The MSM have consistently refused to properly investigate the UK duopoly’s nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones. Find out why here👇🏻 substack.com/@europeanpow...

Private Faschismustheorien (Folge XII): “Of course the would not call it fascism. They would call it Americanism.” youtu.be/_abRxAL3hnw?...

Scott Ritchie's bird photo of the year: Rainbow bee-eaters. whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/12/25/r...

From the Hamill House to your's: MERRY CHRISTMAS !!! 🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶

Hebden Bridge in snow, west Yorkshire, painting by Caroline Johnson.

0.00003 foot tall xmas tree from a Drosophila flight steering muscle 🎄 image by @anne-sustar.bsky.social

🦎Veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus). Max size males 61 cm (24"), females 35 cm (14"). Has a prehensile tail. Found in southwestern Saudi Arabia and western Yemen. It is an introduced species in Hawaii and Florida. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by jonleong64 on Pixabay

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

I’m a couple of minutes early but fuck it, Happy Christmas my darlings and comrades, to you and yours.* * Terms and conditions apply, not available to the rich.

This time of year can be hard for some of us. Nine years ago a good friend of mine put his kids to bed on christmas night, said goodnight to his wife, went to a local park and committed suicide. Help is out there. spuk.org.uk

"Hannah Hauxwell Waving Goodbye" Painting by Peter Brook (RBA)

Love and solidarity to Palestine Action hunger strikers their friends and families.

Looking back on my favourite walks of 2025 - September (Scotland and the Lake District) www.andrewswalks.co.uk/2025/09

Anna Sahlstén, Finland, 1859 – 1931 Bread Worries, 1895 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

I’ll see if I can continue my recent good luck with post popularity and give the people what they apparently want. Here’s a couple of photos of a very confiding Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea) from a little while back. #birds #WildlifePhotography #UKWildlife

Today's Spin Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake - Small Faces Why the heck it's taken me the best part of 60 years to get this album and listen to it in it's entirety for the first time is a mystery, brilliant album. #vinyl #nowplaying #SmallFaces

Backstage at Lefty Christmas with my fabulous pal Grace Petrie

Wishing You All Moments of Peace Soft tides exhale where pale skies meet the sea, Light rests on sand, unburdened, wide, and slow. In this still breath of earth, the heart grows free, A quiet world that teaches how to be. #StunDay #ImageAndVerse #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast #EastCoastKin

Happy solstice ✨🪨✨

Come join me on a sanderling stroll at sunset. 🪶

The economy serves the owners. Every recession is an act of economic violence disguised as inevitability. People’s lives are collateral damage for interest rates and shareholder value. #SocialistSunday

Unless you happen to live on the equator, the chances are that you're experiencing some form of solstice today. I tend to take stock and reflect upon the preceding months at these stationary points in day length, since they verifiably occur for almost everyone regardless of religious persuasion.

why tf does any citizen need to "register to vote"

It used to be a Christmas tradition for our whole family to go down the pub, come home after a few hours and deck the halls. To be honest I’m surprised the Halls carried on living next door for as long as they did.

Happy solstice everyone, turn to catch the light 🌱🪴🌵 #SucculentSunday #PlantSky #Bloomscrolling #GardensHour #GardenersWorld #EastCoastKin

There’s an Arabic version of “every cloud has a silver lining” that translates to “no cows, no feeding them at dawn.” A Scots version is “today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.” And a Romanian phrase for looking on the bright side is un șut în fund, un pas înainte, or “a kick in the ass, a step forward”

The working class built this world. CEOs and investors just extract rent from it. Social wealth funds redistribute capital returns to everyone, not just the elite. #SocialistSunday

A SOLSTICE ANALEMMA: Italian photographer Paolo Bardelli stitched together 48 pictures spanning 12 months to reveal the analemma over Lake Varese. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

Half Ma’am Half Brisket

Manchester Guardian leader, September 11 1908: 'We cannot understand to what practical use a flying machine that is heavier than air can be put.'

I'm proud of this rant at a Labour MP.

Love how Labour MPs have been ordered to attack Zack Polanski this week, whilst everyone and their mum are asking, "Last Christmas in Downing Street for Keir Starmer?" A reminder: Labour's polling has collapsed because the party are a bunch of rancid, murderous bigots.

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

It seems to me, having now read enough articles to make an informed judgement, that we can draw several conclusions about AI: 1) It is not productive. In fact, in reality, it makes us less productive due to frequent hallucinations and errors that have to be corrected.

MPs laughed when Jake Richards dismissed Jeremy Corbyn’s request for a meeting on the Palestine Action hunger strikers. Laughed. This is who we’re governed by, people entrusted to represent a nation, yet so insulated by power they respond to human suffering with indifference and mockery.

bringing home the mushroom

I don’t know who made this, but it’s spot on!!

How to fix soccer: 1. The field is too big, shrink it. 2. Too many players on the field. Limit it to two. 3. Paint the field in a black-and-white grid. 4. The ball is replaced by pure positional advantage. 5. Pawns everywhere.

🦎Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko). Called 'tokay' because that is what the sound of a male sounds like. Max. size 40 cm (15.7"). Found in tropical Asia, from northeastern India in the west to Indonesia in the east. Considered Least Concern by the IUCN. 📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik

You ever wish your own brain would just shut the fuck up sometimes

"Name?" "Scream." "First Name?" "Wilhelm." "..." "No." "Oh, please, just one." "Oh, FINE." *clears throat* *AAAAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH* "Thank you Mr. Scream, please enjoy your stay at the Ritz."

Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday

what I would like is for us to all get to live in societies with universal basic income so that artists can just make their art without having to also be TV personalities, sound engineers, video editors, publicists, producers etc

Zircon crystals are nearly indestructible, and are some of the only things to survive the hellish pressure and heat of the Haldean Eon, when the earth was formed. The oldest zircons are found in Jack Hills, Australia, where our specimen was found. It may be small, but it's 4.4 billion years old!

"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy, as the mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky A Village Street in Winter 🎨 Alfred Sisley (1893)

After the rain, mist lifting over Derwentwater and Cat Bells in the Lake District. Calm conditions after a wet weekend. #landscapephotography #Cumbria #lakedistrict

Super proud of this one - sometimes in museums we get to do the right thing & correct a historical wrong. Honoured to have played a part in returning Preben Holger Larsen's remains to Denmark, and I hope sharing our methods helps other museums follow difficult research threads. bit.ly/4iZXCpX