Way too many people in the US will do everything possible to find scapegoats for their rage and punch down at them rather than blame the people in charge and the larger system for what's happening.

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

The undisputed king of the west coast main line, in my opinion anyway, the class 87. Captured at Liverpool Lime Street, 87020 ‘North Briton’ takes a breather between workings. Very happy days. #Class87 #WCML #InterCity #LiverpoolLimeStreet #BritishRail

In Greenland's Scoresby Sund, a deep blue iceberg seems to glow from within as it is illuminated by the late afternoon sun, while glittering ice fragments float within its soft reflections. #photography #nature #bluesky #naturephotography #landscapephotography #landscape #sunset #travel

For like 20 years, you weren't able to make a YouTube video featuring a popular song without getting hit with an orbital laser. I don't understand how every single one of these deeply litigious companies is okay with turning their copyrighted IP into sludge people can pay another company to make

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

I’m teaching a class about STAR TREK! Next month I’ll explore how Trek reflects America’s “progressive” ideals in each era and how that both expands and limits how we imagine the future. It’s part of Goddard Spark, a program born from Goddard College’s 1940s anti-fascist roots. Learn more below!

Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase. /1

A new episode of STAR TREK: KHAN is here! Listen to “The Good of All,” episode 6 of the new full-cast audio drama starring Naveen Andrews and Wrenn Schmidt, written by Kirsten Beyer & David Mack based on a story by Nicholas Meyer. Directed by Fred Greenhalgh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg91...

Cameron Lake train trestle,Vancouver Island BC. #travelbc #photography #canada

The Faroe Islands glow! Crepuscular Rays, God Beams or Solar Stilts! Whatever you want to call it. #BlueSkyArtShow #glow #EastCoastKin #Photography #FaroeIslands

I spy a Badger at Crewe. #TrainGeek

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA. "We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends." newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

While we're here, can we talk about the sanitary bins in men's toilets? Not their existence, that's a good thing, but how they say "Discreet. Disposal. Designed for men." How fucking pathetic are male egos that they need a fucking bin to say it was specially designed for them?

This is how Israel treats foreign nationals. And there is evidence of far worse treatment received by Palestinians under indefinite detention, often without charge. This is the behaviour of a rogue state who behaves with impunity. Because it is never held to account.

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

From Harwich to Dover in one frame with crepuscular rays #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Scape

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Tea Party. Brexit. Etc.

giving the nobel peace prize to someone who approved of indiscriminate military strikes on civilians is an indelible stain on the award. but enough about Barack Obama,,

📍 St Pancras International Heading up the MML home for the first time in a long time, which made sense given the time for the Meridians on this line is very limited…

Hot-joining a handle to a glass cup.

90026 leads into Crewe with the LSL Chairman's Train on 1Z89 London Euston to Blackburn where the 90 was removed and replaced with BR Class 8 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' hauling the train forward.

What are they planning to do, bomb Canada?

California: while things are terrible, also not terrible

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Morning all. I drew you a train for the weekend. Feel free to take it and go somewhere interesting. Toodle pip. Have a good one. xx

WE RAN OUT OF TIME FOR CLIMATE CHANGE says Fiona Bruce at the end of Question Time *Green Party bingo cards explode across the nation*

Pretty certain I judged photos of this for Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine

GBRf #Class99 99001 working 0Q99 0931 Leicester Beal Street Depot > Peterborough North Yard through Melton Mowbray

Snakes. #Toronto #Subway #Photography

Rail Operations Group #Class93 93002 powering 7Q70 0835 Ely (Angel Trains) Sidings > Wolverton Centre Sidings through Leicester #MML

Random Thought Bluesky. What are your Railway Regrets? 😩 A few of mine are missing out on riding the 442s, The Class 314s & riding behind the Prototype HST. My biggest one would be not scanning all my Polaroids from the late 90s/ Early 2000s. Oh the memories lost 😢

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

All posts should be required to have a joke rating: Serious Sarcastic Humorous Jocular Tongue-in-cheek Anyone using the wrong rating should be summarily banned.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

everything is a joke but nothing is funny anymore

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

Aside from shattering core state sovereignty, it's saying one state's Guard (TX) is somehow more loyal to the national authority than another's (IL). It's treating the latter as something bordering on hostile, or at least alien. One part of the country and its soldiers are more America than another.

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection. I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

When fascism came to America, centrists were upset we didn’t meet it halfway.

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

It both the US and the UK, the political right teaches institutions not to mess with it – a small slip up with be ruthlessly and publicly exploited. The left, meanwhile, teaches the same institutions it can be repeatedly and easily messed with, and there will barely be a squeak.