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British, retired back to the UK 12 years ago after 17 years in the USA. Love animals, love nature, fascinated by bats. Pro EU, newly terrified by USA politics.
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Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

submitted 3 days ago • 600 comments

I finally understand what the last week reminds me of. A much bloodier and cynical replay of 1994, when Russia and US teamed up to force Ukraine to sign the Budapest Memorandum while ignoring its request for guarantees. But if in 1994 the US had the excuse of being naive, now it is pure malice.

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

What do Musk and Vance feel as they flex their power from their piles of money with no fear currently of any consequences? Will even more power and money give them joy? Will destroying those they hate, fear or don’t understand make them happier? Are they securing a place in their afterlife?

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

So here's a curious thing, Jacob Rees-Mogg posted this teaser for his discussion on Rachel Reeves in China, with an image he attributed to Grek (I assume he meant Grok) & it has given her an exaggerated hook nose. I'd love to know how what it was in the wording or algorithm which accounts for that

submitted 116 days ago • 168 comments

No, Beth. The media are to blame for the rise of fascism. Simply put, they're better at it than you are. Fascists have won just by being on TV. They don't do interviews to discuss the truth. They do them to get their message across. They've studied your format, and they know how to manipulate it.

submitted 116 days ago • 10 comments

The largest number of perpetrators of sexual violence in the UK are white men. Any attempt to place blame squarely on racialised groups is not only racist, but it also obscures the systemic problem of men’s violence against women (within homes, which is the most dangerous place for women).

submitted 116 days ago • 4 comments

Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.

submitted 123 days ago • 184 comments

In case you didn't know, librarians are educated professionals with a master's degree and don't just willy nilly buy any old books for their libraries.

submitted 153 days ago • 453 comments

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

That's quite the twitter note

submitted 159 days ago • 71 comments

What you can glean from the farmy furore right now is that rich landowners really dont want to be tax and they would rather that burden fell on your shoulders in the form of slashed public services, and they detest tax so much they dont even want to pay it at a lower level after they're fucking dead

submitted 171 days ago • 2 comments

Helping while I shampooed the sofa🥰

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is like Putin. Both see value in disrupting other countries by putting governments on the back foot. What better way than to sucker Britain into distancing ourselves from the EU, then slow-walk a trade deal that never quite takes shape? Meanwhile, Labour will be doomed.

submitted 175 days ago • 24 comments

Any chance of starter packs of fake accounts we can block en masse, you clever people?

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 And now closing in on 30,000! Amazing. Please follow. 👇

submitted 175 days ago • 5 comments

Anyone else having a problem deactivating their X account? All today when I hit the Deactivate button I have been getting the response that there is an error and try again later.

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

the thing is, "undocumented migrants" isn't a polite euphemism. it is an accurate term. "illegals" is factually incorrect, as well as being loaded with a hatred for a group of human beings.

submitted 177 days ago • 18 comments

Just reread this article by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social from the Guardian in November 2016. If you can’t understand why all this is happening, it explains a lot. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...

submitted 177 days ago • 385 comments

Hello BlueSky. We had held off starting a dedicated channel to see how BlueSky evolved instead posting all of our 10 Bylines on @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social, but given how fast BlueSky is growing, now is the time to make the jump. Please help spread the word that Central Bylines are now here

submitted 177 days ago • 27 comments

I’m absolutely delighted that the Bylines Network is now over 20,000 followers on Bluesky. This is real “citizen journalism”, real articles, edited, IMPRESS-regulated… …Elon Musk wouldn’t comprehend.

submitted 177 days ago • 11 comments