Hmm. A lot of folk I know follow Mark Chadbourn - chadbourn.bsky.social. I unfollowed a while back because I felt he shared a lot of stuff created by other people and rarely credited it to them. This morning he did it again with @mattfromlondon.bsky.social’s wondrous Anglo Saxon map. So….

The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination. #WorldBollardAssociation

Why? 🤔

'ancient history of public service' just means 'disproportionate influence and access handed down one generation to another with no regard to merit'. The only public service these fools perform is making the case for wealth and inheritance taxes.

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Excited to see that the head of the political wing of the illegal bloodsports community (Countryside Alliance) Tim Bonner, is looking for work now that trail hunting has been banned. 🧐

Thank you @t0nyyates.bsky.social I hope us echoing each other gets more people to listen!

Just in case you’re one of the 5 people in the UK who’ve somehow never seen this www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Wi...

“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again” Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...

Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.

'Sprouts dress' by German artist and art director Sarah Illenberger who transforms food (fruits and vegetables) into other forms #WomensArt #ArtAdvent 🎄

Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.

❗️Putin a month ago claimed that Russian troops had captured the city of Kupyansk. Zelenskyy today:

I have always liked Cher, and she has now gone up in my rankings.

And when that bus tells migrants that there are different rules dependent on their income to determine whether or not they belong in this country, while at the same time vilifying them for all the country’s ills then I’d rather walk, thank you very much.

This video will inspire you and break your heart and remind you why we humans have a chance - this is famous Ukrainian ‘Schedryk’ - you might know it as Carol of the Bells - performed live at one of DTEK thermal power situations ruined by Russian attacks P.s. it will make you cry.

How much Twitter do you have to snort to convince yourself that sexual violence is exclusively a foreign cultural import, or that education to combat it shouldn't begin until the people you're trying to reach are old enough to be perpetrators?

In these #dangerous times, this is an essential web app for anyone living in the UK safefromtheproclaimers.com?utm_source=s... Thank you for keeping us safe @jdkirk.bsky.social

A hero, someone we can all look up to

So: Trump has finally filed a law suit against the BBC. New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday. Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.

I am in tears The Employment Rights Bill has passed the Lords and goes for Royal Assent this week Sick pay for everyone No more zero hours contracts No more trade union act 2016 years So much more Doing what you sent a Labour government here to do

This article from ADVMoto Magazine is a good read. adventuremotorcycle.com/tech-n-tips/... #motosky #motorcycles #advmoto

We seriously need to tell the geriatric orange game show host to fuck off now.

Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

Donald Trump is not well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHLciC67V8

So it's not as simple as Amazon = Bad, Other Publishers = Good. 6 months after starting my first novel, I'm *this close* to making it a viable career. If I'd gone with a trad publisher, it would be 3 years before I saw 10% of what I get now. Amazon: pay your tax. Everyone else: pay your writers

incredible things happening at the nazi bar

Remember when people were fired for *quoting* Charlie Kirk?

Landowner David Hampton planted larch pines in a douglas fir forest in Oregon in the shape of a giant, 300 feet smiley face 🙂 Every autumn the larch pines turn orange and the smiley face stands out. ACID - lol😂

The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything. It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.

Bloody hell! 🤯

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Small update: the author of 75 Brexit Benefits has entered the comments on the first two debunks. I’m not going to respond directly - but as a live case study in framing, deflection and methodological discomfort, it’s proving unexpectedly useful. Sometimes the footnotes write themselves.

All Trump has are personal insults and derogatory comments about people. It’s hate speech because he’s incapable of a thing else. He’s morally bankrupt

(*One of my favourite Nirvana songs)

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Spliceage of magneticold recordy tape. Swiftymost connectage of starty crank handlode when Austin A35 starty motor failit. Findage and extracty of the blue salty-twist-paper without crumblit of the Golden Wonder crisps

Who did this!?! 🤣🤣🤣

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

This is wonderful and also true. The analogies you draw, the thoughts you suddely have, the roads you pursue, the structures you comprehend, simply because a piece of art or theatre shakes you up and makes you think differently.

The population of the various countries of the British Isles and Ireland Still blows my mind that London has more people than Wales + Scotland combined. More on the differences between the UK, Great Britain and England: brilliantmaps.com/eng-gb-uk/

From Stoppard’s Arcadia:

🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 80,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this weekend. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...