Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

Here’s where you’ll be able to find us on Saturday for Mark Jones Day of Dance! We’re really looking forward to performing with some amazing Molly sides 🤍🖤 #ely #mollydancing #folk #folkdance #markjones

Aurora Coolness xkcd.com/3196/

Dear British folk. The US Republicans actively voted for this. This is why it is not acceptable to appease the imbecilic populism of the Tory party or the active positions of Reform. If you let the vile messages sit unchallenged, they become normalised in parties that can be elected.

Great comment by @helensalisbury.bsky.social in this week's BMJ and one that far too many NHS managers, leaders and politicians miss entirely: doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... ...

“Don’t ask” From the Private Eye archive. Issue 711, March 1989.

I’ve found Sundays can be stranger days than usual in Social Media. So photos of @pigdykemolly.bsky.social dancing at Whittlesey #strawbear festival yesterday. #mollydancing #traditional #folklore

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

Here is our schedule for Strawbear 2026! We’re looking forward to seeing you all there 👀🖤🤍 #mollydancing #strawbear #whittlesey #folk #morrisdance

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

Walked along the Nene today in the hope of finding something remarkable in the sun. It was still Peterborough, though.

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

Merry Christmas all. I hope he’s been

What do you think is the greatest ever TV news clip? For me this can never be beaten...

Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins. It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia. The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.

In today's paper: the ten earliest lists of 'ten best' lists of random stuff in 2025 that someone wfh did in their underpants in the box room with a hangover to fill space that might otherwise involve reporting stuff.

Beautiful winter light in Peterborough this morning.

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

This is the #poem I read at end of my resignation - it will be in the follow up collection to Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth , most likely called Let The Quiet Ones Rise flapjackpress.co.uk/shop/ice-cre...

Two weeks ago, looking for Christmas in Geneva

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people. Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot? What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

And it’s getting worse. Disgusting. First Angela Rayner,then Jess Phillips, now Rachel. I hope that women in this country are waking up & seeing what’s happening & turn against voting for any party that the right wing media wants & that means Reform & Tories. Starmer needs to call the media out too.

I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/

What’s the phrase? Oh yes “Say What You See” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Amber Stripe; Northumberland Rock Pool Acrylic www.mickoxley.com/product/orig...

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️ ... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ... youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes

Performing desirable behaviour and "virtue signalling" is also absolutely core to human society. It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law. Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.

Any time one of those fake foreign British nostalgia accounts starts banging on about the 50s, send them this wonderful interview with Don McCullin, and his description (familiar to me from the 70s) of how brutal London was in the 50s www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

@pigdykemolly.bsky.social at their first ever Day of Dance at Stamford last Saturday

Here’s where you’ll be able to find us on 25.10.25 for the Stamford Day of Dance! We are so excited to dance, and to welcome some amazing teams with us! We hope to see some of you there 👀🖤🤍 #stamford #mollydancing #morrisdance #folk #folkdance

I think we're one or two bad polls away from someone in the government promising to deport any immigrants who won't get rid of their accent. Someone really needs to take Starmer aside and have a quiet word about not being so bloody stupid.

@pigdykemolly.bsky.social dancing at Ramsey Apple Day today. @greatfen.org.uk thanks for the invite.

And that’s Apple and Harvest Day!! More pictures to come soon 👀 Huge thank you to @greatfen.org.uk for such an amazing event! We hope to see you next year! 🖤🤍 #ramsey #appleday #mollydancing #folk #folkdance #morrisdancing

Mixing a little dancing and a little photography at the weekend. Anyone in Peterborough fancy a try?

Excellent new video from PBS Terra about the long term climate change impact on the probability of death across the USA:

No 1 should always be Write a List of Things to do Today. Then it can be immediately crossed off: success

20th September 2015

This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton. And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

@eastmidrailway.bsky.social Any chance of the 0829 from PBO actually arriving in NOT at 0938 as promised? Yet again held for 10 min outside NOT and have just exited the train. This has happened EVERY time I get the train this summer and once again I will be late for a meeting. Thank you.

More views from South Oxfordshire last weekend.

The UK Government will test its Emergency Alert System on Sunday, 7th September at 3:00 PM. If you have a concealed phone for safety, this alert could reveal its presence. You can opt out of these alerts. Find out how here: www.gov.uk/alerts/optin... Please help share to help keep others safe.