I am going to demand the Nobel Prize for Chemistry or I shall annex the nearby town of Stapleford.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

I hope it's nothing trivial.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Whoever came up with the name “Ewok Powell” to describe Tommy Robinson should take the rest of the year off.

This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting. Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.

The sadly overlooked Tawe.

Badenoch: I am now calling for a full investigation into the appalling news that cats just happen to have holes in their fur where their eyes ought to be.

More appalling news from dystopia central www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I left X about 2 years ago. I felt it was a total snakepit. I keep a dormant burner account because it's never wise to turn your back on something nasty. But I don't drink anything which would count as actual engagement.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Daily Telegraph.

Instead of Trump invading Venezuela just to steal one Nobel Peace Prize, why not invade Norway, raid the big vault and steal the lot of them? Job's a goodun.

The UK-based Guardian is doing the job of honestly covering U.S. politics that American legacy media have largely failed to do. The content is free, but they need your donations to keep up the vital work. I've given them my $$. @theguardian.com

The mask dropped sometime ago, but the true face of the brutality of the Trump administration and their lickspittles screams louder every day and remember Farage is made in this image #poetry #reneegood #politics #justice #farage

Striking how many people currently explaining the state’s right to murder *other people* were quite hysterical about the state’s right to limit *their own* freedoms during lockdowns.

Over at the bird site there'd be the paid-up members of the Gaslighters Union queuing up to defend this evil man and the totally corrupt administration he represents. Thank God they haven't made it over here. Yet.

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

However, the revelations around the enablement, if not encouragement, of child sexual abuse mean it is unconscionable to use the site for another minute.

I continued to maintain an account and occasionally post because a critical mass of people, including the Government and journalists who we need to communicate with as MPs, remained on the site.

I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.

This kind of decision is on a par with Lysenkoism. The triumph of ideology over science. People of all ages are going to fall sick and die unnecessarily. This is what happens when you put bad and stupid people in positions of great power. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I already hate 2026.

I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil. TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount) www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social

Dear random angry UK persons: Yes, the Venezuela thing is awful. It doesn’t give you license to abuse people with North American accents in London. Rather a lot of us agree with you and some of us have voted with our feet and/or are part of the resistance

Ah, New Year’s Day! That can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! The 148th anniversary of New York Herald proprietor James Gordon Bennett Jr being banished from polite society for pissing in his fiancée’s fireplace, thus giving the world the phrase ‘Gordon Bennett!’ 🧵

If there is one lesson that the last five decades should have taught the world, it's that wars of choice are wrong. Trump, and Hegseth and all his other cronies chose this course of action. Now they're going to have to see it through.

None of us are safe. Nobody. And that includes Americans. Not all leaders are the same - and it matters who sits at the top so a big screw you to the people who elected Trump and the people who are still saying that Harris would have been just as bad.

What the fuck? Where is Congress in all of this? Don't they have something to say about naked aggression?

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Picture of the staff who operate my account.

Having got a probable diagnosis of osteoarthritis in my knee last week, the dog decided to make it a definite one by charging into it at full speed and taking me out completely. I really don't know why I bother some days.

No.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

I am just going to take the opportunity to wish everyone around here a very Happy Christmas and New Year. Compared to some places I could mention, I have never felt anything other than valued and safe. Long may it continue. Keep up the good work. And be Excellent to One Another.

Under First Past the Post, tactical voting has become a major feature of our general elections in the UK – a symptom of a system that forces voters to game the rules instead of expressing their opinions and values.

I hope Trump lives long enough to see his name being chiselled off this building. Like Alan Partridge going to see his book being pulped.

Awesome sunrise this morning. Shepherd's warning?

Do you know, I thought it was impossible to give arseholes any more of a bad name than they already have. Until Trump's comments on the Reiner murders, that is.

He seems to think that the way to make himself popular is not by doing popular things himself, but by undoing the popular things that his opponents did. He's really quite dim, isn't he?

Well, I suppose you have to die of *something*. bsky.app/profile/theg...

Someone is about as big as the things that make them angry. To get angry about biscuits, well...

Looking Forward to trying this with a bunch of 14 year-olds next time I teach static electricity.

Hey @tessmachling.bsky.social @drtobydriver.bsky.social @claireboardman.bsky.social The other day I bought a thesaurus, but when I got home and opened it, all the pages were blank. I have no words to describe how angry I am.

Either Farage admits to his racist past, walks back all his denials and counter accusations, and apologises to these people. Or he carries on defending himself by attacking others. He's caught in a cleft stick here. And this taint will stick either way. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If Russia lays down its arms, there is no war. If Ukraine lays down its arms, there is no Ukraine. That is why we are supporting Ukraine in its battle for self determination.

Dark City.