Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year. 2353086505
Reposted by Jo Denniswomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) used the genre of Expressionism to stress the emotional toll of poverty, war and grief #womensart 4786153
Reposted by Jo DennisThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/07/2026‘We plant belonging’: how nature charities and asylum seekers work together in UK countrysidetheguardian.com‘We plant belonging’: how nature charities and asylum seekers work together in UK countrysideEnvironmental and refugee groups have joined forces to benefit lives and wildlife in Wales and elsewhere 08621
Reposted by Jo DennisDanny Miller @danielmilleresq.bsky.social · 12/07/2026"“The Constitution will not defend itself. It never has, it never will. The rule of law will not defend itself. It never has, it never will."-- Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Mike Donnelly www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...usatoday.comA road trip to save democracy? These judges say it's worth a shotBipartisan judges are touring the Midwest to warn citizens about the dangers of a politicized judiciary. 2388134
Reposted by Jo DennisMike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Call me old-fashioned, but I think the President of the United States should be able to remember the name of a nation he’s been bombing the shit out of for five months. 311342194
Reposted by Jo DennisSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026(🚨) NEW: The first-ever pop song about Donald Trump’s surrender to Iran, his defacing of the Kennedy Center (and Kennedy’s name) with an illegal tarp, and the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center is now on all streaming services. It’s chill but intense (and explicit). Please share.open.spotify.comRemember Obama - Single by Hounds | SpotifyHounds · single · 2026 · 1 songs 15432162
Reposted by Jo DennisShimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story. 13978562508
Reposted by Jo DennisEuropean Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 16/06/2026David Dimbleby, hosted the EU referendum results show on BBC One and BBC News on the night of 23-24 June back in 2016. A decade later, all we've seen is division and damage. So let's make sure the next 10 years are defined by trust and cooperation. 920276
Reposted by Jo DennisGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government. 912669524
Reposted by Jo DennisBriana @neverstopthefight.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Valerie Thomas helped change the future through innovation. Her invention of the illusion transmitter advanced 3D imaging and showcased the power of curiosity, creativity, and perseverance. A true trailblazer whose legacy continues to inspire. Also laying groundwork for 3D imaging in MRI/CT #SheShed 10274291822
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post... 541609593
Reposted by Jo DennisMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The only thing more satisfying than the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center is the unwell Orange Man-Baby's entirely predictable, seething, unhinged, self-pitying, incoherent, raging, angry, vengeful meltdown reacting to the news. Someone call a wahh-mbulance! And how is your weekend going? 1123272995589
Reposted by Jo DennisJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 01/06/2026“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”theguardian.comMeta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festivalSarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm 19544255
Reposted by Jo DennisThe Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 26/05/2026During his presidency, President Obama read 10 letters a day from Americans who’d taken the time to write to him about their worries, hopes, and, often, their requests for help. 719269
Reposted by Jo DennisIan McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Early stroll. The air’s welcoming coolness. Two pigeons like bookends on the pavement. Someone loads cases into a car boot. Sunlight through bus shelter windows. A man’s face framed by his hood. 18712
Reposted by Jo DennisDavenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Vancouver Chromes zine coming soon. It will be a short print run so don’t miss it! marcdavenant.com/2026/05/27/v...marcdavenant.comVancouver Chromes zine coming soonThanks again to everyone who has supported our work. The Outsiders touring exhibition has now moved to Hillhead Library in Glasgow This is the last opportunity to see the exhibition in its current … 073
Reposted by Jo DennisThe Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Support our libraries! 119113312922
Reposted by Jo DennisTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations 361375456
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We’ve just listened to the whole episode together. Essential listening for those who care about how we relate to the land. 041
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 03/05/2026@imcmillan.bsky.social @jodenn.bsky.social @iansheffield50.bsky.social @ian64.bsky.social @alqleeds.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social @jaketilson.bsky.social @austenpaulh.bsky.social @olliedouglas.bsky.social Thanks to Absolute Units and the Fobney Marshians we have a new walk! 1112
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 02/05/2026❤️ Some fragments of a Mike Levy tea set we commissioned for the studio long ago. 🤞🤞the V&A copy is safe @imcmillan.bsky.social @jodenn.bsky.social @iansheffield50.bsky.social @ian64.bsky.social @alqleeds.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social @jaketilson.bsky.social @austenpaulh.bsky.social 0123
