A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm. Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #FindsFriday #Archaeology

There’s a v cynical media and political blindspot in the Epstein shitshow. A feeding frenzy to get rid of Starmer while red-carpeting Farage into No10. Who is named in the files. As is Candy, Reform’s treasurer. With Bannon. And Brexit. Don’t cry about abuses of power and then do nothing about him.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

"European security officials believe two Russian space vehicles have intercepted the communications of at least a dozen key satellites over the continent."

It's kind of wild that the French foreign ministry has an official shitposting account.

Shockingly (to no one who has been following local government finances), councils are not rife with waste and fraud ... In Kent, Reform's DOGE "had not found any significant waste to cut"

French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.

🚨BREAKING - Gordon Brown says he has asked the Cabinet Secretary "to investigate the disclosure of confidential and market sensitive information" allegedly from Mandelson Says he asked the cabinet office to investigate this in September and department found no record.

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Explosive from @faisalislam.bsky.social about that call that did take place with Dimon and Darling.

Why isn't this a major news story?

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Seems like one of those issues that should greatly concern everyone regardless of their politics.

Time to strap on the Thursday tash and hit the road

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

This is ok tho

Storm Harry passing over Italy. Image taken by Sentinel-3 on Jan. 21, 2026.

I think I've seen this before, but what a photo of a V-1 attack on London in 1944. (From the endlessly interesting National Archives.)

Six years ago today, Wuhan started its 76-day lockdown. So close yet so far

This is legitimately insane and should be instantly career-ending for everyone involved.

NEW | Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in the EU power sector 🇪🇺⚡️ Our @ember-energy.org European Electricity Review is out today, showing wind and solar reaching 30% of EU power, compared to 29% for fossil fuels. Here's what happened in EU electricity generation in 2025 🧵

People can say they didn’t vote for this but people are liars

Surprise, surprise. Yusuf talking nonsense. Here's the graph with pensions stripped out. The complete opposite of what he claims. Keep numbers away from Yusuf as you would fire from a toddler.

Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.

So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu. Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

Artemis II moving out of the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to the launch pad. Launch for the first trip to the Moon in more than 50 years is scheduled for February 6. 📸 NASA

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese government. We must annex Greenland because climate change is making us vulnerable to an attack from the Chinese.

The Free Speech Union did not respond to any of our questions, about its donors or whether it's a bit contradictory to be taking out High Court writs injuncting publications Great to work w/ @mc00.bsky.social on this one Subscribe to D4S to get all stories, first: democracyforsale.substack.com

I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing

Winston Howes lost his wife. He planted thousands of oak trees in a six-acre field Once it was completed he put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. He didn't tell anyone Photo: SWNS

Quelle surprise... All 12 of Farage's Reform UK Ltd councils are increasing council tax Worcestershire has asked special permission to increase their tax by 10% Derbyshire, North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire and Leicestershire to the maximum 4.99% Kent and Staffordshire to 3.99%

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

'Global investment in low-carbon energy now outstrips that in fossil fuels by two to one. Taking over Venezuela’s basket-case oil industry will make no perceptible difference.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“.. U.S. imports are now down by -21.1% from their peak ... only other times we've seen worse declines were during the pandemic and global financial crisis.” - Schwab

Another image that sums up the protest.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

50. US withdraws from @ipcc.bsky.social, @ipbes.net, @irena-official.bsky.social, Intl Union for the Conservation of Nature, UN Energy, UN Oceans, UN Water, @ununiversity.bsky.social, UNFCCC, among others (Jan. 7, 2026)

All republicans voted down a subpoena of all records and footage related to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent

How totally predictable. Anyone curious about voting for Reform should pay close attention to what is happening at the various councils they run and just how many promises they are breaking