Frogfall

YouTube video by Rock Pop Tunes Donovan Season of the Witch

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Pix is wildly popular in Brazil 📈

it’s a free, inclusive, publicly-owned digital payment system… and it’s quickly become the most common payment method in 🇧🇷

but it cuts out US corporations — so now the US govt is trying to get it taken down.

this is what capitalist imperialism looks like:

Puzzle as loss-making firm donates to Reform UK Martin Shipton Reform UK watchers have been puzzled by a newly disclosed donation to the party of £50,000 by a company whose accounts are overdue and which most recently reported a trading loss of more...

Puzzle as loss-making firm donates to Reform UK

Adding the 2016 votes might make the pattern a little clearer. The ex-2016 UKIP vote appears to have been split between Labour and Tory in 2021. These people may have now swapped to Reform, taking a few more 2021 Tory & Labour voters with them - with other 2021 Labour voters moving to Plaid. ???

The Manchester Carriage Company was founded by John Greenwood, who started the UK's first bus service - between Pendleton and Manchester - in 1824, five years before London's first bus service (Museum of Transport Greater Manchester.)

YouTube video by ppotter Scotch VHS Tapes Skeleton advert (Re record Not Fade Away - November 1987)

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2025 Caerphilly Senedd Byelection graph, comparing 2021 votes

Because of the large number of non-voters, it's very difficult to be sure over who swapped votes, and to where, or did and didn't vote who previously did or didn't. #Caerphilly #byelection #Plaid #Labour

To be charitable, maybe it just means that most members and affiliates couldn’t really choose - as the candidates seemed too alike, and so either would as acceptable (or unacceptable) as the other. That closeness of result could have been generated by voters rolling dice.

YouTube video by Lyn Cat Irv Film made by John Lubbock & Daisy Steinhardt

"It's democracy, but not as we know it"
Nerve Reform UK correspondent
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social
went to Caerphilly on byelection day. Where *was* candidate Llŷr Powell, ex-colleague of Russian puppet Nathan Gill? And what did Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle say?
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YouTube video by RHINO Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London (Official Music Video) [HD]

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Show of Hands, Vickers, Barrow, painting by Bill Bell (1928-2006), shipyard worker who became an artist. #NorthernArt

Yutong, yutong, yutong, yutong Yutong diddle eye po

Modern charabanc

Lady Lever art gallery, Port Sunlight, Wirral.

YouTube video by S. Issui Paul Simon - Ace In The Hole

Another fave...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mXl...

Still one of my favourite albums.

Shambles square Manchester

Tourist Central

Old advert from Viz. Manc walk 2000.

Off to visit my native terrain, to practice the Manc Walk. Not needed to do it for a few years, so am a bit rusty. I'm sure I'll pick it up again in no time - like riding a bike.

Over half of £2 billion UK tax break goes to just ten companies... Previously undisclosed figures show that a single large pharmaceutical company has received a £3.4 billion tax cut - including £486 million in 2024 alone - from a little-scrutinised tax incentive supp...

Corporate Welfare

A profitable pharmaceutical company received £3.4bn tax cut from a UK tax incentive scheme.

The drug wasn't available to the NHS for several years.

Big pharma wants to hike drug prices.

£3.4bn would drastically cut child poverty... but ... but ... there is no money for that.

To me, the video (if it's not just an AI hoax) looks more like an the result of a pole-mounted electricity transformer destroying itself (possibly following a lightning strike). Why didn't they travel to the spot where the light originated, afterwards, to inspect for damage?

YouTube video by Wintergatan Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)

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YouTube video by Spitting Image Trump Finds Out He Hasn't Won The Nobel Peace Prize | The Rest Is Bulls*!t

This weeks episode is crackin
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

Tally of the ani-DigitalID petition is 2,847,401 now signatures. According to the 3.5% Rule, that should be enough to affect political outcomes - as it represents 4.1% of the UK population. Whether the 3.5% rule still applies to “clicktivism”, as opposed to "meatspace" activism I don’t really know.

AI explaining the phrase.

Clearly, this is Terrorism.

"From the Tanker to the Jerry Can, Diesel will be Free"

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Leeds and Sheffield music venues join fan ownership campaign Northern Guitars in Leeds and Gut Level in Sheffield have joined a campaign for fans to own venues.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Awesome talent :
Guillermo Galetti

At Marsden Moor in West Yorkshire, the NationalTrust looks after miles of open moorland, home to curlews, mountain hares, and rare plants. Marsden Moor, Jim Grady, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The National Trust is often thought of as stately homes and historic buildings, but much of its work is about protecting landscapes and wildlife. At Marsden Moor in West Yorkshire, for example, the Trust looks after miles of open moorland, home to curlews, mountain hares, and

Support for digital IDs has collapsed in the UK Not long after the woeful Keir Starmer unveiled his latest flagship policy that no one voted for, public support for it has collapsed.

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Microlightning between microbubbles
Abstract: Will-o’-the-wisps, ghostly blue flames seen at night in marshlands and long attributed to methane cool flames, have remained scientifically unexplained, a mystery caused by the lack of a known ignition mechanism. #fortean
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