THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

#KemiBadenoch has literally just said "I can't comment on Venezuela because Trump hasn't told me what to say yet", and it's hilarious. #idiocracy

Thoughts with @ianleslie.bsky.social at this difficult time.

Yes and worth adding that recognizing it as Nazi propaganda comes with a moral duty to support the ouster of the Nazi leader. 2026 is the year when “Impeachment has to wait” or “Congress should impeach but they won’t“ will no longer fly. Get involved with @citizensimpeachment.com

Just waiting for Starmer's defence of Trump. Cooper, too. All the right-wing shitbags that suck up to him, in fact. #Labour

That shameless fascist Infantino can go fuck himself, quite frankly. #Fifa #WarMongeringPrize

Does anyone know who regularly drew the EastEnders strip for the BBC Enterprises title “Fast Forward”? Signed only as “DE”. Magazine launched in September 1989 and ran until 1995

Measles may have been spread at a Noah’s Ark-themed creationist museum in Kentucky earlier this week, the state’s health authority said.

A powerful statement from Tressa Burke of Glasgow Disability Action. #solidarity with all those fighting rising hatred of #disabled people across the UK. To #RachelReeves #LizKendall #PatMcFadden etc- this is what principles look like. #ableistLabour www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Wild that this time last year you might have considered Zarah Sultana a politician with a real interesting future and now she's a figure of fun, in a dying project, where everyone hates everyone else, and her only knowledge of Scotland is what some no marks with an axe to grind tell her. Tragic!

I've long thought that Rentoul isn't very bright, but now he's openly declaring his inability to comprehend simple truths stated in clear English. Brave, I suppose. I'll give him that.

Taken from the slides in the graduate class i built and taught in autonomous vehicles, chapter Human-Robot Interaction. The ethical board of global robotics. The human is responsible.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

How about a day of reckoning for the self-ID'd "liberals"/"centrists" who have worked so hard to clear a path for the fascists? Of course, Freedland and the Guardian won't want that. These people never seek a day of reckoning for themselves. #racism #liberals #centrists #appeasers

A 2023 analysis of the effects of CIA-sponsored regime change in five Latin American countries found the interventions caused “large declines in democracy scores, rule of law, freedom of speech, and civil liberties.” interc.pt/4sinphB

Politicians tried to convince everyone that the NHS was about to collapse because of flu and strikes. Now the strikes have ended and the flu looks like it’s on the wane, and yet the service is under extraordinary pressure. Perhaps the real problem is the politicians 🚨- who have systematically…

Hahaha. I'm just imagining the hate mob exploding with rage at the WI promoting trans-inclusive 'Sisterhood' events. I bet MumsHate is in meltdown right now, while their queen screams at her lawyers. *snigger*

Comics are better for learning reading skills because they promote both verbal and visual comprehension. It's a more complex form of reading than prose, and one that is more suited to a modern, image-rich, world. #comics #reading

I automatically assume that any politician still using twitter is a right-wing pos unworthy of decent people's respect. Same for political parties and party organizations.

I live in a majority non-white working class area and I have never felt safer. What is really damaging London is money: high rents, chainification and blandification, the forces of gentrification pushing long standing working class and/or ethnic minority communities and local businesses out.

Amazing how the far-right will scream about grooming at trans people & their allies, and at former hotels & their occupants, but when it comes to a real-life victim who was groomed into becoming a child bride, they decide that she isn't fit to be a citizen. "Protect women and girls", is it?

We've won all of our trans rights cases this year, and I am proud to have worked on all of them. This included a landmark victory on legal gender recognition.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year for 2026! Here's our editor Philip Salmon's review of some of our project highlights of 2025. We look forward to sharing more of our research on 19th century politics and parliamentary history over the coming year...

In the Face of Anti-Trans Escalation, We Need More Than Legal Strategies truthout.org/article... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

(a) We will. (b) Why can't we judge you on your past bigotry, which you have not repudiated? #transphobia #EHRC Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups’ criticism www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

New Years can be hard when you’re chronically ill People are setting goals for the upcoming year… and many of us can’t participate Our goal is to survive & lessen suffering If all you did in 2025 was survive, that’s ok It’s ok if that’s your goal for 2026 too Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein

Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.

Interesting to see French bluesky comments on George Clooney's naturalisation and whether it was unfairly rushed through to avoid a strict new citizenship test. Which frankly looks about as stupid as the British one.

Whatever, #KeirStarmer. Meanwhile, decent people will continue to fight the decline and division promoted by you and your government. #austerity #racism #TheUKisFucked #DontVoteLabour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anthony Hopkins also celebrated 50 years of sobriety this week after nearly dying in a drunk driving accident "Anyone out there who is having problem with a little too much, check it out ... because life is much better ... I wish you well, choose life"

“The system failed her. Everybody let her down.” 💔 Invisible Women by SBS & @killedwomennw.bsky.social exposes how Black, minoritised & migrant women are lost to men’s violence, showing the system’s deadly failures. Urgent action is needed. 📢 Amplify 👇🏾 southallblacksisters.org.uk/submissions-...

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

"The problem is not police training, police diversity, or police methods. The problem is policing itself." - Alex Vitale. #AbolishTheCarceralState #DefundThePolice

I mean they already want mandatory genital checks on children so this really isn't much of a stretch.

Stupendous stuff from @samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you want to get a sense of #theGuardian's understanding of #diversity, check out their latest 'Dining across the divide', a series in which they set up two people for dinner who are ostensibly opposed to see if "breaking bread [can] bridge political differences". 1/

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Jeremy Clarkson complains about no village Doctor, no village shops, no village schools, no bobby. This is the same Jeremy Clarkson who loves Margaret Thatcher and David Cameron who made all these things happen with their cuts. They love complaining about what they voted for.

Appropriately David Shipley managed to combine a job evangelizing for Brexit with a financial fraud. His credibility is in the bin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Remember as well that ALL our material is written by actual humans. All the more reason to spread the word about BF's comics coverage. :-)

Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT) As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.

Please see below & share widely my new text published today @truthout.org The Border is Everywhere "Now, more than ever, it is clear that the border is present wherever immigrant communities are present — wherever our sisters and brothers live, work, and struggle" truthout.org/articles/tru...

👉 NEW -- UK backs International Criminal Court since it can't prosecute Britons by @markcurtis30.bsky.social The government has long believed the ICC would only act in “failed states” and is not able to indict UK nationals, declassified files show. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-agreed-to...

According to @euronews.com 37 aid organizations being banned by #Israel from operating in #Palestine 's occupied East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and West Bank = "some aid groups". (Euronews' article claims Israel says 25 aid orgs banned, but @apnews.com's list has 37.) www.euronews.com/2025/12/30/i...

This started in September, it took until November for Congress to care, now its practically January and 24 people have been murdered this month alone.

Speaking as a humanist, I find the hypocrisy of @humanists.uk claiming these values while opposing them in their policies and alliances particularly infuriating. 1/2

how all youtube ads sound to me

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.