I have a collection of Glanzman's USS Steven's stories & it's fantastic. A lot of these stories came out in the Silver Age & early Bronze Age, but they were of higher quality then a lot of those eras war stories due to their personal nature, and worth checking out.

Our final travels of 2025 have taken us to Shanghai, where Chris continues the rapidly expanding work of the @dutchcycling.nl Embassy in China. The two of us will also present our new book “Women Changing Cities” at a local university, and have a couple of days to see some sights. Watch this space!

[December 5th, 1985] A million helium balloons were released at Disneyland to celebrate what would have been Walt Disney's 84th birthday, setting a new world record. The event, part of Disneyland's 30th-anniversary celebration, drew thousands of spectators and volunteers.

Press freedom in America is now weaker than in most sub Saharan African dictatorships

Calvin - the original brain rot 🤣 #CalvinandHobbes #SleepyKidLogic

Look at this absolute professional just doing his job.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

🌊 Marine Reserves Day is coming to #ThePortlandAquarium this week! 🌊 📆 Friday, December 5th - 11am-3pm Dive into a day of discovery as we celebrate Oregon’s incredible marine reserves with an amazing lineup of partners who are protecting our coast from tidepools to the deep! #portland #oregon

A first-of-its-kind defence agreement that will let the two 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 navies operating side-by-side in the North Atlantic.

At the #NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Allies will discuss Euro-Atlantic security. Climate change is reshaping the #Arctic, drawing new interest. #Canada is strengthening its presence and capabilities in the Arctic to defend Canada and #NATO ’s northern flank. #WeAreNATO

Canada and the #EU have concluded negotiations for #Canada to join the SAFE Instrument, a major defence program unlocking billions for innovation, jobs and stronger security ties. Learn more⬇️ https://ow.ly/clnu50XBznp

One of the most distinctive-looking cars of its era, the Volvo 1800 2+2 coupé had originally been built for the company by Jensen in the UK. By the time of this Swedish brochure from 1963, production had just moved to the marque's native Sweden (hence the S added to the car's name). #weirdcarbs

Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää, Happy Independence Day, Finland. 🇫🇮 🇪🇺 Join us in wishing our Finnish friends, colleagues and stakeholders a great national day! Check out our #FundamentalRights data explorer to find out more about rights in Finland: https://europa.eu/!vnTpvw

🔴 LIVE in 30 minutes: NATO announcement from Helsinki, Finland. 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇮, Sweden 🇸🇪 and Denmark 🇩🇰 will be transferred to Joint Force Command Norfolk's area of responsibility in the NATO command structure. 🔹0530 EST | 1030 Z | 1230 EET 👇 youtube.com/live/ePSRLezdgKE?feature=share #WeAreNATO

Australia and New Zealand have joined NATO’s PURL initiative for Ukraine. Australia pledged $63M and New Zealand $8.7M, all linked to the program. Their contributions include air defense gear, drone support, and direct PURL funding. 🇺🇦 euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/04/a...

🇪🇺 needs to be independent or at least be ready to be strong in geopolitical developments, including to have our plans on how peace in 🇺🇦 can be brought and to discuss them with our transatlantic partners. Interview @politico.eu w @jacopobarigazzi.bsky.social ⬇️ www.politico.eu/article/eu-n...

Naive foreign ministry official of far right authoritarian government in Washington upset that other countries have agency & domestic politics, too 🇪🇺

These authoritarians want 🇺🇸 to be able to do whatever it wants whenever it wants in IR, while other actors exercise no sovereignty or agency of their own. The unbelievable narcissism of the One Special Boy projected onto national security & foreign policy. Naive & destructive beyond belief.

I wish this were an exaggeration of the new US National Security Strategy. It isn’t. The NSS makes clear: The US sees as its partner not the people who actually govern Europe, but the factions there aligned with the global far-Right. ‘Sovereignty’, excepting the US, is goodspeak for satrapy.

The US's new National Security Strategy explicitly spells out Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties, and officially embraces the "great replacement" conspiracy theory. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Very good piece. A remark from a conference this week stuck in my mind, where a colleague argued that Europeans need to develop a 'European way of ear' as their whole strategic thinking and military doctrine is based on US approaches, capabilities and technology.

It's beginning to look a lot like Pubmas. The Queen's Head near King's Cross really comes into it's own in December.

