Alison M
@alisonm.bsky.social
Editor and lexicographer by day, yarn ninja by night. So, y'know, books and yarn, gardens and language.
If this tree is not heading off somewhere once nobody's looking, then I don't know what's going on here.
February 14, 2026 at 6:28 PM
If this tree is not heading off somewhere once nobody's looking, then I don't know what's going on here.
Google ad during the rugby: "if your friend asks you a question and your phone knows the answer, shouldn't it just answer?"
No, no it very much should not.
No, no it very much should not.
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Google ad during the rugby: "if your friend asks you a question and your phone knows the answer, shouldn't it just answer?"
No, no it very much should not.
No, no it very much should not.
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Notice we never have an "open debate" about whether tax payers money should be put aside for badly run businesses. I'd love a fucking debate about about that.
February 12, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Notice we never have an "open debate" about whether tax payers money should be put aside for badly run businesses. I'd love a fucking debate about about that.
Small Prophets. What a delight ♥️.
February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Small Prophets. What a delight ♥️.
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But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?
February 7, 2026 at 10:53 AM
But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?
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Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to…
nation.cymru/news/the-new...
nation.cymru/news/the-new...
The new leader of Reform UK Wales lives in Bath, not Wales
Martin Shipton The newly appointed leader of Reform UK in Wales hasn’t moved back to his home town in the Valleys, but has bought a £1m house near Bath, we can reveal. Dan Thomas, the former Conservat...
nation.cymru
February 7, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Have a read of this. Great scoop, obviously, but it’s also an absolute masterclass in how to report on these jokers. Plenty of London-based hacks could learn a lot from Martin Shipton here. If they actually wanted to…
nation.cymru/news/the-new...
nation.cymru/news/the-new...
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Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account.
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Steve Bannon boasted about Farage ties in exchange with Epstein
Revelation comes as image surfaces of Bannon with Matt Goodwin, candidate for Farage's Reform UK in crucial Gorton and Denton by-election
www.middleeasteye.net
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Our media rightly rages about the already-disgraced Mandelson and Andrew but wrongly fails to hold others in that murky moneyed network to account.
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Our democracy is under attack from these dismal people right now. Do not be exposing that a decade too late.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/steve-b...
Smashing it to the "elites" indeed. Same idiots who thought Boris Johnson was a man of the people will probably vote for this bunch of grifters.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
Reform council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors | LBC
The majority of staff, who will not be able to use the free parking facilities available to their senior colleagues, will still be expected to pay to park every day
www.lbc.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Smashing it to the "elites" indeed. Same idiots who thought Boris Johnson was a man of the people will probably vote for this bunch of grifters.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
A month in 4 photos
January 2026
1. The Thread that Pulls exhibition, Edinburgh
2. Extremely good tail management
3. Woman dyeing wool at the Burrell, Glasgow
4. Colour planning for a big project
January 2026
1. The Thread that Pulls exhibition, Edinburgh
2. Extremely good tail management
3. Woman dyeing wool at the Burrell, Glasgow
4. Colour planning for a big project
February 1, 2026 at 10:54 AM
A month in 4 photos
January 2026
1. The Thread that Pulls exhibition, Edinburgh
2. Extremely good tail management
3. Woman dyeing wool at the Burrell, Glasgow
4. Colour planning for a big project
January 2026
1. The Thread that Pulls exhibition, Edinburgh
2. Extremely good tail management
3. Woman dyeing wool at the Burrell, Glasgow
4. Colour planning for a big project
A little timeline cheer.
This little boat will be arriving in Antigua in the next hour. Milli is just about to complete a solo unsupported row across the Atlantic as part of The World's Toughest Row. She's just about to turn 50, 5 foot tall, and only took up rowing about a year ago. What a gal. 🏴
This little boat will be arriving in Antigua in the next hour. Milli is just about to complete a solo unsupported row across the Atlantic as part of The World's Toughest Row. She's just about to turn 50, 5 foot tall, and only took up rowing about a year ago. What a gal. 🏴
January 29, 2026 at 10:43 PM
A little timeline cheer.
This little boat will be arriving in Antigua in the next hour. Milli is just about to complete a solo unsupported row across the Atlantic as part of The World's Toughest Row. She's just about to turn 50, 5 foot tall, and only took up rowing about a year ago. What a gal. 🏴
This little boat will be arriving in Antigua in the next hour. Milli is just about to complete a solo unsupported row across the Atlantic as part of The World's Toughest Row. She's just about to turn 50, 5 foot tall, and only took up rowing about a year ago. What a gal. 🏴
L
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Love where I live.
