Rebecca
@beantrees.bsky.social
Former migrant, proud European, podcast addict, likes a train ride. Krapfen officionado. Will travel for women's artistic gymnastics and 🏴 football. Bristol 🇬🇧 or sometimes Bavaria 🇩🇪. Know where my towel is.
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One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
January 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
One of the first things a Farage government will do will be to make sure "the young are
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
taught correctly about our history," and if that doesn't set off all manner of alarm bells then it should. (MAIL)
I don't think the temp should be +4C in Greenland in Jan.
January 1, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I don't think the temp should be +4C in Greenland in Jan.
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we’ve done the darkest three weeks of the year now
Happy to let you know that in the northern hemisphere we’ve now done the darkest two weeks in the year. All the other 50 weeks will be lighter than this.
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
we’ve done the darkest three weeks of the year now
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Grok + X now seems to be awash with images undressing women, without consent. It is an issue with the potential for a very very broad coalition - across political divides - to insist the Musk platform gets back within the law, on all fronts, not just this example.
www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...
www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...
Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content - CNBC TV18
X is facing backlash after users exploited its Grok AI to morph photos of women and children into explicit images, sparking global concern over AI-driven sexual abuse and platform safety.
www.cnbctv18.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Grok + X now seems to be awash with images undressing women, without consent. It is an issue with the potential for a very very broad coalition - across political divides - to insist the Musk platform gets back within the law, on all fronts, not just this example.
www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...
www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...
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“Tr*mp pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace …
So to be clear—he's fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against
Worst the American people.”
So to be clear—he's fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against
Worst the American people.”
January 1, 2026 at 2:25 AM
“Tr*mp pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace …
So to be clear—he's fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against
Worst the American people.”
So to be clear—he's fine pardoning criminals who used weapons of mass destruction against
Worst the American people.”
My main wishes for 2026 are an end to poverty and hunger, world peace and that they collect the food bins on Sunday as promised.
January 1, 2026 at 12:14 AM
My main wishes for 2026 are an end to poverty and hunger, world peace and that they collect the food bins on Sunday as promised.
London's got all the fireworks but Bristol has people on the street banging saucepans. Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 12:09 AM
London's got all the fireworks but Bristol has people on the street banging saucepans. Happy New Year!
Does Ronan think he's in Riverdance? Dear god.
December 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Does Ronan think he's in Riverdance? Dear god.
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Time to find out how many people are at my gym right now, exercising
*checks app*
11 people
*checks app*
11 people
December 31, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Time to find out how many people are at my gym right now, exercising
*checks app*
11 people
*checks app*
11 people
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Happy New Years from Berlin where everyone per usual has lost their minds
December 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Happy New Years from Berlin where everyone per usual has lost their minds
At this point celebrating German new year and off to bed. 🥂
December 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
At this point celebrating German new year and off to bed. 🥂
Böller Böller Böller
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Böller Böller Böller
Watching the fireworks at Siegestor and it looks awesome.
December 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Watching the fireworks at Siegestor and it looks awesome.
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pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
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🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing In The Night Garden Series 1 Episode 14 at exactly 11:42:02 PM then the Pinky Ponk will crash into a tree at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.
December 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🚨 IMPORTANT: If you begin playing In The Night Garden Series 1 Episode 14 at exactly 11:42:02 PM then the Pinky Ponk will crash into a tree at exactly midnight. Start the new year off right.
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Hang on. Ronan fucking Keating?
We explained quite CLEARLY a few years ago that BBC1 New Year is to be left from now on to Sam Ryder, wheeling out banger after banger. And if he’s unavailable, Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
We will NOT accept a return to austerity.
We explained quite CLEARLY a few years ago that BBC1 New Year is to be left from now on to Sam Ryder, wheeling out banger after banger. And if he’s unavailable, Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
We will NOT accept a return to austerity.
December 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Hang on. Ronan fucking Keating?
