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In the middle of an international crisis over #Greenland, #Starmer has quietly without fanfare released the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY' that his government suppressed last October.

Don’t let it be buried. Please share!

‘Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse.’

#biodiversity
#ecosystem
#nationalsecurity

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

A Year in Books 2025

I'd love to travel to places far and wide, but at my age I realize it's not going to happen, so I let reading take me around the world. My favorite is the first person memoir of treks through remote areas, learning about distant people and their histories. In 2025 I "traveled" through Asia, Mexico, South America, USA, Africa, and New Zealand.

https://literaryeyes.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/a-year-in-books-2025/

Staying put. #grickledoodle #duck #tinyhome #cartoon #holidays #art #drawing #funny

I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.

He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.

He made it personal.

He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously

Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.

There was no debate.

There was no respectful disagreement.

In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.

This is not normal behaviour.

He literally proved my point.

Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.

This is what MAGA is doing to men.

It’s emboldening them.

It’s validating their bigotry.

I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.

He literally said as much.

He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”

Why is he allowed to tell me now??

Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?

It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.

We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences

We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.

Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”

He didn’t fear for his life.

He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.

My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.

He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.

He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.

Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.

This regime wants to make us “less than”.

They want us afraid.

They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.

They want us seen and not heard.

They don’t want us resisting.

Which is why we must keep speaking out.

We must refuse to go back.

My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.

Not everyone can.

Speak up if you see someone being hurt.

Protect your friends and neighbours.

Challenge misogynistic talking points.

Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.

Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.

#reneenicolegood #abolishice #uspol #fascism #ableism #misogyny

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

There's a lot of chatter here in Minneapolis about a far-right group staging a hate rally / “march” / attack on Saturday — and a lot of confusion about what the targeted community is asking in response.

If you want to rush in and play hero, STOP.

If you heard “don't go downtown, don't do anything,” also STOP.

The targeted community has a specific and nuanced request for us all. The information here is the best summary I've heard. Please take a moment to read.

#Minneapolis #MSP https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/115906410015463575

The nice thing that happened in class today:

Grade 5 students solve a puzzle where they put cuneiform numbers in order (there is no guidance, just work with the symbols, how do you order them?)

I told them they are like archeologists cracking a code. They did it!

"But where is zero?"
"It wasn't invented yet." I said this seriously. I mean ... it's true.

Later that day the same student asked if it was a joke. I got to tell them no! Zero had to be invented. Everything had to be invented!

@gutenberg_org binge reading her books now 😄

"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Dame Agatha Christie died #OTD 50 years ago.

She wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections. She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie

Agatha Christie at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/451

#books #literature

Four stars:

The Time Hop Coffee Shop by Phaedra Patrick (2025) isn't really a time travel or even time loop story. Instead it's more of an isekai involving coffee. Greta Perks has regrets about how her post Maple Gold Coffee commercial career has gone, in that it has tanked. Her home life isn't going well either and she wants more than anything to relive those glory days.

https://pussreboots.com/blog/2026/comments_01/time_hop_coffee_shop.html

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For anyone you know who's still using Facebook, Insta, Whatsapp, or Threads...

Relationship rupture and the limbic system – the physiology of abandonment and separation https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/09/06/general-theory-of-love-separation/

“Give way” … one bus equals 80 cars and 80 people (on the back of all the city buses in Baku).

Must keep posting this. ICE has contracted with the successor to the mercenary firm Blackwater. As one keen follower pointed out: We have private military mercenaries operating on US soil.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfjonqtpfcf5fu/post/3mc2fcgcbi22k

@crocodilu There's a car in front of her that's blocking the lane. Who does that being to? ICE? If so, they boxed her in. Good's wife isn't "antagonizing" the officer, she's engaged in good old-fashioned American banter. The agents are giving Renee Good conflicting orders. One appears to be pointing toward the street, as if to suggest she move her car, then the other reaches her car and pulls on the door handle. More videos are needed to complete this story.

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My orange harvest is done. My trees had 2,000 oranges, now there are only a few. There are 1,407 oranges on my front porch and I've already given away more than 500. Turning my attention to processing the oranges. Tis the season to be squeezing ...