Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

The big news is not that a committee of Congress has made a criminal referral urging that the DOJ prosecute a former president. The big news is that the committee has compiled overwhelming evidence that the former president has committed serious crimes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-news-about-the-january-6?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=91755428&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

#jokeoftheday

I've been diagnosed with a chronic fear of giants..

Feefiphobia.......

Mastodon gets un-suspended and then goes for the posterizing dunk right out of the gate #tech #socialmedia

@taylorlorenz @BlueWaver22

Le Monde not pulling punches in their editorial about the state of the UK.

"As the United Kingdom, now the most unequal country in Western Europe, sinks into recession, 3 million Britons are struggling to pay their energy bills and food banks are multiplying. The government in London seems to be stuck on an ideology that advocates for a minimal state, tending to place the blame on the disadvantaged for their fate and favoring the wealthy."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/12/17/the-united-kingdom-is-at-a-a-stalemate_6008103_23.html #UK #UKPol #Brexit #Strikes

Tell me these aren't dinosaurs!

a Green Heron (Butorides virescens) chick.

@chrischirp th🙏🏽 for great info as always, to Bob too🙏🏽, this weeks work, paeds nhs, mad, all working non stop, great working together👏🏾quite a few off sick, colleagues in other hospitals same, all at work hours after end of day, every day, to provide good care, one text from colleague this week “what are we doing to ourselves” ,many workaholics anyway, unsustainable, luckily we 💕 kids &YP 🤩 & 💕 our job 💙

#Covid
Essentially, we're hardly vaccinating now, we're def in another wave, as well as covid, flu hosp admissions increasing rapidly & NHS strain still severe.

If eligible, get your covid & flu jabs & don't mix if you're sick (regardless of whether it's covid - no one wants your cold or flu either).

With Andrew Bridgens comments made in UK Parliament being promoted by antivaxxers around the world, its clear that Malhotra and HART wrote his speech
https://counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/bmj-covid-inquiry-understanding-and

Welcome #TwitterMigrants!

This is a fast and easy way to find your #Twitter followers.
https://www.movetodon.org/

#TwitterMigration #TwitterPurge

EU threatens Elon Musk with sanctions after Twitter's suspension of #journalists. #EU law “requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights,” “There are red lines. And sanctions, soon.”
https://cnb.cx/3FTCYVJ

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

#twitter has permanently suspended Aaron Rupar.

This a scanning electron microscope image of a starfish skeleton. One of Nature's best images of 2022!

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html

"Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool."

(ht @johnnypixels)

it’s hard to believe that in this day and age people are still wearing fir

Kestrel.

One of my favourite locations for wildlife photography in England, is the Cotswolds.

On this day, I was looking for owls and hares, when this male kestrel caught my eye, perched on the top of a small tree beside the road.

Just as I lined the camera up, he took flight, and I captured that moment, with his wings in rather an angelic shape.

#kestrel #BirdsOfPrey #BirdPhotography #Cotswolds #Gloucestershire #England #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife