Europe and UK need to step back from dependence on US technology and stop letting them hoover up home grown tech companies and start ups Cut America out

A bluebell a week until they wake again IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS TIME #20

"When I was a very small child, I had a sense, whereof I know not, that William the Conqueror was the first king of England and that history began in 1066. When I was a slightly less small child, I was delighted to learn that this wasn’t so..." Regarding a surprisingly complicated question

The British press (apart from a few exceptions) is controlled by non-dom, right-wing, tax-dodging billionaires. The British Press does not work to inform the public or in the interest of the public, it works to forward the political agenda & interests of the billionaires that own them.

You have to be Truss-level thick or Johnson-level cynical to come up with this.

Putin doesn’t want peace, Russia’s reply to diplomacy is more missiles and destruction. This deadly pattern of recurring major Russian strikes will repeat itself until we help Ukraine break it. (1/3)

Quite.

This is the man who activists in the UK advocate for. A man who thinks it’s an unreasonable level of censorship to stop a platform making sexualised images of children and women. In a way it’s good that they’re being so clear about whose team they’re really on. Get in the bin.

We need urgent DEYANKIFICATION in the UK to end our dependence on the Fascistic Trump regime! @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

"We have put ourselves in a situation where we are no longer meaningfully an independent country" This was always the folly of Brexit. The real control over Britain is from Washington, in an arrangement where the UK has no say and no true sovereignty.

Due to its increasing toxicity, we are no longer posting on X.  You can find us on FB, Instagram, TikTok - and of course here on BlueSky, where we will continue to share news about the wall,  details of our events, and updates on the continually growing covid death toll. ❤️

Better photos of torc & discs/terminals on #Carnyx. Colour difference suggests torc might be gilded, although by no means certain. From colour, I don't think it's solid gold & they didn't plate then. It could also be bronze, but with better preservation. #Archaeology 🏺 #CarnyxCrazy 📷 ITV News

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

The House of Representatives has declined to override Trump's veto on a bill to complete a pipeline that would deliver clean, safe drinking water to communities in Southeastern Colorado whose local supply is contaminated with salt, radium & selenium. 🧵 1/5 coloradosun.com/2026/01/08/h...

Read this earnest, respectful call for the United States Congress to grow a damn backbone.

The Guardian: Trump may be the beginning of the end for 'enshittification' – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New footage from the ICE agent's phone who shot at Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis has emerged, posted by AlphaNews on X. We've placed that footage in a synced timeline with the other currently available footage.

Maybe let's share starter packs again for people new or reactivated on the site? Mine is this UK / EU Active Travel people Starter Pack (150 people, now full). Feel free to suggest others in replies. go.bsky.app/GYyLGPA

Had a session with @pkrugman.bsky.social where we discussed US foreign policy and world affairs. Hopefully interesting if not entirely uplifting. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

This newly discovered Iron Age instrument may have been played in the Celtic resistance against the Roman Empire

In the past OFCOM has demonstrated it has all the guts of a solid mannequin. Surprise us www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Copper alloy buckle with garnet inlay - one of the finds from an Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in 1858 at Faversham in Kent during the construction of the Chatham to Dover railway line. Now part of the collections at Salisbury Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #SalisburyMuseum

Ancient clay cylinders provide first foundation text documenting Nebuchadnezzar II's restoration of the ziggurat of Kish. phys.org/news/2026-01...

✨Work at the Fullonica✨ This brilliantly coloured fresco is part of a series preserved on a pillar from the Fullonica Veranius Hypsaeus in Pompeii. The workers are putting out cloth for drying. Today this piece can be seen in the MAN Napoli (inv. 9974). #FrescoFriday #AncientRome #History

During these challenging times, we could all benefit from a smile, so I would like to present the oldest smile in the world: the Mannetje van Willemstad (the little man from Willemstad, Netherlands). The Mesolithic figurine, dating about 5400 BC, was carved in oak wood. 🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

We all need a a timeline cleanse! A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container. On display at Antikensammlung München A lovely weekend to all of you ☃️😀 📷 me

Votive silver plaque - Romano British 4th Century CE Significant because of Christian chi-rho monogram. (See ALT text) Dedicated by a visitor to the shrine/church & perhaps pinned up or placed on an altar. Found Water Newton, #Cambridgeshire Now #BritishMuseum #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain

A section of the Roman Wall at St. Albans which was built between AD 265 to 270 to defend the Roman city of Verulamium. The surviving sections are located in Verulamium Park which is a short walk from the city centre. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #StAlbans

🚨The President of the United States turns ICE into his own personal secret police. 🚨ICE agents invade American cities harassing and abusing those living there. 🚨ICE agent murders an innocent woman in cold blood. 📢Fraser Nelson - this is all the fault of migrants. www.thetimes.com/article/989b...

Republican bullies deploy more threats against the UK to protect their big tech corporate allies.

Very powerful, very dark, and very true about Stephen Miller’s Murder Machine from @therickwilson.bsky.social youtu.be/5evXAm5dnd8?...

'Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.' 1/2

Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.

Just compare and contrast...

Great article, outstanding images. Winners of the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2025 – in pictures. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Extreme Far Right UK MP Rupert Lowe: "Talk of X being banned in Britain by Starmer… I will fight it in Parliament."

New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did. In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky

So here's my unsolicited, probably ill thought-out AI musing: Generative AI was a tool invented out of unnecessity, a classic could/should Goldblum scenario. It's the Jurassic Park of computing. A solution in need of a problem.

BREAKING: Ofcom’s next steps on Grok should come in 'days, not weeks', says Liz Kendall She warned that if X 'fails to comply with the law'', Ofcom has the power to 'block' the social media platform in the UK

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I stopped using X some time ago, when it became clear what kind of person Musk was and the type of people and politics he was supporting. It is just an app. There is no obligation for any individual or any organisation to use it. Of course people should delete their accounts and leave it.

On Monday we will gather in anger, grief & solidarity to remember Renee Nicole Good & the many victims of racist ICE violence - outside the US embassy🕯️ @ukstoptrump.bsky.social @indivisiblelondon.bsky.social @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social @indivisible.org

Enemies within and without. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog includes a look at Erasmus, the Mail's anti-emigrant campaign, the great hate at home and the threat from Trump abroad, and the government's response: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...

the image generation is illegal and immoral and... ... now for paying customers only! problem solved! www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I feel like bsky-ers are fairly shielded from this... but y'all know there are tonnes of fake ICE vids circulating right now? feeds are full of AI slop trying to capitalise on this moment for a moment of your attention.

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

There are many things I respect about socialist Labour MP @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, including her time as transport secretary. I hope Labour leaders follow her: Gov't should leave or suspend on Twitter. I've signed a letter from Green Cllrs asking my remaining party leaders to do the same. (1/2)