An autumn evening in Brussels. Same again today: 15:04 from London and back on the 20:56. #trainlife

What an amazing display of friendship between the UK and Germany. ☺️

Ah, memories of this day in 1990. I watched the Channel Tunnel breakthrough in the TV lounge of my university accommodation in Edinburgh. Little did I know then how big a part the tunnel would play in my life. This post written and sent from e* 9167. We've just entered the tunnel in Calais.

Rétro cars voitures 🚘 à l'Espérou 1977 en station de ski

At least he figured out his mittens had secret powers. #CalvinandHobbes #SnowballBattles

Icebreaker Polar Star departing Seattle for Pearl Harbor today

Buses for sea otters! 🦦🦦 Buses for all! 🚌

Canada, up until the post-war shift to the US sphere, was a vital component of European security, and there are European graveyards that prove it. We should be in on this, not just as supporters but participants.

Did you know you can support sea otter conservation in Oregon by simply #recycling? ♻️ The Elakha Alliance is proud to partner with the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative's BottleDrop Give Blue Bag Program! Learn how: www.facebook.com/elakhaallian... #seaotters #oregon #oregoncoast #pnw

🌊 This past weekend, the annual State of the Coast conference brought researchers, scientists, students, agencies, and nonprofits together in #CoosBay to share the latest updates and insights on ocean research across Oregon. #oregoncoast #research #marinescience #seaotters #kelp #climatechange

🦦🍻 #Oregon businesses - want to make a splash for sea otters and ocean conservation? The Oregon Otter Beer Festival returns April 11, 2026, in #Portland for our 5th otter-ific year! 🎉 We're looking for sponsors & raffle donations - email [email protected] 📫 #seaotters #nonprofit #sponsorship

After presenting to the Oregon Sustainability Board, we got to explore one of the most stunning spots on the #Oregoncoast, the Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative. 🩵 We also met Oregon’s amazing Kid Governor, Rosie, whose passion for protecting our planet gave me so much #hope for the future! 🙌

What happens in cities shapes the world. Climate solutions will be local – with cities and regions at the heart of action. Ahead of #UNEA7, the Cities & Regions Summit brought leaders from across the world together to discuss sustainable solutions for resilient cities: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Jesus Christ, more snow.

Being wrong once in your life really stings. #CalvinandHobbes #SnowDayFights

Breaking. Liz Truss wins this year's FIFA Prize for Economics.

[December 3rd, 1985] Grace Jones releases her first greatest hits album "Island Life"

Ocean stress remains among the most underappreciated stresses to security in the 21st century. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Coastal First Nations vow to stop the planned tar sands pipeline.

The CleanBC review offers a realistic path for the province to strengthen its economy, cut emissions, and keep costs low for British Columbians. Read our full statement ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/review-...

Sacrificing BC's coastal economy, ecosystems & communities isn’t nation-building. All signs point to Smith having stoked separatist sentiment & rolled back carbon pricing as sharp negotiating tactics. BC won’t be a pawn in her political game. Our Executive Director's op-ed in the Hill Times👇 #bcpoli

Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal. Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

In a landmark decision today, the BC Court of Appeal affirmed that BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act #DRIPA is legally enforceable, and that First Nations can take the BC government to court if it doesn't meet its obligations. gitxaalanation.com/gitxaala-app... #bcpoli

The decision was the result of Gitxaała Nation's partial appeal in their mineral tenure case which challenged BC’s gold-rush era mineral tenure system. The court found that the system is inconsistent with UNDRIP and that BC has a legal duty to cooperate with Nations to align its laws with #UNDRIP.

Congratulations to Gitxaała on this significant victory 🎉 We're grateful for the Nation's leadership in upholding Gitxaała law and holding the BC government accountable.

Writing about his time in the Cotswolds, William Rothenstein said he found inspiration: 'In the stone buildings which always move me, austere in grey weather, pale, livid even, against a stormy sky, they are warm and sparkling in the sunlight.'

It strated to rain.

Despite major FOMO from missing #2025SVP and general wintery gloominess, a refreshing start to today with an early morning museum view for government DCMS colleagues - showcasing our exciting Moves programme, new joint projects with @uniofreading.bsky.social, and the wonder of NHM fossil mammals!