Reposted by Jo DennisRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 30/04/2026While Boris Johnson was mayor of London there were 72,000 knife attacks, 16,000 gun crime offences, and at least 62,000 racially motivated violent crimes. But apparently, those didn't count. 1011453615
Reposted by Jo DennisAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Hilarious. Some guy claiming because his family history extends back to the Crusades, he should be involved in governing the rest of us. And claims that we’ll forget history if we oust him. ALL our family histories go back that far… www.channel4.com/news/the-end...channel4.comThe end of history? Hereditary peers set to be removed from House of LordsFrom the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Caithness, they’ve been sitting on the famous red benches of the House of Lords for centuries. 1761833358
Reposted by Jo DennisTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/04/2026A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/ 7672277
Reposted by Jo DennisJo from Rotherfield @equalityearthling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Oh yes please!! 💗 0164
Reposted by Jo DennisRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/04/2026It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-britsdemocracyforsale.substack.comWhat happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right 6419174
Reposted by Jo DennisIan McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026First cup of tea: This drink Helps me think Helps me float Not sink. 4789
Reposted by Jo DennisSam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f... 22567802499
Reposted by Jo DennisSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Like… We cannot go ahead and have the World Cup now like nothing is going on. Regardless of what does or doesn’t happen tonight. Countries should simply refuse to send teams. The rest of the world cannot treat us as a remotely normal country after this 6114112240
Reposted by Jo DennisAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/04/2026A reminder that this is the same "unhinged" war and President the Daily Mail has spent weeks berating Keir Starmer for not joining and following 491795489
Reposted by Jo DennisSkye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat” 125117313037
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026A mind-breaking muddle of news this morning: Humans going further than ever before in space and a lunatic president openly threatening war crimes at home. The sublime and the degenerate. Hard to keep it all in your head at once. 671555246
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Anyone who contributed to this event - the politicians and journalists who normalised him or submitted to his narratives, around the world - should hang their fucking heads in shame. They've put us in the most dangerous geopolitical situation for a generation and left a people at risk of genocide. 321116248
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The bases should never have been opened to US use. They should now immediately be closed to them. This is patently the case. It is a military power with explicitly genocidal intent. Given how severe that danger is, the reassurances of its military officials about authorised use are insufficient. 30980262
Reposted by Jo DennisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 27/03/2026'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided' @chrischirp.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comThe UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid waveIt is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided. 541468631
Reposted by Jo DennisProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19 16697389
Jo Dennis @jodenn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...you.38degrees.org.ukStop Palantir taking over our public services!Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. 030
Reposted by Jo DennisRight to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 13/03/2026If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise... most of them are closed off to the public. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comNearly three-quarters of England’s woods inaccessible to public, study findsExclusive: Campaigners call for government to introduce right-to-roam bill that allows people to walk around their local woodlands 16222
Reposted by Jo DennisCNN @cnn.com · 05/03/2026Brian McGinnis, a Marine veteran protesting US military action in Iran, was forcibly removed from a Senate subcommittee hearing by police and Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy on Wednesday. McGinnis was treated for injuries and faces charges, according to US Capitol Police. 63173107
Reposted by Jo DennisPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded… The new Private Eye is out now. 22774296
Reposted by Jo DennisIan Dennis @ianindentdesign.bsky.social · 04/03/2026www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Tonight’s treat @imcmillan.bsky.social @jodenn.bsky.social @iansheffield50.bsky.social @ian64.bsky.social @alqleeds.bsky.social @allanjenkins21.bsky.social @jaketilson.bsky.socialbbc.co.ukLS Lowry: The Unheard TapesAn insight into the secretive 'matchstick men' painter as he guides us through his revealing life story in unheard interviews from the end of his life, lip-synced by Ian McKellen. 181
Reposted by Jo DennisJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/03/2026If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers... 1384477974
Reposted by Jo DennisGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/03/2026"One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjurer fine apparatus, nor A rifle to a melancholic bore." WH Auden Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker. 211251271
