“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

I very much enjoyed watching the men’s figure skating last night #winterolympics The combination of athleticism and artistry is amazing. Hadn’t expected quite so much hair gel and harnesses though…

On a lighter note:

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes. From Treasure magazine, 1963 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Watching the ICE protests with such huge admiration for everyone who stands up for their neighbours against the Trump regime I think Joan expresses it so well… youtu.be/rwXO0sbN4pc?...

Please understand what it means when journalists are evacuating their family members out of town. In any other country, we would be approaching "foreign sanctions" territory

Wow. The Trump regime won’t even allow the investigation to happen. Imagine this in another country. We are over the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.

The farmer next door is cutting down the oak tree we can see from our kitchen window. It’s his land, and his tree, but I’ve been looking at it in all weathers for 23 years, and I feel bereaved. He’s developing his farm buildings, and I suppose he has a reasoning hope he doesn’t leave that stump 😕

The ‘getting annoyed because people call it ‘gifting’’ season is upon us…

This sums up nicely the Walmart dinner that 25% off for half as much food.

It costs nothing for you to share this. For every dollar you donate to your local food pantry you’ll be providing up to 10 meals to families in need this holiday season.

I have no faith in this, but all the news channels should lead with the illegal destruction of a big chunk of the White House. Don’t let Speaker Johnson claim he isn’t aware. Don’t gather fake centrists to say it’s ok. Nobody wants this except for the 25% of voters who are in a cult.

Big shout out to everyone in the USA who will be at a No Kings rally today… Know that there are many millions across the world cheering you on! youtu.be/wnvCPQqQWds?...

@florenceknapp.bsky.social I’ve just finished reading ‘The Names’ and had to tell you how much I loved it. One of those books that, when yo close it you want to go back to the beginning to discover it anew… So looking forward to seeing what you do next…

Riot Women is superb. I felt every line.

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

I’m 72 and so not eligible for a COVID booster. Husband (75) will have one. Decided to pay for one. None available in my town. Waiting to hear if I can get an appointment for one 20 miles away. Luckily we have a car…

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More messaging like this please

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

it’s never a mistake to go visit ponyhenge 🐎 🚲 🐎

There are other countries on the planet besides your own. When you take the time to look around at them, & consider the possibility THEY might have brilliant people with extraordinary ideas to share with the world... LOOK WHAT HAPPENS! No cancer or dead whales or birds. Just cool park benches.

Couldn’t Trump just construct his ballroom on Minecraft…?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

My contribution to last night’s ‘C’ themed raffle at Locally Sourced Comedy new material night. The raffle was won by host Will Adamsdale and the winning ticket was selected by a dog. It was that sort of a night. I can draw one for you if you like www.worldofmoose.com/products/cra...

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

IMPORTANT 🧵 We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US. But it could happen in UK too. It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim. Read on! 1/11

30 years since this happened (28 since I wrote about it). I still recall that wonderful tree and the generosity of my patient in her final illness. www.bmj.com/content/315/...

Leave it to Donald Trump to lavishly fund the circuses but keep all of the bread for himself.

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

Facebook is wall-to wall adverts for Disney Plus… I wonder why…

What I'm seeing here is everyone wearing absolutely every bit of bling they've got, seated at a table groaning with gold leaf, and trying hard to keep a straight face as they lay on this glittering pantomime for a child-President. Bet he was hoping someone would give him a medal too...

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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

I thought my husband and I had an unspoken agreement that when we look at our i-pads in the morning when we’re in bed, we have the sound turned off. Apparently this is not the case…

What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨

excellent. MORE OF THIS.

"To deny cadets the chance to meet Tom Hanks, or any future awardee, is to deny them a moment of inspiration they would carry with them into their service, and into their leadership of America’s soldiers."

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Such a heartbreaking comparison. SO American in a time of danger. So UN-American in a time of danger.

Love coming across stuff like this. Someone called Rickdadick450 on the welding subreddit created this mechanical vulture out of old typewriter and calculator parts. It rocks, and doubly so if you’ve read M. John Harrison’s “The Pastel City”.