If I could change one thing about Bluesky, it would be the option to only see images if you clicked on the post. The proliferation of images with multi coloured, large font text, when the text could easily be typed, drives me nuts. It smacks of attention seeking.

Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran has become the first Oxfordshire MP to quit X (formerly Twitter). She said “I can’t sleep knowing that I’m leading traffic to a site that actively enables sexual exploitation of women and children.” Her Bluesky profile is @laylamoran.bsky.social .

🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers. A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers. The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025. 1/ me, for @forbes.com

Using phony criminal charges to intimidate his opponents. Deploying masked thugs to terrorize American cities. Unilaterally threatening and bombing foreign countries. Trump is a ruthless dictator, plain and simple.

‘UK to bring into force law this week to tackle Grok AI deepfakes’

Can't be a real quote @pamnashes.bsky.social

This slogan adopted by Kristi Noem, "One of Ours, All of Yours," is taken from the Nazis, who retaliated for the killing of an SS officer by murdering all the inhabitants of the Czech village of Lidice, apparently none of whom had anything to do with it, and razing the village to the ground.

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave | Marie Le Conte

Greg Gutfeld‘s level of unhinged bile suggests he’s a deeply unhappy and probably suffering person.

The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

I've been on the Radio 4's The World at One making this exact point today, and will be raising in the statement later today. The era of the Government prioritising X for comms is failing by any metric in getting our message out, but this should be a clear red line in and of itself. It's time to go.

If one were interested in really Fucking the United States economy indicting the Fed chair would be one of the steps you might take

“Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all.”

’Ofcom investigates Elon Musk's X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes’

Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.

Kemi, this is just a population density map

Stunning!

So... I've created a starter pack of UK government organisations currently on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/JHsY1Wz (Currently includes all those listed under ministerial and non-ministerial departments here www.gov.uk/government/o... - let me know any I've missed, or got wrong)

Australia recalls parliament early to pass hate speech, gun laws following the mass shooting at Bondi Beach u.afp.com/SX75

Talking to pal, who‘s fairly savvy, but had no idea Trump had been sued by NYC in the 1970s for racial segregation in his apartments, or he’d defaulted on $billions in bank loans, or…well, you get the picture. Trump loathes Wikipedia because he can’t control it. Worth 20 mins of your time.

People have been trying to talk London down, but the evidence tells a different story. Last year saw: The lowest murder rate per capita since records began The fewest murders of those aged under 25 this century One of the lowest numbers of homicides for almost three decades

Happy birthday to us! Our founders – Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley – believed that nature, beauty and history were for everyone. On this day in 1895, they set up the National Trust and we're proud to continue their work today. Thank you to all those who support what we do.

Hellhole not actually a hellhole.

Extremely unusual that the Bluesky team is working late on a Sunday night to verify Canadian political parties and elected officials who are rumored to be mulling over a coordinated X ban with Australia and the UK. When there's smoke, there's fire.

Connections Puzzle #946 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Wordle 1,668 2/6 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

A network of social media accounts posing as Scottish independence supporters has fallen silent once again, closely mirroring a fresh shutdown of internet access inside Iran. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/iranian-link...

Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted. ‘Add blood, forced smile’: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

In Our Time returns this week. Thanks for waiting patiently and/or impatiently www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It probably won’t shock you to know that the maker of this Melania doc hasn’t made a film since 2017 because he got cancelled for being an awful human.

"Watching Melania's journey from Slovenian prostitute to First Lady is like walking barefoot in a field of Lego while you have explosive diarrhea!" That's good enough for me. I've decided that I'm not going to the theater & see this #MelaniaMovie @nancypope.bsky.social @flojohorman.bsky.social

A year on, I would love a reporter to contact Brooklyn Beckham’s F-i-L (for that’s who Peltz is) find out if he’s happy with the results of his ‘match making’ and ask him and Diesel (stupid name) if they’re still in thrall to Musk and his Grok CSAM machine, and the orange felon.

Picture 14. Don’t have nightmares. 😱

Maybe it’s just me but I think this demonstrates just how terrified the orange felon is of the ICC. But they won’t be intimidated by a slack jawed, demented old man. Gift link.

Presenting your United XI for today's #FACup third-round tie 📋

Soaking up the pre-match atmosphere at Old Trafford 🏟️🎬

If NCSC is here - and has been authenticated - then there really is *zero* reason for every single department and ALB with an X account not to also engage here.

NEWS! United States driving test to include 'three-point turn while being shot in the face' manoeuvre newsthump.com/2026/01/11/u...

He said if you call the officer who killed a young mum a ‘murderer’ officers will just murder more people? 🤯

Does anyone have contact details for people who believe Mandelson, I have some tartan paint for sale…

All committees at the @europarl.europa.eu are being blue checked.

All set for some #FACup third-round action 🏟️🏆

‘Shocking’ is an overused word but this, by @drewharwell.com and @joyceshlee.bsky.social is genuinely shocking. Gift link.

I was told that the US is running Venezuela now and it would be easy and there'd be lots of money... and now the US govt is telling Americans to get the hell out. These guys don't even know what a plan is. It's all just wish casting. It's incredible that they currently run the world.

Manchester’s Central Library was once considered the British Library of the North. Did a miscalculation in shelving lead to it having to chop a huge fraction of its non-fiction collection, and at speed? I spent a year obsessing about a long-lost rumour from the early 2010s tinyurl.com/ynsyvy2t

✅ @euds.europarl.europa.eu has been verified by @bsky.app.

Purple first, oddly straightforward today. Connections Puzzle #945 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Is it a good idea to host a major event like the FIFA World Cup in a country whose secret state police hunt down innocent people, lock them in cages, or execute them in the street?

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”