Senior Russian official says Greenland could vote to join Russia if Trump does not hurry www.reuters.com/world/senior...

At least 12,000 killed in Iran crackdown as blackout deepens | Iran International. www.iranintl.com/en/202601130...

Millions of unarmed people standing up to brutal, theocratic despots, thousands jailed, uncounted as yet casualties, but easily in the thousands, who have exported religious extremism and terrorisms for decades not worth trending on Bluesky. Maybe you aren't all that nice after all.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid. The price of truth is what we pay for our lies." --Valery Legasov

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... "I oppose the USPTO’s proposed rule changes for inter partes review (IPR), Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025. The IPR process must remain open and fair. Patent challenges should be decided on their merits, ..."

One of the forms of hybrid warfare Russia is developing to use in Western nations is cyber-attacks to disable sewerage systems, flooding the rivers with shit. How, in the UK, would we detect them?

Wow! Just watched S6 E13 of Deep Space Nine, Far Beyond the Stars. It’s a tour de force from all involved. Simply one of finest episodes of storytelling in the entire Trek canon. #bydhttmwfi

Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week

Relevant playlist: ELO- Mr. Blue Sky Allman Brothers- Blue Sky Midnight Oil- Blue Sky Mine Wilco- Sky Blue Sky Kid Cudi- Blue Sky Willie Nelson- Blue Skies Pink Floyd- Goodbye Blue Sky Joan Baez- Blue Sky A-ha- The Blue Sky Patti Griffin- Blue Sky Weezer- Mr. Blue Sky Big Head Todd- Blue Sky

On Monday we learnt that 1 in 3 children are living in poverty… And that deprivation has hit a record high Given their new found compassion for struggling Brits Where’s Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage and Andrew Lloyd Webber to fight their corner? …anywhere?