BUSINESSES!! Please know that if I want a price for buying something in bulk (like 1000 window stickers for example), I really can't be arsed to fill in a form so you can contact me with quote. I am going to go to one of your competitors and look at their published prices instead.

Key to this is calling it what it is and them what they are, OUT THERE. It’s all well and good naming the threat to our online circles, but more often than not we’re interacting with people who already know. It’s the people who aren’t in these circles who need to hear it.

MapQuest have got in on the action with ‘name your own gulf’. I mean, if the Orange Dictator can do it, we all can, right? Such fun! 😃 gulfof.mapquest.com

What. The actual. Fuck. From the White House official account no less. Same on Insta. Same on FB. Oh, America, what the fuck did you do? #KingTrump

With the world looking increasingly more dangerous and the US turning into a basket case, it’s time to have a long, hard look at who our ‘special relationship’ ought to be with. It’s not with those on the other side of the Atlantic, it’s with those on the other side of the Channel. #Rejoin, now.

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

I have the right to bear arms! It’s in the Constitution! The Constitution is the last word! YOU CAN’T MESS WITH THE CONSTITUTION! 🇺🇸 Except that bit about citizenship by birth. You can mess with that bit. While you’re at it, have a fiddle with the bit that limits two presidential terms.

Naughty Drax receiving green, renewable energy subsidies while burning primary forest. Last I checked, burning wood kicks crap into the atmosphere regardless of where the wood comes from. Shouldn’t we be more concerned that burning wood is still a thing? #ClimateChange www.bbc.com/news/article...

Love this! ❤️ When the arts have taken such a hammering in recent years, it’s bloody fantastic to see such a brilliant community resource. Nice work, #Leeds 🙌🏻

The artist, David Cohen is an Asheville-based artist/musician and resident of over forty years. His cartoon work spans various subjects ranging from local issues based in Asheville to more national political events and even to one-off, word-play-oriented jokes. ❤️ Give credit to artists when you can.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

For all the thick cunts in the back this should clear up your confusion.

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

Axel Rudakubana was not born with an interest in extreme violence. Something, probably many somethings, made him that way. I do so often wonder in situations like this, how much responsibility we as a society share for the eventual, devastating outcome.

Trump’s inauguration? January 20th? Nah can’t do it, mate. Cleaning the back of the fridge that day. Soz.

FUCK THE TORIES. I've been struggling to breathe since lunchtime. Can't talk or do much of anything. Every breath is an effort and I am so tired. I've no history of this. Contacted 111 at 2.30pm. 10pm and STILL waiting for a callback. The #NHS used to work, before those bastards decimated it.

I find these questions fascinating: Is #AI capable of creating something new? Is it just rearranging of other existing ideas? Is it a substitute for human creativity? Curiosity got the better of me over Xmas and I challenged #ChatGPT to write a song. Here’s what I learned -🧵 1/10 #NewMusic

I just can’t get on board with all the schadenfreude about celeb homes being devastated by the #LAFires. I know some of them are proper bellends but they’re still people, and the emotional impact will still hit regardless of wealth. I can’t be gleeful about people suffering, no matter who they are.

‘The first six months have been marred by policies that have unnecessarily alienated section after section of Labour support: winter fuel allowance, the two-child benefit limit, Waspi women, tuition fees, Gaza’. Nail. Head. The longer they keep this up, the less likely a second term is. Then what?

I stand by this.

This. I’ve gone back to X in recent days for the sole purpose of community noting Musk. It’s not much, but it’s something, because I can’t do nothing. Please consider doing similar - he shouldn’t be left unchecked.

Surely this must have just been a slip of the tongue, a mistake, methinks. But no, she did say it and she did mean it. She’s seen the wall on Italy’s land border with Turkey 🙄 Listen for yourself - 0:41:37. www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

With Musk pimping for Reform, spreading hateful misinformation, calling for our govt to be brought down and one of its MPs to be imprisoned, all decent MPs should question whether they should be on X at all. They’re enabling a profoundly undemocratic threat to our country by being on his platform.