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Love where I live.
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Love where I live.
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Love where I live.
The wonderful Diana Henry strikes again. Sausages onions and apples in cider from Simple, with mash and Savoy cabbage and I am so full I think I might pop, but that was just the ribsticker I needed on a cold night.
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
The wonderful Diana Henry strikes again. Sausages onions and apples in cider from Simple, with mash and Savoy cabbage and I am so full I think I might pop, but that was just the ribsticker I needed on a cold night.
Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s comin yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man the warld o’er
Shall brithers be for a’ that
share.google/NXCcpMvKUIKP...
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s comin yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man the warld o’er
Shall brithers be for a’ that
share.google/NXCcpMvKUIKP...
A Man's a Man for a' That
Is there for honest Poverty / That hings his head, an' a' that; / The coward-slave, we pass him by, / We dare be poor for...
share.google
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Then let us pray that come it may,
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s comin yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man the warld o’er
Shall brithers be for a’ that
share.google/NXCcpMvKUIKP...
As come it will for a’ that,
That Sense and Worth, o’er a’ the earth
Shall bear the gree an’ a’ that.
For a’ that, an’ a’ that,
It’s comin yet for a’ that,
That Man to Man the warld o’er
Shall brithers be for a’ that
share.google/NXCcpMvKUIKP...
My brother served in Afghanistan (more than once). Before deployment, he had to get his troops to write a letter, to be sent to their families if they died. I assume he wrote one too, but he was lucky enough to get back ok. Hundreds weren't so lucky.
Trump is a truly despicable human being.
Trump is a truly despicable human being.
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 2:59 PM
My brother served in Afghanistan (more than once). Before deployment, he had to get his troops to write a letter, to be sent to their families if they died. I assume he wrote one too, but he was lucky enough to get back ok. Hundreds weren't so lucky.
Trump is a truly despicable human being.
Trump is a truly despicable human being.
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457 British troops.
You evil, senile bastard.
You evil, senile bastard.
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
457 British troops.
You evil, senile bastard.
You evil, senile bastard.
Spreading this before they get a chance to take it down and revise the story
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Spreading this before they get a chance to take it down and revise the story
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Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should!
https://www.goeuropean.org
https://www.goeuropean.org
Go European — Discover European products and services
Go European is a community-driven directory bringing you European products and services from across the continent.
www.goeuropean.org
January 18, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Found this website this morning, useful as a starting point if you’re trying to boycott American goods and services, which we absolutely all should!
https://www.goeuropean.org
https://www.goeuropean.org
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Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
January 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Robert Jenrick says the Tories "broke Britain," so he's joined a party that includes:
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
Nadhim Zahawi,
Nadine Dorries,
Jonathan Gullis,
Ben Bradley,
Danny Kruger,
Jake Berry,
Marco Longhi,
Aiden Burley,
Anne Marie Morris,
Lee Anderson
and Andrea Jenkyns.
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@Grok Add a Bikini Atoll
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the integration of Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, into military networks as part of a new "AI acceleration strategy" during a visit to SpaceX.
January 13, 2026 at 7:01 AM
@Grok Add a Bikini Atoll
Ah, nothing says "smashing the metropolitan elites" like recruiting the guy who got taxpayers to pay for the heating of his stables.
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Ah, nothing says "smashing the metropolitan elites" like recruiting the guy who got taxpayers to pay for the heating of his stables.
It's a shame this dude isn't a Traitor because nobody seems to have noticed that he's even in the castle. He hasn't been mentioned by anybody, at all. I didn't even know what his name was. #TheTraitorsUK
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 PM
It's a shame this dude isn't a Traitor because nobody seems to have noticed that he's even in the castle. He hasn't been mentioned by anybody, at all. I didn't even know what his name was. #TheTraitorsUK
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Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
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I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
*struts in triumphant circle round the room*
Head removed from sand ✔️
Tax return submitted ✔️
Head removed from sand ✔️
Tax return submitted ✔️
bugs bunny is standing in a boxing ring with the word champion written on the screen .
Alt: bugs bunny is standing in a boxing ring with the word champion written on the screen .
media.tenor.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
*struts in triumphant circle round the room*
Head removed from sand ✔️
Tax return submitted ✔️
Head removed from sand ✔️
Tax return submitted ✔️
The #traitors hashtag is a strange mix tonight of delight at the unmasking of a reality gameshow villain and the terrifying actions of a reality gameshow villain.
January 3, 2026 at 10:02 PM
The #traitors hashtag is a strange mix tonight of delight at the unmasking of a reality gameshow villain and the terrifying actions of a reality gameshow villain.