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Jane
@localnotail.bsky.social
local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant

English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.

🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it
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I've been Charley on social media for over a decade & I've also had IRL harassment so no personal photo or surname on my profile.

But if you ever want to know what I'm like & who I am, in 2018 I did a video for Final Say for All about me & why Brexit was personal:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-JO...
FSFA Birmingham - Jane
YouTube video by Final Say For All - Beehives
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The cynics think today's attack on Venezuela is staged and transactional. Maduro is allied with Putin, but in 2019 Putin offered Trump a swap: Russia cedes Venezuela and gets Ukraine. (See Fiona Hill's testimony in Trump's first impeachment trial, h/t @davetroy.com). Even Maduro may be in on it. 2/
January 3, 2026 at 4:22 PM
January 3, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Wile E Picnic in progress
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Exciting. I’m looking forward to seeing how they all get on.
January 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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This is madness
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE
BREAKING: Donald Trump orders the invasion of Venezuela
BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Maduro is rotten and the elections compromised, but that's true of other countries that the US Government is leaving alone.

Meanwhile Trump recently pardoned a former foreign president convicted as a major cocaine trafficker in one of the biggest drug prosecutions in US history.
archive.ph/YxHIW
Erasing the Verdict: The Ongoing Shock of Trump’s Cocaine Kingpin Pardon
Donald Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, toppled the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations in the history of the Department of Justic...
www.bloomberg.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Finally a use of AI chatbots we can all get behind: “I infiltrated a racist dating site and made nazis fall in love with robots”

“Tinder for Nazis” hit by 100GB data leak, users exposed
WhiteDate: “Europids seeking tribal love”
WhiteChild: white supremacist ancestry site
WhiteDeal: racist LinkedIn
Investigator breaches white supremacist dating sites, exposes 8,000 users
An investigative journalist infiltrated three white supremacist platforms, including the dating site WhiteDate, exfiltrating over 8,000 user profiles and 100GB of sensitive data.
cybernews.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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such a good moon tonight
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 AM
"Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves, Lord?
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one, no."
Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft
January 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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An irony long lamented by the singer:

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman says POTUS doesn't realize he's "the person who I’m screaming about in the song on all three counts"
consequence.net/2025/08/john...
John Fogerty Says It's "Hilarious" Trump Still Misses the Irony of Playing "Fortunate Son" at His Rallies
Creedence Clearwater Revival singer John Fogerty says Donald Trump's continued misunderstanding of the lyrics to "Fortunate Son" is "hilarious."
consequence.net
January 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Quite the unintentionally ironic use of this song about young men whose fathers were rich enough to get them out of the draft!
Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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The people who own our papers like Trump so covering this as an insane injustice and scandal like it should be is something they don't want to do
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Impeach, convict, remove.
January 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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a search of the Roll Call rollcall.com/factbase/tru... database that catalogues Trump’s public remarks turned up at least 53 examples of Trump making comments about ending the war in Ukraine in 24 hours / on Day One
June 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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he posted seventeen different photos, each one as its own individual post, no captions. like a teenager who can't decide which selfie is the cutest.
January 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Trump just posted this photo of the sharpest minds in our intelligence community hard at work during the Venezuelan operation.
January 3, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Hegseth: "Ok now ask Grok where it's at on a map."
January 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
not sure if what was under the stairs is @pareidolia.bsky.social but it made me smile
January 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
reminder to anyone jonesing for football today that Channel 4 have the Africa Cup of Nations

First match of the round of 16 =
Senegal vs Sudan starting at 4PM GMT

Mali vs Tunisia at 7
January 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM