Mark Simpson

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

BT headline offer: £37.99 a month for 24 months. Except it is only actually £37.99 for one month, then £41.99 from the end of March and £45.99 from the end of next March.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Stephen Colbert taped a “Late Show” interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas. But CBS lawyers intervened before the interview could air on TV. https://cnn.it/40cMltV

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Northern Ireland remains the only part of the UK where wildlife can still be chased & killed by dogs. This cruel, outdated practice has no place in a modern, compassionate society.

Add your name today to our joint petition with the @uspca.bsky.social . https://leagueacs.co.uk/wpP4d

#TimeForChange

(Also cool that he dressed as a young Columbo.)

I've got to put this combination of timing and camerawork up there with James Burke's rocket take-off piece-to-camera.

(You'll have to click through to watch on YouTube as for some crappy reason it's blocked from playing in-app.)

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Banjo and Ro’s Grand Island Hotel A remote Scottish island, a crumbling mansion and two Australian dreamers - interior designer Banjo and his husband Ro take on the Hebrides’ most improbable hotel makeover.

This is great.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

YouTube video by Dallas Taylor How the Olympics Are Mixed LIVE 4,000 Miles Away

Go behind the scenes of NBC Sports’ Olympics audio operation and see how the Winter Games are mixed for U.S. broadcast. All from 4,000 miles away!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAJS...

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1979: Why Collect Stamps? | In the Post | BBC Archive

They don't make television programmes like they used to.

And we can all be thankful for that. (This is just the first episode of *ten* on stamp collecting.)

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SEN parents 'devastated' as time runs out for school leavers' law A young person's statement of special educational needs ends with school and campaigners had been hoping that would change.

"Not enough time" to pass legislation to help people with special educational needs before the next Stormont elections.

Those elections are in May *2027*.

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The human cost of the UK’s anti-trans turn Brits can argue about intent all they want. But when policy changes are followed by funerals, the math is no longer theoretical.

boingboing.net/2026/02/09/t...

It’s a bright new world for lucky viewers Northern Ireland goes into colour

It’s a bright new world for lucky viewers (1970)

Northern Ireland goes into colour

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The description “absolute ghouls” is too good for them.

Blue Peter star's tragic death after show sacking as tribute paid

Pushed by Reach newspapers on social media feeds: the death of Michael Sundin. Which happened in 1989. As if it’s a news story. So that you click.

Did you notice who did the programme design?

Smiling young man with short dark hair, wearing a green sweater and plaid shirt, standing in front of a stone wall.

On this day in 1987, Mark Ashton, co-founder of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, was diagnosed with HIV.

His friend Chris wrote a beautiful tribute to Mark, which he shared in 2014, and has now been republished on our website.

Read it now.
https://tht.org.uk/news/remembering-mark-ashton

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

This appears to show an agent removing Alex Pretti’s legally-held gun seconds BEFORE other agents shot him.

There’s another graphic video of someone dying at the hands of US ICE agents doing the rounds.

You might want to prevent videos from auto playing: Settings > Content & Media

To activate content warnings: Settings > Moderation

And if you’re sharing, add a damned label.

Matt Hyndman was an incredible campaigner for equal marriage in Northern Ireland and it was great to see him do so well in #TheTraitors. 🏳️‍🌈⭐

Also has excellent choices in knitwear.

Or, indeed, at all.

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

state-sponsored child trafficking

YouTube video by Richard Russell GE6SM/574/1 alternative demo face

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