Ihanaa, Leijonat, ihanaa! 🦁🇫🇮💙🤍🏒

Feb. 1, 1926: A policeman operates one of Stockholm's first electric traffic signals, a flashing light and revolving post with alternate "Stop" and "Go" signs, at Hamngatan and Regeringsgatan.

This week I was in London for a live sequel to Sky News' podcast 'The Wargame'. On stage we had former British ministers Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, and former Commander of Joint Forces Command General Sir Richard Barrons, playing out another round of simulated attack from Moscow. [1/9]

At the British Museum for the private view of their new exhibition #Samurai, and these folks have certainly helped set the mood! 🥁

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I hear you, Moomin dear.

Guess they didn't rate it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️...

Finland in -18°C. 🇫🇮💙🤍

Dog pals! Today I’m launching my new book of dog comics on Kickstarter—and it’s off to a heckuva start! If you need a jolt of pure-goofy-stupid-joy at the moment, I hope you’ll join us! *I LOVE THIS BOOK!* —> www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...

This is exactly the fortuitous mistake my Mum made when repairing my teddy. As a result, the teddy was even more loved than before. 🧸

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

While most women in the US & UK take husband's last name: - Quebec: requires women to keep maiden name - Italy: difficult to change last name - France: maiden names are social & legal norm - China, Vietnam, Korea, Ethiopia & Senegal: maiden names are norm www.thepersistent.com/feminism-cha...

Superb - and alarming - piece on the torrent of falsehood and disinformation pouring into people's phones, designed to stir up racial hatred. If you don't subscribe to @londoncentric.media, its investigative journalism is outstanding. @jim.londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

That feeling when you fly all the way to Davos to see Trump, make a speech about why the tangerine turd should invade a NATO ally, only to find that he won’t see you and completely chickens out of his threats about Greenland.

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

Well said, Emily Thornberry! 👏👏👏

@nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social ICYMI

Are ICE running out of recruits?

Dignitas?

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'

Letter in Times today

Täyttä asiaa! HS-haastattelu | ”Stubbin golfdiplomatia on ollut häpeällistä – jopa haitallista” www.hs.fi/kirjeenvaiht...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

I'm wondering whether somewhere deep in the bowels of NORDEFCO discussions - sitting in a sauna - the CHODs have looked at each other and asked: "What will you do with US forces during Cold Response 2026 if the US attacks Greenland during the exercise?" www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/400...

Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes. (H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)

Jan. 12, 1926: A Finnish government icebreaker at work in the Gulf of Finland, where 36 ships, mostly on the Helsinki-Leningrad route, are trapped in the deep freeze.

At the rate we're going, Larry Ellison is going to have Paramount Pictures put out a prestige drama about the valiant officers who tracked down Anne Frank

Breaking news 🇩🇪🇬🇱

Welcome to new Bluesky users. Here’s how we do things: 1. Always observe the Hambledon Protocol 2. No flisking 3. If someone tealights you, rink them without apology 4. I don’t mind them so much, but tissue-posts are generally frowned on 5. No questions Good luck!

Eurooppalaisten joukkojen täytyy valmistautua USA:n tukikohtien haltuunottoon mikäli sota Euroopan ja USA:n välillä todella syttyy Yhdysvaltain hyökkäyssodalla Tanskan kimppuun.

Nyt tiedämme että Trump on jo käskenyt USAn erikoisjoukoista vastaavan tahon suunnittelemaan Grönlannin valtauksen. Sotilaat JSOCissa ovat näköjään vastustaneet, koska laiton. Tämä varmaan syy miksi asia on vuodettu. Katsotaan tuleeko kohta ilmoitus että joku Kenr jää ennenaikaiselle eläkkeelle.

Well, if it’s 11 January, that must mean... YES! It’s the 413th anniversary of the discovery of the grave of Teutobochus, legendary giant and king of the Teutons, who was captured by the Romans in 105 BCE

@nickfshortbskysoci.bsky.social You might enjoy this!

TODAY'S COMIC: You Not There

A respite from doomscrolling. 😁 www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/p...

SAME

We've put together a frame-by-frame analysis of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, at the same time that Vice President JD Vance held a press conference stressing that what you're going to see in this video did not happen.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

This, please.

We can clearly see from the New York Times analysis that both Trump and Vance are lying. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

TODAY'S COMIC: The Paw Lift

“Can I begin by saying I hope all colleagues had a happy Christmas. It probably feels quite along time ago now, but not for Reform of course because today is the day that they celebrate Christmas in Russia” Keir Starmer #PMQs

Exactly one Allied combat fatality happened in Greenland during World War II, and he was a Danish soldier on patrol killed in a firefight with a German weather station crew.

Jan. 6, 1926: German airline Luft Hansa is created by the government-backed merger of Aero Lloyd and Junkers. The carrier's name, inspired by a recent book, pays tribute to the exploring tradition of the Hanseatic League; its flying crane logo is inherited from Aero Lloyd. 1/3

I was very pleased to join @alexhh.bsky.social & Jason Pack on the @disordershow.bsky.social where I discuss warfare in the smartphone age. You can hear my episode at tr.ee/ksicr-3Wty cc: @michaeldwyer.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

This is one of those maps that keeps receiving regular updates. HT @xruiztru

COMIC: Social Contract