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Doctors and aid workers largely became the de facto journalists on the ground in Gaza when Israel banned international news media and began systematically assassinating Gaza-based Palestinian journalists. So Israel wants to get rid of those de facto reporters to hide its crimes. Caitlin Johnstone

Apathy and indifference are the friends of fascists, dictators and nasty, selfish people in general. I hear Farage and Trump are big fans.

It's gale force to severe gale force winds right now in #Orkney. Swithering between brave and foolish to describe the folk setting off fireworks in Kirkwall 🤔 my gut leans towards them being fools 😂 starting 2026 with the cynicism I finished 2025 with!

Just saying! www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Happy New Year from #Orkney Wonderful #Hogmanay concert earlier today at @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social by Jennifer Wrigley, Laurence Wilson and the Reel Fiddlers to get us in the right mood. #HappyNewYear #2026

1,157 people have just been announced as receiving honours in the New Year Honours list. Here’s why Benjamin Zephaniah turned down his OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2003.

You don’t ban aid groups, unless you want people to suffer.

I can't believe we're ending another year with #Palestinians still starving, cold and facing the real danger of death in #Gaza and the #WestBank 💔 #Israel is a genocidal apartheid state committed to the eradication of #Palestine. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

Israel have banned @medicalaidpal.bsky.social . When you don’t think your heart can break anymore.

I’ve only received $33 out of the $317 needed for my university tuition. A large amount is still missing, and my midterm exams start on January 10. I’m really worried and afraid of losing my chance to sit for exams. Please help me with any small amount.🙏😢🥹 @mommunism.bsky.social gofund.me/f01b6d5b

We need to be raising a stink about this. New year or not my MP is going to get an email about this as is the Foreign Secretary (for all the good that one will do). #Israel is calling the shots on aid and it means Palestinians in #Gaza are starving, freezing, sick, injured and without proper shelter

Loving this thread and trying to think what mine would be 🤔

Yes I did have a brie in the fridge to come home to 😄 #Cheese

Well that's me back in #Orkney with a gift dram from #Loganair for #Hogmanay 🥃

Israeli strikes on Gaza are relentless as displaced endure flooded camps https://aje.io/42vlic

Please report this company who have stolen @witches.of.scotland tartan to Trust Pilot. The ONLY place you can buy Witches of Scotland tartan is from @witches.of.scotland and it’s made on looms in the highlands. 🇺🇸 men stealing from women grifting out of tartan to memorialise murdered women 🔗👇🏻

#Documentary : 𝘗𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘬 by award-winning Iranian director Sepideh Farsi. Depicts life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls with Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassouna. The day after the #film was selected for Cannes 2025, Fatma & her family were killed.

In #Gaza, tens of thousands of displaced families are sheltering in fragile tents and overcrowded sites, surrounded by destruction. Around 79,000 people are sheltering in UNRWA emergency shelters and nearby areas, many under severe access constraints. Humanitarian needs remain immense. #UNRWAworks

A genocide club

Cluck off. 🐔

Shock horror. Now we'll find out whether Starmer is a chlorinated headless chicken or if there's a hint of self preservation and brain left.

🧵An important article about this anti-abortion visiting schools in Scotland. I’m going to share more links about them spreading disinformation and their 🇺🇸 funding www.thenational.scot/news/2572424...

I love living in #Orkney but the downside is not getting to see my nephew as often. Lovely to get a warm welcome from him today (he's 3) and be dragged straight into playing with him. Good to be able to have a few days with my brother's family now for quality time together ❤️

Groups supporting #Palestine and speaking out against #Genocide by Israel are being attacked by the UK government through bank account freezes.

The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people. It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace. New piece: oolong.medium.com/biological-m...

Israeli occupation forces deploy a bulldozer and military vehicles during their raid on the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

'Twat of the Year': Glasman McSweeney. I've been banging on about this. I could not agree more. A menace to democracy. @imogenwalker.bsky.social @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social @darrenpjones.bsky.social https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-complete-dunt-awards-2025-526

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

yes Discworld made me a better person and those three quotes get to the core of it - a sort of outraged decency from a man angry at the state of the world and the cruelty therein who also knew what we were capable of at our best

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Merry Christmas, join a trade union!

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men “‘What’s your name, pictsie?’ she said. ‘No’-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress. There’s no’ that many Feegle names, ye ken, so we ha’ to share.’”

Israeli forces breach Gaza ceasefire, killing a Palestinian and wounding six, including a child, in multiple attacks.

I do think this will be hard to bet this year #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

This year we’ve been upgraded to “The Annexe of Estrangement”. Apart from a model shark on the bed and an excess of gym equipment, all is looking good. But what the hell is going on with the pumpkin summoning charm on the other side of the room? And who needs 5 freezers? #duvetknowitschristmas

#DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 The Peach Room of Doom awaits, with a bonus clothes dryer, his and hers towels, and after 24 years of marriage the Formica Stool of Chastity guarantees a hankypanky-free night Donate to @centrepointuk.bsky.social at www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know... h/t to @rhodri.biz

Israel has destroyed Gaza's famous strawberry fields—once called "red gold" by farmers in Beit Lahia. The genocide wiped out 87% of Gaza's farmland, demolishing greenhouses, wells, and irrigation systems. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/isra...

They're called concentration camps.

I'd arranged for Jollys of Orkney to send down hot smoked and smoked salmon to my parents so I didn't need to bring it. Nice Christmas Eve lunch with spiced couscous which means we can crack open the cheese this evening! #Orkney #HomeForChristmas

Don't forget that even when the library is CLOSED over #Christmas you can still get FREE access to eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines through the free @BorrowBox App! 🎄📱📚 Available 24 hours a day with your Orkney Library card. Find out more at: orkney.borrowbox.com 📚🎧

ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. THAT IS A FACT. VIA the Associated Press and the United Nations people. Repost this.

Israel have violated the ceasefire agreement by obstructing entry of vital services for children, and essential shelters to protect civilians whose homes were destroyed by two years of genocide.

via Middle East Monitor

🚨 it's happening people! Jeff and Elaine are on route! 🙌🎉🚨

telling women we need to surgically alter our faces to meet beauty standards illustrated by a non-human image. And to top it off, on the same foray onto InstaSlop, the Guilty Feminist was using AI slop to illustrate a feminist point (thankfully now removed) AI is patriarchy, it's not convenient.

We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people. Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6