this is a small thing but it would be nice to feel good about paying taxes. i would like to write a check to the government and think about kids going to school and freshly paved roads not all the death squads my income helps fund.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans says his team arrived on the scene of the shooting to conduct an independent investigation and "were blocked by federal agents with the Department of Homeland Security."

His name was Alex Pretti. He was an ICU nurse. "In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within 5 seconds, according to the video. Footage shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." #AlexPretti #Minneapolis

Let's assume for the moment that ICE is telling the truth, that the guy they killed did have a gun and did intend to use it on them. He clearly doesn't have the weapon at this point then when they, as a mob, beat the shit out of him and him into the ground. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned. Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was ordered to reclassify it as a probe into an assault on the officer.

What ICE is discovering is that sheer terror is not enough, and any policing of a large population needs the consent or at least the forbearance/cooperation of the community. Even the Gestapo and Stasi knew this. Turning the local population actively against you is Keystone capers.

Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just one more thing on the Board of Peace. The excellent Steve Holland of Reuters made multiple attempts on Air Force One last night to ask Trump what the $1 billion each BOP signatory is contributing will be spent on. At every turn, Trump evaded and obfuscated.

🔭 Earthset from Orion Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012...

I don't like this - and hey, I'm not a game developer. No no it's very kind of you to say otherwise but you're WRONG. HOWEVER I can absolutely, with 100% certainty guarantee that those 'hundreds of thousands' of ideas will NOT be unique but chewed up and regurgitated, derivative horseapples.

I said earlier I’d share my photos from the summer. (They don’t “disparage the US”. They don’t even disparage Washington, though goodness knows, on this point he deserves it. They tell the truth and let you draw your own conclusions). They aren’t great - wish I’d taken more.

This is appalling - covering up history. American visitors are welcome to visit the Wilberforce museum in Hull. Admission is free www.hullmuseums.co.uk/wilberforce-...

🔭 Planetary Nebula Abell 7 Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012...

ECLAS project manager Revd Dr Lucas Mix is giving a talk for Christians in Science on 3 Feb. Lucas will speak about how we can bring science and faith together in mission and ministry. Register for free here! www.tickettailor.com/events/chris...

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1775

1) Stop using Twitter 2) For such a simple question this is remarkably damning

If they had a mandate and felt the truth was on their side, they wouldn’t be doing propaganda like this

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

And now something positive: solar and wind energy production in the EU surpasses fossil energy for the first time. ☀️ 💨 #TippingPoint Source: dr.dk

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

It appears that the White House edited this image using AI

Important to know that Armstrong is a reverend and that she and the protesters felt compelled by faith as well their commitment to civil rights. This is the state choosing which Christians they will support and which part of the 1A they will defend. Christian nationalism in action.

He made it to Davos for his photo op as well. I don't know if he spoke to anyone beyond his client media buddies.

'On Sunday, Nigel Farage was “too unwell” to face Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC. By Monday, he’d made a full recovery. Just in time to host lunch. 🍽️ Not with voters. Not with nurses. But with the UK branch of the Heartland Institute (a US climate denial think tank)' via Reform Are Not Your Friends

They not only took him, but sent five year old Liam Ramos to a Texas ICE camp.

🔭 LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Fellows apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26012...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

I guess in WW2, when there wasn’t this social media, internet etc so many ordinary people could genuinely be ignorant of what was happening and so didn’t do anything to fight it. No such excuses now.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek no Lord of the Rings no Marvel and no Disney animated or Pixar.

Are we really shocked at this point?

Another proud day for America.

How might mission and environmental care strengthen one another in your local context? Upcoming workshop from our friends at St Augustine's College of Theology: staugustinescollege.ac.uk/events/creat...

The climate denial was always the first tell. The deep unseriousness really should have been recognised and challenged much earlier.

"Desecrating a house of God", eh? About time that they are reminded that each and every individual they stop, harass, abuse, beat or shoot is someone created in the very Image and Likeness of God. 'House of God' be damned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fox agrees to help run hen house. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Public Attitudes to Science Survey results have been published by @ukri.org and @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social. This wide-ranging report reveals that the public values science, but highlights concerns over AI, information quality, and representation: www.britishscienceassociation.org/News/public-...

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.

I won't pretend to be surprised (where else would they be?) but it's important to have this in writing, so it's harder for people with actual authority to ignore it when confronted.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. "Each one can be used to give us greater confidence that a given proposition is true." [Thinking Fair, Lucas Mix]

I'd rather be a keyboard warrior that a keyboard 'artist'. Typing in 'Some Scottish horseshit' and calling it a day. A reminder that for many projects, the quickest route to ticking the 'completed' box on your management software is having an incredibly low bar/respect for quality and craft.

There's hung parliaments and then there's whatever this would be... electionmaps.uk/nowcast/custom

Please don't. I'm all for better balance of social media (and other online tech) for both kids and adults, but a blanket ban is a non-solution looking for a headline rather than to solve a problem. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."