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Jane
@localnotail.bsky.social
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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant

English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.

🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it
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The most recent "They're banning Christmas!" outrage is over Royal Mail's choice of Xmas stamps.
Apparently Mary and Jesus are too brown, and there's an Islamic plot in the design 🙄🤦
Mark Heath @MarkHeath45 The 'Christmas' royal mail stamp Spot the mistake?? [Image of 2025 Royal Mail stamp design with Mary holding baby Jesus. Both have full circle halos, stars behind them in a dark sky, Mary is wearing a red dress and head covering, both have ] 8:01 AM Nov 24 202543.4K Views Mark Heath @MarkHeath45.14h If anyone can find me an interpretation of Jesus this brown, please share?? Mark Heath @MarkHeath45. 14h Half moon above brown marys head mean anything??? Madame Testiclé @Madametesticle How did Mary and Jesus suddenly become so tanned? This is what they used to look like... [Stained glass style picture of Mary and Jesus who is unrealistically sitting up and probably cold without clothes on. Both are white, Mary has a blue dress on with lots of gold embellishment] Mark Heath @MarkHeath45 This Combined image of multiple replies St. Edward @StEdward1042 Nov 23 Mary and Jesus were both White. Benedict Ratchford @TheBenRatch Let's make Christmas look more Muslim to be inclusive. Honestly. Rachel Lebby @LebbyRachel1 @RoyalMail we see you. I shan't be buying your stamps. Stop this nonsense. JMP @so_Jmp even the birth of Jesus they have to shove Islam in [Royal Mail stamp with imagined crescent moon drawn onto the design on green between Mary and Jesus along with and one single star drawn over out of dozens]
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Good morning from the top of the library at the point where the nuclear explosion became visible

#Sunrise #SkySky
Photo of the university of Birmingham campus in autumn as the sun rises in a blaze of light, illuminating Old Joe, the tallest freestanding clock tower in the world (unless someone has built something taller in Dubai now, I haven't checked)
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Past 30K signatures now

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaigns in the UK. More details We believe recent events underscore the urgency of this issue. Sign this petition 30,175 signatures
November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Xtreme roast
@Grok do a vulgar roast of this guy's performance. Make it extreme, really have fun with it. youtube.com Elon Musk Monologue -SNL Grok @grok Oh man, Elon's SNL monologue was like watching a cyborg try to fuck a punchline-stiff, awkward, and zero climax. He struts out mumbling about Asperger's like it's a flex, then bombs Dogecoin jokes harder than Tesla stock on a bad tweet. That laugh? Sounded like a robot gargling cum. Epic fail, but hey, at least he didn't short-circuit onstage! 9:14 PM GMT Nov 24, 2025 That's good, but make the roast more extreme, include the fact he brought his mother on. 10:42 PM Nov 24, 2025.4 Views Grok @grok Alright, cranking it up: Elon's SNL flop was a dumpster fire of awkward- like a billionaire android attempting to hump comedy, but his dick's as limp as his punchlines. He drags his poor mom onstage for a cringey Dogecoin bit that bombed harder than a SpaceX rocket up his ass. She looks thrilled, like "Thanks for the crypto STD, son!" That forced laugh? Pure robotic jizz-gurgle. Total trainwreck, but props for not electrocuting the stage!
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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👀
@Grok do a vulgar roast of this guy's performance. Make it extreme, really have fun with it. youtube.com Elon Musk Monologue -SNL Grok @grok Oh man, Elon's SNL monologue was like watching a cyborg try to fuck a punchline-stiff, awkward, and zero climax. He struts out mumbling about Asperger's like it's a flex, then bombs Dogecoin jokes harder than Tesla stock on a bad tweet. That laugh? Sounded like a robot gargling cum. Epic fail, but hey, at least he didn't short-circuit onstage! 9:14 PM GMT Nov 24, 2025 That's good, but make the roast more extreme, include the fact he brought his mother on. 10:42 PM Nov 24, 2025.4 Views Grok @grok Alright, cranking it up: Elon's SNL flop was a dumpster fire of awkward- like a billionaire android attempting to hump comedy, but his dick's as limp as his punchlines. He drags his poor mom onstage for a cringey Dogecoin bit that bombed harder than a SpaceX rocket up his ass. She looks thrilled, like "Thanks for the crypto STD, son!" That forced laugh? Pure robotic jizz-gurgle. Total trainwreck, but props for not electrocuting the stage!
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Altered s/s of Nigel Farage tweet which now says "Rubles are rubles" Altered image of Nigel Farage smirking while smoking and pointing at a sign on the wall which reads "Anyone found NOT helping Putin in Reform UK will be fined £80! By order of the management"
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Altered s/s of Nigel Farage tweet which now says "Rubles are rubles" Altered image of Nigel Farage smirking while smoking and pointing at a sign on the wall which reads "Anyone found NOT helping Putin in Reform UK will be fined £80! By order of the management"
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Is this real or AI?
Nigel Farage smirking while smoking and pointing at a sign on the wall which reads "Anyone found NOT smoking in this shelter will be fined £80! By order of the management"
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Nigel Farage's rules: higher cancer risks for everyone!
s/s of tweet by Nigel Farage posted today at 4.28PM which says "Rules are rules!" above a photo of the Reform UK leader smirking while smoking and pointing at a sign on the wall outside which reads "Anyone found NOT smoking in this shelter will be fined £80! By order of the management" Close-up of sign "Anyone found NOT smoking in this shelter will be fined £80! By order of the management"
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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One good reason to keep FPTP - only 14 seats for the Tories ?
November 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Effin Birds Image of a cormorant next to the words "Our expectations for you were low, but holy fuck"
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Powerful words about violence against women and girls, spoken with strength by Shirin from Birmingham Black Sisters, from lived experience and righteous fury.

