I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

We need to look after their home #penguins

🇪🇺🇺🇸 Europe may begin selling US assets in response to a new conflict with US, and this will collapse the dollar,- Bloomberg. "Deutsche Bank analysts note that the US currently has vulnerability: living at the expense of the rest of the world. Europe may decide it no longer wants to finance the US."

Reminder that just a month ago the Swiss Government rejected using Palantir in any role in Switzerland's Government. Because they posed a 'catastrophic' threat.

Please sign and share widely to support a #Cornish language for the people, of the people and by the people. Mar pleg, gwrewgh sinya ha kevrenna yn efan dhe skoodhya #Kernewek yw a-barth an bobel, a’n bobel ha gans an bobel. openletter.earth/call-for-cor...

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

Now is the time.. #Trump #Greenland

Awful

Due to its increasing toxicity, we are no longer posting on X.  You can find us on FB, Instagram, TikTok - and of course here on BlueSky, where we will continue to share news about the wall,  details of our events, and updates on the continually growing covid death toll. ❤️

Community spirit in #StIves after all the damage caused by #StormGoretti

A longer post from me to start the year: the Dutch are panicking. Their digital ID system will soon fall under the control of an American company and far-reaching US government powers. Why is that such a problem? And what does it mean for the UK? open.substack.com/pub/georgina...

Emergency services are very busy responding to the impacts of Storm Goretti. Conditions remain dangerous. Please do not travel and stay indoors. Save these emergency contacts in case you need them.

10/10 for headline, FT, a++ No notes. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

If you wish to participate in our upcoming exhibit in The Netherlands for Alzheimer’s, the call for artists is now open. To register, please visit postcardartexhibit.com Also visit our FAQ page for any questions: postcardartexhibit.com/faq We hope that many of you can join us 🙏❤️

Everything means everything. For instance, try to run US foreign trade without Maersk. And what about the US healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors without Novo Nordisk? As the Americans might find out one day, global power is not only wielded through aircraft carriers. bsky.app/profile/paxl...

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

Zelenskyy on Maduro: "What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the United States of America know what they should do next." The US op in Venezuela mirrors the Russian op in Ukraine that triggered the war. (📹 via @antongerashchenko.bsky.social ) #VenezuelaInvasion

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

📚 Discover Cornwall through stories and creativity! Did you know Kresen Kernow holds the largest collection of books about Cornwall? From history and folk tales to picture books, our shelves are full of stories about Cornwall’s past and present.

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

We are so close to the 10k signatures we need for the Government to respond to our @climatemajority.bsky.social petition calling for a funded National Climate Resilience Plan. Please sign now. It's a simple and easy thing you can do to make a difference. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Reshare and help @samaritans.bsky.social reach someone who might need to know their helpline is open 24/7 all through Christmas and New Year 💚

📊 It’s easy to lose sight of what all the numbers actually cost. But behind every figure is a nurse working double shifts, a ward left understaffed, a patient waiting longer for care. These aren’t statistics — they’re people. NHS staff and patients deserve better. 💙

£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise £24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors

”X is a toxic media platform & (...) its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse,” news media The Guardian said in a statement announcing it would no longer be posting on the platform. Leave X Now #DeleteYourXAccount #BoycottTesla #Musskolini Thread 1/4🧵

Bluesky is dying?! Really? Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X. www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

You are being played for fools by Louis Mosley, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, the Tories and Keir Starmer's Labour Party when it comes to the safety and preservation of the NHS as a public service available to everyone.

The true pleasure of Bluesky. "When I look around, I see people who often took a big professional risk because they would not comply. In many cases, they had profiles they had built up for years. They let it go. They did this because they refused to extinguish their moral character."

Tonight the Cold Moon rises 🌕❄️ Known too as the Long Night Moon or the Moon Before Yule, it lifts into the deepening dark as we head toward the year’s longest nights. It will be the last supermoon of 2025. Moonrise: 14:44* 📷 @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social

Really scary new data on A&Es “Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff... The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity” Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social #OnlytheNHS can solve this www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

Listening to David Lammy on @BBCr4today attempting to justify abolishing trial by jury, it is increasingly and terrifyingly clear that he simply does not understand the issues.

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1 ‘The village’ Artist: SR Badmin

A reminder that one of Wes Streeting's junior ministers is talking enthusiastically about 'cashing in' on NHS data (www.ft.com/content/0531...).

Cornwall likely to get own devolution deal - MP #Cornwall #Kernow 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Wow. The more you know…

Although you'd be forgiven for having missed it - yesterday's budget confirmed it: private partnerships are back to fund NHS projects.🚨 So who DID ask for PFI to come back? While 69 NHS trusts still owe £21bn on old PFI contracts? 👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

Nearly every day, we find pink sea fans tangled in marine debris. This one has a covid mask attached. A soft coral, pink sea fans are nationally scarce and globally vulnerable. In the UK, they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. #seafangle #covidarchaeology #hornycoral

St Ives Times & Echo closes after 126 years following death of editor #Cornwall #Kernow 🔗: https://www.falmouthpacket.co...

Private Eye's Richard Brooks has revealed how financiers behind Ayanda Capital (which is owned by a Mauritius-based holding company)—Tim Horlick, Nathan Engelbrecht, and Liz Truss adviser Andrew Mills—amassed £64m from UK taxpayers despite supplying faulty PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic.

PFI didn’t just burden NHS trusts with huge debt, it trapped them in decades of overpriced maintenance contracts. One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous. And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget

Great stuff from Mark! If you want to read more about Palantir's aggressive expansion into the UK, it is something I have mapped quite extensively over time. 2022: bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/h... 2023: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-defaul... 2025: bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Cornwall is first area of the UK to say no to mandatory digital ID cards The authority's Liberal Democrat leader joked he will march to London as one of 20,000 Cornishmen over the contentious proposal, following a Conservative proposal to reject it www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Last night the Government steamrollered its Planning Bill through, slamming the door on vital protections for nature. They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature. But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.

Mark our words. Hunting will die out in this country. We will make sure of it.