Oscar Talbot

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

Nice you’re coming to Amsterdam but de balie is a terrible venue with awful politics!

Thankfully the Labour Party managed to successfully avoid Andy Burnham MP, their main political priority. Could have been a close one!

Greens causing a 24% swing from Labour and overturning a 13,000 majority safe seat in Manchester.

Labour coming in third after reform.

Eco socialism is a popular position!

Mandelson’s downfall is one of fastest ever seen in British public life Epstein links have taken political operator from a vaunted position in British diplomacy to arrest in under six months

Terrifying in its rapidity - it's taken just 27 years, 2 months and 3 days since scandal first broke.

Violent and non-violent death tolls for the Gaza conflict: new primary evidence from a population-representative field survey This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures whereas the demographic composition of casualties aligns ...

This Lancet study is the best indicator yet that:
1. The Gaza MoH was doing a phenomenal job under horrific circumstances, and anyone casting doubt on it was/is a ghoul;
2. The full death toll from Israel's genocidal assault is probably near or even over 100k people -- 5% of all Gazans.

When I was working as a SEN TA it was really obvious that the biggest common denominator was poverty. Defunding SEN is monstrous.

If you are in line for a pancake, stay in line!!

Absolutely right. Like Chris, I resent the framing that European governments are learning this from the US. It’s totally routine for hundreds of black African people to drown in the Mediterranean when trying to reach Europe. The EU, and its homegrown structural racism, enabled that all by itself.

Im the guy who reads ‘vote democrat’ on Bluesky and reconsiders my previous voting patterns

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Guardian headline: Met had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, says spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships. I have crossed out "spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships" in red and replaced it with "rapist"

Fixed it.

45K people may be killed by cars every year, but that pales in comparison to this scenario I just imagined

On the other hand, I think at its peak In Our Time was a place where a humanities expert could ask open and curious questions to scientific experts while fairly openly professing ignorance. I think it could have really benefited from bringing in an anthropologist or sociologist.

Geen crimineel, geen terrorist, toch geschaduwd: zo volgt de politie vreedzame activisten TOOI: een geheime politiedienst in Nederland waar je waarschijnlijk nog nooit van hebt gehoord. Maar als je weleens meedoet aan demonstraties of een XR-sticker op je koelkast hebt, dan bestaat de kans...

Uitstekende onderzoeksjournalistiek van De Correpondent over een zeer geheime, en ondemocratische, geheime dienst in Nederland.

Staff at Youth Prison Recount Lockdowns, Turmoil, 24-Hour Shifts A yearslong staffing crisis at state-run facilities has taken its toll on incarcerated kids and the workers who watch over them.

New York's youth prisons are a disaster. Kids locked in solitary for days at a time. Staff forced to work 24-plus-hour shifts. Crisis after crisis.

"I'm a human rights violator," one whistleblower told me.

They recounted the nightmare at one facility:
nysfocus.com/2026/02/04/o...

Go to Onze Liefe Heer op Zolder in de Wallen, a museum about a secret Catholic Church.
Het schip museum is an amazing museum of social housing with an English tour every day at 3
Eat some roti

A picture of two babka breads

Made some babka yesterday

Text showing an iceburg where the top says Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Below says Heber Sanchaz Dominguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Parady La, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo, Nunez Caceres, Geraldo lunas Campos, Nenko Stanev Gantchev, Delvin Francisca Rodriguez, Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, Kai Yin Wong, Jean Wilson Brutus, Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, Pete Sumalo Montejo, Francisco Gaspar-Andres, Gabriel Garcia-Aviles, Huabing Xie, Hasan Ali Moh'D Saleh, Leo Cruz-Silva, Miguel Garcia Hernandez, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, Ismael Ayala Uribe, Chaofend Ge, Santos Reyes-Banegas, Oscar Duarte Rascon, Lorenzo Vargas, Tien Xuan Phan, Isidro Perez, Johnny Noviello, Jesus Molina-Veya, Abelardo Avelleneda-Delgado, Marie Blaise, Nhon Ngoc Nguyenm Brayan Rayo-Garzon, Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, Maksym Chernyak, Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, Genry Ruiz Guillen, Pankaj Karan Singh Kataria, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Castro, Jaspal Singh, Ousmane Ba, Frankline Okpu

A Call for Solidarity from the Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria [The following statement was issued by the Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria (University of Rojava, Kobani University, and University of Al-Sharq) on 22 January 2026.] We, the faculty,...

I helped organise a reading group on abolition with the university of Rojava. Those students I read and studied with are now in a fight for survival against fascism from the north and the south.
Solidarity with Rojava and the Kurdish people

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4712...

Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota Podcast Episode · It Could Happen Here · 01/27/2026 · 57m

Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground in Minnesota

Important episode & reporting by @jamesstout.bsky.social & @margaret.bsky.social out now

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Can we get a picture of the crashed ICE car

Front cover of Halldor Laxness' 'The Atom Station'

It's quite fun but it's not very well written.
I have this version, which is pretty but probably the worst printed book I've ever read.
Worth a read though!

Haldor Laxness' The Atom Station, a book about the US putting a military base on Iceland and everyone hating it
And The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith

THREAD. Is the problem with global warming that Exxon executives need to get "better training" on the science of climate change?

There is no "immigration problem"

There is no migrant problem

There is no problem with illegals

There is no border crisis

Only a problem of the border and the machinery of death that upholds it.

wilde tegen iedereen die zich drukt maakt om ICE, dat als uit de kluiten gewassen borderpatrol gerust buitenproportioneel geweld gebruikt maar juridisch onbegrensd lijkt, alleen nog zeggen: houd in Europa je blik scherp op Frontex.
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/frontex-baas...

YouTube video by Jack Warshaw No Time for Love If They Come in the Morning

No time for love if they come in the morning

youtu.be/fdP95uYzgeM?...

A line of Minneapolis police at the site of an ICE murder on January 24, 2026.

After murdering a man, ICE has fled the area, making Minneapolis police take over crowd control.

Without the complicity of local and state police who supposedly answer to Democrat politicians, ICE would not be able to continue kidnapping and killing people.

Begin by pressuring local authorities.

image of the suspension notice when going to the YPJ bluesky account.

What the hell? The YPJ Information & Documentation Office @ypj.bsky.social has been suspended.
In the midst of the attacks on Rojava.

@safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?