At this year’s Remembrance Day service at the City of Rockingham with mum (who is visiting from Scotland) and Hon. Dr Brian Walker MLC ( @bfw.bsky.social ). Lest we forget.

📢 What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?

Decades of fear, lies and propaganda have criminalised good people. Cannabis isn’t the problem — prohibition is. 💚 Legalise Cannabis for Health, for Freedom, for Justice. 👉 legalisecannabis.org.au/join

“The primary goal of this study was to develop & systematically evaluate a reproducible aroma lexicon for Cannabis inflorescence, which is a foundational step toward a standardised, evidence-based framework for describing Cannabis aroma” the study says. www.marijuanamoment.net/scientists-d...

If a Scottish farmer wants to grow hemp they need a licence from UK Home Office. Even if they get that coveted licence (costs money & time), it comes with a ridiculous catch. By law, UK hemp growers must cut down & compost the plant’s leaves & flowers. potculturemagazine.com/2025/11/07/t...

Friends, I give you Donald Trump, the Commander-in-Sleep. How proud must America be that even his bone spurs can’t keep him awake? #CommanderInSleep

Why Republicans will continue the shutdown and how it will eventually end.

OTD in 1965, the 173rd US Airborne Brigade were ambushed by over 12,000 V.C., and 48 US soldiers lost their lives. Severely wounded, Lawrence Joel, became the first living African-American since the Spanish-American War to receive the US Medal of Honor that day www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_OyFoxp_uo

Good on Chris Minns for calling these pissants out as pissants, but respectfully, the police don’t need more powers - they need to use the ones they already have. They could have objected - er, maybe “White Australia” was the clue? - and the rally would have been banned under existing laws. #auspol

A beautiful piece of placement by BlueSky in terms of my timeline 😂 #frogs

United Kingdom | A first-of-its-kind medicinal cannabis café is set to open its doors in Ramsey on the Isle of Man. Called The Green Lounge CSC, the venue describes itself as ‘a community resource... offering education, support & advocacy for medicinal cannabis patients’. gef.im/news/busines...

🌿In Australia, please be very careful what you wish (or vote) for. One Nation is on the record as supporting pHARMaceutical supply of cannabis, i.e. corporate cannabi💲 ONLY (no home grown) & Pauline believes only sport is recreational! #Legalise #Cannabis #Homegrown www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_D4...

Isn’t it the height of ironies that we can no longer send cheap tea to America, because the US wants to tax it? Wasn’t that what all the bother was about in the first place? 😂 #Trump #Tea #Tariffs

#GVerse #TLCleanse This is the cutest thing you will see today 😂😆 Pets & babies it don’t get any better!

This is the truth about government rhetoric. They want to distract from the fact they're responsible for the crises we face. If they get away with this performative cruelty, homeless people will be next. We have to stand against the establishment & their attempts to divide us.

Anne Krueger: "Trump’s divide-and-rule tactics have shattered the postwar multilateral order. ...America’s major trading partners must form a new coalition capable of upholding the principles that the World Trade Organization..." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...

Last week, I felt proud to stand with First Nations communities and vote for Treaty. It was a powerful step toward justice and healing. But we can’t ignore the reality - First Nations people in Australia are the most imprisoned people in the world. #Treaty #Cannabis #AusPol

Confidential Western Australian government report warns gas exports risk slowing Asia’s move to clean energy

#QP Show Me Your Conductor #ai #aiart #aiartcommunity #MidjourneyCommunity #midjourney

The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':

Friends, I give you Guy Fawkes - perhaps the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions, and even he failed to deliver. #GuyFawkes #RememberRemember

"RABBLEMENT, a long random discourse." --- F. K. Robinson, Glossary of Yorkshire Words (1855) "Idle, silly talk" RABBLE-ROTE. A repetition of a long rigmarole roundabout story (Halliwell, 1850) #dialect #archaic #obsolete #English #language #philology

Tomorrow (6pm Tuesday Nov 4th) sees the first online discussion of Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. @kaiheron.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social, and I will present the book and discuss it with the audience. Register for free below. www.indep.network/event/indep-...

