First Steps to Jump-Starting Your Curiosity First Steps to Jump-Starting Your Curiosity

As a librarian, one of my goals is to encourage people to engage in curiosity.

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The pressure on Palantir’s #NHS contract is building from every direction, and ministers are starting to listen. We need as many people as possible to act right now.

Check if your NHS trust is using the software and say NO PALANTIR IN OUR NHS!

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Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest The 62-year-old was arrested for wearing a penis costume to an Alabama No Kings protest — then prosecutors doubled down.

Grandma, I love you.

She told the police she was called 'Aunt Tifa' :)

God bless Americans. I wish them every success in removing the humorless, evil, lying, misogynist, bigoted, warmongering dictator currently abusing his position of power.
#NoKings #Resistance

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Clive Lewis leading the #LabourParty, is a party I could vote for.

I will not vote Labour while the facilitator of genocide, Keir Starmer, leads it.

Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.

Kristi Noem and the rest of Trumps cabal in government are the cannibals.

Democratically elected Trump has placed these ravenous zealots around the top table to devour democracy, and ultimately defecate a fascist state.

#Trump #USA #ICE #Fascist
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Steve is not a terrorist, his actions were in opposition to the Israeli state sanctioned terrorism in Gaza, which is being supported by the UK government.

The UK and Israeli government are the terrorists, using 'anti-terrorism' legislation to perpetrate their ongoing crimes against humanity.

Very pleased to hear the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been found unlawful.

Here's a story inspired by the UK government's criminal, perfidious support of the genocide in Gaza by the Israeli state.

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Police spent ‘astonishing’ £10m tackling Palestine Action Huda Ammori, who brought the judicial review against the group’s proscription, condemns the decision to spend taxpayers’ money ‘to pursue an unlawful ban’

Police spent ‘astonishing’ £10m tackling Palestine Action

Huda Ammori, who brought the judicial review against the group’s proscription, condemns the decision to spend taxpayers’ money ‘to pursue an unlawful ban’

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For the 1st in a new series exploring the future that faces us all, David talks to S. M. Amadae about what nuclear weapons & the prospect of nuclear war have done to the human condition. Was 1945 the decisive watershed in the history of humanity?

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The Clash - I'm so Bored with the U.S.A. (Official Audio) YouTube video by theclashVEVO

A blast from the past, which explodes with present day relevance.

My boredom will be banished by the American hero/heroine who rises to democratically depose Trump.

Who will rise to be the champion of truth, justice and freedom?

#Trump #Music
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The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.

#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity

Do conspiracies exist? Yes – we're governed by them YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

Pull your head out of the rabbit hole, and see the real conspiracy.

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social tells it like it is, as he always does. A caring voice of sanity in an increasingly crazy world.

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I played on a huge rope swing in Horwich. Jump on and swing high over the river. Firemen would often cut it down after broken limbs. Huge straggly knot at the bottom, I jumped on, 2 more jumped on top. Swing. Jumped off, one leg in loop, dragged through the river, bouncing off rocks. Happy days.

I played on a huge rope swing in Horwich. Jump on and swing high over the river. Firemen would often cut it down after broken limbs. Huge straggly knot at the bottom, I jumped on, 2 more jumped on top. Swing. Jumped off, one leg in loop, dragged through the river, bouncing off rocks. Happy days.

The real enemy of clean rivers isn't Thames Water YouTube video by We Own It

11 MPs signed up against 14 years of illegal sewage👏
1 since I recorded this video 🎉
116 MPs to go 🧐

Please help by asking them to prove they're not "spineless public servants" weownit.org.uk/news/is-your...

#117MPsewagechallenge

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PSC is supporting @netpol.org important campaign to end Met Police's authoritarian rationing of our right to protest - carried out with a total lack of accountability, and seen through the unprecedented conditions they are placing on our demonstrations for Palestine 1/6
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Goatbrain YouTube video by GOAT - Topic

Wrap your ears around this cloven hoof banger.

#music
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The ICE murders in Minneapolis sicken me.

Trump and his henchmen have claimed this chilling terrorist militia are above the law.

The American justice system needs to show that it still upholds the law. No man or woman should be above it.

Abolish ICE is not enough.

Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough.

We need prosecutions and trials.

Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

Take South East Water into public ownership NOW South East Water has failed households in Kent and Sussex. It is time to bring it into public ownership.

Check out this from We Own It.

Water is life, it should not be in private hands.
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All water companies in the UK should be nationalised. Privatisation of utilities in the UK is a failed experiment, a government who represented the people of this country would end it, now.

Looking to sub your work this year? Here's our top five places to send your work in January.

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Europeana Creative Climate Action Award - Enter our creative writing competition before 11 January 2026 Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of climate action imagery. Prizes and publication for the winners!

Are you looking for a creative challenge as 2025 draws to a end?

If so, enter the Europeana Creative Climate Action Award! ✍️

Submit your 500 word story or poem in response to our gallery of #climateaction imagery. Top entries will win prizes and be published in an online exhibition bit.ly/488sVeq

The perfect gift for those who believe freedom of speech is a cornerstone of democracy, and not just an optional extra.

#booksky #resistance #protest #writingcommunity

The beauty, utility and health giving boons of our countryside should not be the preserve of the privileged few. It is OUR LAND. We have a natural right to roam over it, which needs to be backed by legislation.

#righttoroam

Cool bear!

I would buy new & stacks of comics from jumble sales and fetes:

Commando, Wizard, Battle, Action, Beano, Dandy, Whoopee, Cheeky, Eagle, Crisis, many Marvel and D.C. titles both US and UK, and last but not least 2000AD.

Action, adventure, humour and sci-fi have all fed into my stories.

Stacks of comics. My bed was halfway up the wall, to accommodate the sloped ceiling of the stairs, so there was plenty of room.

In my dreams, I'd often find an Aladdin's cave, overflowing with fabulous comics. The nightmare - waking & realising my cornucopia of comics had vanished.

Protest is people power, but the power of the people to protest is being proscribed.

#resistance #protest #palestineaction

There are 2 HisFic stories in my collection

One tells the gripping tale of the Winter Hill Trespass of 1896. The other recounts suffragette Edith Rigby's incendiary direct action, aimed at King George V.

The collection covers the past, present & future of #protest

⏳📚 #resistance #liberty