the greens tried to save them even though they're not real swans @csandds.bsky.social

#OtD 1 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany enacted a law which forcibly sterilised more than 400,000 disabled people. Later they began murdering them, killing 250,000. Their rhetoric about disabled and ill people being a burden on workers is still widespread today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8069...

summer in regional Australia, sinking cans and saving wildlife

day one in mamdani’s new york

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

As an Australian, I can't help to wonder what this means for Sydney house prices. 📉

This 73 year old cartoon by Yuliy Ganf called "At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served," is as true today as it ever was.

(1) Sick boots. (2) There's no winning anyway. If she had some cheap Shein shit the story would be about how they're sweatshop shoes instead of fully traceable supply chain shoes (like these are).

@benhr.bsky.social Happy new year!

I am a receptionist at the surgery. I had no response despite loudly calling a lady's name four times. On the 5th a lady sided up to me and whispered "I am Mrs Hardacre. You might mean me, not Mrs Half-Arse". Mortified.

Reform’s previous leader in Wales has just been jailed for 10 years after admitting to being a Russian asset.

Long before midnight there was a massive queue outside one bar in Newcastle city centre on New Year's Eve

This fuckwit led our country into ruin

Benson is generally pretty unflappable but every time the neighbors set off a shitload of fireworks he sulks in his toilet foyer

Striding into 2026 with hope for nature. 🧡 #HappyNewYear from everyone at WWF-UK!

RTYI @renewcp.bsky.social

Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

China’s Xi says ‘reunification’ with Taiwan ‘unstoppable’ https://aje.io/2wzf2l

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The Trump-Washington monument

The first official meme for 2026 has dropped - Rattly

Penny Wong's Furrowed Brow™ Presents:

Phillip assures us that our fearless leaders are self serving, nepotistic, opportunists because they don't have lifetime pensions and it's not really in their nature at all. #AusPol

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

@fakegeoffdellar.bsky.social my neighbours have two teenage boys and I spotted this in their backyard this morning #PanningLyf

it’s all i’ve got

The FBI says fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from roughly $250M in 2024 (Lucien Bruggeman/ABC News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

@fakegeoffdellar.bsky.social @csandds.bsky.social 2026 is the year of the mathematics joke

@fakegeoffdellar.bsky.social @csandds.bsky.social @renewcp.bsky.social the nectar of the gods

remember folks corporations aren't people so they can't get upset when you steal their content

here’s my tech ins and outs for 2026 out - depending on big tech - only ever creating public content for money or clout - platforms/protocol lock in in: - making fun little websites and apps for friends - self hosting - pirating - small online communities

No country for poor men

“Three narco-terrorists aboard the first vessel were killed in the first engagement. The remaining narco-terrorists abandoned the other two vessels, jumping overboard and distancing themselves before follow-on engagements sank their respective vessels.”

Remix these works for a chance at fame & glory! Submissions are still open for the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was born in part of the realization by the Red Cross that they'd failed to speak out against the Holocaust of Jewish people in the Nazi camps. Founding MSF in 1971, former RC medics vowed to bear witness as well as rendering aid. Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...

Pretending to be a stressed New York homicide detective taking off his shoulder holster at the end of a brutal day adds a bit of fun when I'm removing my orthopaedic posture support.

GO GUINS

It’s absolutely astounding stuff that people — elected politicians even — are flat out saying that the reason cops are prowling the streets of Sydney with semi-automatic rifles is to make people “feel” safer. And that this security theatre is a *good* thing.

47 years ago today, #Bauhaus performed their first gig - as Bauhaus 1919 - in Wellingborough.

#Starmer #LabourConference