Lucy Janes

INTRODUCING! Hannah Spencer Green Party candidate for GORTON & DENTON Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚

Hampstead ponds trans access challenge dismissed by High Court The current policy is that trans men and trans women are entitled to use the pond of their choice.

Sex Matters gets a dunking.

'A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds.' Over 38,000 people participated in the consultation.

9-9-6 was a Chinese term invented mostly to show how depressing and lifeless work culture was; watching softbrained AI guys adopt it as an ideal is ... well, entirely predictable

A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk Researchers have documented the births of nearly two dozen North Atlantic right whale calves this season. It’s an encouraging sign for a species whose population is estimated to be below 400.

NEW: North Atlantic right whales - a species whose fortunes I've followed for years - are having a baby boom!!

21 mother-calf pairs have been sighted so far, the highest figure in years. And we're not even halfway through the calving season (which runs to mid-April).

www.wired.com/story/a-nort...

A solar system quilt by Sarah Ellen Harding Baker made in 1876. She was also an astronomer & teacher. (In the horror, take pity of your soul and leave room for beauty and wonder.)

Make Glasgow Swimmable Again Grab your dookers: two women have a dream to clean up the Clyde

Outdoor swimming in urban Glasgow: past, present and potential future. Happy to see my research on historic swimming in the Clyde in this great article in The Glasgow Bell www.glasgowbell.co.uk/swimming-gla...

#SwimmingHistory #SportHistory #Glasgow #swimming #OutdoorSwimming #Clyde #rivers

I did love that the moral lesson of Vanity Fair is to "quit while you're ahead". And that she'd love to time travel but not change any of her decisions, only to pop up and tell everyone else that they're making huge mistakes!

Well, the overall tone of Kemi Badenoch was that it's all our fault we don't appreciate her "blunt" "truth-telling", and if she could time travel, she'd change nothing in her life but would warn everyone else about the terrible mistakes they were about to make... Thanks Kemi!

The moral of 'Vanity Fair' by Thackeray is "quit when you're ahead" apparently... 🤔

Godness. She really loves Hamilton!

Kemi wants more queueing!

That's the third time she's told us she was top of the class wherever she went.

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Big bold super-woke first choice by Kemi Badenoch... #Hamilton #TheStoryOfTonight #DesertIslandDiscs

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

A handmade poster with the slogan 'Make Glasgow Swimmable' with 'Again' on a smaller piece of paper attached with a Swimmable Cities badge. There are swimmers in the water of the Rijnhaven dock beyond.

And funny they went with the same headline I used for my poster in the opening procession of the first Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam last year!

Make Glasgow Swimmable Again Grab your dookers: two women have a dream to clean up the Clyde

Outdoor swimming in urban Glasgow: past, present and potential future. Happy to see my research on historic swimming in the Clyde in this great article in The Glasgow Bell www.glasgowbell.co.uk/swimming-gla...

#SwimmingHistory #SportHistory #Glasgow #swimming #OutdoorSwimming #Clyde #rivers

"And also prompted McDonald's, Burger King, Nandos, Wimpy, Taco Bell, and others to get together to face the fact that he's a troublesome customer and perhaps their restaurants need to find other customers or just live without him."

The problem with this narrative, which is everywhere, is that it presupposes that if Trump had simply asked to be able to station more troops in Greenland, the Danes would have said No.

Lab to DK is a group twice as large as Lab to Ref (and losses to DK are often easiest to win back)
Lab to Grn/LD is a group three times as large as Lab to Ref (and on multiple metrics this group looks more open to returning to Labour)

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it

Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Very limited applause at the end, and then someone shouted something about Greenland and force.

#Trump #Davos #speech #Greenland #Iceland

The speech was such a total whingefest but all that pathetic begging, basically pleading with Europe to give him Greenland (or possibly Iceland!), was, I think, an indication that he's realised the gambit's not worked. But he will never, ever, ever, stop going on about it.

And all the Europe / USA "shared destiny" vomit.

Potential headline: Incoherent, rambling American president backs down on military force on Greenland and pleads for talks, in moment of humiliation for the US

What now? "Forty-eight years is equivalent to forever...".

He said it again!

Did he just say Iceland?

All the world news happening at Davos today. And they say there's no global conspiracy: wake up sheeple!!

www.itn.co.uk/news/david-b...

#Davos #Greenland #Trump #Beckham #feud

What’s in a name? Part 1: places What do the following have in common: the site of the world’s largest Adélie penguin colony, one of Cape Town’s main streets and a car park in northern France? The curious answer is that they are a…

For #PenguinAwarenessDay we are sharing the fact that Cape Adare, home to the world's largest Adélie penguin colony, was named after a 19th century MP! victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/w...

...do we not live in a necrotizing society? The old world is dying, after all. But just as monsters can be slayed, morbidity can be arrested, the root causes addressed and-ideally-healed. Thus the "new world" won't be a dying order. And that's what Gramsci points to: contingency and agency matter./7

He says he will meet with Trump on Wednesday, accompanied by the Belgian monarch Philippe: "But it will have a different character than we had planned. It will probably be the message that we have to send: you're crossing red lines here. We either stand together or we will stand divided, and if we are divided, there is the end of an era, of 80 years of atlanticism, really drawing to a close. And you know, as Gramsci said, 'if the old is dying and the new is not yet born, you live in a time of monsters, and it's up to him to decide if he wants to be a monster - yes or no."

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...