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Amble around Hawkstone Park and Follies yesterday. Weather thankfully held off.

#walk #hike #hawkstonepark #february2026

Staff Mutiny Forces Pub to Turn Away JD Vance The vice president had reportedly attempted to dine at The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, weeks after the venue hosted Kamala Harris.

I’m deceased 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️☠️

BREAKING: California Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to halt Gavin Newsom’s redistricting push

An unhealthy alliance One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy

An unhealthy alliance

One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy

By John Hall

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

Article here: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A leaked Israeli intelligence report reveals what was obvious all along:

The vast majority of Palestinians slaughtered by Israel in Gaza are civilians.

There was never an excuse for not knowing the truth.

This is a genocide. Not a war.

Norway is a Socialist Country

It has the largest Government surplus in the world at £2tn with a population of only 5.5m. The UK has a debt of £3tn

It is the happiest country in world, has the best railways in Europe and taxes all fossil fuels at 78%

Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach

It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.

52 times my yearly salary is nearly £1,500,000... That's insane.

#TaxTheRich

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

Colorful clouds of gas and dust crowd the image. Deep red and orange clouds surround the image's edges, with some violet in the upper left portion. Near the left middle, a region of teal and yellow shines.

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

A colorful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. This translucent cloud of gas holds wispy and thin filaments with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red, and yellow colors mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Scattered across the colorful nebula are bright and point-like foreground and background stars. The background is black.

the universe wishes you a very happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈🌌

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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Strengthening the European Union-Canada relationship European Movement International seeks creating a European Movement Canada

A new “European Movement Canada” is being built. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

"Canada must not be a spectator to history. Strengthening our relationship with Europe now is an investment in the stability and prosperity of our shared future.”

‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK

A major new poll shows voters clearly favour prioritising more trade with the EU over the US

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

‘Move closer to Europe – not Trump’ voters tell Starmer in major UK poll Pressure growing on Labour to improve trade with EU as Rachel Reeves admits Brexit damaged UK

“Move closer to Europe – not Trump”

Huge UK poll shows Brits overwhelmingly want Starmer to prioritise trade with EU not US. Even in Farage’s constituency!

Excellent work by @bestforbritain.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social.

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Jeremy Corbyn: Remembering Auschwitz, Fighting Today As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we must remember the heroic resistance of many inmates to inspire our struggle against renewed fascism today.

Fascism doesn’t arrive in uniform overnight. It arrives with suited politicians, one piece of legislation — or executive order — at a time.

My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/01/jere...

A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday

I'm like a magpie for shiny things, have never had the skill to learn tarot despite nearly 30 years practice, and I have no friggin' idea what a north node is!

I’m not above asking to make new friends. Looking for bookish and witchy friends, but honestly, anyone who is a good human… Let’s be friends! #booksky #witchsky #friends

Being in the UK, I don't think it was broadcast here that he'd died. I too was 16 that year and only learned he'd died when I saw his memoriam at the end of The Negotiator in the July.

27 years next month and it still feels wrong he's not here...

I'd love to know more about his theatre roles! I sadly never saw him on stage, which I'll always feel sad about. Born at the wrong time!

I remember seeing The Negotiator in the cinema in the July after he died. We didn't have internet and I don't think it had been reported on UK news, so when hiss memoriam came up at the end I was devastated.

Elizabeth Blackwell - Wikipedia

On Jan 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the 1st woman in the US to earn a medical degree, breaking barriers for women in medicine and STEM. Her legacy reminds us of the power of progress and perseverance. #OnThisDay #WomenInSTEM #Progress

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...

Watching grownups pretend not to recognize a Nazi salute flashed three times is...expected in an authoritarian takeover.
Next, they'll do it en masse to "own the libs."
Refuse to normalize or be gaslit.
We know what they meant all along.
#ElonNaziSalute

I always remember the quote from Under Siege when TLJ's character asks the CO what he'll do with his money... He responds by saying he'll buy the presidency. I remember thinking it was ludicrous.

Apparently not.

The irony that Louisiana and Florida both have snow where they wouldn't usually and snowy places have none...

The earth isn't happy.