Great day for Green plumbers! 💚

Where popular portrayals of polyamory most often miss the mark is in the idea that the practice is primarily about having sex with multiple partners. Polyamory is mostly about intimacy, not sex, and it has ethics at its core. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/polyamory-isnt-all-about-sex/

Valentine is also the patron saint of epileptics 🧠! (and beekeepers! 🐝) For more info on epilepsy: epilepsysociety.org.uk @amepilepsysoc.bsky.social

UK ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful ft.trib.al/TKbvf6A

New Yorkers return Pride flag to Stonewall after Trump administration removed it reut.rs/4qCvPyh

Good night Sally ✨🖤🤍

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

🚨 5 Days to go - National March for Palestine - Hands off Gaza ⏰ Saturday 31 Jan, 12PM 📍Russell Square - Whitehall Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has not ended. Join us for the next march for Palestine to demand our government end its complicity in Israel’s violence.

Resisting the might-makes-right order, in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba and Greenland. Boycott, divest from, or exclude from contracts these complicit US companies.

"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks!" 🦆 - Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935)

The attack hits civilians gathering firewood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, sources say.

Good morning. A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive. That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power. Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.

A displaced Palestinian girl was filmed gathering bread from the ground in a Gaza displacement camp after Israeli forces bombed the tents.

In response to the freezing temperatures, SWEP has been activated to ensure those sleeping rough have shelter. If you’re worried about someone sleeping rough, notify StreetLink who can connect them with local services. One simple action can make a real difference. thestreetlink.org.uk

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Watching the total donations shooting up after the Xmas Day Message is so beautiful. Thank you all! 💚🎄 www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

The stereotype of polyamorists as young, wealthy, White, and liberal isn't supported by the data. Research finds that people who practice polyamory are a surprisingly diverse group. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-myths-of-sex/202512/whos-into-polyamory

Very telling that the Guardian Weekly article showing teenagers' reactions to Australia's social media ban have a bunch of healthy kids saying "Annoying but no biggie, I can wait two years" and one very disabled one saying "welp there goes my entire world."

Merry “Time Magazine’s Person of the Year is not an award or endorsement, it’s an observation of impact, for better or worse” season to one and all.

'Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire Walk With Me" Your festive reminder that Jherek Bischoff has an entire Christmas album in the style of the Twin Peaks soundtrack🦉

In a climate of increasing hostility towards trans and gender non-conforming people it's never been more important to stand up for the rights of everyone to go about their lives in freedom and dignity without fear of violence or harassment.

Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

HAPPY LIFE DAY✨ …from a visibly wasted Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford wishing he was literally anywhere else, and all the crew! If you’ve never seen it, the Star Wars Holiday Special is a cursed abomination of TV that you must watch. It’s about an in-universe holiday called ‘Life Day’ and includes:

Bracing and necessary read. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

New York Post (unintentionally) making the most joyful celebration cover 💪 🥰

From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.

Gaza health chief says 170,000 wounded await care amidst hospital crisis - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-health-chief-says-170000-wounded-await-care-amidst-hospital-crisis

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

“Evidence‐based medicine has three pillars: (i) appraisal of research evidence, (ii) real‐world clinical expertise, and (iii) individual patient values and preferences. The Review's failures across all three are evident.” Oh dear, Cass. www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

literally no correlation here except to massage the notion that the cause of palestinian liberation is antisemitic and to manufacture consent for genocide from jews (which, itself, places jews in harm’s way).

If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation. www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

🔊 'A number of the elements of this proposal are things that Israel has repeatedly and publicly said it is not at all prepared to do.' Listen to the Reuters World News podcast for more on the details of Trump's 20-point Gaza plan reut.rs/3Ir2vLc

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people. 🧵1/3

20 days. We have just overtaken the Lib Dems both in polling and in members. We're just getting started. Join.greenparty.org.uk

As an Australian I welcome this positive step in the right direction. It is FAR from enough.

Dating Clinic this Sunday with @thelovetankcic.bsky.social 💕 Details and tickets: www.outsavvy.com/event/29588/...

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

London this evening 🇵🇸 protesting the visit of Israeli President Herzog.

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.