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Jester mouse
@jestermouse.bsky.social
That line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me 🌊

📍 Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Film watches at Letterboxd https://boxd.it/HUMR
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“I am not a number, I’m a free gull!”
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These parents killed their child and we need to say it
“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died of measles. In March, Tom Bartlett wrote about his visit with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy.

Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/yADSKik3?lin...
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A reminder that the US is almost as much a danger to European security as Russia.
COMMENTARY: Former White House strategist Steve Bannon and other MAGA influencers now get to sharpen their stakes with the encouragement of U.S. government foreign policy — and their sights are set on Europe.
Sculpting Europe in MAGA’s image
Bannon and other MAGA influencers now get to sharpen their stakes with the encouragement of U.S. government policy — and their sights are set on the continent.
www.politico.eu
December 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Hope they're okay. Description of the incident is...odd.
news.stv.tv/east-central...
Man and woman rushed to hospital after unoccupied van collides with two bicycles
A 25-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman have been taken to hospital for treatment following the crash.
news.stv.tv
December 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Realised it could have just rotated a portion of my Christmas Day solution, but solved from scratch instead (and pretty quickly) 📅 🧩
December 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country
‘When you plant something, it dies’: Brazil’s first arid zone is a stark warning for the whole country
The Caatinga in the north-east has been transformed by the heating climate in just a generation and could become the country’s first desert
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth - centre-spreads by Mike McMahon
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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How DARE tunnel tolls be used to invest in public transport.
Mersey Tunnel tolls generated £182m surplus in seven years
Drivers are subsidising bus, rail and Mersey Ferries, a practice campaigners called 'completely unfair'
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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“If you care about the bottom line, budgets & taxes, then you should care about urban biking, because it’s a money saver. It’s ironic when so-called fiscal conservatives attack biking, when their efforts just show a lack of understanding of math.” My interview with @modacitylife.com #CityMakingMath
Opinion: Why more urban cycling saves everyone money | Urbanized
The resulting benefits of a ‘car-less’ household are myriad, but few are as quantifiable as the money most people sink into a depreciating asset that sits unused for 95% of the time.
dailyhive.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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A coffee forward venue named BEAN ME UP, BISCOTTI
December 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Bringing this energy into 2026.
December 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I'm sure partaking in extreme sports must make a person feel uniquely alive and pumped full of adrenaline but what it also sometimes quite good is going on a long walk and stumbling across the remains of a medieval dovecote.
December 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I fear this will be just as relevant in 2125.
December 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
New railway bridge rolls into position during line closure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bowling bridge rolls into position during railway line closure
The £5.9m bridge, being built in Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, was moved into position on Boxing Day.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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a friend’s cat sat on my phone and the facial recognition unlocked. wtf?
December 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Behold, new followers, my art!
December 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Our kids are losing their "cool" days. New data shows U.S. 🔥 Heat deaths are up 50% since 2000. It's not just discomfort; it's a health crisis for our little ones who can't regulate heat like we can. 🌡️💔 #momsky #ClimateHealth #ProtectOurKids #HeatWave

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s anti-climate agenda could result in 1.3m more deaths globally, analysis finds
Fallout from increased emissions linked to president’s ‘America First’ policies expected to most affect those in poor, hot countries
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Anyone done a cumulative cost of how much the UK has spent on the work done for Leeds not to have a Tram in the years between 1980 and 2025.

My back of an envelope call is about £1Bn ……. And that doesn’t include the opportunity costs and lost economic benefits
December 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Please listen to Absent Friends on BBC Radio 4 Extra today. Part One is 4.45pm (repeated at 0045) and Part Two is the same time tomorrow. It’s my acknowledgment of various folk from UK sci-fi, horror and fantasy who died this year. 4 Extra doesn’t do many home made productions, so do tune in!
December 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
People talk a lot about choice, but always sacrifice it for convenience.
December 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Glad the supermarkets are open again so I can resume my hobby of closing freezer doors that other customers have left open.
December 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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I see the Daily Telegraph is now reporting on the Australian trade deal disaster for which it campaigned.

Nobody, and I mean *nobody*, has betrayed this country like the libertarian wreckers who lied to the public about ‘Brexit benefits’.
December 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock
December 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Original Clash of the Titans on 5, folks

Get yourself some Ray Harryhausen
December 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Early morning puzzling. 📅 🧩
December 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM