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The Home Office has FINALLY announced a public consultation on how police are using unregulated facial recognition tech. But it's being rapidly rolled out to town centres across the country. Join us in calling for safeguards on how its being used. action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/182163/...

A wild grace with quiet wisdom— forest mystic.

They will never change how I speak or what I say! And they better not let me get big enough for them to notice.. They'll regret it I assure you.. youtube.com/shorts/GNiJ2...

Paul Ingrassia “basically won’t be given anything meaningful because [agency] leadership doesn’t really want him,” one source at the General Services Administration said.

I'm still finding it kinda weird that (so far) literally 100% of reviews for Fallen Feathers are ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's a good way to end what has been, by any stretch, a fun and productive year of writing. 3 books published, 2 more entirely plotted and ready to go. Never been on such a creative roll.

A new book will be coming out after the dust settles: REDACTED WONDERFUL SECRETS Peace MBM

It's all very complicated and there's a range or spectrum of such wrongheaded people. Both the most Far Left people possible and MAGA are somewhat different flavours of Nazi Hippies. Vladimir Putin's Russia has inflicted "both different extremes" on every single one of us. Here's some basics of it

I totally think, by the way, that @mrjamesob.bsky.social's suggestion of charting the course of an alternative reality after "People Shit Themselves at Historical Events" is a future multi-award-winning podcast, if he is up for it.

NOTHING TO SEE YEAR: PART 2! Join us with @mrjamesob.bsky.social for: 📈 ‘25 stories that should’ve been bigger 📉 the ones that shouldn’t have been huge but were 🟠 POTUS’ maddest moment 🔮 What we’d change to improve ‘26 open.spotify.com/episode/7JQ0... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

. Putin has dozens of "homes" he moves around to randomly to avoid assassination. For one of these "homes" not to be close to an explosion would be impossible. For Putin to say Ukraine sent a drone to his home is a typical Russian tall story which only fools the gullible. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Remove 8 digits at the 2nd knuckle. One at a time. Peace MBM

Today's research into pioneering astronauts has led me to this: The Silver Snoopy award is a special honour awarded to NASA employees for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or mission success. The award consists of a sterling silver lapel pin, worn during a mission.

Trump's lament to MTG "My friends will get hurt" about the Epstein perpetrators is now a Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies PUNK SONG called DRIP DRIP DRIPPING. youtu.be/x4EK8sW_6Vo

That should have been TIME's cover. Peace MBM

🔴 Russian forces attacked two civilian vessels with strike drones, one of which was entering port to load wheat. The ships, Emmakris III and Captain Karam, were hit, with reports of civilian injuries.

www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/12... What does this accomplish Do these two hardworking parents look like hardened criminals? No they're just another notch on ICE'S quota ICE AGENTS look & see more $$ on my bonus check To ICE they're not human beings What of their beautiful baby IT MUST STOP

Chicago Tribune’s investigative report on ICE: 4,500+ arrests over 64 days, only 1.5% had violent felony convictions. Tear gas, families separated, nightmares. This is what enforcement looked like in year 1 of the 2nd Trump admin. archive.ph/2025.12.28-2...

“Joe Rogan has absolutely no idea when someone’s joking.” ICYMI — rogan was apparently the last to hear about Trump’s absurd plaques, and his reaction showed @gavinnewsom.bsky.social’s tweets mocking Trump have gone over his unfunny, complicit head🤦🏻‍♂️

God honestly. Doesn’t this just sum up Reform. And their plastic patriotism. Can’t even give a straight answer or follow the rules on their unbelievably naff merch. So on brand. Oh well. You sell or wear one of these, you’ve told us all we need to know about you. (iPaper)

Well, this is disturbing

Beth Robertson Fiddes, contemporary land and seascapes painter whose work captures the wild nature of the Scottish highlands and Western Isles #WomensArt

Russians are boasting that they hit an An-26 plane and a helicopter in the Mykolaiv and Poltava regions with drones The aircraft were inactive, decommissioned equipment, so no worries other than loss of spare parts perhaps. ZSU Insider Tg

UK manufacturers are to be hit with mountains of Brexit-style paperwork in January on £7bn worth of exports to the EU after the government failed to secure an expected exemption from new green taxes www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Over 100 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody since October 2023, report says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-100-palestinian-prisoners-died-israeli-custody-october-2023-report

Is this the same Toby Young who failed all of his A Levels and had to rely on daddy's connections to get into Oxford...? THAT Toby Young, aye?

Toby Young is not alone in determinedly flaunting his stupidity, but he is outstandingly good at it ...

Toby Young is part of a “Libertarian” group of reactionaries who are determined to uphold the status quo of conservative privilege and inequality (from which they benefit) while punching down on others… bsky.app/profile/mimm...

Also this Toby Young(also a bigoted Nazi eugenics fan) www.thenational.scot/news/1834787...

This Young, who so spectacularly imploded after a brief stint at the Office For Students? www.theguardian.com/media/2018/j...

One only has to ponder what all this is doing for house prices in Acton

This is disgraceful! Which idiot encouraged people to vote for the Brexit that made this inevitable?

Zelenskyy calls for diplomacy as Putin insists Russia will ’continue the offensive’ www.channel4.com/news/zelensk...

I urge people to note that when they say “politics” they mean “continuing to enforce the Thatcherite consensus with a thin veneer of public consent”; that these things are the same thing, to them, and that a lot of very nasty people have big ideas about what must be done, if “politics is broken”.

BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…” Read that again.

“…sometimes a nation needs a nightmare before it can fully awaken to long-simmering crises.”

Annie Alexander was born #OTD in 1867. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

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Talking Heads’ bassist, Tina Weymouth, from the August 1985 issue of Vogue #Womensart (Via TalkingHeads Fans FB)

'Big problem': Strategist warns Trump's 'Marie Antoinette' style could backfire on GOP www.rawstory.com/trump-267483...

Trump claiming he was “born with a musical gene” would be laughable if it weren’t coming from a U.S. president. No instrument. No training. No evidence. Just more self-mythology. This is narcissism not talent .In a democracy, leadership requires accountability and truth, not myth and ego.

I often think back to a Greek taxi driver who once told me: "Too many people want the harshest laws they can imagine - for everyone except themselves." This thinking is rife on the right, but it is also prevalent in a significant minority on the left. And that last part always takes me by surprise.

Good morning, Bluesky! A scene from the woods, from the Shenandoah Valley, VA. #rockintuesday #shenandoah #rocks #forest #trees #nature #eastcoastkin #photography #lichen #moss

In the forest dark and deep, in the hush between awake and sleep, fairies dance within the dell, a place the old elves know so well. Something stirs among the trees, drifting forward like a breeze. The forest smiles in ancient tongue—love flows, and happiness is sung. Rejoice in the natural places

EXCLUSIVE: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. Read @willsommer.bsky.social's latest:

Lowest ratings ever for a CBS broadcast. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