Christin
@christin23.bsky.social
🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺, love nature, wildlife, outdoor swimming, gardening, art, community & cats! Working with books, some of them quite old… Science background. Alarmed at what this world is turning into
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’
December 22, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Ukrainian artist Andrii Kovalyk, based in Madrid, ‘Where the Winter Dreams Begin’
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If working class, woke up each Sat/Sun morning to participate in this ritual murder of killing a defenceless animal (IT IS NOT A SPORT) instead of amateur football, it would have been banned years ago
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If working class, woke up each Sat/Sun morning to participate in this ritual murder of killing a defenceless animal (IT IS NOT A SPORT) instead of amateur football, it would have been banned years ago
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Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.
December 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.
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Next time you’re applying for a job, any job, be sure to mention you were able to pick out a giraffe during a regular dementia test.
Let’s see how it plays out.
Let’s see how it plays out.
December 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Deep down Colin always knew the tree line was just a myth 🌲
December 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Deep down Colin always knew the tree line was just a myth 🌲
Looks like a proper stitch-up to me
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’
Exclusive: Health select committee chair says UK government’s ‘naive belief’ Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Looks like a proper stitch-up to me
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It was great day for Marsh Tit at Denge Woods 3 of the 8 seen .
December 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It was great day for Marsh Tit at Denge Woods 3 of the 8 seen .
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For those who do not know Bert the Blackbird
-He likes to fight cats
-laugh at squirrels
-launch kamikaze air strikes at pigeons
-bathes like a Cossack dancer in an explosion
-taps on the window when HIS bath or feeder are empty
1/3
-He likes to fight cats
-laugh at squirrels
-launch kamikaze air strikes at pigeons
-bathes like a Cossack dancer in an explosion
-taps on the window when HIS bath or feeder are empty
1/3
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
For those who do not know Bert the Blackbird
-He likes to fight cats
-laugh at squirrels
-launch kamikaze air strikes at pigeons
-bathes like a Cossack dancer in an explosion
-taps on the window when HIS bath or feeder are empty
1/3
-He likes to fight cats
-laugh at squirrels
-launch kamikaze air strikes at pigeons
-bathes like a Cossack dancer in an explosion
-taps on the window when HIS bath or feeder are empty
1/3
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Pre Christmas travel chaos tonight. The Severn bridge is currently shut in both directions as police and the army deal with a 60 foot tall mutant seagull. Updates as they arrive..
December 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Pre Christmas travel chaos tonight. The Severn bridge is currently shut in both directions as police and the army deal with a 60 foot tall mutant seagull. Updates as they arrive..
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Incredible photo of Yr Wyddfa (the highest mountain in England, Wales and the Netherlands) captured from Space Station this week. 🌋
December 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A Swale Borough Council meeting was suspended after coordinated far-right activists disrupted a debate on becoming a District of Sanctuary. Councillors reported abuse, intimidation and damage to the building.
What happened, and why it matters:
What happened, and why it matters:
When intimidation replaces debate
What Swale’s meeting tells us about local democracy. Plus the latest from KCC, Tunbridge Wells still faces water uncertainty, news in brief, and more
www.kentcurrent.news
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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December 11th:
There were seventeen (17) accepted records logged on this day... 😃
#UKrares
#rarebirdsUK
#UKbirding
There were seventeen (17) accepted records logged on this day... 😃
#UKrares
#rarebirdsUK
#UKbirding
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
December 11th:
There were seventeen (17) accepted records logged on this day... 😃
#UKrares
#rarebirdsUK
#UKbirding
There were seventeen (17) accepted records logged on this day... 😃
#UKrares
#rarebirdsUK
#UKbirding
Celia Hammond Animal Trust is a fabulous charity. An absolute lifesaver for strays and cats fallen on hard times. All my furry companions have come via them. They have an urgent Neutering Appeal on at the moment. Please support them if you can #cats #animalrescue www.justgiving.com/campaign/cel...
Celia Hammond Animal Trust Emergency Neutering Funding Appeal
Cat-astrophic record numbers of animals are being dumped at the doors of Celia Hammond Animal Trust centres, leaving our charity close to breaking point
www.justgiving.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Celia Hammond Animal Trust is a fabulous charity. An absolute lifesaver for strays and cats fallen on hard times. All my furry companions have come via them. They have an urgent Neutering Appeal on at the moment. Please support them if you can #cats #animalrescue www.justgiving.com/campaign/cel...
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If anyone here has links to Charlton/Greenwich, this is a worthwhile local campaign
A fundraising drive to buy Charlton’s closed White Swan pub has been launched - with campaigners hoping to raise £360,000 towards a deposit.
Squeeze singer Glenn Tilbrook is offering an intimate gig while there's a campaign video with a host of local faces.
Squeeze singer Glenn Tilbrook is offering an intimate gig while there's a campaign video with a host of local faces.
Fundraising campaign to buy Charlton's White Swan pub launches - The Greenwich Wire
A fundraising drive has been launched to buy Charlton’s closed White Swan pub - with campaigners hoping to raise £360,000 towards a deposit.
greenwichwire.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If anyone here has links to Charlton/Greenwich, this is a worthwhile local campaign
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A bus running through Greenwich and Blackheath’s controversial low-traffic neighbourhood has been reduced in frequency.
The 386 is also the only service linking Greenwich with Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The 386 is also the only service linking Greenwich with Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Cut to bus linking hospital with Greenwich's LTN branded 'unacceptable' - The Greenwich Wire
A bus running through Greenwich and Blackheath’s controversial low-traffic neighbourhood has been reduced in frequency - reducing access to the borough’s only general hospital.
greenwichwire.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
A bus running through Greenwich and Blackheath’s controversial low-traffic neighbourhood has been reduced in frequency.
The 386 is also the only service linking Greenwich with Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The 386 is also the only service linking Greenwich with Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
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'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
'40 Below 0' painting by painter, singer and musician Joni Mitchell #WomensArt
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Cornish artist Kirsty Elson creates art with driftwood and other found material #WomensArt
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Cornish artist Kirsty Elson creates art with driftwood and other found material #WomensArt
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
#December7th #ArtAdvent 🎄
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I agree. The big sell from AI is often to make your life easy, but building understanding, structuring your thoughts, is meant to be hard, and that is what changes you. i.e. if the product you care about is you and your brain, do the work.
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I agree. The big sell from AI is often to make your life easy, but building understanding, structuring your thoughts, is meant to be hard, and that is what changes you. i.e. if the product you care about is you and your brain, do the work.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...