Lovely day to do the Coledale horseshoe

I don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.

I love the smell of panic in the evening. Smells like…victory

The top 0.001% control 3 times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of the population. To spell it out, fewer than 60,000 people are 3 times richer than around 4 billion people COMBINED. We have the power to change this, and it starts with taxing billionaires.

Trumpite Goebbels is ignorant as well as bigoted

It was absolutely amazing and to top it all a trailing Brocken Spectre as we climbed Dubhcraig 🤩

More pics from today

Brocken Spectres on Beinn Dubhcraig

Views from Ben Lui summit today

Magical Boxing Day traverse of Ben Lui, Ben Oss and Beinn Dubhcraig with @andreahgp.bsky.social and bell. One of our best winter mountain days in recent years - no wind and (amazingly) no other people. Just glorious views.

Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 25, 2025 ~ Airing grievances. "If East Antarctica began to collapse, losing ice at Holocene-like rates, global sea levels would rise much faster than current projections assume." www.earth.com/news/antarct...

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.

Here is a fatuous Shitler epistle, abounding in nonsense, lies and subterfuge.

Morning Prime Minister... This is what speaking out against fascism looks like. As opposed to offering it state visits... 🤮

The silliness of a school system that prioritises attainment of grades over all else www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

GREENLAND UPDATE: 🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱🇬🇱 Message from the Premier of Greenland

Donald Grump

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I wonder how those 1,000 FBI agents tasked with reviewing and redacting the Epstein files feel now that they've been sucked into a criminal conspiracy to violate the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Now would be a really good time to lawyer-up and seek whistleblower protections. Just saying.

Criminalising victims to protect wealthy perpetrators - par for the course

Labour has dug itself into a deep hole with this ridiculous and repressive labelling of Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Criminalising large numbers of law abiding and conscientious people will surely come back to bite Starmer

Douglas Adams was spot on with his tale of the Golgafrinchans hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafr...

Great analysis exposing the utter incoherence of many in the UK media when it comes to net zero

So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions

NEW | False reports are likely shaping Russian President Vladimir Putin's understanding of the battlefield situation. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

The centre left should have been fighting this battle from the start, rather than accepting the right’s false premise

There's a word for selling political influence for cash... (sadly Reform aren't the first to do so) Via Private Eye

My sentiments. The gloating feels quite distasteful

As I said on The OShow there is a short window for Putin to make his move while Europe is getting its shit together and before Trump is hemmed in by midterm elections. The most dangerous moment is now. youtu.be/0m8k6c8S9js?si… 🇨🇦👀

Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.

In WSJ, a detailed unraveling of how Putin came to pick Trump's negotiating team for Ukraine, kicking out Gen Kellogg and putting Steve Witkoff in his place. Astonishing detail here. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Revisiting an old favourite tonight for the first time in ages. Prog at its best

There's a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts".

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

Fox reports that that while many of the redactions to the Epstein Files were made to protect victims’ identities, “the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” In other words, DOJ admits that they edited Trump and his pals out.

All the flexing, the pomp, the ceremony, the gold and bluff conceals the fact that Russia is rotting from the inside out ... poke the bear, and it will crumble. A united front and an actual American president rather than a preening buffoon would see the end of Putin time.com/7341064/trum...

Imagine if, in 2022, when Russia occupied nearly 30% of Ukraine and was close to Kyiv, we had been told that almost four years later, Russia would still be fighting for Donbas and would only occupy 20% of Ukraine. We would all have considered it a Russian failure

Very normal island...

Putin says "Russia will achieve liberating its historic lands militarily." He means Russia's 1914 imperial borders.

Ludicrous www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.

"Trump aims to take down ‘global mothership’ of climate science" by Rafi Schwarz for @theweek.com: theweek.com/politics/tru...

Kemi works in Westminster where sexual abuse and misconduct are completely endemic. In the last parliament, 2 MPs were convinced and jailed (Elphicke and Imran Khan), Hill lost an Employment Tribunal case and Donaldson was charged. In this parliament, there are 2 pending cases (Norris and Spencer).