What roles do the National Guards of U.S. States play? Is the National Guard not ultimately tasked with repelling military/paramilitary invasions of its State? Illinois is being subjected to unwanted and unwarranted invasion by the National Guard of Texas. On the illegal orders of President […]

Our choices of words matter. The regime of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein was sanitised somewhat by referring to his arsenals as his 'palaces.' Similarly, in U.S. media's references to the #EpsteinFiles, the word 'massage' is a euphemism; #epstein#epsteinfilesand his associates expected and extracted […]

#FoxNews: 'We are over that era of toxic masculinity - now we are in an era of real masculinity, thanks to the bold, muscular leadership of President Trump and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth...' #kimmel#foxnews "It sounded better in the original North Korean." Don Trumpeone claims language used in […]

Morning, all, #CERN and Tim Berners-Lee gave the #WWW to the world for free, to encourage and enable co-operation. And yet private capital has, to a large extent, hijacked it. It's the #tragedyofthecommons#www#cernll over again... Worse still, an evil mastermind, Al GorIthms, is using it to addict […]

"Speed is Life (and Altitude is Life Insurance)" Getting to the edge of #Space with a car engine... #SpaceExploration #SpaceTourism #spacemasturbation#spacetourism#spaceexploration#spacetps://youtu.be/x988IQ1EBZM?si=zTz6CrYSzojwlJKP

Tripp Hazard... #TRIPP #Trump #nobelpeaceprize#Trump#Trippttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78nr234v5mo

@PhilipCJames Eastern Block jokes are the best 😂 Mine was from Hungary.

Old joke adapted for modern times: Four strangers are sitting in a cafe in Portland. After a few shots things get animated and they pass the time telling jokes. One of them tells a really good one about Trump, and they all laugh like mad men, and it takes like five minutes for them to slowly […]

Living in Moscow means 'things are always looking up...' #BeSafe #russia#besafehttps://metro.co.uk/2025/10/06/russian-newspaper-head-mysteriously-falls-70ft-death-a-window-24350070/

It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #ClimateChange. It's that they don't care. Their two priorities are 1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system; 2. pleasing the big donors, who include the #fossilfuel#climatechange[…]

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/starlink_vaporizes_satellites_daily/ Kessler syndrome is bad; atmospheric incineration may be worse

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow. This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

Apparently there's a regular Farmers' Market in the "war-torn hellscape" of the city of Portland in Oregon. It seems Americans are made of sterner stuff than I, or Don Trumpeone and the hysterical Stephen MIller, could imagine... #USpol #NoKings #Trump #tyranttrump

There are two 'N' words we're not allowed to say, according to Don Trumpeone. Donald Trump has said one of the two 'N' words is 'Nuclear', so what's the other one, Two Dolls Donny? My guess is the second 'N' word is 'Nobel'...

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good Morning, all, Just finished listening to the audiobook version of Adam Becker's 'More Everything Forever.' It's a revelation; the world we're bing herded into is not inevitable and there is a deceptively simple solution: tax #billionaires out of existence. No individual needs or, for the […]

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is #gbh News bringing you the world from #boston. It's 58F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi. The government is shut down. Trump has vowed to halt funding to blue states and "Democrat agencies." The great naturalist and advocate for conservation Jane Goodall has […]

I learnt this week that one of our research department secretaries* has been caught up in the round of redundancies in the state that has also affected DMI. She's looking for other positions, so if you're looking for an efficient, friendly and experienced administrative helper, give me a shout […]

Morning, all, listening to Adam Becker's 'More Everything Forever.' It's a revelation that reinforces my instinctive anathema to billionaire Tech Bros like Musk and Bezos bigly. Intriguing to learn about Steve Bannon's harmful impact on Biosphere Two, an experimental closed ecosystem set up in […]

Kids out in force for today’s bike-bus! Reclaiming the streets for the best start! 😍 Thanks also to local PC Lawrence accompanying the crew by bike👮🏻‍♂️🚲

Not quite sure how Netanyahu's taking other nations' citizens hostage through Israeli acts of piracy perpetrated on peaceful protesters sailing in international waters strengthens its moral case for securing the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. #gazaflotilla […]

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Morning, all, is there such a thing as Passive-Aggressive Recycling? Thinking of the idiot in our blocks of flats who throws unsorted rubbish in our large communal recycling bins. They put glass, cardboard & paper in the bin for cans & plastic, often with general waste, presumably in the […]

KYIV POST: Polish Government Redukes Orbán For Remarks About Ukraine Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski hits back at Orbán’s Ukraine swipe, accusing him of funding Russia’s war with oil money https://www.kyivpost.com/post/61296 #Ukraine #world

Global Sumud Flotilla: latest tracking report. 19 intercepted, the other ships not moving towards Gaza.

