the Equator appear disproportionately large.

The motley collection of roofs, windows, and towers, that is Wawel Cathedral. The building was begun in the C14th, but "expanded by successive rulers, resulting in a versatile and eclectic architectural composition" (to quote Wikipedia). #Photography #FensterFreitag #Church #Architecture #Krakow

Greenland: JD Vance tested the waters (A cartoon from the archives, published in le Canard enchaîné Paris on May 2, 2025)

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I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

This thread resulted in Google's AI function telling people that my cat was a real human woman who came to media prominence during the Britpop era and once ran a successful high-end interior design business. I've written about that - and some other stuff - here: www.tom-cox.com/thinking-abo...

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This is the famous salt mine at Wieliczka, near Krakow. It was active from the C13th till 1996, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 287km of passages and chambers have been cut through the solid, greyish salt, as you can see from the floor of this corridor. #Photography #Travel #History

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag Gedrehtes Wasser.

Can 34 accusers really all be wrong or lying?

Pleased to see POLITICO Influence feature our campaign as part of the Westminster debate on tackling election disinformation ahead of the Elections Bill. Grateful to @politico.eu, and to the cross-party MPs and orgs we’ve been working with for their engagement. www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...

I'm firmly with Louise on this one.

This, from @chadbourn.bsky.social, has got to be how many of us feel today. Come on US citizens - time to throw off the oppressors. The Murder of Renee Good open.substack.com/pub/chadbour...

I don’t know why these news items come as a shock to some people.

“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

💯 “It’s so clear that we need a new system, fit for the 21st century, and the conversation amongst MPs is shifting from "if" to "when" and "how". As a first step the Government should set up a National Commission on Electoral Reform” 🌹 @alexsobel.co.uk #Labour4PR

This is the famous salt mine at Wieliczka, near Krakow. It was active from the C13th till 1996, and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 287km of passages and chambers have been cut through the solid, greyish salt, as you can see from the floor of this corridor. #Photography #Travel #History

To the discerning eye there is a reason certain ancient woodland floor is void of any visible sign of life But below the surface hundreds of thousands of wildflowers are waking up Not just any flower, these are English Bluebells Ten thousand years of cyclical wonder & beauty

Towards the very end of last year, we went to the seaside. I'm thinking of this shot as 'Tide Going Out, With Oak Leaf'... Gegen Ende des letzten Jahres fuhren wir ans Meer. Ich betrachte dieses Foto als „Ebbe, mit Eichenblatt“... #Photography #MeerMittwoch #Beach #Sea #Psychogeography

More on the stunning Iron Age carnyx found in #Norfolk with boar standard and shield bosses 👇👇👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Found by PreConstruct Archaeology and featuring in episode 2 of the new series of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on BBC2 Wowzers 🤩

Towards the very end of last year, we went to the seaside. I'm thinking of this shot as 'Tide Going Out, With Oak Leaf'... Gegen Ende des letzten Jahres fuhren wir ans Meer. Ich betrachte dieses Foto als „Ebbe, mit Eichenblatt“... #Photography #MeerMittwoch #Beach #Sea #Psychogeography

Today is Epiphany, when Western Christianity celebrates the three kings' visit to the infant Christ. Peter Bruegel the Elder's 'Adoration of the Kings' [National Gallery] is one of my favourite imaginings of that moment. It's also full of mystery. Quick Epiphany 🧵

The outcome of any democratic election depends not just on how voters cast their ballot… …but also how the electoral system processes them. By Professor Sir John Curtice

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