Old Hobbit🐸
@oldhobbit.bsky.social
Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson gave his “full and complete endorsement” on Monday to a push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort. @wttw.bsky.social
Mayor Johnson Backs ‘Abolish ICE’ to Win Annual Snowplow Naming Contest
Previous winners include “Mrs. O’Leary’s Plow,” “Casimir Plowaski” and “Snower Wacker.”
news.wttw.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Mayor Brandon Johnson gave his “full and complete endorsement” on Monday to a push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort. @wttw.bsky.social
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It's important to remember that we live in a universe ✨️🔭🔬
📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way 🧪🔭
🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...
December 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's important to remember that we live in a universe ✨️🔭🔬
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Well this is making me feel old
December 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Well this is making me feel old
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"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or, so I've read."
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or, so I've read."
December 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or, so I've read."
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or, so I've read."
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Supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK held the most extreme views of any party backers, with 71% saying that having British ancestry was a prerequisite for someone to be truly British(Guardian 30.12). So that rules out the Royal Family
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK held the most extreme views of any party backers, with 71% saying that having British ancestry was a prerequisite for someone to be truly British(Guardian 30.12). So that rules out the Royal Family
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I wish I wasn't exaggerating about the dire quality of analysis but no, the actual Political Editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation, one of the world's biggest news media powerhouses, genuinely forgot that Liz Truss happened or rather, what that means: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I wish I wasn't exaggerating about the dire quality of analysis but no, the actual Political Editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation, one of the world's biggest news media powerhouses, genuinely forgot that Liz Truss happened or rather, what that means: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Come for the chart of shifting party support, stay for the fury at the fact we're going to have one of the most consequential Scottish (and definitely most consequential Welsh) elections since devolution, yet the Westminster media can't stop speculating about PM Farage in 2029 long enough to care.
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People who have turned down OBEs, MBEs etc: Roald Dahl, JG Ballard, Aldous Huxley, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Robert Graves (twice), Lucien Freud, LS Lowry, Benjamin Zephaniah.
December 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
People who have turned down OBEs, MBEs etc: Roald Dahl, JG Ballard, Aldous Huxley, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Robert Graves (twice), Lucien Freud, LS Lowry, Benjamin Zephaniah.
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Please report this company who have stolen @witches.of.scotland tartan to Trust Pilot. The ONLY place you can buy Witches of Scotland tartan is from @witches.of.scotland and it’s made on looms in the highlands. 🇺🇸 men stealing from women grifting out of tartan to memorialise murdered women 🔗👇🏻
December 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Please report this company who have stolen @witches.of.scotland tartan to Trust Pilot. The ONLY place you can buy Witches of Scotland tartan is from @witches.of.scotland and it’s made on looms in the highlands. 🇺🇸 men stealing from women grifting out of tartan to memorialise murdered women 🔗👇🏻
Kiss The Sex Pistols
ruin two bands by combining them
The Placebo Cure
The Placebo Cure
ruin two bands by combining them
LL Kool J-Gang
LL Kool J-Gang
December 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Kiss The Sex Pistols
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My turn:
“The town of Stockbridge MA, where you can see this painting of me speaking in person at the Rockwell Museum, is Ground Zero for NIMBYism in the US because they want the town to look the same as another famous Rockwell painting depicting the town, forever.”
“The town of Stockbridge MA, where you can see this painting of me speaking in person at the Rockwell Museum, is Ground Zero for NIMBYism in the US because they want the town to look the same as another famous Rockwell painting depicting the town, forever.”
December 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
My turn:
“The town of Stockbridge MA, where you can see this painting of me speaking in person at the Rockwell Museum, is Ground Zero for NIMBYism in the US because they want the town to look the same as another famous Rockwell painting depicting the town, forever.”
“The town of Stockbridge MA, where you can see this painting of me speaking in person at the Rockwell Museum, is Ground Zero for NIMBYism in the US because they want the town to look the same as another famous Rockwell painting depicting the town, forever.”
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I am a Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
December 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I am a Buffalo Hunter Hunter.
Fur trapper nearly eaten by a bear (reading it again)
December 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Fur trapper nearly eaten by a bear (reading it again)
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Berlin’s Muslims push back against ‘being viewed only as a security problem’
Berlin’s Muslims push back against ‘being viewed only as a security problem’
Many German Muslims say they face a new level of hostility in post-October 7th Germany, and a young imam is leading a plan to clean up the city’s mess on New Year’s Day
www.irishtimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Berlin’s Muslims push back against ‘being viewed only as a security problem’
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“Although the files are overly redacted, they’ve already demonstrated that the narrative painted by Patel in hearings, Bondi in press statements, and Trump himself on social media wasn’t accurate."
(They LIED)
There is an emerging “coalition of the right and left to fight for justice.”
(They LIED)
There is an emerging “coalition of the right and left to fight for justice.”
So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
The latest batch includes many new references to Trump—and enough ammunition for Congress to keep pressing.
www.theatlantic.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“Although the files are overly redacted, they’ve already demonstrated that the narrative painted by Patel in hearings, Bondi in press statements, and Trump himself on social media wasn’t accurate."
(They LIED)
There is an emerging “coalition of the right and left to fight for justice.”
(They LIED)
There is an emerging “coalition of the right and left to fight for justice.”
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And do not be surprised if, at the other end of this, you find your socials being scraped to determine, not if you are entitled to a pension or some other state support, but if you *deserve* it. At a basic legal level, it's no different to denying consular support to people who expressed ugly views.
December 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
And do not be surprised if, at the other end of this, you find your socials being scraped to determine, not if you are entitled to a pension or some other state support, but if you *deserve* it. At a basic legal level, it's no different to denying consular support to people who expressed ugly views.
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Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.
December 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Incidentally, if "migrants should have fewer rights" is stage one, then "dual citizens have divided loyalties" is almost invariably stage two of every historical example of mass oppression. Usually followed by second/third-generation migrants or full citizens of a particular minority being targeted.
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This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.
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thinking about growing one of those mustaches with the curly ends but idk if i can handle everyone wanting to have sex with me
December 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
thinking about growing one of those mustaches with the curly ends but idk if i can handle everyone wanting to have sex with me
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Number 2.
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Number 2.
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🗞️ The New World has published a new article exploring the latest findings from the #SmidgeProject, following an in-depth interview with our Scientific Coordinator, Dr. Sara Wilford.
Read the full article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
Read the full article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
Britain’s most dangerous radicals are… middle-aged men
Middle-aged men are being radicalised – and they’re fuelling the spread of extremism, conspiracy theories and political violence
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🗞️ The New World has published a new article exploring the latest findings from the #SmidgeProject, following an in-depth interview with our Scientific Coordinator, Dr. Sara Wilford.
Read the full article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
Read the full article here: www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...
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My biggest laugh of the day.
Once again Nigel Farage has been denied a knighthood. Still eligible for a white hood.
December 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My biggest laugh of the day.
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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New Bill Requires Women to Be “Hot but Approachable” in Public Spaces.
December 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
New Bill Requires Women to Be “Hot but Approachable” in Public Spaces.
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Exquisite end-of-year poll puts SNP / Greens on course to retain pro-independence Holyrood majority -
scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2025/12/exqu...
scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2025/12/exqu...
Exquisite end-of-year poll puts SNP / Greens on course to retain pro-independence Holyrood majority
Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE ) and it's already p...
scotgoespop.blogspot.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Exquisite end-of-year poll puts SNP / Greens on course to retain pro-independence Holyrood majority -
scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2025/12/exqu...
scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2025/12/exqu...