Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth

BREAKING NEWS: New water aerobics class gets off to a great start.

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
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I get that the pope is an important person to around 9% of the UK, who identify as Catholic, but is there nothing else going on in the world apart from the death of an 88 yr old? It's complete media overload.
#Pope

Why St George of England? A humorous look at the St George tradition

Why St George of England?
A humorous look at the St George tradition

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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

And it's the mistake that the Labour Party is making. Trying to appease those who hate the Labour party and will never vote for it.

🌈In honour of #LesbianVisibilityWeek, we want to highlight a blog written by a lesbian woman from Uganda with refugee status in the UK, who we supported in seeking safety here.

Read the full blog: buff.ly/lZPU1Hb

Aboriginal community co-curates exhibition at Manchester Museum following repatriation - Museums Association Ongoing collaboration formed after museum returned 174 objects to Warnindilyakwa people in 2023

News | Aboriginal community co-curates exhibition at Manchester Museum following repatriation – ongoing collaboration formed after museum returned 174 objects to Warnindilyakwa people in 2023

😁😁😁

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

How can we ever forget !

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938.

History doesn't change it just repeats.

Trump claims he's the only US president who was shot.

Six US presidents have been shot.

Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.

The first four died as a result.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

In case of confusion

The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. 🇪🇺🇺🇸

Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 32 MILLION! 👏

LETS DO THIS!

In Westminster it's all about who you know

74% of Brits also believed it was ‘reasonable’ to postpone elections during a war with just 12% saying it was ‘unreasonable’

At the centre of a bright and bustling library, the librarian sets like the smiling captain of a spaceship at the controls. Numerous school children examine the books in the library and seem completely absorbed.

On Library Lovers Day, enjoy this optimistic 1950s magazine cover

“Stand aside television. The library holds the stage as the curtain rises on this new age of the written word” (1957)

Artist: DL Mays

Joel organised Nigeria’s first Pride in 2019. He came to the UK to seek safety, but the Home Office detained him when he arrived.
This government urgently needs to recognise the dangers LGBTQI+ people face.
✍️ Help #EndLGBTQIDetention: https://buff.ly/4hHaRu1
#NoPrideInDetention

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Royal Mail: Second-class letters may be delivered every other day The regulator says reforming postal services could save the loss-making Royal Mail up to £425m.

Privatisation Robbery.

UK's second-class letters may be delivered only every other day, not on Saturdays. Already worse in many areas.

Royal Mail fails to meet any targets.

1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
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Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals) Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press - After 'Monumental' Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case Murdoch's newspaper group apologises for 15 years of privacy breaches in landmark settlement – but the Prime Minister's office quickly dismisses calls for a fresh investigation

We need Levinson 2.0

Repost if you agree 🔄

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