The big picture on the undermining of the most successful vaccine in history is even worse. bsky.app/profile/neil...

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So a secret cabal of anti semitic Nazi sympathisers under the watch of Project 2025 have tried to gain power in the Trump government. And it’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s real.

in the emergency room for a snake bite and they rush in a camel to watch The Notebook

Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!

14 words and not a single one wasted 👏👏👏

“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pope Leo XIV condemned the use of religion for justifying "war," "violence" or "fanaticism" – instead urging Catholics to mobilize their faith and unify others "regardless of ethnicity, nationality, religion or personal perspectives." https://cnn.it/4oGo7Cp

Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...

Reading William Gibson's Neuromancer from 1984. He seems to have predicted...*gestures at everything: Cyberspace, VR, neural implants, AI. Just came across this line: "How smart's an AI?" "Depends. Some aren't much smarter than dogs." Oh, and The Matrix shamelessly ripped it off wholesale, right?

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

All the benefit "fraud" in the entire world doesn't amount to even a fraction of a percent of the taxes multimillionaires don't pay.

New Video: An Irreverent take on the history of Fortean Times magazine with Ian Simmons, their News Editor. @iansimmons1960.bsky.social This is an extract, watch the full 50 minute live video here: youtu.be/hQ8dhObF21E

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

‘…the Social Democrats didn’t do enough to fundamentally change German society while they could.’ Gift article: What Could Have Stopped Hitler — and Didn’t www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...

they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms

Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists. #Hookland #WOTD

I never believed in the concept of an “Alpha male” until now.

Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television. I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime

“American socialists…move so-called “radical” ideas — proposals to make society more humane, more livable, and more fair, and to give everyday people a stronger voice in their democracy and workplaces — from the margins to the mainstream.” 🗃️

This isn't inspiring confidence in your lad's driving here...

The fossil fuel lobbyists are sitting around saying “this is fine”

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...

I believe they prefer to be called Americans

Free universal childcare just instituted in New Mexico.

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

Duloe stone circle

Anyone who listened to the new episode of @dannyrobins.bsky.social #uncanny released today, here's my linoprint of Kit's Coty near Bluebell Hill.....Is this sacred site something to do with the Road Ghosts 👻...? handmadebyhaggy.etsy.com

This is explosive stuff. Evidence that Jeffrey Epstein not only ran a child sex trafficking operation for powerful men, he also seems to have advised & supported Farage’s far right political projects in Europe and the UK, including Brexit, via Steve Bannon. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

RFKJr to blame witches for causing autism.

The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.

Ardal's father was the odious Rory O'Hanlon, misogynist, homophobe and Minister for Health in Ireland during the AIDS crisis, so he knows bigotry when he sees it, and thankfully still calls it out.

I have cast a pod, I'm appearing on Uncanny with Danny Robins this week, talking road ghosts www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

saw some “your party” posting going on and like sorry no thanks you people had your chance! and chose to be self-obsessed and useless instead! and the zach polanski train has left the station. thank u, next

Hmm, finally catching up with Predator: Killer of Killers. I am enjoying it, but the viking bit would have been better if the denouement didn't rely on an object that wouldn't really have existed for another thousand years.

The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.

The original cover of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘Wind in the Willows’ (1908), designed by W. Graham Robertson. Robertson knew Oscar Wilde and John Singer Sargent, who painted his portrait twice. Peter Hunt’s research suggests Robertson shared a house with Kenneth Grahame at the time.

Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It’s 12 November, so it’s time to mark the 55th anniversary of the exploding whale of Oregon, an attempt to clear a cetacean carcass from a beach which prompted one reporter to say “The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds”

The Altenburg Rat King was discovered in 1828 in a miller's fireplace in Thuringia. Consisting of 32 rats, it is the largest rat king on record. #WyrdWednesday

One from the archives. Nope, no idea.

Since then, the mine’s owner (allegedly) bought a load of heating pads and set up a warm room for the cats to sleep in. As always these days, it's hard to confirm this. But I really want it to be true.

Missing flamingo found living in France under an assumed name

seriously confusing ambiguous "they" in that headline