Every US Democrat needs to understand that they either run on a platform of “prosecute into a greasy smear, not ‘moving on’” OR that they themselves will be prosecuted as supporting the fascism.

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

This is in response to Congressman Randy Fine announcing the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act.

Fancy a trip around the British Museum with a weird nerd lecturing you about Videogames?! This Friday I'm running an evening tour... it's the next closest experience to being locked in a lift with me for a couple of hours. Marketing is my passion... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-videog...

Properly funding the court system would clear the backlog even more quickly. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

When we wanted to play a new video game, we first had to type in the source code from the pages of a magazine bought in the newsagent.

The paragraph just before this one goes particularly hard: “Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.”

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity theory. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

People living in UK - especially GB - should not be thinking 'at least we're not as bad as America,' when Northern Ireland exists and civilians were being shot by state forces there for decades, and recent governments have given those forces amnesty. @grantsana.bsky.social leading bsky voice here.

"At least this isn't technically fascism!" I say cheerfully as people are gunned down on the street by masked enforcers and I'm hauled off to a gulag for protesting against it.

Dunno about TV series, but I liked the finale of Highlander, and I’m glad they just left it there.

I know people believe that the Democrats are in the minority and can't do anything. I would encourage you to read about how, in fact, minority parties can be disruptive. If they want to be. You don't even have to read. You can just see how the Republicans acted during the Obama years.

If Trump is really stealing spending power from Congress then it would be insanity for Democrats to vote to fund the government later this month. Shut it down until the president stops wiping his ass with the Constitution.

Whew... Blakes 7. The fourth series of Blackadder. I was finding season three of The Good Place just adequate, but the finale was a heartbreaking leap back to form. TNG's "All Good Things" deserves credit for going out so solidly on its own terms and for such a perfect last scene. "Saul Gone."

The official right wing propaganda line seems to be “but if you raise taxes the billionaires will leave!”… but if they’re not paying taxes, what good are they doing for the state anyway? Good riddance.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

Five years ago today, Donald Trump ignited a violent mob to attack the Capitol and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. Last year, Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 of those insurrectionists. It's an assault on American democracy.

if you host a podcast, ben bowler is feeding it to AI, stripping it of ads, and profiting from it. i spent my morning submitting DMCA takedown requests and getting a cease and desist request because how fucking dare you profit from our IP when we don't even make any money from it???

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going

I think it’s time for NATO and the EU to officially recognise that the US is a crown colony of the UK.

If we attacked Greenland, we'd be Section 5 obligated to fight ourselves.

Here are some choice quotes from Jack Smith’s testimony about the conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “..the evidence made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy.”

I’d be much more interested in a deposition under oath.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

This sort of thing hacks me off. What POTUS can or cannot do legally is irrelevant if those responsible for enforcing this laws do not act. #1 priority of the next Congress is to FUCKING ACT.

Finished my re-read of A Girl And Her Fed, so I’ve just purchased all the Rachel Peng and Hope Blackwell novels so that I can spend more time with @kbspangler.com’s and @alepresser.com’s characters.

Starmer and Farage both drape themselves in flags but once again it's really clear where their loyalty really is. It's Trump first. They will always be on the side of the super rich and powerful - no matter how heinous the crime. This is not patriotism. It's subservience.

i feel like i see a lot of "mysterious new account makes big bet on insider information" news stories and not enough people-being-arrested-for-that news stories

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.

the main thing to know about the maduro arrest is there are hundreds of thousands of epstein files we still haven’t seen

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1944, Anne-Marie Walters parachutes into France as a British Special Operations Executive agent. SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation. In Aug 1944 she escapes over the Pyrenees. She writes a book about her work. #WorldWar2 #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory 🗃️

Exactly one month ago.

Actually, that exactly how JURISDICTION works unless you have an extradition treaty

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Forget the lack of congressional authorization for the strikes, Congress should focus on his inability to speak coherently and his crazy policy statements unfolding in real time. Hearings, filibuster, haul the cabinet up one by one and ask them on the record why they aren't invoking the 25th. 👇

Back on Bluesky only to learn the US is now following the plot of Air Force One.

Anyway, I expect I’ll suddenly be completely offline as I lose all my data.

Currently trying to transfer data from old iPhone 8 to new iPhone. Getting the data from a fresh backup of old device had zero effect. Currently restoring device to factory settings to try another method.

So, New Year’s Resolutions: 1. I plan to start fewer international wars than in 2025. Or at least no *more* than last year. 2. Will not wrestle dinosaurs in a pool of cold baked beans. Not one. 3. No leprechauns. 4. Will not top the singles chart with THE Christmas song of 2026. 5. Cheese.

In other news, thanks to a frenzy of optimism, we now have Things booked for the year ahead, and my credit card has whiplash.

I Left It Too Late To Book The Hire Car - A Christmas Morality Play 1/

Ha! Spotted that bins have been emptied and have taken the opportunity to take our rubbish out!

It's good to amplify this message whenever possible. The voices that drown out real issues with scapegoating and hatred really are a minority (as we see whenever it is put fairly to the test in e.g. WI or National Trust votes...neither notable hotbeds of leftist social liberalism).

I had a couple of illustrated hardbacks, something like “How Things Work” and “Wonders of the World”, back in the late seventies/early eighties. I re-read them often, and only recently donated them to charity.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

*long* drive home, so we have applied the time-honoured remedy of a Christmas Doctor Who episode - this time “Joy to the World”. Lovely to see those characters again, and Moffat getting timely-whimey.

brb just starting a support group for people waiting for an EV charger