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Great to see our project written up in today's Guardian. Follow the link inside to our digital edition - more than one thousand pages of Thornton's writings transcribed and modernised. @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

PR a silver lining to UK political scene AKA shitshow? Interesting thread by @tom-clark.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk

💥 Czech President Petr Pavel’s meeting with the Dalai Lama (Václav Havel's personal friend) didn’t get the attention it deserved. China freaked out, saying it “resolutely opposed” the move, urging 🇨🇿 to "abide by its one-China political commitment." A rare moment of spine in EU–China relations.

As car financing is back in the news in the UK, re-upping this article on its wider consequences.

“… new retail car financing models have deepened car dependency and indebted consumers, to the benefit of a crisis-ridden car industry, and to the detriment of everyone else…”

Surveillance ≠ Safety.

What flavour and how many scoops?
#art #Capybara #IceCream

Tonight on BBC Four is an evening of programmes about and featuring the great Oscar Peterson: in concert with Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Andre Previn. They start at 20.00.

Option 3 might be more interesting.

Predictable response to narcissistic injury is two-fold: first, to lash out at things (like science, women & people of color, & Western allies) you perceive to have hurt you. But ALSO to hire people like Tulsi & Kash, some of whom MAY ACTUALLY be Russian assets.

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

‘Great initiative by Wiley!’ Not a sentence that typically trips off one’s fingers, but credit where credit is due….

Maybe when MPs or ex politicians are talking someone should write 'this infomercial was made possible by the generous donation of ...' or ' sponsored content ' over their heads just so we avoid the pretence that they are expressing an opinion or position based on research or the public interest .

#StormFloris has been named

It is forecast to bring unseasonably strong winds to the UK on Monday along with heavy rain

Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️

🌬️ #StormFloris will bring unseasonably strong winds to Northern Ireland, Scotland, and northern England on Monday, with impacts in Scandinavia on Tuesday.

Gusts may reach 85 mph (135 km/h) along exposed coasts, with heavy rain sweeping in from the west.

Narnia by Tube | Surprised Eel Maps Get more from Surprised Eel Maps on Patreon

Over on my patreon, I wrote a bit about the process of drawing my recent Narnia subway map. It's free and public, so give it a read!

I may also have said something about how evangelical Episcopalianism is like a Rage Against the Machine - Teletubbies crossover band.
www.patreon.com/posts/135529...

Looking for uplift? Browse the #doggust2025 tag for lots of wonderful doggy art. 🎨

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Build a community with co-operative housing

Let's build housing that communities can design, own and afford.

Please consider showing your support for building more co-operative housing by adding your name and saying "yes in OUR backyard". #YIOBY 👇 party.coop/campaign/hou...

Sizewell C costs could hit £100bn including financing, modelling shows Total for nuclear power station project set to be billions of pounds higher than official government estimates

Financial Times: “Sizewell C nuclear plant costs could hit £100bn including financing, modelling shows”
file under: most expensive form of electricity ever.

A large red Shiba Inu sits on a grass lawn. In the foreground is a raised garden bed filled with harvested onions drying (a rolled tarp is over them to keep rain off them). She is looking back over her shoulder at the camera, a smile on her face. Behind her, standing at the edge of the street, is a man playing a baby blue electric guitar. She is very happy to be serenaded.

So, my husband has discovered that our older shiba girl, who is currently unmotivated to take the kind of long walks that will lead to a bit of weight loss, will wander longer/further if he takes his guitar along to serenade her. IOW, he's found a new way to entertain the neighborhood. 😆🥰

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.

We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.

New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

visitors sit on a bench listening to the voices of the fen with boardwalk in front and tall green grasses behind

four wooden woodpeckers at different heights on vertical steel wires inside a wooden building

a sign reads Aeolian Beaters next to two sound scupltures on the grass

two visitors stand under a sound dome on the boardwalk pointing at a sign surrounded by tall green grasses and trees

Have you Listened to the Voices of the Fen? 17 sound sculpture installations by Kathy Hinde, made from natural materials including wild clay and willow branches and powered by wind, water, solar and human kinetic energy, reveal Wicken Fen in a completely different way. buff.ly/V7kTeTH
📷 Mike Selby

Odeon Leicester Square is up for sale ...

We are discussing the “broken system”, BUT when it comes to DJT, we had a full preview of what THEIR system will be according to Project 2025, and this is what’s being delivered.

In my opinion, the system failed when the gov failed to investigate a fed election manipulated by the richest guy in US

Library Startup ‘Briet’ Wants to Revolutionize E-Book Sales, Not Licensing Created by a team affiliated with Brick House publishing cooperative, a platform known as Briet is inviting publishers to sell rather than license their e-books to libraries, and several independent p...

