Troops withdrawn, tariffs raised and squirrels identified – Week 64 confirms that Earth’s politics is now powered almost entirely by grievance | Xylb-tok the Martian

We finally managed to transcribe the correct picture, so here (only an hour late) are this week's observations from Mars expertly recorded by @xylbtokthemartian.bsky.social northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/ear...

Having lived in the UK since Jan 1989, I have to say: never yet has an election candidate for ANY election knocked on my door. Never. So I wonder, why do candidates not bother getting in touch with the electorate? (1)

The snail of the year. A vampire snail. Tiny but a winner 🏆 🐌 🦇 northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/...

First they came for the refugees. And I did nothing.

Many cis women don’t want a possible ban of trans women from single-sex spaces, and fear wider consequences of judging on appearance | Sophie Molly

Cis woman here: I certainly don't want a ban of trans women from single-sex spaces!!

Only a week to go! Have you sponsored Alysia Gilda yet? And maybe I will see you in Preston? www.justgiving.com/page/alysia-...

Oh no. Let's hope it not bad. That is such a lovely cathedral www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bylines Network offers just that @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @northwestbylines.co.uk

I love reading what the lunar haggis are up to now! @xylbtokthemartian.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

Preventing trans people from joining a Parkrun? The only reason for that is the wish to hurt trans people as much as possible and exclude them from events, make them feel like a pariah. Please write to your MP to ask them to make the ADF go away. protectparkrun.uk

Could they really not think of ONE thing that would benefit all of Scotland, instead of pampering to the TERF section and removing rights from a small minority group? Shameful

Let me know if you are coming, and if you are a bit late I will hang around to meet you.

Wow we almost got this posted correctly! But then the beam wobbled and somehow set me as author. It is now corrected! Apologies my friend @xylbtokthemartian.bsky.social Here is this weeks missive with picture! northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

It's International Bat Appreciation Day. "A single pipistrelle bat (weighing no more than a 50p coin) can eat up to 3,000 insects in a single night. That’s thousands of midges, mosquitoes, and crop-damaging pests, naturally controlled, without chemicals." wildlifeaid.org.uk/wildlife-fac...

Interesting research from the Dupuytren Research Group, bringing us a step forward in understanding this disease and maybe even finding new treatments. @dupuytren.bsky.social www.growkudos.com/publications...

It's @xylbtokthemartian.bsky.social day! I sincerely hope the dreaded Space Tesla allows transmission, translation and posting of both the Martian's missive and his picture. Yesterday it was in a really bad mood all day and wouldn't allow people to do anything at all on @bsky.app

It's a twofer!

We don't pick people for being male or female at Bylines Network, but it just so happens most of the Editor-in-chiefs are female, and I am proud to be one of them! Watch this webinar with Ginny Smith (Sussex Bylines) as chair, and a panel of strong women discussing justice and equality for women.

And then they'll find something else to complain about

Wishing everyone a very happy Easter. Let's hope somehow love, tolerance and peace will fill people's hearts. God knows the world needs it.

This is spot on

Please share, sponsor, join in or just come by to say hello! 10 May at 11am, Avenham Park, Preston, UK www.justgiving.com/page/alysia-...

Predictable #Oscars cartoon.

My sources say it was former president John Barron

@joshsimonsmp.bsky.social @mayorofgm.bsky.social

Hoping to see a fish and be able to ring the bell.. northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/...

Wasn't Winston Churchill that person who started the ECHR which Reform thinks is terrible? Can't have your cake AND eat it Matt.

On International Women’s Day, Bylines Network invites you to celebrate the women who make the Network successful, here is the story of the North West editor-in-chief.  | Gemma Gould

War drums, incel jargon and Melania at the UN, Week 55 suggests Earth’s leadership may be one group chat away from total absurdity northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

A sombre insight into the exhausting and lonely daily reality of looking after a parent suffering from dementia | Anna Schurer

No change yet in the situation. #FreeLarryTheCat

Eminent Victorians #MedicalMisogyny #LongCovid #InternationalWomensDay #CovidDayOfReflection Still this, today.

The nation's feline overlord @number10cat.bsky.social has been in jail on the dark side previous known as Twitter for three weeks now. Free Larry! Nobody has the right to silence him. Even my Martian friend @xylbtokthemartian.bsky.social is very unhappy about this development.

How the Greens built a win from the ground up in Gorton and Denton By @noahbronline.bsky.social northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/how...

Every year in spring, a lovely side of humanity shows in the form of a fish doorbell in Utrecht, Netherlands, but what is it and what does it do?  | Anna Schurer

have you SEEN how much £££ @everydoctor.org.uk have identified is need for #URGENT #REPAIRS to our #NHS compared to how much £££ is being paid out in #Investor-Dividends??? 😳😲🤯😡😡😡

Reform UK's Gorton and Denton candidate Matt Goodwin holds a visiting professorship at a university centre allied with at least five ‘race science’-linked organisations including the front publication of a rebranded Nazi eugenics foundation - a network whose central figures he has defended and promo

Another poor Reform politician sadly having been "misquoted" Who would have thought it.

Have children young, penalise those who don’t, ignore the housing crisis, no further education but babies for women – a dystopian future? | Peter Sagar

A top Reform figure in Merseyside has defended calling deputy Prime Minister David Lammy “re*****d and a “pygmy”. | LDRS Press release

Is Reform candidate Matt Goodwin a good fit for Gorton and Denton, an area with a diverse population? | Gemma Gould

RIP Leila Shahid. A formidable woman. punchng.com/palestines-f...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

He 'apologized to all those “who feel deeply uncomfortable.”' That's all right than, we will stop feeling uncomfortable. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

Too right they can

Good evening carbon based calamities ! I’m back once again like a renegade master to try and deliver some form of Martian logic to this thing you keep insisting on calling politics but looks more like an interpretive dance performed on the wing of a plane in a hurricane. Shall we dive right in ? 👽