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Cheesehead and general sports fan. Early years guitar player and terrible cricketer. Swindon, UK.
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Tomorrow marks the 3rd anniversary of Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. His forces bombed cities like Mariupol into rubble. Raped, tortured & murdered civilians. Targeted maternity & children's hospitals. I took this photo of one the mass graves - it contained 445 bodies in Izium (1/2)

Absolute masterclass in team defending from Liverpool in the second half.

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

He nails it.

An excellent piece by Prof Bishop, who has resigned from the Royal Society on this matter of principle. Their inaction on Musk’s fellowship, as he personally spearheads the destruction of scientific research and education in the US, is abject.

news.sky.com/story/craig-... Why do people go to these places?

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

go on have a look www.redbubble.com/people/jules...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Gandalf the Golden..🦮🧙‍♂️😅

Truly abysmal goings-on at the Mirror, as reported in Private Eye. Literally holding my head in my hands reading this.

news.sky.com/story/steve-... A serial offender gets away with it. How long before he kills or injures someone while speeding when he should have been banned?

Eek. How can anyone look at Musk and say with a straight face that there's anything to be learned from his vindictive wrecking tactics? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Having recently watched J. Edgar, I did not have “FBI stands as bulwark to the state overstepping its powers” or “FBI acts to save free and open society” on my 2025 bingo card.

925,000 UK children will be plunged into poverty. Housing benefits do not cover rents, govt froze local housing allowance rates. What will families go without? Govt has refused to control rents or curb profiteering. Govts never explain human consequences of their policies.

2 February 1921 | A Polish Jew, Szmul Lipszyc, was born in Belchatow. A carpenter. In #Auschwitz from 16 October 1941. No. 21612 He perished in the camp on 22 October 1941.

Incredible picture from the only career playoff loss for Vince Lombardi. The Packers fell to the Eagles 17-13 in the 1960 championship game. Afterwards, Lombardi told his team they would never lose another title game. He was right.

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

"Hitler wanted to kill me for being a Jew. Now, Putin is trying to kill me for being Ukrainian." - Holocaust survivor Roman Shvartsman in the Bundestag.

@alexhh.bsky.social Shocking irony that we are reminded on all news outlets of the holocaust horrors and that in the same bulletins we are watching a million Palestinians walking to homes which don’t exist. At the same time Trump saying that Gaza is prime real estate which should be cleansed.

#WeRemember

Today, we remember all the victims murdered during the Holocaust. We mark the 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. This memory must be passed to future generations. #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Curse of private equity. Price of veterinary care hiked. UK vet/pet services controlled by large companies, prices up 50% since 2015, pet vaccination cost doubled. Competition watchdog said people overcharged, Govt sacked iCEO, as such sentiments are not conductive to 'growth'. archive.ph/yR67T

Great to see so many Farage supporters defending his perverted nephew who was arrested for upskirting a woman by downplaying the crime. Almost as if their outrage isn’t really about “protecting women” and is more about weaponising sexual violence to promote racism, isn’t it?

Just in case anyone isn’t following: Elon did a Nazi salute twice and is now speaking at an AfD (neo-Nazi) rally in Germany. If it salutes like a Nazi and campaigns for the Nazis, he’s probably a Nazi.

It’s not just four years of marvelling at how awful he is, it’s four years of being dumbfounded by the desperate dishonesty of supporters. If a photo of Taylor Swift or Hilary Clinton waving is somehow ‘proof’ that Musk didn’t do a Nazi salute in plain sight, what else will they pretend to believe?

Even without the additional analysis by @jdportes.bsky.social, the headline number is, from my personal observations, hugely overinflated.

This is absolutely incredible…

A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is Carolyn Edwards. She was one of the first officers attacked and knocked out on January 6th. She bravely testified before the January 6th committee. She is one of the bravest people I know and she deserves better. (She posted this publicly on her FB page which is why I'm sharing publicly)


"We’ve got to move on. There are opportunities outside the EU, opportunities like AI."

Oh, how people mocked me for recording Tik Tok on VHS, but who's laughing now?! #TikTokBan

The amazing part isn’t just the wrong answer, but that the explanation it gives is accurate — and it *simply doesn’t know that 27 is a smaller number than 32.* Billions of dollars spent to make a black box machine that doesn’t know something elementary school kids know.