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If you support Donald Trump you’re against everything the USA was founded on. Fascist scumbags take down your American flags. You can’t love Trump and love America.

Michael Ledger-Lomas · Hairy Teutons: What William Morris Wanted William Morris’s relationship with literature was ambivalent. He read voraciously but fitfully, often preferring...

‘Morris wrote with appalling fluency. Composing verse on trains or while sat at the loom, he could turn out a thousand lines a day.’

@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on the writings of William Morris:
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Canada’s Marineland to rehome its whales and dolphins as it seeks a buyer Conservationists voice concern that the Ontario theme park will struggle to find suitable homes for its animals Canada’s embattled Marineland theme park is to raise money to “expeditiously” remove animals from its grounds, including the world’s largest…

Canada’s Marineland to rehome its whales and dolphins as it seeks a buyer

Sadler's Wells East: Dance theatre opens in Stratford Sadler's Wells East will open in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as part of London 2012's legacy.

Opened just this month, Sadler’s Wells East will help to inspire audiences and benefit generations to come.

With many of the staff and performers living and working locally, it’s already making a difference to the local economy.

Pretty sunset.

Bison Are Bringing Back Biodiversity to Britain In just a few years, the only free-roaming bison herd in the U.K. has already made a tangible difference in the surrounding ecosystem.

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Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went The remote ​west of Ireland, so used to being left alone, seems to come alive for outsiders in search of something...

‘In 1870, the year before Synge was born, only 3 per cent of Irish farmers, peasants or not, owned their own land; the rest were tenants. Within sixty years, the ratio had been reversed.’

Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish rural life: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston is temporarily closed after Elon Musk fired members of its staff.

A Panama Amazon parrot, filtered to give the illusion of three green birds. A headline reads: "How Pet Parrots Started A Bitter Feud Inside an NYC Apartment Building." Photo by Oliver Farshi for The New York Times

Noise complaints over parrots in a Manhattan co-op apartment building led to a fight that would wind through two courts, cost the building a small fortune in legal fees and shatter a friendship. nyti.ms/3X6BKj1

Love & Wanted Celebrates London's Spirit of Respect, Unity and Togetherness - Outernet London Find out all about Outernet London - immersive screens, retail, restaurants, leisure, hotel, live music venue, and much more.

We are living in increasingly unsettling times, and I know the worry and concern many of London’s communities have.

That’s why we’re sending a clear message that all Londoners are loved and wanted in our great city.

London is, and always be, a place for everyone.

Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life • News: Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78 It is difficult to think of a moment…

Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfires Rescue workers have swung into action to board, feed and treat displaced animals – and find those who may be trapped As the wildfires besieged Los Angeles, marauding through hillside suburbs at an impossibly fast and ferocious pace, 500 miles away…

‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfires

An oral history of Twin Peaks by its unforgettable stars Mystery, magic and mayhem reigned behind the scenes as well as on screen. Mädchen Amick, Joan Chen, Dana Ashbrook and others recall the making of the beloved TV series – and the genius of David Lynch

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My brother is minimally verbal. He taught me that language is far more than mere words | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett The sound artist Ruby Colley, whose brother is non-speaking, has created a touching reminder that people can express themselves in other ways I have long thought that each family has its own unique dialect. A panoply of words, references and turns of…

My brother is minimally verbal. He taught me that language is far more than mere words | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Heartless. Cruel.

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Making animated movies into live action: tiresome, unnecessary, lame

Re-making every classic film into a muppet movie with a single human actor: sophisticated, erudite, revolutionary

Now that’s some bullshit👇🏻

#SheShed

Should we be more worried that the incoming administration in the US is malevolent, or that they may be chronically stupid?

Pete Hegseth Shouldn’t Be Trusted To Run A Pez Dispenser Here’s why

Trump’s unqualified cabinet nominees for every role are terrible, but Pete Hegseth is one of the worst.

Since his confirmation hearing is today, I wanted to show why he shouldn’t be trusted to operate a Pez dispenser, much less serve as Secretary of Defense.

LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:

Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)

Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)

Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)

Bé Ù (Silver Lake)

Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)

Oy Bar (Studio City)

Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)

Dudley Market (Venice)

LaSorted's (Silver Lake)

Dear Brexiters and Right-wing nationalsts,

The EU never told us which prime ministers we're allowed to have, but Farage collaborated with a foreign billionaire to help him buy Downing Street.

How are you feeling now?

Art on the Underground: New works announced for Waterloo and Brixton Artists are to spend a year trying to improve life for commuters and workers on the London Underground.

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of Art on the Underground.

To celebrate a quarter of a century of free public art that millions of Tube passengers have enjoyed, @transportforlondon.bsky.social has revealed four new artworks coming to the network this year.

I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud | Mike Pitts A dig near Bicester has uncovered spectacular tracks in what was once a Jurassic lagoon There are many reasons to be excited about the dinosaur footprints whose discovery was announced last week. They will bring new understandings to the Jurassic world…

I can just see those dinosaurs plodding through the Cotswold mud | Mike Pitts

The UK More Than Halved Carbon Emissions From Electricity This Last Decade Gas power stations remain the top producer, but this might change next year.

Some good news in terms of energy production in the UK!

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Montenegro considers gun ban after mass shooting kills 12 The New Year’s Day shooting shocked a country where gun ownership is widespread.

Montenegro’s government began a three-day mourning period after a gunman opened fire on New Year’s Day — killing 12 people.

Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said that an upcoming national security meeting will now consider a “complete ban on gun ownership.”

A poem.

Happy new year to everyone here, this is the only social media that has ever made my life feel richer.

Thank you all for adding to the luxury of my life.

If we all sprinkle the joy we have we will end up as happy as doughnuts decorated by an unsupervised toddler.

Happy New Year everyone

RIP Jimmy Carter.