Love that all children attending school get free school meals here in Sweden.

One of the drystone clochans on Skellig Michael, it is a dome shaped structure with a doorway facing the photographer

"integrate AI into your workflow..."

buddy, given half a chance I'd be scratching on vellum with oak gall ink in a nice dark clochán on Skellig Michael.

I have no interest in generative AI at all, I wish they would stop trying to crowbar it into *everything*.

Sometimes the effort is the point.

Screen shot from Paul Embery’s X account: Respect to this police officer. Confronted by radicals demanding the arrest of a Christian preacher on the grounds that Whitechapel "is a Muslim area" she was calm and professional and gave them short shrift. Let's see more of this from the police. Has a video of a woman police officer talking to a group of Muslim men

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too!

The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression.

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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

STOPPA UNGDOMSUTVISNINGARNA! År 2023 röstade S, SD, M, KD och L för lagändringar som innebär att fler tonåringar ska kunna utvisas från sina familjer i Sverige. Nu ser vi konsekvenserna – fall efter fall där unga människor betala...

www.ageranu.se/petitions/st...

Please sign

Every American needs to watch this:

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Nigel Farage announces plans to slash vital benefit to fund 5p cheaper pints Nigel Farage's party had promised to back scrapping the two-child benefit limit, but now Reform intends to funnel the support to the most vulnerable into slashing prices in pubs

Nigel Farage is going to "save pubs" by cutting 5p off the price of a pint of beer...

The £3 billion cost will be funded by reinstating the two-child benefit limit.

This might be the worst policy anyone has ever come up with.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Liam Ramos Is Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
archive.md/2026.02.01-1...

Hahaha foirfe!

UTVISA INTE 4 ÅRIGE RAIF Raif är fyra år och bor i Malmö. Han har autism och en språkstörning. Han kan ännu inte prata och har fortfarande blöja. Nu måste han lämna mamma och bröderna i Sverige i många månader för att söka ti...

Den här frågan är viktig för mig – skriv gärna under: www.mittskifte.org/petitions/ut...

How abolishing the wealth tax changed a country Sweden abolished its wealth tax. Tax became transactional, destroying the sense of a community building something together

Sweden abolished its wealth tax in 2006. At the time it seemed “practical, not political.” Two decades later, many pensioners see it as a turning point toward a more unequal society. Miranda Sheild Johansson reports. From _The conversation_ -- thanks!

eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/fin...

Also knapp in Swedish and knap in Danish.

Here are a few exhibitions I’m doing right now. No idea how to use Bluesky, it feels like shouting into the abyss. Pity, I wish this platform was user friendly, I like the fact it’s oligarch free

B'fhearr liom é.

Sverige på väg mot ryska nivåer – fyra gånger fler ska sättas i fängelse Forskare starkt kritiska till straffskärpningar: ”Saknar vetenskapligt stöd.”

”Om tio år sitter minst fyra gånger så många svenskar i fängelse. Det tar Sverige till en nivå jämförbar med Ryssland. Varför?”

www.sydsvenskan.se/skane/sverig...

Donate to Sarah Porter Spine Race 2026, organized by Maria Hughes Run for freedom. A challenge like no other for a cause like no other. The Spine Ultram… Maria Hughes needs your support for Sarah Porter Spine Race 2026

gofund.me/3aa72ced8

Thousands march against Renee Good's killing in Minneapolis as hundreds of protests planned across US The demonstration in Minneapolis was one of hundreds of protests planned in towns and cities across the US over the weekend, demanding an end to large-scale deployments of ICE agents.

Thousands march against Renee Good's killing as hundreds of protests planned across US

news.sky.com/story/thousa...

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.

Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Starmer’s response to Trump attacking Venezuela:

“I always say and believe we should uphold international law.”

Really?

After the unforgivable stance on Israel he’s got no leg to stand on

…and the moral high ground will never be his to claim.

Comhghairdeas 👏💪

Maith sibh! 👏

Tuigim anois. Tá mé go mall uaireanta 😃

Cabhair! Tuigim na focail ach ní le chéile iad. 😅

"Labour backbenchers don't want to be the party taking migrant's jewellery, or stopping them becoming part of a community."

Shabana Mahmood's migrant plans have angered some Labour MPs – but has found support in political rivals, including Tommy Robinson

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...

A Government of cowards.

Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.

They can't get away with this.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.

That's it.

That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.

Maith thú