And someone linking to a useful archives tool they made! bsky.app/profile/vidd...

My shop is open… just sayin’ Buy something and the cat gets Dreamies… craftysharp.etsy.com

The mainstream press isn’t resisting because they are colluding and it’s been a while

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

Mamdani’s message is as American as apple pie, and that’s why he drives reactionaries of many different political stripes crazy.

If rumblings about Special Needs changes are true,they'll place huge pressures on schools, in the absence of the necessary resources.Also, taking rights away & putting schools in the driving seat would be a retrogressive move: the Labourism of institutions rather than the empowerment of families 1/2

2/2 from today's Times. NB there's no clear line between "severe" & "moderate", not least when it comes to autism.

Controversial take but I agree that if you have even center left politics you should be barefoot wearing a barrel with suspenders. You should have a wallet with a single moth and nothing else in it. You should be slicing up a single bean paper thin and eating it slowly on a trash can lid

Thinking this is wrong is not radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

Cat is cat. #Catsofbluesky #Blueskycats

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heeeeeres 2026!

Among the various reasons why this government is shortsighted: cutting support for children with additional needs will bite us back in future when their opportunities are much narrower as adults. We face many challenges, we need them to be ready for them, growing into their best selves.

This Times “speculation” had better be wrong—It would actively cause harm to children—there isn’t the expertise or infrastructure needed for this cruel plan. If it’s accurate, we will campaign against it vigorously. Which parent or school would back it? archive.is/KFcWB

As 2025 wraps up, we’re reflecting on a landmark year for Digital Schoolhouse. 🚀 We’ve focused on three pillars to change the game for students & teachers: 1️⃣ Transforming Education 2️⃣ Unlocking Digital Creativity 3️⃣ Inspiring through Esports Here’s the breakdown...

Currently 77% of UK pupils are within 50km of a Digital Schoolhouse. By 2030, we want to make that 100% We believe Every Child Deserves a Digital Future.

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and must do better A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year, writes Zack Polanski https://bit.ly/4b6qZVK

Two predictions from me for 2026: 1) Anti-Labour tactical voting, which I know sounds obvious but the massive extent to which I think this will happen is still going underpriced imo 2) Tactical voting against Gaza independents, which is a more medium-/long-term thing to look out for in the future

it’s all i’ve got

But if you don't trust my motivations, use one of the other methods to save your own stuff, and in either case, use the Wayback Machine to archive any other people's entries you really care about (fanfic, posts from friends who have passed away, posts in communities with inactive maintainers, etc).

You can also import LJ communities to DW communities if you're the maintainer (not a moderator) of the source community on LiveJournal and the admin (not a moderator) of the target community on DW.

1. The on-site month by month export as described in this FAQ: www.livejournal.com/support/faq/... 2. If you still have the Semagic client downloaded (or can find wherever the current version is; I don't know it offhand), it can download everything for you.

It is my considered opinion, from what I know of geopolitics, Russian politics, and the technical capabilities of LiveJournal, that the current owners are working to isolate any LJ user outside Russia from any LJ user inside Russia to the greatest extent possible --

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

Happy new year to all the artists who haven't had time, energy, passion, or any other needed resource to draw enough personal stuff to join end-of-the-year memes in 2025. May we find more of all of the above in 2026, as well as compassion for ourselves if we don't!

I’ll see your “Alt-Right Men have no idea why nobody actually wants to date them” and raise you “All the women have started to flee the US.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

idk man, I think Lucy Connelly might think it's fine to jail someone for hate speech as long as it's some other fella who is a bit different to her. I'm not sure she's a cutiepatootie after all.

Gardner's one of the most valuable people out there for reading between the lines of what immigration policy actually means under this government. 'Safe routes' are what we need, they're being promised, but...

bye 2025👋

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df

Personal opinion: If KS does agree to this, then he & every Labour MP who DOESN’T openly oppose I will consider to be traitors to the UK and its population. #UKPolitics

When Labour said "change" in 2024 it was talking about a change of Government. A large proportion of people voting for them saw "change" in more fundamental terms.

Similarly it doesn’t require Hercule Poirot to figure out why many economic and social progressives might dislike a Labour chancellor who has resisted tax rises while regularly insisting cuts to benefits and austerity for public services as necessary, until backbench unrest forces u-turns.

McSweeney: "Guys! We've doubled Starmer's approval rating among Reform voters! TRUST THE PROCESS"

⭕Les victimes #d'Epstein ont annoncé qu'elles publieraient leur propre liste de noms. "Nous savons qui nous a agressés. Nous avons vu qui est venu et reparti. Cette liste sera établie par les survivants, pour les survivants."

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

If you keep telling social liberals to fuck off to impress the Times, don't act all surprised when they actually fuck off.

Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.

This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.

Today’s hero: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Akihiro Miwa perfects Moro's laugh in the recording sessions for Princess Mononoke From: How Princess Mononoke Was Born (1998), dir. Toshiro Uratani, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Who else?

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