The islands of Little Diomede (U.S.) and Big Diomede (Russia), are just 2.4 miles apart and when the sea freezes you can walk between them Russia is already America's neighbour

The richest individual on Earth should not own the keys to the largest disinformation machine on the planet. It's not censorship to switch X off. It's common sense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascism is always a war on the left. It's not all it is, but it's always that.

Philip K. Dick - Valis In the midst of all the sadness, badness, radness & madness - the gnosis & psychosis - of his Exegesis, PKD pins a postcard to his lunatic’s cork board which reads, “You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”. The levity is surprisingly/ occasionally efficacious.

#fallfriday 👇🏼💥👍🏻

The World Cup should not be held in the United States.

Last week in the UK, a bloke who kept turning up at military events in a bogus admiral’s uniform wearing a bunch of other people’s medals was convicted of an actual crime. And rightly so.

9 January 1942 | Dutch Jewish boy Jacob de Mesquita was born in Amsterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 October 1942 in a transport of 1,710 Jews. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection. --- ▶ The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

Shutting down X is no longer a matter of free speech. It is a matter of child protection.

Channel 4 News close to examplary this evening. It pains me to point out that some people working for the broadcast partner of Bari Weiss's CBS News, the BBC, could learn a lot from Matt Frei & Anushka Asthana. But I also wonder how much 'balance' we give to obvious liars, however powerful they are.

JD Vance, in a live briefing, right now, said: “When you see someone throw a brick at an ICE agent - the question is: Who paid for that brick?” I can’t. This is too ridiculous.

Striking how many people currently explaining the state’s right to murder *other people* were quite hysterical about the state’s right to limit *their own* freedoms during lockdowns.

The VP is a sociopath.

JD Vance is as evil as it gets. Pure evil. He is using the language and lies murderous dictators have used throughout history to justify their actions.

And if now is not the moment to remind ourselves of this most terrible lesson, then when is it OK? This is one of those times when being a bystander is no longer an option.

🔴 NEW - Farage accepted £10k in gifts from the Abu Dhabi government. The UAE is a petrostate and Farage is a climate science denier leading a pro-oil party...

According to witnesses, this is the masked ICE agent who shot the driver in Minneapolis. He shot from the side into the vehicle. This is him walking away from the crashed vehicle.

Why would the ICE Agent who killed the woman in Minneapolis FLEE THE SCENE?

Nigel Farage confirms that Reform UK will vote *against* the bill to lift the two child cap, keeping hundreds of thousands of children in poverty.

BACK IN BUSINESS!!! For the first time in 3+years us Nightingales are on tour in February AND we have a new member, Natalie, who is really bloody great! A few of these gigs are on the home straight now so best get on it 🎟️ www.thenightingales.org.uk/live

THINGS OF 2025 #4 - AITCH NICOL Writers Poppy & Evan bring an eclectic mix of their 2025 highlights including @CMATbaby's 'Euro-Country', films 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' and 'Tornado', album, , the EP 'This Better Be Something Great' from Westside Cowboy, and new discovery Jackson C. Frank.

THINGS OF 2025 #4 - AITCH NICOL Another dive into music and cultural highlights from Aitch in the editorial team including Bob Vylan's stand against violence and genocide, 'No Rocket Required' by The Moonlandingz, Manchester Psych Fest, 'The Substance', podcast Strong Message Here' & La Sécurité.

EXCLUSIVE Following the news that one of the first things a Nigel Farage Reform government would do is ensure that “the young are taught correctly about our history”, I have been passed these leaked pages from Reform’s proposed GCSE history textbook. mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there. Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government

This is very bad news for Greenland

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

I already have a copy, but a signed one would be mint. 🙏

US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Growing body of evidence suggests that Trump launched the kidnapping of Maduro simply because he thought he was being trolled by the Venezuelan dictator dancing like him.

About 14 years ago at a NY party I sprained my ankle dancing to 'Ever Fallen in Love..." by The Buzzcocks. Agony.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

I found the textbook they'll be using. bsky.app/profile/mrhe...

Under the Treason Felony Act 1848, it is a crime punishable by life imprisonment to intimidate parliament or encourage any foreign power to invade the U.K. We should be applying this law to every traitor openly calling for the U.S to depose our democratically elected government.

birds do it bees do it even educated fleas do it let's do it let's fly into a window

Musk has no interest in countering disinformation, racism and now abusive images.

*Trump kidnapped Maduro because he plagiarised the US president's dance moves* would be a crazy and unbelievable story in any other age but our own. www.rawstory.com/trump-267484...

The stupidest people in the world continue to get cheered on by those whose lives will only be made worse by their actions. While the majority of us remain hostages to it all. It's so bleak.

80% of Mumsnet users do not intend to vote Reform. But @lbc.co.uk is dedicating an entire hour on how "mumsnet users are turning to Reform"

This is horrifying but hardly surprising. A known neo-Nazi and xenophobe was given a platform alongside Russian extreme nationalists — an actual tool of violent ideology and Kremlin influence. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

THINGS OF 2025 - ANDREW WOOD & HAYLEY FOSTER DA SILVA This is the first part of our dive into the music and cultural things that members of our Joyzine team loved in 2025 with favourite things from writers Andrew Wood and Hayley Foster da Silva.

THINGS OF 2025 #2 - IOAN HUMPHREYS The second post diving into the music and cultural things that members of our Joyzine team loved in 2025 comes from editorial team member Ioan Humphreys. Including Voluntary Redundancy, Forever Now Festival, Stewart Lee, Bosch on Prime & Desert Island Discs.