We explained quite CLEARLY a few years ago that BBC1 New Year is to be left from now on to Sam Ryder, wheeling out banger after banger. And if he’s unavailable, Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
We will NOT accept a return to austerity.
We explained quite CLEARLY a few years ago that BBC1 New Year is to be left from now on to Sam Ryder, wheeling out banger after banger. And if he’s unavailable, Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
We will NOT accept a return to austerity.
Grow up.
Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’
Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’
Green party leader says he could see potential for political partnership with Labour under Andy Burnham
The Green party leader, Zack Polanski, has said he would refuse to work with Keir Starmer but could work with Andy Burnham, Starmer’s potential rival for the Labour leadership, to keep Reform out of power.
Polanski said he would not enter a political partnership with Labour under the current prime minister, but would consider it if the mayor of Greater Manchester took the helm. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Grow up.
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European politics now faces the rather amusing prospect of any UK Prime Minister who aims to build closer ties with the EU having to go cap in hand to Sofia to get much needed support from a state at the heart of Europe
The takeaway is not that journalists make absurd predictions. This was a blunt, but reasonable headline in 1996. It's that outcomes that seem highly unlikely/wildly optimistic do happen occasionally due to agency. Bulgarians and Europeans took forks in the road over the yrs that made today reality.
An article from December 1996 warns that Bulgaria has no chance of joining Europe and the euro would replace the lev only after the second coming of Christ. Brace yourselves, the euro replaces the lev tonight at midnight! 🤣(and, of course, Bulgaria did join the EU in 2007).
December 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
European politics now faces the rather amusing prospect of any UK Prime Minister who aims to build closer ties with the EU having to go cap in hand to Sofia to get much needed support from a state at the heart of Europe
Remembering how 3 years ago it was about 15C at midnight and I was outside in my pyjamas.
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Remembering how 3 years ago it was about 15C at midnight and I was outside in my pyjamas.
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"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html
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NEWS! '2026 still pretty shit’ warn Australians
‘2026 still pretty shit’ warn Australians
The year 2026 is still ‘pretty shit’ according to Australians who have now begun bringing in the New Year because they live in the future.
buff.ly
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
NEWS! '2026 still pretty shit’ warn Australians
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2026 cricket predictions
- great chunks of the the game will be sold to Saudi Arabia
- the ICC will remain openly corrupt & face no scrutiny
- the Women's T20 World Cup in England will have minimal mainstream cut-through in the host nation, regardless of how they perform (most likely badly)
- great chunks of the the game will be sold to Saudi Arabia
- the ICC will remain openly corrupt & face no scrutiny
- the Women's T20 World Cup in England will have minimal mainstream cut-through in the host nation, regardless of how they perform (most likely badly)
December 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
2026 cricket predictions
- great chunks of the the game will be sold to Saudi Arabia
- the ICC will remain openly corrupt & face no scrutiny
- the Women's T20 World Cup in England will have minimal mainstream cut-through in the host nation, regardless of how they perform (most likely badly)
- great chunks of the the game will be sold to Saudi Arabia
- the ICC will remain openly corrupt & face no scrutiny
- the Women's T20 World Cup in England will have minimal mainstream cut-through in the host nation, regardless of how they perform (most likely badly)
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“Well, I’ve come here today to Greenwich, to have a think about what the country used to be,” says man clearly standing in front of a green screen, with an image of Greenwich superimposed behind him.
December 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
“Well, I’ve come here today to Greenwich, to have a think about what the country used to be,” says man clearly standing in front of a green screen, with an image of Greenwich superimposed behind him.
I mean, NYE is bonkers but a Verbot?
Die Gewerkschaft der Polizei hat eine Petition für ein bundesweites Böllerverbot initiiert - bis Dienstagmittag ist sie von rund 2,7 Millionen Menschen unterzeichnet worden. Wie das Kampagnenportal innn.it mitteilte, handelt es sich damit um die bislang größte Petition in Deutschland.
December 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I mean, NYE is bonkers but a Verbot?