It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke following a private battle with cancer. (1/7)

Given that just 4.25% of the world's population lives in the United States of America this might be the moment for the 95.75% of the rest of us to leave them to it.

Many overseas markets that the UK could be focusing on for example - you know like the fucking enormous one on our doorstep.

Somewhere on the south coast, UK

YouTube video by Edwyn Collins Edwyn Collins - Knowledge (Official Video)

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New

The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

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Article in Daily Mail by Littlejohn entitled “Have I got a deal for you, Donald… Forget Greenland and buy Britain instead”

The Daily Mail has never been pro-British- it has always been pro-fascist.

The Daily Mail is owned by the 4th Viscount Rothermere, passed on from 3rd, 2nd & 1st Viscounts. It’s been a tool of hereditary power & privilege undermining our democracy.

Musk & Trump excite them to take their mask off.

gofund.me/7592304c
If you can afford to help please do

Fantastic to see Robinson Crusoe on Mars!

YouTube video by The Spaceshipper A tribute to 120 years of space fiction

Have a happy new year under the stars. ✨

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers Joe Rogan and The Black Keys Diorama

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“It may be a rotten thing to lick a man’s boots, but it’s a lot worse to be the man whose boots have to be licked.”
~Rod Serling
PATTERNS

THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE Doomscrolling is one of the perils of our precarious times. You can lose hours to it; lose your mind to it; lose your soul to it. There are days the relentless tide of bad news, bad takes, bad fait…

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Definitely heard it

This is Erasmus: A transformative EU initiative providing education, training, and growth opportunities. Returning to Erasmus+ means empowering the UK with life-changing experiences and skills. Learn more and support our campaign to bring Erasmus+ back!

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Strike Day 3: going on strike isn’t meant to be fun. Yet here we are. Great colleagues, great craic & great @billybragg.bsky.social.
What’s going on inside that building is the opposite of all these things.

‘Solidarity forever for the union makes us strong’
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Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.

Acknowledge that emotions like sadness are temporary experiences that naturally pass through our consciousness. While maintaining awareness of these feelings, cultivate an environment that welcomes joy, understanding that both emotions serve important functions in our mental well-being.

Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This

"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth."
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Village Street in Winter
🎨 Alfred Sisley (1893)

Shane
22.5.70 - 10.12.20

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment 28 YEARS LATER – Official Trailer (HD)

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IF we are NEXT?

It has already happened.

Not least Brexit.

Thank you for the heads up, she is wonderful!

‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad

Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse…

‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!

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

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I had a wonderful Erasmus experience - 6 months of study in Utrecht with 30 others. Horizons and possibilities expanded. I am so sad that my children and their friends do not have the same opportunity.

Roses in December. UK south coast. Bizarre!
#gardensky
#roses
#climatechange

democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard

British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’ Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy report finds trade flows have shown no signs of returning to previous levels

The Brexit Curse

British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’.

Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder.

Brexit costing UK economy about £100bn a year.

Rejoin EU.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I came onto Bluesky an hour ago, and the first two things I saw were posts providing useful context for understanding the imposition of martial law in South Korea—the exact kind of thing that Twitter used to be so useful for in a developing crisis.