Morning, all, the Department of Defense was so named by Congress in woke 1949 as bringing together the War Department (which managed the U.S. Army and, later, its Air Force) and the Navy Department. Legally, only Congress may rename it. Also, #un treaties outlaw aggressive declarations of war […]

On this day in 2022, Putin illegally announced that four Ukrainian regions were now Russia. Today, Putin marked the so-called 'Day of Reunification' and said that millions of people in Donbas, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson "returned to Russia." In reality, he […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

#us Deports Planeload of #iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say The #deportation flight to #iran is the most stark push yet by the #trump admin to deport immigrants even to places with harsh #humanrights conditions. #law #immigration #thecrueltyisthepoint […]

Watching Venus (?) rising in a clear eastern sky I don't know why but I suddenly chuckled at this: Putin organises a seance at the Kremlin and finally gets thru to Stalin (the psychic phone lines were awful in the good ol' USSR): "Joe, I'm in terrible trouble. I started a war I thought I would […]

Good Morning, all, #UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon) replaces the imprecise dated term #UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). This latest UAP video leaked from the #dod#ufo#uapas been circulating and provoking ill-informed speculation. Why is no-one questioning why an alleged Hellfire missile […]

@deFractal "Digital duck tape"? If it swims like a duck tape, looks like a duck tape and, er, quacks likes a duck tape, it must be a duck tape...? 😊

Joe Tidy "made his excuses and left [the chat room]" So good to see the return of that traditional journalistic trope, so sadly missing since Digger Murdoch shuttered the News of the Screws (sorry, the News of the World). #BBCnews #CyberCrime #CyberWarfare #INFOSEC #medusa#infosec#cyberwarfare…]

Good Morning, all, #GoodNews from Chisinau - #BBCWorldService#goodnewsis reporting that the pro-#EU-membership party has decisively won Moldova's general election. My happiness will be complete if the Untied Kingdom can also reject the Far Right (who are often the 'Useful Idiots' Putin uses to conduct […]

Tim Berners-Lee explains why he gave away the #www for free. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free "For the web to have everything on it, everyone had to be able to use it, and want to do so. This was already asking a lot. I couldn’t also […]

The older I get, the more I understand why roosters just scream to start their day.

🚨 BREAKING The Green Party of England and Wales now has... 80,000 members 📊🥳 This is the biggest amount of members the party has ever had in since it's founding in 1972.

ATTENTION TRUMP VOTERS! The cost of your Fox News watching will be our democracy & your children’s freedom. Congratulations, gullible dimwits, you’ve won! Trump consolidates power: actions draw comparisons to world leaders who undermined democracies […]

Frankie Boyle on Donald Trump Pithy. And often prescient. E.g., As Don Trumpeone began his first term in 2017, Boyle said summat like: 'As President, Donald Trump will not get involved in foreign military adventures, as he will need all of America's military to launch attacks on Americans.' […]

Good Morning(ish), all, I do like the dry wit and comedic timing Seth Meyers displays when issuing #corrections https://youtu.be/JtU6lppQHPY?si=kVEGmbMRBiuj8wkR

Shocking. Shocked to see how a few remain seated to listen to Netanyahu justifying Genocide. #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #UNGA #unga2025#unga#freepalestine#endgenocidetps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/netanyahu-un-speech-israel-gaza-b2834372.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

WaPo - Defense Secretary Hegseth orders hundreds of generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at Quantico next week, sowing confusion and alarm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/

I bet trump is pissed off ... Giggles Hugz & xXx https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-26/tony-rinaudo-wins-luxembourg-peace-prize-regenerative-farming/105666674

Good Morning, all, well, that was weird. It started as a dream but turned into a nightmare. Dreamt I was ordering a cinema ticket online. The Beta-test let me choose the programme! I opted for a Looney Tunes cartoon medley 'B' feature followed by a Jude Law movie. At the cinema, was […]

Approximately a year ago, activists and colleagues took action against seabed mining in New Zealand, occupying the office of the lobbying firm. Today they were found guilty of trespass, convicted and discharged. “I’m proud to wear this conviction. We never take such action lightly but if […]