More people want to see a left government than the continuation of FF/FG. There is an onus on all on left to build on the momentum from Connolly campaign. All parties should now join PBP in ruling out coalition with FF and FG, so that the next election can be a clear choice.

Why? Can’t we trust the federal government that we elected to put our interests first?? Oh, excuse me - I don’t know what came over me there for a second … #auspol

Because dumping the Nationals wouldn’t be a more sensible position? #auspol

Spotted outside Pizza Express in Woking…

Patients suffering Alzheimer’s disease dementia exhibited cognitive improvements following use of plant-derived cannabinoids. Patients who received placebo experienced overall decrease in cognitive performance, those receiving cannabinoids showed improvements. www.lcqparty.org/cannabis_ext...

Alcohol-dependent subjects who consume #cannabis possess significantly lower risk of liver injuries such as cirrhosis, according to investigators from the United States, Canada and Chile who assessed the impact in a group of 33,114 alcohol-dependent adults. #Legalise lcqparty.org/cannabis_use...

Clever use of bilingualism (hope this is a true story) #Gàidhlig #celtic #scotland

'Our poet President, Michael D. Higgins, set the bar high, but Catherine Connolly may well prove to be the finest President Ireland has produced.' Bernadette McAliskey www.impartialreporter.com/news/2557515...

I haven’t done this in far too long, but I decided to spend a quiet Saturday afternoon in Guildford, wandering one of the few remaining large secondhand bookstores in the area, followed by a cold pint or two. Amongst other finds, a UK 1st of Morris West’s “Clowns of God,” an old favourite. #BookSky

If Labor gets its way on environmental protection reforms, the government could wave through a catastrophic critical minerals mine on the basis that it's important to Australia's relationship with the United States.

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To avoid legal obligations in countries where Project Nimbus data services were hosted (e.g. Ireland), Israel instituted a secret code w/ Google and Amazon. Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner was senior employee of US tech company. Not unrelated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Scots Gaelic folklore, the Samhanach (Savages) are a species of goblin that hunt children on the night of Samhain more in my: "Boggarts,Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin" bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #folklore #samhain #booksky

NATO personnel stationed in southern Estonia have shot down an unidentified drone near Camp Reedo, a military base hosting US forces less than 30 miles from the Russian border. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-downs-u...

Here's a #cartoon that was published in @prospectmagazine.co.uk #science #conference #research #presentation

I think I found my favourite Old Prussian compound adjective, ‘gruntpowirpingin’ 🐧

When I’m having a difficult morning from an intestinal perspective, literally the last thing I need is for my smart watch to observe that my ring is looking good! Through the eye of a needle, perhaps …

thepoint.com.au/off-the-char... The Australian governments pends more on shredders than on FOI training…budgets are all about priorities…great new piece on The Point

The Centre for Public Integrity has found Labor failed in six of seven key transparency areas, from secrecy to “jobs for mates”. In opposition, Labor promised stronger integrity and accountability. This report shows there’s still a long way to go. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

@catherinegalway.bsky.social won the election by a landslide because of her strong commitment to Irish neutrality and peace - against the direction of Govnt policy, and reflecting deeply rooted values in Ireland. Not things that IT journalists like to admit. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

For those interested in alternative governance, community self-management, or post-capitalist experiments, the Venezuelan commune movement is a rich case study, with lessons of both promise and limitation. I can’t help but wonder if that’s why the US seems so intent on going to war with the country?

If you see this, post a witch! Does anyone else remember Fenella the Kettle Witch from Chorlton and the Wheelies? #witch

How many times do I have to say it, and how plainly? The US is no longer an ally, and is fast becoming a rogue state we will need to divorce ourselves entirely from.

9-year-old's letter to BBC Children's programme: Blue Peter (1973) Hollander is now Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Impact and Professor of StemCell Biology at Liverpool University #highered #science #medicine #surgery #edchat #education www.liverpool.ac.uk/researcher/w...