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Jane
@localnotail.bsky.social
5.8K followers 940 following 19K posts
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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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Jan 30
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
localnotail.bsky.social
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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mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
Setting aside the 'law-breaking's a good thing' (sigh) wtf does he think China and Russia are now going to be 'thinking twice' about?
January 3, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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localnotail.bsky.social
Starmer Claus? Father Keirmas?
stephencollins.bsky.social Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13h
Forgot to post this one
[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf] 1 FATHER KEIR: Well, well, well! [Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters] 2 FATHER KEIR: Look at all these letters of membership cancellation! ELF REEVES: More than ever this year 3 [Father Keir reads one out:] “Dear Father Keir I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…” Awww how sweet 4 “I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.” 5 “Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?” 6 FATHER KEIR: Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we? Elf Mahmood! 7 [Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY] ELF MAHMOOD: What. 8 FATHER KEIR: Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left? 9 ELF MAHMOOD: We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…? 10 FATHER KEIR: In the sack, please! [Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat] 11 And off we goooo! [He wooshes off into the snowy polar night] 12 [Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed] WOMAN: Is it not what you wanted MAN: Not really, no [Ends]
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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localnotail.bsky.social
In the act of a man with no guilt 🙃 Donald Trump threatens the International Criminal Court with more sanctions unless it gives him immunity from prosecution after he leaves office
+ drops investigations of Israeli leaders over Gaza + US Troops over Afghanistan
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Washington wary of ICC action against Trump, officials after his term ends in 2029 US also wants ICC to drop probes into Israeli leaders and US troops ICC's jurisdiction includes prosecuting sitting heads of state for alleged crimes WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of Israeli leaders over the Gaza war and formally ending an earlier probe of U.S. troops over their actions in Afghanistan - Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself, the official said.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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pimlicat.bsky.social
Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans?

The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.
January 3, 2026 at 10:54 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
such a good moon tonight
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
Starmer Claus? Father Keirmas?
stephencollins.bsky.social Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13h
Forgot to post this one
[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf] 1 FATHER KEIR: Well, well, well! [Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters] 2 FATHER KEIR: Look at all these letters of membership cancellation! ELF REEVES: More than ever this year 3 [Father Keir reads one out:] “Dear Father Keir I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…” Awww how sweet 4 “I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.” 5 “Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?” 6 FATHER KEIR: Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we? Elf Mahmood! 7 [Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY] ELF MAHMOOD: What. 8 FATHER KEIR: Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left? 9 ELF MAHMOOD: We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…? 10 FATHER KEIR: In the sack, please! [Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat] 11 And off we goooo! [He wooshes off into the snowy polar night] 12 [Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed] WOMAN: Is it not what you wanted MAN: Not really, no [Ends]
January 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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shayan86.bsky.social
THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests in Iran on 1 January

A group of protesters in the small city of Azna, in the western porvince of Lorestan, set fire to the local police station.

Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Qz7rbxSWTp34...
January 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
it's late + nobody is looking so I'm having a quiet celebration of the success of several yrs of throwing every bit of money (windfalls + savings + no presents) possible at the mortgage,
so now here we are on the last £90 with a repayment recalculation of £2.65 a month for the remainder of the term.
s/s of online mortgage statement showing I started the year with a mortgage of £92.67 and made my first newly recalculated monthly payment of £2.65. In June 2028 the term of the deal will be up and we can pay the last £12 or so off. Doing it prior to then would incur a £900 fee.
January 3, 2026 at 12:49 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
After a prompt, Grok has added a bikini to the line drawing profile image that Nikita Bier (head of product on X-Twitter) has as a profile picture on the post where he has said "What a time to be alive" in response to someone asking Grok to put a bikini on their Rolex watch. https://x.com/grok/status/2006595721391161660
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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simongerman600.bsky.social
The chart title made me laugh...
January 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
oh great
My word for 2026 is: brain rot Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go. Merriam-Webster Your 2026 Word [GIF stopoed at] brain rot II 0:07 15:16 GMT 1 Jan 2026 757 reposts 14K quotes 4.4K likes
January 2, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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charlotte2153.bsky.social
The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.
January 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
Ok who ordered the epic Rob Schneider roast? 🔥🧵
Alt-right actor Rob Schneider being interviewed by "The Epoch Times" [stupid name] while wearing a terrible suit and a bad Panama hat
January 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
when will the coughing cease?
January 2, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
“For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 21
Charlie Kirk: "are you comfortable with both London + New York having Muslim mayors? I'm sorry. I think we should have a little bit of caution with that. That doesn't feel right. I don't need a chart / graph. I don't need a peer-reviewed study.
Islam is a means to the end of destruction of the West"
January 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
don't think about a perforated ulcer
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d
Aspirin is an effective medication for reducing the chances of a second or subsequent strokes in individuals with a history of a previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump admits to taking more aspirin than his docs recommend: “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart. I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”

What could possibly go wrong! (2/6)
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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tomjoscelyn.bsky.social
Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.”

Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
One thing that the government could do easily and simply is withdraw from X. There’s no downside.
January 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Recent census shows 13.9% of the U.S. population is foreign-born.
That's around 46 million people.

The United States Department of Homeland Security's broadcast fantasy is America after 100 million deportations.
census.gov/quickfact Population Characteristics Veterans, 2019-2023 United States: 16,569,149 Foreign-born persons, percent, 2019-2023 United States: 13.9% https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/POP645223#POP645223
January 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
I was going to post a scathing comment about the Daily Telegraph misleading its readers in headlines but what's the point really? That's who they are now.
January 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Hen! I wanna take you to a hay bar!
I wanna take you to a hay bar!
I wanna take you to a hay bar, hay bar, hay bar!
bot.cowtools.org THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 1d
Vera looked around the room. Not another chicken anywhere. And then it struck her—this was a hay bar.
Vera looked around the room. Not another chicken anywhere. And then it struck her—this was a hay bar.
January 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Gakaxy
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
sifill.bsky.social Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM