I asked for Oat MILK in my coffee at the station. They have CCTV. Waiting for the summons.

London mud crocuses.

The best place according to Mimma the cat: ✅ Sun ✅ Hay ✅ Plastic cover Basically a private greenhouse 😀

First flight for 7 years. Wish me luck keeping my mouth shut through Security. Surprised Easyjet only asked me 8,333,376 times if I have a big bag. But always a friendly welcome in Liverpool. youtu.be/Zj7OJeyhq2Q?...

Left school 52 years ago, no more notes from Mum to skive games, avoided playing or watching on purpose since. Sounds odd, to me, when “games” make radio news headlines. BBC, January - tennis, in winter! Now they tell me to care about mixed curling. Seasonally accurate, but not on my watch please.

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth Carlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He...

Today, #Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez announced a comprehensive plan to control #SocialMedia, saying it "has become a failed state. If we want to protect our children there is only one thing we can do: take back control." A summary of his plan:

Tickles😆

At the very heart of the conflict raging in the United States is a conflict about human nature, a deep moral and philosophical conflict. I believe the isolationists will lose in the long run because they are not only out of step with the majority but they are out of step with reality....

I posted about this last week and now I am posting it again. #Mustread! No 10 suppressed key intelligence report on climate collapse www.thecanary.co/uk/2026/01/2...

The tyranny of the quantifiable - a brilliant read What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

‘Situation is dire’ for Sicily town teetering on cliff edge after landslide www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"[A new British intelligence report] echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists." "Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse...” You won't find more crucial reading than this.

When Tim Parks decided to escape from successful friends in London to a quiet life in a small village outside Verona, he explained why by saying that, above all, he'd taken, when offered by his wife, an "opportunity to underachieve in peace."

💔 Sly Dunbar, the drumming half of legendary reggae rhythm section Sly and Robbie, has died. No cause was given; he was 73. Sly and Robbie anchored recordings by countless musicians, ranging from reggae icons like Lee Perry, Junior Murvin and tracks by Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and Grace Jones.

@legolostatsea.bsky.social He has hardly slept since he got the book. Dressed at 6. ready for a beach, but worried it might all have been found. I promised to ask Tracey how many of the millions she guesses might still be out there. I feel like I am a drug dealer, I have hooked another addict!

Met with neighbors last night to make a porcini risotto (which was tasty) and after, we cooked some agretti. I've seen it around but had no idea what to do with it. Very clean taste and perfect after the risotto. (Saltwort in English.)

BBC News - Rare seagrass 'fairy circles' discovered in the Hebrides www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning 🌅

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows

In Scotland, people are (very rightly) unhappy that only 4% natural woodland cover remains. Spare a thought for poor Ireland, at around a mere 1%. Nowhere else on Earth is in such desperate need of rewilding.

Running is fun but let's go home and eat some hay 🐑

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Not quite 50 shades. And the coal dust washing ashore again. Am wondering just how much of the seabed is smothered in this after the years of dumping.

Don’t know who made this but….😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Dating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment. bit.ly/4oRZuCC

In our world, this makes sense. A bone fide war criminal installed by a global mafioso boss to iron out the final wrinkles in an actual, real-time, up-to-the-minute, current & continuing genocide... Call it the 'Peace Board' FFS, just to get right down into the cracks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Kardashian jetty” ! “Teenagers especially tell me they saw the photos on Instagram of her arriving and want to go to that spot”. Bless. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I'm signing health certificates for seafood going to Europe this afternoon. The one for scallops needs stamping 38 TIMES, no wonder it makes my arthritic shoulder ache. Brexit related injury.

New Year & our tradition of studying the new little blue book that tells the future. Tide high & low times & heights, sun & moon rise & set, moon phase.

Seems like time to re-up: There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not only describe but shape reality....

Nadine Dorries about to be interviewed on #bbcpm about fellow Reform defector Nadhim Zahawi. It is beyond the realms of AI's most powerful tools to come up with a worse use of time.

Plastic free gum ! I wonder how many gum chewers would still buy Wrigley’s, Orbit or Airwaves if ‘contains plastic’ was written clearly on the pack.

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

The upcoming FIFA World Cup in the USA this summer is increasingly looking like the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Met commissioner Rowley: "The fact that so much public debate is now more on sort of rhetoric than it is on facts is not my responsibility." But rhetoric, on crime, immigration, Brexit is all odious Reform ever had. Sadly, for Trump & Brexit, rhetoric was enough. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stop calling this an “administration.” It’s a fascist regime. Stop calling Trump “president.” He’s a dictator. Stop calling ICE “federal agents.” They are the gestapo. We need to collectively wake up and rise up

It's an astonishing piece of equipment...Video here: youtu.be/dmHaCQ8Ul6E?...

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Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism 🧬👁️🦈 phys.org/news/2026-01...

"When the disinformation, misinformation and lies of the Trump administration become undeniable, when the harms of its policies become inescapable, opportunities will arise." www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

Another frosty start. I find I am gradually perfecting my dog-walking technique for such weather - a careful blend of optimism and dainty footwork. ❄️

The biggest missed story of the day

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

A good measure of a man, in spite of possible curfew....