Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

As a generation X parent of sons who achieved stellar A levels so were told Uni was their appropriate option and that the student finance system was something they wouldn't even notice, let me tell you what a bloody lie that was. Endless unrelenting debt. Forget ever affording a home or a family.

A masterclass in graciousness. Ireland really does produce great presidents. www.instagram.com/reel/DUYMP9m...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

I like to scramble their brains by pointing out that Ancient Greeks, at their peak, loved to portray mythical figures as black. And, yes, black figure pottery was a technique, but *also* artistic choice. See, for instance, below: Zeus is black (as is Hephaestus), but Dionysus and Athena are white.

Should be up in the shop soon. Creativebyrovelo.com/shop

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Will BlueSky block this link? Testing, testing... www.iceinmyarea.org

Just wonderful search.app/ui8M5

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

If you’re outraged over ICE and you want to do one thing tonight where you don’t even have to leave your couch, subscribe to a local, independently owned newspaper. Having reporters who can be relied on right now to ask questions and actually report the truth is essential.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Men with guns are afraid of people with cameras

alt-text added and you have to read this because it is fecking insane

it's still perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgM...

Alt Text: Mittened hands hold a cardboard sign outlined in red. The sign says “Don’t look away” printed over a blue bunny hat representative of the one worn by Liam Ramos, a 5-year-old Minnesotan used by ICE as bait, and sent to a detention center in Texas.

Breaking: removing Tower Hamlets LTNs declared unlawful at court of appeal. Huge congrats to the residents who campaigned on this. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

The opposite view of course is that they ONLY have 5 choices, and better to apply to Universities that they will be happier attending! This idea that an Oxford or Cambridge degree is somehow better needs to be banished for ever!

(I do wish people on here were less focused on “getting people off Twitter” vs. “making Bluesky a fun place to be regardless of Twitter”)

"Man who waited 23 minutes for drive thru order outraged that pedestrian doesn't jog faster across the exit lane of the fast food chain - had to wait 4 more seconds."

Obviously, the job of being a Republican Congressperson is to horse trade for stock tips, but if you believe in even the basic outline of public service, “do not egg on another 9/11-style event” should be Priority No. 1. And we’re barreling towards that outcome without impeachment and removal.

Our pals over at @rspb.bsky.social sent us some festive, accessible bird pics so we thought - why not share them with all of you? What's more, they wrote some gorgeous alt text to accompany them. Thanks, birb friends! Image credit: Ben Andrew

I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.

We spoke to Santa, and he told us that if you don’t add alt text, you’re automatically on the naughty list, so…

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

archive.org/details/ceco... a higher quality version.

Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

This is Willi and Rigatoni. They were saying not-so-nice things behind your back, but then you turned around. Super awkward. 13/10 for both (IG: wildwildwilli)

Alt text for image News article from Newsweek. Headline "Mamdani Effect Is Seeing More People Moving to New York, Not Leaving it" Dated December 12th. Disappointing that @meidastouch.com (of all news outlets) seem so unbothered about accessibility. It's not difficult, is it?

Yep

The main reason Russia might attack Ireland: US companies located here. The reason US companies are located in Ireland: low taxes. The reason Ireland has low taxes: low defence spend. The reason Ireland has a low defence spend: neutrality.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

THIS VIDEO IS AI GENERATED I've seen a few accounts posting this today. This is an AI generated video. Look at the patch on the cop's sleeve. You can't read it, can you? There are symbols in the place of what should be letters.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

"If the pomp, circumstance, and propaganda of the World Cup draw left you with a bad feeling, that's almost by design. FIFA loves to sniff its own farts and to bank on the World Cup's stature to mask its corruption and its skilled kneeling to autocrats"

It's December. The goal is to find MELIA a home for Christmas. We can do this. Over 810 days waiting. Poor baby. A quiet adult only home, no dogs, cats are ok. 3.5 years old, around 50 lbs. Come on New York! Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

Sultana and Corbyn act like they were put together in a competition by Simon Cowell and now they're contractually obliged to go on tour

Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.