My SIX takeaways from Tommy's "Fashtonbury" event yesterday... 1) Numbers way down on last year when they claimed "3 million!" (lol) marched (was nearer 110k in reality but these people live in Conspiracy Theory & Disinfo so whatever) This year met police estimate ~60-70k.

bookshop.org/lists/50-boo... Great selection of books, and remember to buy locally!

Hey, we've hit the big time. therecord.media/russia-crack...

The Republican Party, like the Conservative Party, exists to make sure the rich stay in power & can make money. That’s why the Republicans are not standing up to or removing Trump. He’s doing exactly what the Party exists to do. They’d rather he didn’t expose the truth of the Party. But that’s all.

This is not a 'masculinity crisis', it's a misogyny crisis. This is not a problem with 'masculinity'-- millions of men model positive masculinity every day. This is a problem of male violence. Stop calling it 'masculinity'. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

1/8 A question that keeps coming up on the @mrjamesob.bsky.social show on @lbc.co.uk is "What if Trump just declares victory and runs away?" I am only a Simple Seafarer - But I have given the matter some thought over the last few weeks. If it were easy to answer I would have rung in already...

I'm pretty sure that breaking down the government was one of the early items on the Project 2025 agenda, so no surprise there.

The worrying thing is, he really seems to believe the nonsense that he is spouting.

Enshittification, here we come!

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

#IWD #Herstory

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

So, sorted, I've now had my account migrated over to @eurosky.social and it went pretty smoothly. All data handled in the EU, home of the free!

Michael, I've been a listener for a long time, and you are consistently wrong about this. Saying "vaccines aren't enough, there are other additional things that you should also be doing" is not anti-vax. This person says that the vaccine *increases your chances of survival.* Is that pro or anti-vax?

Something the Government want you to forget...

Wow.

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

obviously Liz Truss didn't really kill the Queen... 🖼️ By @stephencollins.bsky.social

What I love about #BM100 is that as soon as it’s happening it takes me out of whatever other troubles are going on in my world, and I’m just fully invested in cheering on people I’ve never met battling the impossible in a place I’ve never been to. There’s no other sports event that does that for me.

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 6:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

The billionaire media is laying off great tech journalists in crazy quantities this year - replacing them with AI and sycophants. This would be a great time to throw some dollars, euros, pounds, or dollarydoos to @404media.co, @propublica.org or another independent outlet.

January 6 was the worst day of my life. But the threat of Donald Trump didn’t end when the mob left the Capitol. That’s why I’m running for Congress: to defend this country, with the full constitutional authority of Congress. I’m Harry Dunn. And I’m ready to finish the job.

The over-60s are swimming in resentment, hate and anger in Facebook groups, and nodding sagely as they RT @EthnoNationalist1488 on to the timeline of their 17 followers on X ✏️ Matt Muir

It is for this reason that this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day carries even greater urgency. Remembrance is not only about honouring the victims, is it also a warning to the living of where hatred, denial, and indifference can lead. (4/4)

All those overweight bald men who wanted to burn to death people in hotels will be dreaming of dressing up like Action Man and going around beating up anyone who they think is “woke“

These daily posts on US politics and law by @hcrichardson.bsky.social are essential reading and invariably excellent, and her post today is outstanding. The calm measured prose makes the facts described all the more powerful. We are lucky to have this contemporaneous chronicle.

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

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I am greatly encouraged that Lars Lokke Rasmussen - Denmark's foreign minister - looks like the sort of chap who could avert a schism in the international order.

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“

Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday). It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country. Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest: 1/9

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

he really did do this

Over 30 new followers in the last 24 hrs, what is happening? Turns out they are all because of my post about Rachel Tobac interview and she reskeeted it. Nearly all are in Spanish, not sure what country they are, and none of them are related to OpSec. Maybe Venezualan?

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.

The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.

Where we are

Perhaps there should be a small fee for every time you post a screenshot on Bluesky of some bullshit happening on X. Like the original 10p carrier bag charge, it wouldn't be prohibitive but it would make you think, hang on, do I have to do this?

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Just bought Lullaby by Together For Palestine - many great artists including Brian Eno, Nadine Shah, and Neneh Cherry - let’s get this to the top of the charts - please buy, please share - please help show that peace and camaraderie are vital values togetherforpalestine.org

Beautiful! One of the best, thank you.

We cannot tolerate this from Wes Streeting!🚨 Here’s the link: jujuliagrace.substack.com

Mind-blowingly cool use of AI “Altogether, these findings are leading us to an extraordinary conclusion: Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Terrific