I really like meat, fish and cheese, and drink gallons of tea. It’s getting hard to ignore the implications though, so I impulse-joined #Veganuary 10 mins ago at www.veganuary.com Tea was a potential wobble but I just tried it with almond milk and it tastes like… tea. Any #Vegan tips welcome!🙏🏻

Israel can’t say ‘Hamas are there’ forever. At some point there will be nothing left of Gaza. Then what? Say ‘Oops, we bombed everything for no reason’, or move onto the land and no longer be able to spin what this is: a genocidal land grab. Israel is fucked either way. Stop the slaughter now, eh.

100% this. Yes, yes, I know Labour have done *this* and done *that*, but not much of anything that will make a significant improvement to most people’s lives. They’ve got a solid majority and 4 more years. They can do anything they want right now. Time to go big or go home, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

It’s great that the Environment Agency has new rules to protect Atlantic Salmon in the River Camel, #Cornwall. Maybe they’d also like to talk to South West Water about all the shit they keep dumping in the Camel SSSI, which exists to protect wildlife, inluding salmon. www.bbc.com/news/article...

My review of 2024. 'It looked like government as improv: a real-time Whose Lie Is It Anyway? in which members of the public called out ideas such as “fuck off”, or “no, seriously, fuck off”, and then the Conservatives did the opposite.' bylinetimes.com/2024/12/26/2...

Me, last night: I must get up at a reasonable time tomorrow, get back into a normal morning routine, and do some work. *sets alarm for 7.30am* Me, an hour ago: Shit, I must’ve hit cancel and fallen back asleep. Me, currently: still in PJs, eating brie, scrolling BlueSky and procrastinating.

This. All day long, this.

@scousegrrl.bsky.social There is also this which I think is great bsky.app/profile/town… #JoinIn

#Christmas… if, like me, you can find it hard, a reminder that many people don’t enjoy it, including some of those who look like they’re having The Perfect Christmas (TM). I treat it as a ‘me’ day, and give myself permission to properly rest, reflect, and spoil myself. So, tomorrow I will… 1/6

No you won’t, #Labour. In the main, Reform voters aren’t interested in arguments, no matter how well thought out they are. They’re emotional voters, reacting to Farage’s scare/rage-bait tactics. But besides all that, I don’t really want foreign money in UK politics, regardless of source or party.

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

The Pelicot trial is thankfully over, so hopefully Gisèle and her family can now begin to move on from this horror and try to rebuild their shattered lives. It looks like there’s more to come for predator Dominique Pelicot though. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

"But there's something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot. 51 men. 51 men who are #notallmen… but who are, also, quite a lot of men. 51 of them, in fact." Exceptional opening monologue by @sophyridge.bsky.social tonight. ~AA

Grim - this article shines a light on where so much fast fashion ends up. Same could be said of our running kit. Which is why we have a gripe with running events that don’t give people the option to opt-out of event t-shirts. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024...

Deck the halls and not your family, Fa la la la la, la la la la! Spread the love and act real calmly, Fa la la la la, la la la la! Hold the wine and skip the drama, Fa la la, la la la, la la la! Don’t end Christmas in the slammer, Fa la la la la, la la la la!

The Devolution White Paper says ‘take back control’ 6 times, and uses phrases like ‘skin in the game’ (4 times) and ‘when the rubber hits the road’. Is it too much to ask that politicians be professional and just say what they plan to do, without all this bollocks?

🇺🇸 America, listen up! This is what you’re facing: - Cancellation of ‘dangerous’ childhood vax programs. - No universal healthcare. Your million/billionaire stuffed govt and their ilk will be fine, while the less affluent will be fucked. That’s got a helluva ‘let the bodies pile high’ vibe to it.

Israel does a thing. UN: You shouldn’t do that thing. Israel: Meh UN: … Israel keeps doing the thing.

It’d be very easy to clear this lot: someone just needs to whip along the line and sellotape a few hastily photocopied #JustStopOil signs to them, and the Met will be along quicker than you can say ‘Jeremy Clarkson is a tax dodger’.

"We are not a party for the rich" says Farage, a multimillionaire former stockbroker and friend of the world's richest man, as he recieved £1m from the new billionaire chariman of Reform, 4/5 of whose MPs are multimillionaire former stockbrokers and bankers. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Republic is here! #NotMyKing

THIS!!! This couldn’t be more urgent! 👇👇👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

Threat: To find new/interesting music over the last year I picked a genre/country each month to explore and made a playlist of the songs I liked the most. They're far from exhaustive but as it's nearly the end of the year I thought I'd share a few of my favourites in a threat! (1)