"[O]nce a library buys a book, they can do with it as they damn well please." More about the ebook world we want to see from the fine folks at BRIET.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I can't get over what a sick twisted misuse of the Magnitsky Act this is

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Treasury Sanctions Alexandre de Moraes WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Alexandre de Moraes (de Moraes), who has used his position to authorize arbitrary pre-trial detentions and suppress freedom of expression.  “Alexandre de Moraes has taken it upon himself to be judge and jury in an unlawful witch hunt against U.S. and Brazilian citizens and companies,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.  “De Moraes is responsible for an oppressive campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized prosecutions—including against former President Jair Bolsonaro.  Today’s action makes clear that Treasury will continue to hold accountable those who threaten U.S. interests and the freedoms of our citizens.”  Today’s action is being taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and targets perpetrators of serious human rights abuse around the world.  Today’s action follows the U.S. Department of State’s revocation of de Moraes’s visa and those of his immediate family members on July 18, 2025, for their complicity in aiding and abetting de Moraes’ unlawful censorship campaign against U.S. persons on U.S. soil.DE MORAES’ ABUSIVE JUDICIAL OVERREACHDe Moraes was appointed to the STF in 2017.  Since that time, de Moraes has become one of Brazil’s most powerful individuals, wielding immense authority through his oversight of expansive STF investigations.  De Moraes has investigated, prosecuted, and suppressed those who have engaged in speech that is protected under the U.S. Constitution, repeatedly subjecting victims to long preventive detentions without bringing charges.  Through his actions as an STF justice, de Moraes has undermined Brazilians’ and Americans’ rights to freedom of expression.  In one notable instance, de Moraes arbitrarily detained a journalist for over a year in retaliation for exercising freedom of expression.De Moraes has targeted opposition politicians, including former President Jair Bolsonaro; journalists; newspapers; U.S. social media platforms; and other U.S. and international companies.  U.S.-based journalists and U.S. citizens have not been spared from de Moraes’ extraterritorial overreach.  De Moraes has imposed preventive detention on and issued a series of preventive arrest warrants against journalists and social media users, some of whom are based in the United States.  He has also directly issued orders to U.S. social media companies to block or remove hundreds of accounts, often those of his critics and other critics of the Brazilian government, including U.S. persons.  De Moraes has frozen assets and revoked passports of his critics; banned accounts from social media; and directed Brazil’s federal police to raid his critics’ homes, seize their belongings, and ensure their preventive detention. De Moraes is being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 13818 for being a foreign person who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, serious human rights abuse.GLOBAL MAGNITSKYBuilding upon the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, E.O. 13818 was issued on December 20, 2017, in recognition that the prevalence of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, had reached such scope and gravity as to threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. Human rights abuse and corruption undermine the values that form an essential foundation of stable, secure, and functioning societies; have devastating impacts on individuals; weaken democratic institutions; degrade the rule of law; perpetuate violent conflicts; facilitate the activities of dangerous persons; and undermine economic markets.  The United States seeks to impose tangible and significant consequences on those who commit serious human rights abuses or engage in corruption, as well as to protect the financial system of the United States from abuse by these same persons.SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONSAs a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated or blocked person described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC.  In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of blocked persons. Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons.  OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations on a strict liability basis.  OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines provide more information regarding OFAC’s enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions. In addition, financial institutions and other persons may risk exposure to sanctions for engaging in certain transactions or activities involving designated or otherwise blocked persons.  The prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any designated or blocked person, or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person. The power and integrity of OFAC sanctions derive not only from OFAC’s ability to designate and add persons to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), but also from its willingness to remove persons from the SDN List consistent with the law.  The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish, but to bring about a positive change in behavior.  For information concerning the process for seeking removal from an OFAC list, including the SDN List, or to submit a request, please refer to OFAC’s guidance on Filing a Petition for Removal from an OFAC List.Click here for more information on the person designated today.###

US Treasury sanctions Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes under the Global Magnitsky Act- he is overseeing investigation into Trump ally and former President Jair Bolsonaro

The act was created to punish Russian officials responsible for death of Sergei Magnitsky

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Samuel Jackson backing vegan snack and European windfarms? AT THE SAME TIME?

OH MY GOD 😍

Nach Bahnunglück: Starkregen gefährdet Zugsicherheit Ursache des Bahnunglücks in Baden-Württemberg war mutmaßlich ein durch Starkregen ausgelöster Erdrutsch. Dieses Risiko besteht auf vielen Strecken.

Laut Deutschem Wetterdienst (DWD) herrschte zum Zeitpunkt des Unglücks „extrem heftiger Starkregen“ in der Gegend, bis zu 50 Liter Niederschlag pro Quadratmeter seien innerhalb einer Stunde gefallen.
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Epstein Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg: The Trump Protection Machine and the Epidemic of Violence Against Women On July 2, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against music mogul Sean Combs for his decades of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep poc...

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.