Please read the whole thread. It's wryly funny and deeply moving.

Outside Palantir this morning with @zackpolanski.bsky.social. This Trumpist corporation should be nowhere near our NHS (or indeed our military).

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

And some days one just feels brittle and out of sorts and given to tears for no very good reason. Headache tablets, tea, cosies and crochet. Take stock and pick it all up again tomorrow.

Spotting Bad Faith Actors is crucial and the sooner you can spot them, the better. The most dangerous are those who think they hold all the cards. You can't negotiate with them. If you do the usual 'negotiating skills' stuff they will see it as weakness. www.beyondintractability.org/bi24/bad-fai...

Nothing in most people's education prepares them for dealing with someone like Trump. We go on our negotiating skills courses, we learn about understanding positions, finding common ground, win-win, getting to yes, I'm OK-You're OK. 90% of the time it works. The trick is recognising when it won't.

Re NATO/Greenland: If all the noise about a newspaper ripping into the Green leader for being naive & worse on defence makes you worry that our Zack's blown it: His *own actual words* (rather than a biased & misleading precis of them) can be read in his interview with Sky & on Politico socmed. 🌱

You all liked my last #shelfie , so here's another - had to remove things for painting so this version's a bit less busy. #EverydayBeauty

Making *normal* people *hopeful* again, too! 🌱

This is exactly what I need, thank you! One thing at a time, but if we all swap out a few things, it'll add up - and boost the alternative ecosystem as well.

Book Cover of the Day:

When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided. When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid. The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe. It's time for a rethink.

The whole thing. The whole *thing*!❤️

Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

Blue hour in the town of Qasigiannguit #Greenland

A prototype #Greenland flag in crochet, as #solidarity and #craftivism. If I make another it'll be a bit more square. Sometimes you just need to try a thing and see how it goes.

Oh hello, brain goblins. What's that? Sit down with some yarn & crochet a #Greenland flag patch? Yes, yes, I see how that could be done. Alright then. Let's see what I can do. #craftivism

💬 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: "Young people are increasingly shut out of employment and training by the cost-of-living crisis, which often hits the youngest the hardest. Free bus travel for the young is part of our mission to make hope normal again." Join.greenparty.org.uk

Natalie Bennett moves to block protest crackdown with rare House of Lords intervention www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

It's dark & cold, it's rained all day. World's on fire, everyone's hurting. But the supermarket had yellow label salmon. I serenaded the cornershop staff, chatted with a neighbour with whom I've planted trees. Walls need cleaning, things need sorting/packing. Doing what I can. #MakeSomethingBetter

It wasn’t the racism. It wasn’t the rule breaking. It wasn’t the corruption. No Jenrick gets removed for plotting. Politics for too many leaders is just a game, and not a moral one. It’s why people are crying out for hope.

I wrote a song lyric today I've long been a prolific songwriter, but lately my creativity has flowed slowly. It's rare a song feels just about exactly as I'd hoped it would, when I reached for the shape of it. This does. I barely understand it & it weaves a lot of strange things together.

Plough Monday, and the fields are waiting for us. Whatever tasks call you today, may you have the energy, focus, and resources to tackle them and prevail.

me to the greenhouse glass: you better not be pulling that rococo shit the greenhouse glass:

Welcome to Willerby. We're a small English village in which the supernatural and uncanny is about as remarkable as the weather is. We have a website with over fifty short stories on it with original music and art. All real. No AI. www.welcometowillerby.co.uk 👇🏻

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

This clip is a delight. I plan to watch the whole thing later.

Despite what you are taught and bombarded with every day there are better ways to run an economy. A way that benefits everyone, where wealth is produced and put to good use not hoarded join.greenparty.org.uk 💚

Politics affects everything. “Shouldn’t be politicised” = “it would be convenient for me if you don’t talk about this. *I’ll* define ‘civility’ & ‘decency’ & accuse you of having neither in hopes of embarrassing you into shutting up”

Our politics is heading in an increasingly dangerous direction. We must, and will, resist.

New year, new job, new trainee: Kishi station on the Kishigawa line of Japan's Wakayama Electric Railway welcomes its third cat stationmaster, calico Yontama, and new apprentice Rokutama. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Accounts I'd recommend people follow if they want a nicer timeline: @goodnewsnetwork.org.web.brid.gy @goodable.bsky.social @upliftingnews.bsky.social @progressntwrk.bsky.social @reasonstobecheerful.world That's all, back to your regularly scheduled furry softcore xD

Much of what we will be confronted with/ are confronting are tests of tolerance How far can they push before we demand "humanity first" Consent is violated in many ways It would seem they plan on testing them all

"While Labour's popularity has fallen sharply, support for the Greens among members of the education union has risen from 10 per cent to 23 per cent — making Zack Polanski's party the most popular option among this cohort." Join.greenparty.org.uk

Sharing beauty: Midwinter, and this was the view from within the tump of trees seen in the distance in my previous picture. #ThereIsStillBeauty

Sharing beauty. This was New Year’s Day in Wiltshire, looking up at the Ridgeway. #ThereIsStillBeauty

Something to look at. It’s what I have, to share, rn. #ThereIsStillBeauty

📮 Help us deliver hope one letterbox at a time. Join us and join in ⤵️

Any Green Party members or colleagues who would be interested in signing a letter to our leadership asking that GPEW stop using X with immediate effect please drop me a DM, I'll send you a link to it tomorrow. Please share.

My mantra today (and for many days after) is that there is no “good” time to do life things but you should do them anyway because that what makes a life that you want to live. Whew.

ME: How's it look? MECHANIC LOOKING UNDER MY IMAGINATION'S HOOD: *wiping hands on a rag* I see your problem. You've been filling this thing up with despair when it's supposed to run on joy.

I crocheted hats last month. I’m pivoting to making something fresh for the coming season, so far I’ve found many ways not to make it work. Yesterday instead of crocheting I spent 2 hours detangling a box of yarn oddments into balls. It seems to have been the order-from-chaos action I needed.

The US may be about to launch an operation from its bases on UK soil against an oil tanker. I ask what and when the UK government will be informed about the operation. Will we have any say on its nature? No answer #Sovereignty?

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope...realists of a larger reality." Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm so delighted that I complied with the Online Safety Act, blocking an accessibility feature on my site from UK users to 'protect the children' while Elon Musk's site can just generate CSAM with total impunity.

"Utilizing the US military is always an option at the commander in chief's disposal." Would we be able to say "not from bases on UK soil?" I am seeking an answer to that question #Sovereignty #RuleofLaw www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Finally now our priority should be, better bloody late than never: We need INDEPENDENCE from the USA. That means security independence, economic independence, digital independence. It isn’t easy but we have no choice. That should be our number 1 goal.

European consumers: ditch your Google accounts, ditch your Amazon accounts, ditch Microsoft, ditch WhatsApp, Facebook, X. Inconvenient perhaps, necessary for sure. Go European: european-alternatives.eu

On BBC News today: striking that it’s the two old establishment parties - Labour and the Conservatives - refusing to condemn the US breaking international law and doing what it wants. Feels like politics stuck in the past, while the public has clearly moved on.

Farewell, Eclectic Bethlehem; Epiphany is near It’s time to pack you safe away Till Advent-Tide is here We will find a kindly place Fresh joyfulness to build And recreate your tiny streets With new & old friends filled” #folklore #FoundRitual #MagicEverywhere