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Mountains, Wildflowers, Climbing, Cycling, Worker Coops, Green.
Highlands of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.
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this is the question.
"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"

Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.
Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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The Irish government looking at two countries: one with the internationally lauded cycling infrastructure and renowned best practice, and a second one where everything is terrible and cyclists all die

"We like the second one"
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻❤️

A hole runs through the bear’s torso suggesting it was threaded on a cord, perhaps worn or carried as a protective charm.

Found in a peat bog near Słupsk, Poland, in 1887.

📷 National Museum in Szczecin

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
February 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Billionaires are national security risks.
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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The fundraiser reached its target!! Thank you all so much.

Julia Gordon, trans and now in her 80s, is an absolute legend. You can read more about and from her here: www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/when-yo...
WATCH: ‘When you’ve got nothing else to lose, you have everything to gain, and you find your power.’
The Inverness-based editor of former trans magazine The Tartan Skirt has reflected on her journey towards peace and contentness.
www.inverness-courier.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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ICE is using Palantir's tools which use health data to target victims. And the UK is outsourcing NHS services to Palantir. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
February 1, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Thousands upon thousands of cyclists gathered today to honor Alex Pretti and to demand ICE leave our state. In decades of cycling, I’ve never been in a bigger group of riders. I couldn’t see the head or the tail of the group.
January 31, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Been at work all day with my fingers crossed for Brand - She did it !!!! #CX

💚💛🖤❤️💙 🚴‍♀️
January 31, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Hear me out…. What if the TBC was in Edinburgh and we got @camerooneymason.bsky.social a home race?
Good that 🇨🇿 Czechia has two races now 👍🏻

A few classics are still in it ✅

But still not many races outside 🇧🇪 Belgium, 0️⃣ races outside 🇪🇺 Europe.

A race like Hamme does not really have a World Cup worthy parcours too.

#cycling #CXWorldCup
January 31, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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Good that 🇨🇿 Czechia has two races now 👍🏻

A few classics are still in it ✅

But still not many races outside 🇧🇪 Belgium, 0️⃣ races outside 🇪🇺 Europe.

A race like Hamme does not really have a World Cup worthy parcours too.

#cycling #CXWorldCup
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Ohhhh course recon collab between Puck and Tibor! 😍😍

#CXWorlds #WKHulst #PuckPieterse #TiborDelGrosso
Cyclocross World Championships Hulst | Course Preview
YouTube video by Tibor Del Grosso
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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What a nice line-up for the mixed relay this year.

1⃣3⃣ countries constantly switching position on a cyclocross parcours.

Big names including : 🇳🇱 Del Grosso 🇮🇹 Casasola 🇬🇧 Mason 🇬🇧 Backstedt 🇧🇪 Vandeputte 🇫🇷 Gery 🇳🇱 Van Anrooij 🇱🇺 Schreiber 🇸🇰 Chladonova

#cycling #Hulst2026
January 27, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Nae Polis!* #Minneapolis

*Say it in a scottish accent
January 28, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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Outrage is growing in Italy over the deployment ICE agents to assist US security operations at the Winter Olympics next month. https://cnn.it/3NJAMre
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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ZORHAN IS ONLY PLOWING THE BIKE LANES!!!!
January 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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January 22, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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Some interesting bits in here:
🤸‍♂️ A new training regime has seen Macias increase his peak power by 150 watts over the winter
🏎️ Started as a sprinter on the track before switching to the road
🇧🇪 Idolises Wout van Aert - loves racing in the cold and wind and doing things the hard way

And lots more...
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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Another yellow Lego life raft has surfaced after nearly 29 years at the bottom of the sea. Back in 1997, 28,700 of these plummeted into the ocean when a shipping container with nearly five million pieces of Lego inside fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express, some 20 miles off Land's End.
January 21, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Honestly just the respective 'citizenship' exam for the country they hope to represent.
Should we make politicians, especially potential world leaders, take a history test before the elections, to decide if they even qualify?
January 21, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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This is a truly horrifying account of increasingly likely collapse of essential natural systems which would bring mass food shortages, price rises & global disorder. Commissioned from UK intelligence chiefs but scandalously suppressed by Govt, & sneaked out now while attention is elsewhere 👇
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM