The ‘Murder Duck! #BirdOfTheDay #EyeContact

Mute Swan cleans under its wing, Portishead. #Birds #Swan #MuteSwan #Photography #Portishead

Gull on a telegraph post, Portishead #Birds #Gull #Photography #Portishead

"The South Florida Social Science 'social' Book Group" will focus on reading & discussing works of non-fiction from the disciplines of: history, political science, economics, philosophy, law, religion, & anything else thought provoking that remotely touches upon the gambit of social sciences.” Hmm?

Also, yah boo sucks to Sex Matters and their mysterious bottomless pockets of their anonymous backers. You're weird! Nobody likes you! Go away and find a hobby that isn't picking on a marginalised community, and get some therapy while you're there. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

bbc reporting this through absolutely gritted teeth. the figures are beyond decisive. 84% of respondents to the consultation had used the pond and a full *90%* opposed separate changing rooms for trans women. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Fraudulent AI” seems redundant…

This admin is filled with super rich people who hate the idea that somewhere, out there, a person is giving a child a toy as a present. www.huffpost.com/entry/scott-...

Duck Butt 'Peaks', Portishead #Birds #Ducks #Butts #Photography #Portishead

Gull in flight, Portishead #Birds #Gulls #Photography #Portishead

Female Mallard Duck, Portishead #Birds #Ducks #Mallard #Photography #Portishead

Common Moorhen #Birds #Moorhen #Photography #Portishead

Backlit gull, Portishead #Birds #Gulls #Photography #Portishead

Two crows squawking while sat an iron lamp post! #Birds #Crows #Photography #Portishead

With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the govt would be trying to regulate the company out of business.

Just a superb column from @alanbeattie.bsky.social

I’m not sure. I started getting hammered last fall. Maybe there is a threshold? I have around 9k ‘real’ followers and 12k bots and whatnot. BlueSky seems to removing the nazis and other heinous types but not so much wrt bots.

it seems minor but it’s the fastest way to break the rank and file, and it’ll happen almost immediately. taking away the masks is turning on the lights and watching the cockroaches scatter

Duck Butt 'Peaks', Portishead #Birds #Ducks #Butts #Photography #Portishead

Gull in flight, Portishead #Birds #Gulls #Photography #Portishead

Female Mallard Duck, Portishead #Birds #Ducks #Mallard #Photography #Portishead

Common Moorhen #Birds #Moorhen #Photography #Portishead

Backlit gull, Portishead #Birds #Gulls #Photography #Portishead

Two crows squawking while sat an iron lamp post! #Birds #Crows #Photography #Portishead

Free AI training? Ah, go fuck yourselves.

Master and servant

Lake reflections on tree trunk. #Reflection #Portishead.

Mallard female preening her feathers. #BirdOfTheDay #BrownIsBeautiful

Already seeing some mainstream media buying into Goodwin's mythologising as a man of the people This of course would only work if you try it with people utterly disconnected from reality Luckily for Goodwin and sadly for us all, it's precisely them who populate the mainstream media

Okay, so this now looks a lot like the Slippin’ Jimmy thing from Better Call Saul: walk into the bar then do a flying header into the fire extinguisher, and phone your lawyer. Again, it’s a nexus of: well-connected wingnut cranks, the Times newspaper and billionaire legal funding.

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day for all who celebrate

The internet is increasingly unusable. So much for growth.

From Jan 6 - Jan 15, we had two-three deportation flights every day (except Jan 9, which had one) For the whole month of January, we estimate 2,194 people have been flown out of Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport on dedicated ICE flights.

Labour really are fucking useless.

I begin to understand why the Americans military keeps losing so often. Underestimating their opponents perhaps?

I am partially deaf because of measles. Please vaccinate it's so important.

Hearing about ICE losing morale because they can’t meet quotas, angry public, etc., and feeling not a wit of compassion for those thugs Good. Quit your job and crawl back into the hole from whence you came

Exactly this.

"The Greens leader, Zack Polanski, could be about to do to Labour what Reform UK leader Nigel Farage did to the Tories." My new column for @theipaper.com on how the Gorton & Denton by-election could change British politics ... inews.co.uk/opinion/pola...

Rutte is talking out of Trump‘s arse.

America, the world is watching you - David Rowe -Australian Financial Review.

For those of us here in the UK who are watching with horror what is going on over in the US it is very important to remember that this is exactly what Reform wants for us over here. They've said so. They want 'forced deportations' in the US style. We're not safe here either if they win.

Boycott the World Cup Boycott the Olympics Disinvite the Administration from anything that gives them a platform on the world stage.

A posing crow #BirdOfTheDay #Poise #Crow

Another winning move, @darrenpjones.bsky.social. You are so bad at this ruling business, you will surely be at the very top soon, as leader of the opposition to a Reform government. That is if you keep your seat. I’ll be voting for your Green opponent. Fuck strategic voting. Look where that got us.

A REALLY hard read. I’m in tears reading what the transphobic bigots have done to a 6-year-old girl. “Exclusion doesn’t land in policy documents. It lands in children’s hearts” Every “gender critical” transphobe disgusts me. JK Rowling disgusts me.

Well, he didn’t do it, did he, Greg? Someone wrote it for him. His nature is to be an arsehole and that is all there is to it.

Got a stinking cold and slept badly so didn’t get up to watch the usual Political shit show on Sky and the Beeb. I am guessing I didn’t miss anything, did I?

Just so we're clear, and so a tiny handful of wankers online don't create the wrong impression, the vast majority of your European friends are incredibly impressed by Minnesotans' courage against both the ice and ICE.