One year since I posted this. One year since everybody treated it like a joke. One year of watching my back. Tell me: have you seen much of Harry Styles this past year? Tim Davie's gone a bit quiet too, hasn't he?

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Grok + X now seems to be awash with images undressing women, without consent. It is an issue with the potential for a very very broad coalition - across political divides - to insist the Musk platform gets back within the law, on all fronts, not just this example. www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

As we start a new year, CPJ continues to defend the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. Join us. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Think someone at the Beeb has been at the New Year drinkies early... 🤣 #Archaeology 🏺 #Hic #HappyNewYear

To mark the new year, here are my top 8 blog posts of 2025! 1. I imagined how we would make a feminist map of the Moon, to represent relationships that don't reinforce terrestrial inequalities. (with contributions from @bettinaforget.bsky.social and @nancyfjorde.bsky.social). 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

Reminder: January 1st is Comicraft’s annual font sale! I just scored a nice collection of art deco fonts that normally goes for $150 for just $20.26.

Will Modi apologize for this? Unlikely, given his support for Russia’s lies and invasion of Ukraine

You don’t ban aid groups, unless you want people to suffer.

Former Conservative leader and Reform councillor steps down from Barnet Council www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/2573205...

Israel have banned @medicalaidpal.bsky.social . When you don’t think your heart can break anymore.

If you don't believe that Israel has joined Iran, Lebanon and Syria as a state sponsor of terror, just look at the West Bank | Opinion | Zvi Bar'el www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

The cargo ship, FITBURG, traveling from Russia to Israel, was boarded and seized by Finnish authorities after its anchor chain was found deployed in the water, dragging it from Estonia to Finland. The vessel is suspected of sabotaging the Elisa submarine telecommunications cable.

“The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else.”

Indeed. Happy new year back

The Trump Administration is terrible for science and humanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

US measles cases surpass 2,000, highest in 30 years: CDC 🚨Trump & Worm Brain are responsible for this catastrophe too! - EB abcnews.go.com/Health/us-me...

trump’s government has caused the deaths of over 700,000 people worldwide in just its first year. they must be brought to justice for this. data: impactcounter.com

In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm. Virtually every part of the immigration system has been made harder and riskier, as if repurposed only to punish people for one of the most universal experiences there is: migration. Read more: http://bit.ly/3LfsZ3p

"Britain’s media regulator Ofcom is under pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump after complaints that it contained misleading and inaccurate claims that the network failed to challenge." #BBCPM

@dusttodigital.bsky.social don’t blow their own trumpet on here, so it falls to me. They just launched a radio station, available on the app-store and elsewhere. Fill your boots dust-digital.com?srsltid=AfmB...

Which aid groups is Israel banning from Gaza now – and what will it mean? https://aje.io/hjp76q

#EpsteinFiles #Coverup #Russia #Epstein 👉 Epstein & Maxwell, multiple trips to Russia (1992-2003), continued payments to Russian girls (2008-2012). In 2020 Deutsche Bank fined $150 Million over Epstein's transactions

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

Reform UK Review 2025 Reform UK councillors including Council Leader Councillor Jo Monk pose for photos with neo-Nazis in the Worcestershire Patriots group, promoting and exchanging information with them.

#GoodNews - not quite #UniversalBasicIncome, but headed in that direction. With the understanding that people in poverty's problem is lack of money #UBI @ubilabnetwork.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Gaza City's landscape was once packed with concrete residential blocks. In the weeks before a ceasefire in October, Israel widely deployed a new weapon: M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers repurposed to carry between 1 and 3 tons of explosives, Reuters found reut.rs/49fw0cd

Such a stupid lie that only Trump fell for it

Doubt this is a coincidence but a far right modus operandi to dismantle any media which might hold them in any way accountable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is a story about patient needs 1.9 million over 5 years 1.4% of A&E attendees - the patients believed they needed urgent care Over the same period GP practices did 1.9 billion consultations And people turned up to their GPs with chest pain, broken bones, sepsis, etc Both need funding

Not hiding it anymore

(🎁 Article) "While day care centers in Minnesota have been prosecuted for overbilling in the past, none of the centers featured in the video have been accused of fraud by the authorities." They are using this video as an excuse to unleash hatred on this community and rip away resources. #Pinks

LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”

Trump posted a photo claiming it shows a bald eagle in the United States killed by a windmill. In reality, the image is of a dead falcon in Israel from 2017.

BREAKING: Israel has banned Doctors Without Borders from entering Gaza because healing injured Palestinians is terrorism now x

Natalie Portman is fundraising for Standing Together עומדים ביחד نقف معًا today “we can play a part in encouraging grassroots activists who are making real change on the ground right now.” my.israelgives.org/en/fundme/no...

Motherfuckers

Number one on my excuse bucket list

You don’t have to reach for DNA for this toxic mess en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley...

A Colorado forensic scientist faked hundreds of DNA tests over decades. Literally such as putting the suspect's DNA in both the sample slot and the suspect's slot: voila, it is a match, the odds are astronomical that it'd be a false match. 3,000 cases at least, she fucked with.

Let’s make this happen!

He was Iron Man!

This year, the White House falsely claimed that millions of taxpayers’ dollars were funding “sex changes” in Guatemala — a lie used to justify gutting USAID. With LatinoUSA, we learn how it affected LGBTQ+ organizations and damaged US credibility abroad. beta.elfaro.net/en/a-region-...

Back in September of this year the Russians launched a missile into Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers building and attempted to assassinate Ukraine's Prime Minister in her office. Why wasn't Trump "very angry" about this?

The first in our new Reform Watch series | Julia Mazza

Thank you for reminding me, douche

DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website https://theonion.com/doj-removes-all-mentions-of-justice-from-website/

On the 6th day of Christmas... Wise prophet or foolish coward – the goose has been both. Revered at Michaelmas, mocked by Shakespeare, feared on the battlefield and loved for feathers, fat and flight – here's how this bird shaped medieval life. ⤵️