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YouTube video by Eleven Films WARNING: This video will change you

Number of days without a school shooting:

ZERO.

We hope someday our video will not be relevant anymore.

#EndGunViolenceNow

Old Fox's Advent Calendar. The Seventeenth Window. Ermine had been hard at work all summer and autumn on a collection of painted, wooden toys. Many of them were directly influenced by the boats in the harbour of their fishing village, their bright red and yellow sails, their clean, functional shapes. Buoys and floats and bells and anemometers and signals and beacons, buckets and flags and ensigns all entered her sketchbooks, then took form in her little workshop at the back of her Georgian cottage. That morning, accompanied by a proud and beaming Sea Otter, she took samples up to London, to a friend from school, Marjorie Abbatt, who was thinking of setting up a very modern toy shop. Marjorie loved everything and together they made plans. Later that night, at Old Fox's flat in Bedford Square, Ermine opened a window and looked out at the night, breathing in the cold air, the sounds of London so familiar - she was a success, she whispered to the trees, to the taxis - her ideas, her art, her design, her small Cornish life really meant something. And this time next year, in the glorious Christmas of 1931, her toys would enter the world, be bought, be played with, have presence and life and vitality!

It’s on every Christmas, seemingly on a bloody loop every Christmas - to the point where you can get a bit sick of it without even having seen it for a while.

But it’s worth stripping away all that bollocks & remembering, it IS a GREAT Movie.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)🎄

The Rich, The Powerful, The Cowardly We are witnessing media companies, journalists and billionaires bowing down to Trump and his hostile takeover—seeking access, favors and security. They are doing us a favor.

“Rather than fear that the opposition is weakened by these Americans who are bending down to Trump, they are saving us time by telling us that they are not up to the fight and we cannot count on them.”

The issue isn’t just our media capitulating to Trump. It is that our media is now owned by conglomerates and billionaires with multiple interests before the government. They are compromised from the get go.

Yet another deadly school shooting today. Assholes out there still don't want to do anything about gun reform.

Swandro Uncovered Swandro is an incredible archaeological site in Rousay, Orkney, at threat from coastal erosion. The excavation has been covered in The Orkney News in several articles. There is an excellent website…

Swandro is an incredible archaeological site in Rousay, Orkney, at threat from coastal erosion. The excavation has been covered in The Orkney News in several articles.
Swandro Uncovered theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/16/s...

Et Tu, ABC? The Dangerous Implications of the Sweetheart Settlement

"Trump already has shifted the balance of power between the media and the presidency before even taking office. This is a significant and deeply troubling development..."

Harry Litman writes on ABC's capitulation to Trump.

My husband @robertcooper-us.bsky.social and I are on our way to DC for a White House holiday reception. It’s going to be our last one for the next four years, so I’ll be stuffing my pockets with official WH holiday cookies!! 😉🎄

here's what we know so far: a teenager obtained a weapon, just as our founders intended, and took that weapon into a school, just as our founders intended, and shot and killed a teacher and a student, just as our founders intended, and ended up dead, just as our founders intended

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský approved UK government to retain ‘golden share’ in parent company of International Distribution Services

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We all know privatisation does not work ,it always means the consumer pays through the nose for a poorer service. So why did the Govt let this go through ?

Hi! Every single one of my podcasts is free. My newsletter is also free. So I’m wondering if you’ve even tried to subscribe for free to any of my content.

If you’re able, please send some prayers and positivity our way for today and tomorrow please 🙏🏽 Gracias!

Today’s beautiful cricket ground is Page Park in Bristol

#cricket #cricketgrounds #cricketground #villagecricket #clubcricket #beautifulcricketgrounds #cricketuk #cricketuk🇬🇧 🏏

It’s a lovely bluesky…

From the Collapse Into Now sessions. Photo by Bob Whittaker.

I have never tolerated diversity.

I have celebrated it. 🖖

The Daily Beans Daily News Podcast · 2,424 Episodes · Updated Daily

If you haven’t turned on the news on for a while, but you know you should be staying informed, please give us a try. It’s free. It’s safe. And there’s appropriate profanity. Women-owned. Women-operated. Independent. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Painting of a snowy rural landscape with a barn to the left and a group of bare tall trees to the right, the field has a fence which leads from tbe barn to the trees in a horizontal line across the work, in the centre distance is another tree, all under a grey sky

Sarah Evans, contemporary Welsh painter known for her local landscapes

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Supreme Court term limits? Senators push for constitutional change Bipartisan push for Supreme Court term limits gains momentum as poll shows majority support across party lines.

As a member of the President’s Commission on the US Supreme Court I ended up strongly supporting this change. In my view, it can be accomplished by an appropriate Act of Congress, without any need to amend the Constitution.
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This is just your friendly public service announcement to remind you that…

…IT’S ONLY 116 DAYS UNTIL THE START OF THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

#SeeingRed 🏏
#cricket

Sunlight above the horizon with boats reflected on the water of the Thames

this was the view out running along the Thames this morning

Asked on Fox & Friends what programs she's going to champion in the White House this time around, Melania Trump brings up her ornaments collection

Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country

Sometimes the combination of arrogance and ignorance is breathtaking. Yes, US health care has high admin costs; that's because it relies so much on private insurers. Govt-run health insurance has much lower overhead

Take your hate somewhere else.

Why I Just Resigned From The Los Angeles Times By Harry Litman

BREAKING: Renowned former federal prosecutor Harry Litman announces he has resigned from his role as a contributor for the LA Times.

"I don’t want to continue to work for a paper that is appeasing Trump and facilitating his assault on democratic rule for craven reasons."

Thank you @bsky.app for suspending the fake account within hours of it being reported. On X there are several fake accounts which have been live for more than a year & X has proved incapable of removing them. What a difference. The sky is most definitely bluer here🙏