Currently, the outrage to the visible contents of the Epstein files is so mild that I have to think the majority of people just aren’t even casually checking them. I can’t think of a phrase to describe what I’ve read even as a forensic analyst. “Cartoonishly evil” is too gentle. Horrific. Inhuman.

[Epstein files horror] They’re not just talking about rape, they’re taking about kids. They’re not just talking about kids, they’re implying destroying bodies. They’re not just talking about destroying bodies, they’re talking about killing babies. They’re not just taking about killing babies […]

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Saw headline about Sarwar there and actively snorted in derision. #scotpol

Well, this afternoon I have found and fixed the earth leak problem on my electric fences; and in the process, of course, I've given myself a full 9.8KV shock. It doesn't injure, but jings! It hurts!

The Mennonites are protesting against ICE at the Goshen, Indiana, Target store. https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/indiana-mennonite-congregations-protest-target-ice-defunding #uspol #news #indiana #immigration

I also got to see a beautiful and educational Māori Star Compass, and learn a few incredibly interesting tidbits about celestial navigation (and continue to try to orient myself to the southern hemisphere sky) #profsamlecturetour

I tried to photograph this Barn Owl in a shed without spooking him and the way he was peeking around the corner at me peeking around the corner at him was just gold. #birdsofmastodon #superbowl #autofocusfail

5. Forgive my cynicism, but what we have before us does not look to me like a glowing paragon of consistent values and selfless behaviour. It looks like someone who will stop at very little to gain power, even if he hasn’t the faintest idea what to do with it when it arrives.

4. His ruthlessness as Director of Public Prosecutions sat oddly with his history as a defence lawyer. People remarked on it at the time. Perhaps human rights was not in fact soaked into his fabric, but something else was. Ambition. By any means.

1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction. Read on.🧵

This can very much happen here if there’s an unlucky confluence of geology and excessive rains. (Sorry, not a happy way to start the week) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/anger-despair-sicilian-town-crumbles-landslide-niscemi

The suffering of Gaza's residents continues unabated despite the ceasefire; buildings remain destroyed and medical supplies are insufficient. 😢https://gofund.me/2ff3cfdad

Listen to @zackpolanski.bsky.social If he can speak up on behalf of you and me and make a rational case for a #WealthTax on the obscenely rich why the f*ck can’t Labour? Because they’re owned — locked stock and well scraped barrel — by those same elites that resent chipping in. #VoteGreen

@engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social I genuinely believe that car-dependent suburbia is a huge contributor to why millions of people don't get enough exercise.

"These lands weren't empty lands. Even the first small portion was said to be populated by Canaanites. The third claimed area is the lands of The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and […]

Posted without comment. #scotpol https://www.thenational.scot/news/25833572.john-curtice-verdict-anas-sarwar-chances-leading-scotland/

Are there any immigration lawyers in the house? What's the situation just now with getting Palestinians from #Gaza refugee status in the UK? You'd think, for people suffering #gazagenocide#gaza it ought to be pretty much automatic, but given our xenophobic, pro-Israeli government, it wouldn't […]

Just looked at today's weather forecast. Humidity 98%. I really could do without that. And yes, the wind is blowing and it's going to rain and it's cold. But that humidity makes it all so much worse. 98%!

"How can this mess be resolved? Before it can be resolved at all, it seems to me, first must come repentance. Repentance, yes, for the sins of terrorism which have been perpetrated on both sides, but repentance first for the sin of Abraham. What is the sin of Abraham? Thou shat not steal […]

Review of the last* Scottish election before the Holyrood election in May. "an utterly crushing result for the Conservatives. ... the kind of thing that could take them from 12 MSPs... to just 3; i.e. one per region outside Glasgow, where they risk wipeout." […]

Whilst I welcome a renewed focus on the Epstein files THIS should still be receiving attention. The UK government should be using its "special relationship" to stop this brutality, otherwise we are complicit in this abuse. #ice #uspol @KatyElphinstone […]

"This is the heart of the tragedy. They are all one people, literally one family; cousins. The hatred, the contempt, and now the genocide, arise out of the claim by some to be uniquely their mutual god's chosen people, to be sole inheritors of their common patrimony. This is the ultimate […]

My mentions continue to be a dumpster fire of people who really don't have a fucking clue about road safety, or public health. Multiple people have heard me saying "do not make bike helmets mandatory" and interpreted it as "we should ban the wearing of cycle helmets". That's not what I said […]

Anti-asylum groups step down https://www.theferret.scot/email/3fce8bbd-5f5d-4bec-83fa-3e3070f69a49/ Over the past year, anti-migrant protests have become a flashpoint in Scotland with far-right groups accused of hijacking them for their own political purposes, while stirring up racial hatred […]

Reform UK caused a stir in Gorton and Denton today by sending a 'Dear Neighbour' campaign letter without any Reform branding in breach of electoral law. They did the exact same thing in Wales too. After that mistake you would think they would print their leaflets more Caerphilly. #ukpolitics […]

Israeli border tech is not about security, it’s a tool for ethnic cleansing https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-border-tech-ethnic-cleansing-palestine-west-bank-hebron-wolf-pack/ In the West Bank, we are the unwilling test subjects for digital advancements in methods of population control

When one of the worst possible criminals even says he’s beyond awful … that’s a pretty high bar.

#MissKittyPolitics #AI #Research for political good. #Thiel told the press he was #stopping his #donations in 2024. It was a lie. He gave $850k to Speaker Mike #Johnson to protect his Palantir contracts. #Corruption

This is a really good analysis of how #labour became a right wing party. I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in […]

“Everybody is so fed up with #Labour’s only strategy being ‘vote Labour to keep the Tories out’, and now it’s ‘vote Labour to keep Reform out’,” Spencer tells me. “It’s like: how about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?” -- #green#labourparty candidate Hannah Spencer in the […]

Hello 👋 Please don't ignore me. 🥺❤️ I'm having trouble concentrating on my studies and homework because of the cold, hunger, and constant bombing. I wish we could all eat every day. Please share my brother's campaign? Please donate to it. Please help us. @mommunism.bsky.social

I'm really feeling seriously depressed about the disaster in orbit today, I already had a couple of meetings and a flurry of emails about the fucking awful SpaceX million satellite filing. It's Waitangi Day here, and I'm looking forward to learning a lot about Māori culture and seeing some […]

Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/05/calls-to-halt-uk-palantir-contracts-grow-amid-lack-of-transparency-over-deals Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts […]

Surrounded by wind farms by why do I have to pay more for electricity in the Scottish Borders than if I lived in London? #scottishindependence https://www.believeinscotland.org/scots_charged_extra_to_access_scotlands_energy

"An analysis in October suggested that on just 27% of the vote (roughly in the middle of its polling over the past year), Reform UK would win 48% of the seats, allowing it to take power with a small coalition partner. If Reform UK forms the next government, it will be for one reason and one […]

"While the rest of us headed into years of immiseration, the filthy rich carried on regardless – and they did so with the willing aid of the centre-left elite, whether Peter #Mandelson or the French Socialists or the US Democrats." -- Aditya Chakrabortty #Kleptocracy #Labour #ukpol#labour#kleptocracy…]

"Lewisham’s two #Green councillors defected from #Labour, claiming they were “bullied out” for opposing the brutal destruction of #gaza#green And every single non-white voter names Palestine as the reason they can no longer back Labour. While SW1 theorises that the Green surge is down to Polanski […]

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116016857564069217 This is bullshit. Britain needs better VOTERS. Starmer did not elevate himself to PM. Elected representatives of the British people did. Britain has had horribly racist leaders for centuries. Reform are the heirs of Thatcher, Churchill […]