Gem Liz K.

A landscape with orange leaves tree and a lake. A little samurai silhouette stands in the middle and a cat is hiding somewhere. Inidian inks on paper

Daily sketch 🪾🍂🥷🐈‍⬛️

Can you spot the cat ?

#art #artsky #ink #sketch

Can Europe be Saved? A few thoughts on the state of Europe amid a twin-pronged assault from the United States and Russia

The joint American and Russian attack on Europe is ideological and if Europe is going to succeed in fighting back - rather than be reduced to an unhappy collection of vassal states - it needs to decide whether it is willing and able to defend its own liberal democratic ideals. My latest

Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."

Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

My brain is melting #marking

2025 advent calendar. Day one.

You run downstairs, excited to open the first door. A voice in the back of your mind tries to tell you that you didn't actually buy an advent calendar this year—and this wasn't in the house when you went to bed last night—but you push that aside.

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New IHR Research Training: Oral History and Digital Storytelling - in-person two-day oral history and digital storytelling course. Explore the key issues and best practices for integrating creative expression with oral history. 26-27 Feb 2026 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

AI SLOP 'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 JANUS ROSE · NOV 26, 2025 AT 10:47 AM Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Sick of the slop?

With the AI ‘Slop Evader’, you can search and scroll the internet “like it’s 2022”

www.404media.co/slop-evader-...

Im not opposed to reading Irving. :) Just not sure that book is the best way in. Maybe ill try Garp next.

Gaaarp as a name means you are a big fan :). If it helps i loved cider house rules?

Old news. The sales have dwcreased since then.

I want x banned on a par with Russia Today.

Do. Not. Read. That. One. It is the worst book i have ever read. The others are supposedly good. That one was not a good way to get into his books.

YouTube video by Veojam J. J. Cale - After Midinight - Paradise Studios Session

In memory of J.J. Cale, Dec. 5, 1938-July 26, 2013. Nobody ever sounded like him, and nobody ever will. Hero.

Okay, I've formally signed up for the Giving Pledge, sometimes considered the Billionaire's Pledge, though I've never been a billionaire, particularly after I gave away all my craigslist equity to my charitable foundation.

www.givingpledge.org/pledger/crai...

2/The Ukrainian military has stood firm and repelled a powerful enemy. The Armed Forces, all Defense Forces, and the entire Ukrainian society have defended the state, saved the nation, and astonished the whole world.

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious

"That’s the way back to Africa"

"I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing"

- former Dulwich pupil Yinka Bankole

Listening to the #rentenpaket in Germany. I know who was against it, who qas for it, the tone and quality of the debate, but not what is in the rentenpaket.

Pointless reporting.

The content of the reforms not the soap opera.

#journalists, do better.

JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.

If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.

Signal boosts appreciated!

DEC 3: U.S. Immigration Freeze, NATO’s Ukraine Push, Kremlin Admits Miscalculation, EU Cuts Russian Gas Factual information is our love language.

DEC 3: U.S. Immigration Freeze, NATO’s Ukraine Push, Kremlin Admits Miscalculation, EU Cuts Russian Gas

open.substack.com/pub/onest/p/...

Parliamentlive.tv Treasury Committee

No, I was just watching it live. It's here though.

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

YouTube video by Serge K Julee Cruise - Falling (Twin Peaks Soundtrack)

Remembering Julee Cruise, born this day in 1956 who collaborated so memorably with Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch, including her single "Falling" in Twin Peaks.

One of my abiding impressions of Brexit is the way it slammed doors of opportunity in the faces of young people several rungs below Boris Johnson’s countless children on the ladders of privilege & advantage.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Great news, the petition:

Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Is at the Petition Committee stage, a date is being set.

Greetings from Kyiv,
where the holiday mood is in the air.
During the war?
Yes – especially during the war.

I’m having a warcoffee
and getting ready to write in my favourite magic bookstore.

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GErmany had a spate of highly "convenient" attacks by Afghan immigrants in the run up to the elections. After the attack in munich (a car driven into a crowd) the BND found before the attack there had been a lot of internet searches from Russian accounts for terrorist attack in Germany.