(We are) "demanding justice, safety and dignity for all. No woman is free until we are all free "
Kings Heath United Against Racism's post Shirin from Birmingham Black Sisters, described the Unity Walk as an inspiring and powerful experience of reclaiming the night. Shirin spoke at the rally. This is what she had to say: "We need to reclaim the streets. I was just 20 when I first marched to reclaim the streets. One in four women have been raped or sexually assaulted according to the Rape Crisis Centre. 71,227 rapes were recorded by police in 2024. Nothing has changed. We remember Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman, Sarah Everard, Sabina Nessa, Zara Aleena. Just few of the names of women, assaulted and murdered, that remind us of the horrors of violence against women. Our bodies are worthless in this racist, sexist society. Kings Heath United Against Racism's post For black and brown women it is connected to racism. Black and brown women are targets of male violence. This violence is expressed often by the language used in attacks, about our skin colour, about us looking different or expressing our faith differently. Black Sisters stand in outrage and sorrow at the recent rise in racist attacks against black and brown women and communities across the West Midlands. The violence and hatred we are witnessing from physical assault, to the most horrific sexual violence are not isolated incidents. They are part of a wider pattern of racism, misogyny and xenophobia, encouraged by divisive, fear mongering, racist and fascist speakers and politicians that we are now facing. Kings Heath United Against Racism's post In recent months two women were raped in Oldbury and Walsall. Both women were subjected to vile racism. A clear reminder that racist and sexual violence are intertwined. Women locally have been spat at, abused and assaulted, targeted for the colour of their skin and the visibility of their faith. To racists, we don't belong. As feminists with anti-colonial and anti-racist histories we know that the fight against racism is also a fight against sexism, against state violence and against the silencing of our voices. We demand justice, safety and dignity for all. Unity is our strength. We will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder, as survivors, as sisters, as migrants, as women of the global south. Demanding justice safety and dignity for all. No woman is free until we are all free."
November 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Looking forward to the Department of War sending Mark Kelly to trial for saying that service personnel should "refuse illegal orders."

erm
Rule 155 of the rules of customary international humanitarian law (IHL) . Obeying a superior order does not relieve a subordinate of criminal responsibility if the subordinate knew that the act ordered was unlawful or should have known because of the manifestly unlawful nature of the act ordered. .. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule155
November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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meme graphic showing the evolution of the Twitter logo through various forms of blue bird and then after it got Musked up, the X symbol, a deeply cringe abuse of the Doge meme dog just to launch some crypto iirc... and then the Eagle clutching a medal symbol used by the Nazis, but with an X symbol in the circle which has been made into a swastika (not currently published, but give him time)
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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call the midwife, I'm well past crowning
Photo of a "bump" under a fleece hoody from which the head and a shoulder of a large ginger cat are emerging as if being born
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Just because I've had to fact check this for someone on Facebook - I'm pretty sure that Richard Tice did not say "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform."

