Mary K Gilbert
@marykenvyn.bsky.social
Reader, Cook, Feminist, European, Francophile. Lover of Breton music and dancing. Dwi'n siarad Cymraeg a Llydaweg ( tamm bihan)
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If any other president had said this despicable thing, it would result in immediate retractions and clarifications, days of media speculation about his mental state, lots of international criticism, and the resignations on principle of some staffers in the White House and broader administration.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
If any other president had said this despicable thing, it would result in immediate retractions and clarifications, days of media speculation about his mental state, lots of international criticism, and the resignations on principle of some staffers in the White House and broader administration.
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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This.
As it turns out, the "Board of Peace" is just a real estate redevelopment for the super-rich, built on stolen land. So basically, at it's core, it's ethnic cleansing dressed up in diplomatic terms.
This is beyond disgusting and immoral.
This is beyond disgusting and immoral.
January 22, 2026 at 11:57 AM
This.
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I dislike this sort of didacticism. Anyway, a list of great short novels that doesn’t include JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ (only 20,000 words long!) lacks any authority.
January 22, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I dislike this sort of didacticism. Anyway, a list of great short novels that doesn’t include JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ (only 20,000 words long!) lacks any authority.
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January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Trump rambling totally incoherently before a silent room full of powerful people who know this man is totally unhinged and yet not one is willing to walk out or even better take his arm and lead him off the stage.
January 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Trump rambling totally incoherently before a silent room full of powerful people who know this man is totally unhinged and yet not one is willing to walk out or even better take his arm and lead him off the stage.
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This man is very seriously ill. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "I should've gotten the Nobel Prize for each war, but I don't say that. I saved millions & millions of people. And don't let anybody tell you Norway doesn't control the shots, ok? It's in Norway. It's a joke. They lost such prestige. That's why I have such respect for what Maria did."
January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM
This man is very seriously ill. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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'Feeding the Birds, Archway, London' by Trevor Haddrell
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January 21, 2026 at 11:39 AM
'Feeding the Birds, Archway, London' by Trevor Haddrell
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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 👇
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January 20, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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 👇
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Just finished this beautiful, quiet, devastating novel (Booker long-listed) about family and adoption, set in Trinidad and London. It was recommended to me by my sister @marykenvyn.bsky.social, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I walked through 40 years with the narrator, and it's unforgettable.
January 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Just finished this beautiful, quiet, devastating novel (Booker long-listed) about family and adoption, set in Trinidad and London. It was recommended to me by my sister @marykenvyn.bsky.social, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I walked through 40 years with the narrator, and it's unforgettable.
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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Excellent as usual by
@glosswitch.bsky.social
'We should not want a world that sees female discomfort as natural, simply the way women accommodate male desires. The role of an HR manager should not be to decide how much women exist to take.'
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@glosswitch.bsky.social
'We should not want a world that sees female discomfort as natural, simply the way women accommodate male desires. The role of an HR manager should not be to decide how much women exist to take.'
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Does women’s discomfort matter? | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine
In 2018, at the height of #MeToo, Lili Loofbourow’s article “The Female Price of Male Pleasure” went viral. In it, Loofbourow argued that definitions of bad sex varied depending on whether the…
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January 20, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Excellent as usual by
@glosswitch.bsky.social
'We should not want a world that sees female discomfort as natural, simply the way women accommodate male desires. The role of an HR manager should not be to decide how much women exist to take.'
thecritic.co.uk/does-womens-...
@glosswitch.bsky.social
'We should not want a world that sees female discomfort as natural, simply the way women accommodate male desires. The role of an HR manager should not be to decide how much women exist to take.'
thecritic.co.uk/does-womens-...
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"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"
Farage is apparently 'under the weather' today and unable to talk about the US threats to the UK and Europe over Greenland.
Which is unfortunate.
Which is unfortunate.
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"
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With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM
With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️
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Darlington nurses win Tribunal case against employer for admitting a male member of staff to the female changing room. The employer also failed to protect the claimants from harassment.
January 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Darlington nurses win Tribunal case against employer for admitting a male member of staff to the female changing room. The employer also failed to protect the claimants from harassment.
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The Tribunal’s judgment concludes: “We were unclear what was meant by the submission that the policy was ‘lawful’ and deeper consideration of the argument led us to conclude that the policy of permitting biological males who identify as women to use a female changing room was not ‘lawful’.”
January 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
The Tribunal’s judgment concludes: “We were unclear what was meant by the submission that the policy was ‘lawful’ and deeper consideration of the argument led us to conclude that the policy of permitting biological males who identify as women to use a female changing room was not ‘lawful’.”
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Victory for the Darlington nurses in their tribunal case.
From the judgement:
From the judgement:
January 16, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Victory for the Darlington nurses in their tribunal case.
From the judgement:
From the judgement:
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This is what American Patriots look like. All across the Twin-Cities, Minnesotans are rising to the occasion. All fucking night long. ZERO sleep for ICE Nazis. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙌💪👏✊️👇
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 AM
This is what American Patriots look like. All across the Twin-Cities, Minnesotans are rising to the occasion. All fucking night long. ZERO sleep for ICE Nazis. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙌💪👏✊️👇
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Oh dear.
Denial is widespread on BS.
Transwomen are clearly male. Otherwise they'd just be women.
Being male is a necessary condition.
So much antagonism to women's rights.
Because human rights to equality as based on sex are an established & explicit part of international human rights treaties.
Denial is widespread on BS.
Transwomen are clearly male. Otherwise they'd just be women.
Being male is a necessary condition.
So much antagonism to women's rights.
Because human rights to equality as based on sex are an established & explicit part of international human rights treaties.
January 15, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Oh dear.
Denial is widespread on BS.
Transwomen are clearly male. Otherwise they'd just be women.
Being male is a necessary condition.
So much antagonism to women's rights.
Because human rights to equality as based on sex are an established & explicit part of international human rights treaties.
Denial is widespread on BS.
Transwomen are clearly male. Otherwise they'd just be women.
Being male is a necessary condition.
So much antagonism to women's rights.
Because human rights to equality as based on sex are an established & explicit part of international human rights treaties.
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Outrageous bare-faced lies - it’s extraordinary what the right wing press can get away with.
Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking
Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking
Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero
More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...
More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...
January 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Outrageous bare-faced lies - it’s extraordinary what the right wing press can get away with.
Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking
Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking
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With ZERO fucks left to give, Tim Miller eviscerates the pedophile führer, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, and the ICE Nazis: "I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric... Jonathan Ross murdered her [Renee Good]." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇
January 9, 2026 at 10:03 PM
With ZERO fucks left to give, Tim Miller eviscerates the pedophile führer, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, and the ICE Nazis: "I will not be fucking gaslit by these people. I will not tone down the rhetoric... Jonathan Ross murdered her [Renee Good]." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇
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A decade ago, my photographer niece, Alys tomlinson, took an award-winning picture of a Belarusian nun. They stayed in touch and over several years, Alys co-directed a barely-funded, yet rich and extraordinary documentary about Vera -and today it’s been BAFTA longlisted!.
January 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
A decade ago, my photographer niece, Alys tomlinson, took an award-winning picture of a Belarusian nun. They stayed in touch and over several years, Alys co-directed a barely-funded, yet rich and extraordinary documentary about Vera -and today it’s been BAFTA longlisted!.
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Venezuela: How it unfolded
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Venezuela: How it unfolded
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.
January 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.