Tess
@tesslaar.bsky.social
Full time dog and cat waitress. Science, gardening.
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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Panda saw his first ever snow today. What a recovery considering…
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Panda saw his first ever snow today. What a recovery considering…
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
🥵 Found with 24 hours to live
🇹🇭 Collapsed outside a 7-11 in Thailand
🐶 Obese and covered in leeches and ticks
🏥 He spent 2 weeks in ICU
🌴 Months of rehab
His new forever home in Scotland is ❤️
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Good to see a Cabinet Minister call the unlawful sexual harassment on X "appalling": She backs Ofcom "to take any enforcement action it deems necessary". Ofcom asked X to urgently advise on how it is protecting users from its own production of unlawful content at scale www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI
Grok is being used to digitally remove women's clothing - something victims describe as
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Good to see a Cabinet Minister call the unlawful sexual harassment on X "appalling": She backs Ofcom "to take any enforcement action it deems necessary". Ofcom asked X to urgently advise on how it is protecting users from its own production of unlawful content at scale www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
38d.gs
January 2, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
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Thank goodness for Dr Grace Livingstone from Cambridge University on BBC news this morning. Not taking a backward step on telling truth about what’s going on in Trump’s attack on Venezuela. Good on her. More than the BBC presenters appeared to want to talk about.
January 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Thank goodness for Dr Grace Livingstone from Cambridge University on BBC news this morning. Not taking a backward step on telling truth about what’s going on in Trump’s attack on Venezuela. Good on her. More than the BBC presenters appeared to want to talk about.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times.
But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
January 3, 2026 at 2:20 PM
NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times.
But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
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Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated.
This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.
This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.
January 3, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Donald Trump is now reposting videos on Truth Social suggesting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had Melissa Hortman assassinated.
This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.
This is objectively evil, and calling it out should not be political.
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“Uneasy end to the year”
“end to the left wing tyranny”
Are you having a laugh?
The Tories and Farage have done profound damage to our country. They’ve lied, grifted and abused their power. Repeatedly. Many are deeply corrupt. Some, overtly racist. A few are actually traitorous. All have failed us.
“end to the left wing tyranny”
Are you having a laugh?
The Tories and Farage have done profound damage to our country. They’ve lied, grifted and abused their power. Repeatedly. Many are deeply corrupt. Some, overtly racist. A few are actually traitorous. All have failed us.
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 AM
“Uneasy end to the year”
“end to the left wing tyranny”
Are you having a laugh?
The Tories and Farage have done profound damage to our country. They’ve lied, grifted and abused their power. Repeatedly. Many are deeply corrupt. Some, overtly racist. A few are actually traitorous. All have failed us.
“end to the left wing tyranny”
Are you having a laugh?
The Tories and Farage have done profound damage to our country. They’ve lied, grifted and abused their power. Repeatedly. Many are deeply corrupt. Some, overtly racist. A few are actually traitorous. All have failed us.
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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 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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.
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Coconut Rice Bear
Your emotional support dog
Your emotional support dog
January 1, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Coconut Rice Bear
Your emotional support dog
Your emotional support dog
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Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves:
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
act.38degrees.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves:
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
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Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
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Just to say hello, 👋 with a little collage of snippets & details taken from a variety of my embroideries. Hope you are all doing well, and that it brightens your feed… 😉🪡🌿🌺✨ #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird
December 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Just to say hello, 👋 with a little collage of snippets & details taken from a variety of my embroideries. Hope you are all doing well, and that it brightens your feed… 😉🪡🌿🌺✨ #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird
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The Greenland precedent would then be used by a US government pursuing hemispheric imperialism to press claims against Canada, Mexico and Caricom states
December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Greenland precedent would then be used by a US government pursuing hemispheric imperialism to press claims against Canada, Mexico and Caricom states
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Tyldesley residents are demanding greater transparency in the planning permission that greenlighted a huge warehouse development | Harrison Budak
Tyldesley residents fight mega warehouse development
Tyldesley residents are demanding greater transparency in the planning permission that greenlighted a huge warehouse development
northwestbylines.co.uk
December 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Tyldesley residents are demanding greater transparency in the planning permission that greenlighted a huge warehouse development | Harrison Budak
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Look at this f**king idiot. I mean, really look at him. A gurning, braying, contorted, reeking shit-sack in a flat cap, enjoying the adulation of the only kind of people he cares about ; rich, arrogant, bloodthirsty bastards. To hell with him.
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Look at this f**king idiot. I mean, really look at him. A gurning, braying, contorted, reeking shit-sack in a flat cap, enjoying the adulation of the only kind of people he cares about ; rich, arrogant, bloodthirsty bastards. To hell with him.
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📷🐻❄️ Snowy moments at Libearty Bear Sanctuary in Romania.
Show some love in the comments for your favourite bear ✨
Show some love in the comments for your favourite bear ✨
December 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
📷🐻❄️ Snowy moments at Libearty Bear Sanctuary in Romania.
Show some love in the comments for your favourite bear ✨
Show some love in the comments for your favourite bear ✨
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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