I’ve just emailed my MP about 🇬🇧Government’s new strategy on animal testing & the urgent need for Herbie’s Law. Join me in calling for a future built on human-specific science & stronger protections for animals in research. See how you can help here: secure.animalfreeresearchuk.org/page/181459/...

They are shaped like fire. 🔥

From last year though it's just as cold today...

Hampstead Heath, 07:54

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On a watery planet when the water goes wrong, what can go right?💦

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GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS Iran's Water Crisis: Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported that the Karaj Dam has gone off the grid from the power system due to a drop in its water level. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Iran #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Breaking #breakingnews

The thing about listening to @alexpodyssey.bsky.social is that you begin to see parallels between Greek myths and modern life everywhere. I can't listen to the news now without thinking of Cassandra, or Aesop, or Midas, or golden apples. Oh that I had been taught classics this way at school.

Don't know whether this is new or has been up for awhile. Either way, when the White House creates a hit list of journalists it doesn't like, the free press is in danger. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

🔴"FOI is the democratic canary in the coal mine. When official information flows freely, it signals that power is shared. When it’s withheld or delayed, it signals the opposite: power concentrated in the few." Vital by Heather Brooke on Democracy 4 Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-the-br...

Happy Black Friday!

UK Government doing its bit

Maybe the next generation will set its sights on solving systemic problems instead of “My burrito is at a restaurant, but I’m all cozy here so, can a guy with a medical degree from another country bring it to me.” We’ve got that covered, and then some.

In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.

Spoilsports have corrected it without acknowledging the howler.

What Trump has made me realise is how much the post-Cold War relationship hinged on shared values rather than shared interests. Trump is illustrating how, whether on Ukraine and Gaza, our interests diverge and, absent those values, there's not much holding us together.

In Slovakia, the law newly allows priests to enter hospitals without any restrictions. HENDRIK DRÖßLER & RICHARD PATASSY stress that the law omits reference to a patient’s consent, warning that the ECHR prohibits improper proselytism and requires clear consent: verfassungsblog.de/greys-autono...

Today I received some election guff from NigeFarage Ltd. It was addressed to me, and my son who's in his 20s and lives at my place. They put his name first and mine last, no doubt because they discerned that I am but A Lady, in their quaint parlance. That's the least of it, but shows wind direction💨

BREAKING NEWS President Zelensky #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #zelensky #War #Breaking #breakingnews

The Czech ticket controller offers to talk to me Czech, Slovak, English, German or Polish. Very confusing question, but also a sign that we're nearing the heart of Mitteleuropa.

Did u know? For the small souls in your garden, the very cold weather can be as dry as very hot weather,so always provide daily fresh water. To slow freezing rates, put balls, sticks & other objects into your ponds/birdbaths etc. It'll leave tiny areas underneath that are ice-free for longer. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🐦‍⬛🌍

Alex Cox, adapting Gogol as a Spaghetti Western, with himself playing the guy buying the souls? Sure, why not! Bring it on!

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borbtastic

Edward Gorey

#GhostNets 😢

Vision can sound wanky, but it matters. Done well, it gives you a cross check for everything you do. It allows people to act with autonomy - and the wider world to plan around where you are headed.

Hampstead Heath, 07:38

Struck me as being the human v the inhuman apnews.com/video/venezu...

Some of Ukraine's challenges (such as military manpower shortage) have clear (if unpopular) solutions that require political courage, this one is a structural problem that sits deep inside the heads that yearn for a golden bidet. Just like, you know, the Golden White House guy.

This is amazing.

From Chris Grey's Brexit&Brexitism Blog: "Radio Four’s Moral Maze (surely the most flatulently self-important and uninformative show in the entire history of broadcasting, but that’s by the way)." <chef's kiss>

A moment of not-quite-awake-yet hope: Could red meat allergy save the world? 😃

Vine 🥳

Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected. MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative. If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it. Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢

In ‘The Other Side of the Mountain’, the Chinese filmmaker Yumeng He melds personal and national history with breathtaking cinematography to capture her father navigating the streets of his youth as he returns to his childhood home in Chongqing, Southwestern China

CHINA LANDSLIDE / BRIDGE COLLAPSE Hongqi bridge collapses in southwest China, mere months after opening. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #China #landslide

I’ve gained respect for weathermen

What a revelation! 📚

The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism. 🫠

"Whom do we talk to on the other side of the rule of law crisis" is an ongoing dilemma in Poland, Hungary and likely soon the US as well. We should avoid platforming people who are incarnate violations of EU law, but we should also avoid chambers of echoing agreement. 6/

I asked my public library why some fiction titles I'd borrowed a few years ago are no longer listed. They said they "weed out" fiction older than 5 years, excluding the classics. If you want to read some new fiction for free, make it soon. Imagine it ends up full of nothing but AI-slopped novels 🙁

This isn't "just the name of it", after all ;)

When is the Heritage Foundation finally treated internationally like the KKK like terrorist organisation it clearly is?

But when Meemaw croaks because she's skipping meds, and a Superfund site catches fire and chokes out a whole city, it would behoove the Trumpists to remember that Americans aren't quiescent Russian Eloi cowpeople. Rakes. Keep goose-stepping on those rakes, guys. ☠

A Texas leafcutter ant, Atta texana, hauls spring Prunus buds along a tree branch on her way back to the nest.

Much as the European settlers in the U.S. massacred 5 million bison to break the Plains tribes, Israeli settlers have bulldozed, burned and vandalized thousands of ancient olive trees as part of their violent intimidation of Palestinian farmers and illegal seizure of the West Bank.

Bonus points for Musk defining a swindler as someone who tells an audience whatever they want to hear. I was thinking the same thing as I paid for my bulletproof Cybertruck robotaxi with X, the banking app, as it took me to the spaceport for my flight to Mars.