Quelle surprise: Amu Gib, one of the PA hunger strikers real name is Amy Gardiner-Gibson “a queer activist affiliated with Palestine Action. Gib identifies with non-binary or gender-fluid pronouns and their activism intersects queer solidarity with Palestinian liberation efforts” But who is dad? 1/3

Todays crossover in kookery is Kit Klarenberg of Grayzone joining Gareth Icke on David Ickes website. Guess red-brownism is getting too stale so brew needs some reptilians.

🔺The Buzzer! Not that I pay too much attention but for those that do follow such nonsense, between 1800Z-1823Z the notorious Russian Forces “Buzzer” station played David Bowie “Starman” Make of that what you will!

I don’t know how much Zack Polanski knows about the history of allegations of divided loyalties against British Jews, but I’d suggest it’s probably something he doesn’t want to add a chapter to. A brief history of an antisemitic trope… 🧵 /1

Nato has evolved from being a credible military force designed to incapacitate ruzzia into some countries with leaders pronouncing words as "unprecedented" "unwavering support" "stand BEHIND" etc, believing they're as credible as during the cold war.

Tbf if there was only one University left in the country, then yeah maybe the government would sit up and take action

Here is another UK military procurement disaster - apparently, they are only buying 60 Trophy APS kits for 148 Challenger 3 tanks, because buying them for all those tanks would cost too much money... h/t @kestrus.bsky.social ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britains-nex...

Must have car accessory if you're going to the retail park on Black Friday

The shooting which left at least 2 National Guard members dead was an ambush attack, law enforcement sources.- CBS News

Proof Scottish pro-Indy account network operated from Iran The findings reinforce the UK Defence Journal’s earlier reporting. UKDJ had been tracking a small sample of accounts tied to this wider cluster for several months ukdefencejournal.org.uk/proof-scotti...

Doc about the great hunger in Kazakhstan, contemporaneous with the holodomor www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

TIL that the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting team consists of a Magic 8 Ball and a haunted Etch-A-Sketch

My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is. So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise. If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1

Unless it plays out like this, it seems to me that talk of a coup against Starmer is a bit of an exaggeration youtu.be/EDOIzK8NuoU

Female Sparrowhawk just got a pigeon on the lawn, towards the end of the video it fly drags it to the hedge. A few minutes later 3 red kites rocked up and were circling overhead.

Crazy recent clip of ISIS and Boko Haram shooting each from boats on lake Chad. Keep it up lads (h/t to notwoofers in the other place)

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OMFG the UK Green Party showing they can't do maths and should stick to tofu weaving & hypno-boobing. 1,000,000,000,000 /20,000,000,000=50 Oh and that's Elon's package for a decade. So err that'd be $5 a year for a UK nurse. I suppose it's one way to boost staff to patient ratios in the NHS...

More reproducibility crisis Lolz in Social Psychology. "When Prophecy Fails" which coined the term Cognitive Dissonance turns out to be woo. "scholars in psychology, sociology, and religious studies have been building theories atop a collapsed foundation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Quick, fetch them to the farrier!

The imagery coming out of Darfur of the RSF is so grim the BBC/Sky won't show it. Thomas van Linge has been covering it on X WARNING this is on par with 7/10 xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge... xcancel.com/ThomasVLinge... www.facebook.com/liganalfashe...

#OTD in 1944, Breda was liberated by Polish 1 Armoured Division, led by Stanisław Maczek. (Maczek was after the war stripped of Polish citizenship by the communists; he's buried in Breda.) #WW2 #HISTORY

Zarah Sultana complaining that Zelensky is “no friend of the working class” is a bit like when the British Communist Party didn’t want us to support “semi-fascist” Poland after it was invaded by Nazi Germany

First snow on the hill

😠 Russian occupation authorities have sentenced 21-year-old Yana Suvorova, the administrator of the Telegram channel “Melitopol Is Ukraine,” to 14 years in prison. She was arrested in August 2023. She was only 19 at the time.

1/ The most telling moment from the recent Energy Security & Net Zero committee. Simone Rossi (CEO at EDF UK) carefully sets out why the price of gas is not the main factor in high electricity bills, only to be interrupted by a pompous MP who is certain that he knows better.

So we let the Chinese buy a UK datacenter that hosted secret Whitehall data, and UK blue chip company data. The Chinese spent a decade hacking it, when it was discovered it was buried by the last gov. We are ruled by spackers: www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/chin...

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According to some unconfirmed sources, Mr. FAFO has experienced FAFO during ongoing infighting in Gaza. Below are examples of propaganda roles he was running for Hamas terrorists ..

FT: Under the new rules, foreign companies will need Chinese government approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s rare-earth extraction, refining or magnet-making technology on.ft.com/4714pdE

Interesting Times article by Matthew Syed. Free link from Glyko here

Last night there were pro Pal rallies across the country with the usual chants & arrests for assaulting police: inc Manchester, London, Brighton, Leeds, Glasgow. As usual the BBC didn't report it, & such things don't taint bluesky. A 🧵on the character of these marches over the last 2 years

Putting things into perspective, The Island, area between Arnhem and Nijmegen. #WW2 #HISTORY

❗️Putin's logic:Poland has provoked Hitler who wanted to find a peaceful solution: Poland made many mistakes.Germany offered to resolve the issue of Danzig&the Danzig Corridor peacefully.The Polish leadership at the time categorically refused&,in the end, became the first victim of Nazi aggression

Call me a pedant but unless it has "whisper mode", "turbine boost", and an electric 20mm rotary cannon capable of 4000 round per minute, you CANNOT call it Blue Thunder. May the shade of Roy Scheider haunt them

The OnlyCat ai cat flap proving its worth. The female here still hasn’t figured out she can no longer bring us presents. She tried to bring this mouse in 4 times in two mins. Her smarter brother seems to have given up and eats them outside and not under our bed 👍

Lol. Makes this random interaction I had with him on Twitter a couple of days ago even funnier www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Europe seems to be tied to the idea that sanctions alone can stop Putin’s war 🧵In reality, they will never be enough Without a credible military posture, sanctions are only an inconvenience (Read on)

witching hour vibes theorb.bandcamp.com/album/yarns-...

This chap is a lib dem councillor

So Hypnotits wrote to Starmer about 'upholding international law' on the seas. Should have asked his deputy Mothin Ali, whose expertise on such things includes saying Yemen* firing missiles at international shipping is "upholding internal law"

#OTD in 1944, Nijmegen. Champagne, left by the previous owners. #WW2 #HISTORY

He fought for what's right. He paid the ultimate price. A true warrior for liberty, his sacrifice won't be forgotten. #RussiaIsATerroristState #NAFO 🎁 link (no paywall)

Same tailor as Stan?