One thing that now even the most hopeful have to admit, is that the unctuous European tactic of flattering, praising, massaging Trump has been a catastrophic failure and made things worse.

Okay timeline cleanse let’s all enjoy this scene (Data allegedly has no emotions but he is clearly SO ANXIOUS ABOUT HIS PRECIOUS CHILD) youtu.be/46fKmI9sVaE?...

Haven’t seen posts from Zack Polanski about supporting Ukraine. *Gets shown post from Polanski supporting Ukraine* Yeah but I mean, how would Zack Polanski win a war against Vladmir Putin?!

I'm pro free speech and pro consequences of free speech, namely these people not being able to go anywhere for the rest of their lives without being constantly mocked

Trump will likely try to make Denmark choose between NATO and Greenland, and wider Europe between Greenland and Ukraine. But luckily Trump has also demonstrated that under his leadership, any US security guarantee won’t be worth much. So the choice should be simple.

"All Is Full of Love" (dir. Chris Cunningham, 1997)

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.

As the EU gears up to offer Australians (of all ages) the chance to live and work more freely in Europe critics of our own ideas of improving mobility for Brits are left looking a bit daft and out of touch. secretsydney.com/australians-... #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM @savefom.bsky.social

BREAKING: A full-scale airlift is running around the clock, transporting troops and military equipment to Greenland. The operation is extensive, “beyond anything we’ve tried before,” a source tells DR. Danish F-35 fighter planes and warships from European allies involved. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Apparently Gaza hasn't suffered enough so they're going to send Tony Blair.

a surefire way to get me to drive scrupulously at the posted speed limit and not a tick above is to get up my butt about it

When I say the EU and its structures is not up to dealing with the world as it now is. This is just one example of why I think this. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... EU ‘membership-lite’ plan for Ukraine spooks European capitals

Plaid Cymru defeated Reform UK in a community council by-election in the Vale of Glamorgan, which will be part of a hotly contested new constituency in May’s Senedd election ✍️ Martin Shipton

they’re desperate for results so that their MPs can make posts like this. I’m sure there are *some* good things happening in parts of the country but as per this 🧵👆👇there are also simply too many signals suggesting wrongful removals from waiting lists that are at best cavalier, at worst, deliberate

Ofc if you *did* have a strategy of getting people off NHS waiting lists in part by exploiting folks’: 📱 fears of answering calls from unknown numbers 👩‍💻 lack of good tech 😖 lack of headspace to be perfectly organised …then deprived areas wd absolutely be the easiest place to do that Too cynical?🧵

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.

I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.

Tallow candles and their general greasy smelliness are in my mind thanks to @goingmedieval.bsky.social's Mediaeval Winter video, which is well worth a watch. Filmed down the road from me too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL7L...

This is beyond shocking - how can this be allowed to happen? Why on earth can’t they be released on bail? They have a right to a fair trial, appropriate medical treatment, & the removal of punitive Prison Service conditions. Govt’s ban on Palestine Action is simply intolerable

I agree - can scarcely believe this situation is being allowed and almost ignored. We have no room to criticise Trump and ICE, if we in UK effectively cause these people to die. They are principled - possibly mistaken but not dangerous - and should be bailed immediately.

She's been imprisoned without trial. That's plain wrong.

I’ve found the culprit. This photo was taken at 9pm.

This article reflects the still dangerously common determination by European leaders to view, and negotiate with, Trump through the frame of rationality and actual US national interests. Trump is irrational and motivated only by personal avarice and ego. Pretending otherwise is hugely perilous.

One of my last interactions with Matt Goodwin over on the bad site was when I questioned his assertion that ‘all Londoners know London is a shithole really’. He demanded I undertake polling on it (which was odd, as he has a polling company and I don’t). Looks like someone did it for him.

Footage of tonight’s Israeli ceasefire in the north of the Gaza Strip

I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.

The best thing going on on the internet right now is videos of this kitten ferociously attacking slices of ham and making nom nom sounds

C’est une ClayStation

Been binging THE NEWSREADER and it's so good. Some 80s Australasian nostalgia, a great 80s Aussie music soundtrack and a great cast.

I don’t know if I can pick a favorite. I love season one because Dale is so sweet… Season two because he doesn’t quite go full bad… and season three is so good because of Helen’s arc…

Just finished The Newsreader on BBC Iplayer and it is some best TV I have watched in years. Just 3 seasons and I think that is right.

Timeline cleansing

It's the World vs United States of Terrorism now, and anyone who can't see that is blind, govern yourselves accordingly.

Wishing you all a wonderful #StAndrewsDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This is an appreciation post for my grandfather, who was born in Dunfermline in 1947. This is him cutting my parents' wedding cake with a saw because the icing was so hard that they couldn't cut it with a knife.

Maybe I’m naïve but i believe many chronic illnesses *could* be cured if there were actually the will to put real resources into research. There is no reason that we don’t have decent treatment for diseases like fibromyalgia or ME except for misogyny and lack of medical interest.

It is now still as still as still )2mph sustained), softly falling rain, look at that wind direction chart…

A Cardiff waste company, which is part of a group that donated £200,000 to former First Minister Vaughan Gething's leadership campaign between December 2023 and January 2024, has been fined £40,000 for failing to follow fire safety rules wp.me/p8Mk4U-1c7b

Cosmeston lakes in Vale of Glamorgan started to freeze over and I was amused by the moorhens walking across it.

Health of Palestine Action hunger strikers deteriorating, supporters say

There we go. That there’s a headline.

When I first started developing this line of thinking, it still seemed to be a bit obscure and speculative. Now that I'm developing it into a long-form project, it has become blindingly obvious.

Another (perhaps final) thought about the Thiel-Vance-Musk school of civilizational thinking: It may start with an impulse to reinforce barriers and expel out groups, but it ends in imperial expansion of barriers and subordination of out groups to subservient/slave status. 1/

Help, help, I have a v dangerous black panther hiding under my furniture!

I practice piano with headphones on. Five minutes before food was due I could hear this one demanding food.

The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!

I am coming ever more to the conclusion that the EU is not up to the challenges the world is currently throwing at it. That a couple of EU states can hold it to ransom so that time consuming diplomatic and bureaucratic scheming can get done what is needed. But I also can’t see a solution. 1/2

Just go with the snow 🌨️ It's been very snowy in the Cairngorms National Park. The arctic weather is making tracking the released population a wee bit tricky. Luckily, the extensive network of trail cameras are still recording - and it's not just wildcats that pass by them 🐾

For city people who scoff at descriptions like “it was a dark and stormy night” this is a “bright and moonlit night” on the moor, bit of snow, no artificial light.