Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

BREAKING: TERRORISM BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION RULED UNLAWFUL BY HIGH COURT

"You think we'd move on and forget what happened?
Nah, fuck Keir Starmer
Netanyahu's bitch and genocide armer"

Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’

1/ We're pleased the Prime Minister has called out Jim Ratcliffe's disgusting, racist & dehumanising language.
However, these words ring somewhat hollow when his government is imposing cruel, self-defeating immigration rules that damage social cohesion.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

I am so delighted!!! Power to the people!✊️ #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jim Ratcliffe sums it up:

The wealthy telling struggling people to blame migrants based on false claims 👇👇👇

www.owenjones.news/p/jim-ratcli...

Úff, plebbarnir vaða uppi allsstaðar!

‘A step in the wrong direction’: Israel’s West Bank plans prompt global backlash US, Britain, EU and Arab nations condemn plans that Israeli ministers say will ‘kill the idea of a Palestinian state’

But will do fuck all about it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

This coming from the man who referred to the UK becoming 'an island of strangers' and that 'mass immigration had done incalcuable damage' is quite iffy. 🧐 I'll be happy if this is a sign that Starmer is softening towards migration but somehow I am not convinced...

Dispatches showed how 'corporate capture' led to Palestine Action ban Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Palestine Action showed that the UK government has been captured by corporate interests

Dispatches showed how ‘corporate capture’ led to Palestine Action ban

One parliamentary stooge Dispatches interviewed was John Woodcock (‘Lord Walney’) – who’s among the clearest examples of corporate capture in UK politics.

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

I cannot express how much I love this guy's dedication to good sticky toffee pudding.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Israel’s systematic use of prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons supplied by the US has left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians it killed during its genocidal war on Gaza.
#IsraeliTerroristState #GazaGenocide
Read more: aje.news/s1ry02

It’s too often of late, things of nightmares, have become background noice to the spectacle of the hype around things of no consequence or substance. How can any human accept this reality without rupture in the heart and soul?

Ch4 doc shows Starmer's ban on Palestine Action was done to protect the arms industry Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation. It was banned because large corporations, like the Elbit weapons firm, have captured the UK government

Channel 4 documentary shows Palestine Action wasn’t banned because it’s a terrorist organisation. It was banned because large corporations, like the Elbit weapons firm, have captured the UK government.

Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/ch4-doc-sh...

1. Many here seem bemused by the anger and disappointment this government attracts. Please bear with me while I try to explain it.
Let’s begin with Gaza. Starmer’s complicity is one of the major reasons so many people are disillusioned.
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Ahhh, uppáhaldið mitt. Fólk sem býr ekki í Reykjavík og vill það ekki en þykist vita mest um hvað Reykjavík er fyrir bestu.

Og af hverju er ekki spurt hvað felst í þessum "flutningi" hans í dag? Var hann að flytja eða flytja heimilisfangið sitt einhvert þar sem hann mun ekki búa?

YouTube video by AJ+ ‘If I Don’t Steal [Your Home] Someone Else Will’ Israeli Settler Justifies Forcible Takeover

The famous reference

Scottish salmon farms 'breached sea lice limits 1200 times in 2025', figures show

EXCLUSIVE: The salmon industry breached sea lice limits on Scottish farms more than three times every day last year, analysis has found

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

YouTube video by CuttingCrewVEVO Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms (Official Music Video)

People of the UK! Tesco seem to have bought a new in store play list. If you pop in, you are likely to hear the great song 'I just died in your arms tonight'. I have heard it three times now, in three different stores. You are welcome.
youtu.be/6dOwHzCHfgA?...

"I'm too smart to read".

I have nothing more to add to this.

Ji, en fínt! Takk takk 🙂

How do you find an Icelandic language feed? 🧐

I am getting v disillusioned with Bsky. My discover feed is a mix of accounts I already follow and stuff I have no interest in (lately its been astronomy, physics,manga and bears (human)) and a shed load of US politics. I use the 'show less' option a lot but to no avail. Am I missing a trick?

A dog who has fallen out with her husband and step-children for the final time and is feeling the special kind of freedom that can only come from hot-wiring a vehicle belonging to a local tradesman and setting off into a bright winter's day, unencumbered by personal belongings, with no particular destination in mind.

THREAD.

A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside.

You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

Palestinian analyst @muhammadshehad2 explains the restrictions that Israel has imposed at Rafah Crossing are so harsh that it would take approximately 10 years for all 150,000 Palestinians in Egypt to return to Gaza, and similarly long for the tens of thousands of patients and others in Gaza to leave. The Rafah crossing has effectively become a “one-way ticket” in either direction due to the prohibitively long queue, he told @trtworld .

See new posts Conversation Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal ‼️“No to forced migration!” a woman shouts as 15 women and children arrive at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after crossing the Rafah land crossing from Egypt. They had left Gaza for medical treatment abroad during the genocide. Today marks the first day Rafah has reopened in both directions since May 2024. Despite returning after months outside Gaza for treatment, the message was clear: leaving was never a choice, and return is an act of defiance against ethnic cleansing, as families insist on staying rooted in Gaza despite the Israeli occupation's horrific crimes. mhmadalshaer11 (IG)

Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada explains the restrictions that Israel has imposed at Rafah Crossing are so harsh that it would take approximately 10 years for all 150,000 Palestinians in Egypt to return to Gaza, & similarly long for the tens of thousands of patients & others in Gaza to leave...

UK, we need your help to stop the grind!🗣️🇬🇧

The UK Parliament has a real opportunity to take an official stand against the grindadráp and push for concrete action to help bring it to an end 🐋

This is only happening because people have spoken up. And now we need to amplify that voice 📣

Israeli Anatomist Meira Weiss exposed what the Israeli regime has been hiding for YEARS

"We used to take organs from the bodies of Palestinians and then the immigrants and foreign workers"

Watch the video to the end, and find out how Israel got the biggest Skin Bank in the world! 👇