In the UK we can watch The Librarians documentary on iPlayer
It's vital. Defend the knowledge base, defend libraries, defend librarians.
They are the stewards of our culture and progress.
New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week.
Is it time the NHS did the same?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/n...
A Lebanese family in Beirut has launched a mobile aid initiative to support people displaced by the ongoing war.
The project, known as “Camion Love” delivers essentials directly to families in need, as more than one million people have been displaced across Lebanon.
Taken on this mornings walk…a curtain of willow reaching down to the river. ☀️🌳 #derbyshire #riverderwent
“Sakura” in Japan.
Cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting nature of life, mortality, renewal, and spring in Japanese culture. ☺️
TT: ThaoThao
Yodo station, Kyoto
No music. No filters. No messing.
Just nature at its most spectacular.
Take a moment. 🙏
#ireland
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
My new essay is about the situation where there is no right way to be a woman. And how, in the end, accepting this really does set you free.
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Half a million strong. Together.
The biggest march against the far-right in British history.
What an amazing day at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march! 😁💜
Refugee women in our network joined thousands of people on the streets of London with a powerful message of community, compassion and love.
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To be clear, regime change is needed both in Iran and in the USA. For those who say regime change in the USA will happen automatically in 2028 bear in mind that Trump has no intention of leaving the White house and this time (unlike his attempt in 2020) he may well manage to do that.
Rare chance to see the 1913 Italian silent movie of Last Days of Pompeii. London, May 6. Details here www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/0...
You may recall the serious allegations by Reform about voting offences at the Gorton and Denton by-election.
This detailed thread sets out what happened next.
All too late, and this won’t get the same circulation as the original allegations.
A U.K. spin-off of SNL premiered this past weekend, with guest host Tina Fey liberated to use curse words.
“Why do a UK version of SNL?” Fey said during her monologue. “Well, like so many large-scale American operations these days, no one really knows why.” https://wapo.st/4rO8b2g
When Soviet Youth Bootlegged Western Rock Music on Discarded X‑Rays: Hear Original Audio Samples www.openculture.com/2026/03/when...
Our latest blog explores why participatory governance is essential if data is to truly serve communities.
Read more 👇
www.opendatamanchester.org.uk/reframing-data-why-we-need-more-participatory-governance
#DataGovernance #OpenData #CivicTech
Text reads: "The Strait of Hormuz is not just an oil chokepoint. It is much more than that. In addition to oil it is a key transit point for liquified natural gas, aluminium, helium, petrochemicals and fertiliser. What we are seeing is akin to no-deal Brexit, in military form and on a global scale. It is a system-wide event with primary, secondary and tertiary causal waves which touch nearly all areas of the economy."
We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...
🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating.
Much of that devastation was avoidable.
This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19
Oh…
Great to see #Mens #MentalHealth #Art project raising awareness & aiming to reduce stigma in the local @brioleisure in #Northwich
Thanks but… despite often mentioning Brexit, I’m so goddam bored of it. But it symbolises such political cynicism that I can’t let it go… its grim consequences are obvious every day… in govt’s grim immigration plans, in those stupid flags on lampposts, in Farage’s prominence…
It’s ruining us.
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
Swift - 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14175
The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Dough-faced blonde man with perfect teeth
BBC Question Time is now pretending Reform UK member and Trump-supporting political activist Tom Skinner is a mere celebrity to get him the “neutral” slot on the panel.
Imagine how much money we’ve wasted. Imagine how much could have gone into the NHS, public services, tackling poverty…
Will anyone be held responsible though? For the lies that were told, the false promises made?
Perhaps a brexit tax on all the corporations that cashed in?
I’M SO CROSS!
Just 11% of Britons think people should be allowed to make donations to political parties using cryptocurrencies, as the government announces such donations will be banned
Should be allowed: 11%
Should not be allowed: 51%
yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
It's been eight hours since the Government announced that crypto donations to political parties had been banned effective immediately and Reform's crypto portal is still accepting donations
Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began"
"We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created"
"This is insanity"