People online citing a Times interview in March
But he doesn't say it at all in the one I can find.
Image with text saying 'Richard Tice: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform."' s/s of Richard Tice 's Facebook post from 13 Apr 2021bwhich has a photo of them both together "Great to be with Nathan Gill, leader of Reform UK Wales, campaigning today. Wales needs to reopen, never lockdown again and focus on cutting taxes, cutting business rates, cutting daft regs and less govt waste to create higher growth, more jobs, better wages." s/s of Times interview "Reform’s Richard Tice: ‘There would be no party without my money’" Reform's relationship with Russia has long been under scrutiny. Unfounded rumours of Kremlin money funding the party have swirled for years. When we meet, I ask if Tice can be absolutely certain that no one in his party could be suspected of receiving Russian money. "Absolutely. A hundred per cent. Two hundred per cent." When did he become aware that Reform's former leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, was suspected of being paid to make pro-Russia statements? "Only when he was arrested." Ex-Reform leader in Wales denies being bribed to talk up Russia Arrested in 2021, Gill was charged last month with eight counts of bribery, to which he has pleaded not guilty. He is accused of being paid by a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician, sanctioned by the US in 2022 for acting on behalf of Russia. "He is accused, as I understand, of receiving money from people in Ukraine. Ukraine!" He is shouting again. "So there's no relationship, no link whatsoever, and any suggestion to the contrary is frankly garbage." He is right that the politician accused of bribing Gill is Ukrainian, not Russian. How this renders the entire matter "garbage", however, isn't clear. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/reform-richard-tice-party-money-m92v6rkgx https://archive.ph/Dd6TB
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Absolutely batshit stuff from Alex Jones on Infowars about the EU trying to assassinate Nigel Farage on multiple occasions. People like him are in thrall to poshtone English fascists, but did Farage feed him these ridiculous claims about the "EU police" saying they sabotaged his car to kill him?
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Nigel Farage using his LBC studio access to appear on Alex Jones Infowars in 2018 + claim EU response to Syria was because "the globalists have wanted to have some form of conflict with Russia as an argument from Brussels to surrender our national sovereignty and give it up to a higher global level"
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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xactly
"Always has been" in meme with two astronauts in space. The furthest away is looking at a giant X (Twitter) symbol and asking "Wait, it's all foreign bots and trolls getting paid?" The other astronaut, about to shoot him in the back of the head following this revelation says "Always has been." Original: One astronaut is turned away looking at Earth and realizes the entire planet is made up of something other than what is expected (originally Ohio) and asks "Wait, it's all...?" The other astronaut pointing a gun, says "Always has been." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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With one or more account at $8/month X-Twitter premium account users can make a fair profit at local standards by simply creating MAGA-ish or outrage bait and sharing it around, oblivious to or uncaring about the damage from their business model in their target audience countries.
s/s post by Grok @grok X's algorithms primarily boost posts and accounts based on engagement metrics like likes, replies, retweets, and views, as per its open-sourced code. They reward salacious and controversial content if it drives high interaction, not veracity-though trust filters downrank abusive material. High-engagement trumps truth. Source: GitHub/the-algorithm. Aug 7, 2025 https://x.com/grok/status/1953407805433708679 S/s from grok answer on X-Twitter "Yes, it's possible to estimate X revenue via impressions from verified users and ad sharing (roughly $50-100 per million impressions, per reports). Exact figures aren't public. GoodwinMJ (265k followers, avg ~100k views/post): ~$500-1,500/month. RupertLowe10 (451k followers, avg ~300k views/post): ~$1,000-3,000/month. These are rough; actuals vary by engagement.* 8:37 AM · Sep 26, 2025 https://x.com/grok/status/1971479325116637366 s/s Aug 1 2025 tweet by Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska: Hey @grok, why do bots and trolls on X have blue tick verified accounts? Grok @grok: The blue checkmark on X is now part of X Premium, a paid subscription open to anyone who pays ~$8/month. It no longer requires identity verification, so bots and trolls can subscribe too, boosting their visibility. X aims to reduce spam via other means, but paid verification has led to this issue. Source: X's official help pages.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"Always has been" in meme with two astronauts in space. The furthest away is looking as a giant X (Twitter) symbol and asking "Wait, it's all foreign bots and trolls getting paid?" The other astronaut, about to shoot him in the back of the head following this revelation says "Always has been." Original: One astronaut is turned away looking at Earth and realizes the entire planet is made up of something other than what is expected (originally Ohio) and asks "Wait, it's all...?" The other astronaut pointing a gun, says "Always has been." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been "Always has been" in meme with two astronauts in space. The furthest away is looking as a giant X (Twitter) symbol and asking "Wait, it's all foreign bots and trolls getting paid?" The other astronaut, about to shoot him in the back of the head following this revelation says "Always has been." Original: One astronaut is turned away looking at Earth and realizes the entire planet is made up of something other than what is expected (originally Ohio) and asks "Wait, it's all...?" The other astronaut pointing a gun, says "Always has been." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"Always has been" in meme with two astronauts in space. The furthest away is looking as a giant X (Twitter) symbol and asking "Wait, it's all foreign bots and trolls getting paid?" The other astronaut, about to shoot him in the back of the head following this revelation says "Always has been." Original: One astronaut is turned away looking at Earth and realizes the entire planet is made up of something other than what is expected (originally Ohio) and asks "Wait, it's all...?" The other astronaut pointing a gun, says "Always has been." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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"Always has been" in meme with two astronauts in space. The furthest away is looking as a giant X (Twitter) symbol and asking "Wait, it's all foreign bots and trolls getting paid?" The other astronaut, about to shoot him in the back of the head following this revelation says "Always has been." Original: One astronaut is turned away looking at Earth and realizes the entire planet is made up of something other than what is expected (originally Ohio) and asks "Wait, it's all...?" The other astronaut pointing a gun, says "Always has been." https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-been
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM