Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

My thanks to James and Eleanor for arranging m.youtube.com/watch?v=DbhL...

Reform councillor threatens to report café owner who fed kids for free to police

YouTube video by LBC

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No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses. From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround. (Yes, these are actually real. Get a pair here: knockaround.com/products/duc...)

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has risen 1,200% a year following the ban of Palestine Action The number of people arrested for holding signs - under a law originally designed for IRA uniforms - is higher than total terror arrests over the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/retired...

How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain's newest terror suspects

Majority of suspects arrested for holding signs reading 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' at protests against the ban

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I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

How the EU can punish Google (despite Trump): Grant me the courage to change the things I can. bsky.app/profile/doct... 2/

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last wk.

The "Serenity Prayer" (*Serenity to accept things I can't change/Courage to change the things I can/Wisdom to know the difference*) is usually cited as pop psychology or addiction recovery advice, but I think there's a place for it in policymaking. 1/

I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

[Shaking head sadly] the Woke Mob won't even let you murder someone, these days. They'll literally throw you in jail

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Farmer warns risk of UK drought may force him to stop growing vegetables - as large parts of the country face drought, farmers have warned the industry ‘can’t carry on like this’. Suha Kidwai & Fin Gray | Independent

Farmer warns risk of UK drought may force him to stop growing vegetables

As large parts of the country face drought, farmers have warned the industry ‘can’t carry on like this’

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Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)

'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials

As Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food.

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Wait wut??? Axel Springer – the German publishing house that owns Politico & Business Insider– not only plans to give an award to Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, but also uses Palantir’s Foundry software. (Palantir CEO Alex Karp previously sat on Alex Springer’s board.) 1/

Remembering the victims of the Oslo & Utøya attack, 15 years ago today. 💔 The far right is the most fundamental and, in most ‘western’ countries, the deadliest threat. We need vigilance, not normalization.

Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗

Good morning Murmuration and Blue Sky

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

This points to a noticeable problem where the police either don't know the law, or obfuscate it to fob you off.

Leftback@leftback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well this is a lovely story about how norms are collapsing and crime is something it's too much like hard work for the police to investigate www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹

I do feel the wildfires have been seriously under-reported

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 2w ago

Large fires in the Peak District, Cairngorms and north Wales are now effectively competing for limited firefighting helicopter resources. On Saturday, Welsh farmers said they felt abandoned - while authorities had approved helicopter use, they were still waiting for one to be available.

Explain it to them, like a four-year-old.

Home Office, No10 & media all so slow to notice just how racialised Mahmood's (un)settlement (remigration by stealth) proposals were (maybe this impact unwitting accident, not design?) But > 2/3 of those on 15 year route would lose status first. More racialised for children than adults unless u-turn

Wtf, this woman just came down the steps and nicked my delivery of cat food

The thing that's routinely missed about AOC is that she's so normal. In her video hits she's either talking policy like a reasonably intelligent non-politician (and non-media person!) or telling silly anecdotes like this. MTG et alia seem to insert a few deliberate outrages into every goddamn thing.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

AOC on a movie that made her cry PabloReports: When’s the last time a piece of art—film, music, whatever—made you cry? AOC: Okay, let me go with the worst time one made me cry. I was on an airplane watching… what is that movie? The one about aliens with a linguist? Arrival. With Amy Adams.

“Who knows what other childhood curiosities are quietly growing into world-changing ideas right now in bedrooms, backyards and notebooks across the globe? The next big breakthrough might not come from a high-tech lab. It might come from a 10-year-old who just can’t stop wondering about butterflies”💖

Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don’t know why this post doesn’t give his name, but it’s Jo Nagai. This is a true story. medium.com/@zehraanjum2...

This is outrageous.

Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Direct foreign interference in British politics - we have rules against foreign governments funding parliamentary groups, but this is fine?? Seriously?? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh come on. Dude financed a series of lawsuits designed to literally bankrupt and shut down critical media sites.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

1/ Israel has effectively reclassified crocodiles as livestock to facilitate a plan to dig moats filled with crocodiles around prisons housing Palestinian detainees. It's a pet project of the far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir. ⬇️

Crocodile's Jaws: Crocodile Hunter Collision Course

ALT: Crocodile's Jaws: Crocodile Hunter Collision Course

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