Wonderful snowdrops abound... and a delightful video from Martin Castle - look out for the snow scene... See 🧵 for more info on Snowdrop Sunday youtu.be/8x9-f2OKczY

Western arms production is ahead of political will. German giant Rheinmetall is already producing more ammo than it has contracts for Ukraine CEO Armin Papperger said company is ready to supply more weapons immediately, if governments release funding euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/17/g...

Putin is prosecuting in absentia a German carnival float builder, Jacques Tilly, for making parade floats making fun of him. Anyone in MAGA want to speak up for this float builder's free speech rights being violated by Russia? Anyone?

🔴Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

🇳🇴 🇩🇪 5 key areas of cooperation, including space surveillance and communications, maritime security in the North Atlantic, and land forces. Includes plans to expand cooperation in the defence industry and develop mechanisms for the rapid deployment of reinforcements. militarnyi.com/en/news/norw...

Gisele Pelicot told us ‘shame must shift sides’ I have received this from one viewer .. ❤️

Little windows of February beauty, photographed at Thenford Arboretum in Oxfordshire on Saturday — one of the few dry days we’ve had for weeks. Whatever the weather, I hope you have a fine start to your Monday.

Friends, Mrs Welcy is fighting an FPV outbreak and she can’t do it alone So many tiny lives are depending on her right now If you can, please donate If you can’t, please share Sometimes a small act of kindness becomes someone’s second chance at life 🙏🐾💔

"Pam, you got a little… shit on your nose." #SouthPark www.youtube.com/shorts/Ue6Sy...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

🇩🇪🇺🇸🤯 "The Orange Plague" in Munich, Germany.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

The big question question for next week will be “How long can Chris Mason survive paid his BBC’s political editor £270,000 salary, after alienating so many with his overtly anti Starmer ‘reports’ & ‘interviews’❓ We want news not his biased views wrapped up as news, glib comments & tortured pros❗️

Long-Term Support for Ukraine: EP President Roberta Metsola (@president.europarl.europa.eu) participates at the panel discussion ‘Coalition of the Able? Securing Long-Term Support for Ukraine' at the Munich Security Conference 2026. 🔴 Watch live 👇

⚡️At least 5 killed, 13 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. At least five people have been killed and 13 others injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine over the past day, local authorities said on Feb. 14. kyivindependent.com/at-least-kil...

The brilliant Cody Dahler talks "Sir" Jim Ratcliffe 👏👏 🐀 🐁

Brexit and Trump. Two sides of the same coin. Both supported by Russia. Both beneficial to Russia. Both designed to make the West weaker. No one in the West took back control, and they effectively handed it to Putin

Was being in the Epstein files a prerequisite to being in Trump's cabinet?

Styopka’s wisdom Don’t take life too seriously. You’re not getting out of it alive anyway. #StyopkasWisdom

Brexit was one of the most successful Russian intelligence operations in history. Putin wanted a divided Europe and British voters handed it to him on a silver platter. Every sovereignty argument was a Kremlin talking point in disguise

i just wanna drive my truck mow this grass drink my beer dress like ass

Although the US has almost entirely stopped financial support for Ukraine in the past year, the total volume of aid has remained relatively stable in 2025, thanks to a show of strength by European countries, above all Germany. #Pinks www.euronews.com/2026/02/11/a...

EMERGENCY ALERT ⚠️ 📢 We have a panleukopenia virus outbreak. We already lost 6 cats last January and have 5 cats under confinement up until today. Please help us 🙏 no amount is too small when it all adds up.

Friends, many of you remember our sweet Kvasolka who passed away 2y ago from panleukopenia You cried with us and supported us back then 🙏 Today we can save other cats in her loving memory Let’s help Mrs Welcy treat her babies They deserve their chance to survive 🙏 Please lend a helping hand💔

⚡️US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025, report finds. European countries stepped in to fill the gap, increasing military aid to Ukraine by 67% and non-military support by 59% in 2025, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Today’s moment of calm. Washing its paws, a hare in the travellers joy, keeps a wary eye on the passing world

⚡️ 11-year-old child killed alongside mother after Russia strikes Sloviansk with glide bombs. The attack brings the official number of children confirmed killed by Russia's war to 681, according to statistics published by the Prosecutor General's Office. kyivindependent.com/11-year-old-...

Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland', 1959 edition, by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt

British police said they were examining claims that the former Prince Andrew sent confidential trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein, as Prince William's office said he was "deeply concerned" about the revelations coming out of the U.S. investigation into the late sex offender. https://to.pbs.org/4r8DCFd

Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump. The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files. What else are they hiding?

It’s a continental embarrassment that Europe has produced 0 stealth fighters. We are forced to buy American just to stay relevant. Meanwhile, the France-Germany infighting on the 6th-gen fighter is pathetic. Either we get our act together or stop complaining about US dependency

Trump’s public health appointees are spreading such dangerous disinformation that it’s killing Americans. The world of science has to take a stand ✏️ Philip Ball

A perfect summary of our moment from armond(dot)needs(dot)rest on IG and Tiktok www.instagram.com/reel/DUU20Vg...

“Smiling, the angel caught a flake of snow, Bade it take form and blow; And as his warm breath meets the fragile ice, Transformed it falls to earth in beauteous flower-device.” — Lizzie Deas, The First Snowdrops (1895) #NationalSnowdropDay #FolkloreSunday

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump

Musk and Thiel are the loud ideologues, but Bezos and Zuckerberg are the indispensable enablers. They are the infrastructure of the new fascism. Whether through cowardice or greed, they have done almost as much to dismantle democracy. Stop giving them a pass

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

It's really hard to respect a country that witnessed a coup attempt and decided to re-elect the guy who instigated it. Putting Trump back in power with Vance as VP is a total moral collapse. Truly pathetic

Oathbreaker. Portrait of Bondi.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Checkmate.

In Italy, there has been a furious reaction to the presence of #ICE at the Winter Olympics. This is understandable, because Trump is using these thugs to intimidate the population. They have no business in Italy. Put ICE on the EU's general terrorist list, so that they can be arrested! #ICEOut

Of course I see the importance of investigating Mandelson, he is an utter scumbag but we really need the government and the PM we elected to get on with running the country. This is being led by a corrupt media. Time to call it out.

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

Epstein: “the girls and i are going to see elon musk at space x tomorrow, are you around,”

Epstein files are being unredacted by hackers, if successful, expect Trump to launch a military attack on Iran. If all names are exposed then it puts Netanyahu and Israel on a timer.