Greg Funnell
@gregfunnell.bsky.social
// UK based Travel & Lifestyle photographer
// Fellow of Royal Geographical Society
// Co-host of the Exposed Negative Podcast
https://www.gregfunnell.com/linktree/
// Fellow of Royal Geographical Society
// Co-host of the Exposed Negative Podcast
https://www.gregfunnell.com/linktree/
Can’t believe this is not a post from the Onion…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that sans serif fonts aren’t suited for world-class diplomacy and ordered the department to drop Calibri in favor of Times New Roman, reversing a Biden-era policy intended to help employees who are visually impaired.
Calibri font banished as U.S. diplomacy returns to Times New Roman
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden administration’s shift to a sans serif font, to assist people with vision issues, a “wasteful” diversity move.
wapo.st
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Can’t believe this is not a post from the Onion…
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All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.
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NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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October 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Many years ago I was asked to present a TV doc on Cathy Leroy - we interviewed friends & colleagues who knew her, even visited her mother in Paris who’d preserved her childhood room complete with various awards & published work. Sadly we never got funding. Hers is a story waiting to be told.
What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
What Catherine Leroy’s Fearless Photographs Reveal About the Vietnam War
Fifty years after its horrors, we know that the press helped to turn public opinion against the conflict. That’s because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.
www.newyorker.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Many years ago I was asked to present a TV doc on Cathy Leroy - we interviewed friends & colleagues who knew her, even visited her mother in Paris who’d preserved her childhood room complete with various awards & published work. Sadly we never got funding. Hers is a story waiting to be told.
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In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this
In Britain, a former far-right Reform party politician has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian viewpoints.
Another scandal that should be the end of Reform but will be ignored unless we make a lot of noise about it.
Another scandal that should be the end of Reform but will be ignored unless we make a lot of noise about it.
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this
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Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
September 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.
www.reuters.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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WHY WE LOOK? Because a photographer's revealed how he checked his old contact sheets and uncovered the never-before-seen photo that shows Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's 1993 wedding.
petapixel.com/2025/07/23/p...
petapixel.com/2025/07/23/p...
Photographer Checks Archive and Discovers Unseen Image of Epstein at Trump's Wedding
The image reveals, for the first time, that Epstein attended Trump's second wedding.
petapixel.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
WHY WE LOOK? Because a photographer's revealed how he checked his old contact sheets and uncovered the never-before-seen photo that shows Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's 1993 wedding.
petapixel.com/2025/07/23/p...
petapixel.com/2025/07/23/p...
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🚨 Russian fascists send kidnapped Ukrainian children turning 18 to the front line in Ukraine. Estimated to be in the thousands.
Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields.
These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields.
These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.
July 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨 Russian fascists send kidnapped Ukrainian children turning 18 to the front line in Ukraine. Estimated to be in the thousands.
Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields.
These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.
Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields.
These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.
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Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal?
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
(1/2)
PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard!
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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For the first couple day most of the AI videos were dumb but harmless. Now most of the ones I see are straight up racist.
Google Veo 3 providing new and exciting ways to do racism.
June 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
For the first couple day most of the AI videos were dumb but harmless. Now most of the ones I see are straight up racist.
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Trump posts: "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
June 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trump posts: "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
Looks like we are headed for a US-backed war of regime change in Iran. Buckle up.
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80 year old man: “Golden Dome!”
18 year old FPV drone operators:
18 year old FPV drone operators:
Synthetic aperture radar images, analysed by Chris Biggers, an expert, showing the impact of Ukraine’s strikes.
June 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
80 year old man: “Golden Dome!”
18 year old FPV drone operators:
18 year old FPV drone operators:
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.
OK, sent out this free piece on the details of the Trump "final" plan for Ukraine that has been seen by Axios. The 5 points have basically been dictated by Putin. They set up a process which would allow Russia to expand into all of its neighbors.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Trump "Final" Proposal For Ukraine
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.
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Just incredible. 'The URL for an article about combat medic Charles Norman Shay of the Penobscot tribe, who survived the D-Day landings in 1944, now reads “deinative-american-fought-with-distinction-in-world-war-ii-and-korea.”' www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just incredible. 'The URL for an article about combat medic Charles Norman Shay of the Penobscot tribe, who survived the D-Day landings in 1944, now reads “deinative-american-fought-with-distinction-in-world-war-ii-and-korea.”' www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
March 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically.
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
www.defense.gov/News/Feature...
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Highly authoritarian behaviour to deport lawful residents for saying & doing things that don’t violate the law. The same powers could be abused to target a wide range of politically dissenting voices with a chilling effect on free speech.
So, presumably, if you’re on a visa or a green card and you express views that are arbitrarily determined to be a “threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States,” you can be disappeared (without breaking any laws).
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Highly authoritarian behaviour to deport lawful residents for saying & doing things that don’t violate the law. The same powers could be abused to target a wide range of politically dissenting voices with a chilling effect on free speech.
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Last week, if SNL did a sketch about Trump hawking Tesla's on the White House lawn, people would have complained it was too absurd.
March 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Last week, if SNL did a sketch about Trump hawking Tesla's on the White House lawn, people would have complained it was too absurd.
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Truly shameful. This will cost Ukrainian lives. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. suspends commercial satellite imagery service to Ukraine
Maxar, a leading provider of orbital imagery, said that the U.S. government has decided to temporarily suspend services to Ukraine. Soldiers on the ground are feeling the impact already.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Truly shameful. This will cost Ukrainian lives. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Trump, the self-styled 'master negotiator', has removed any leverage for Putin to come to the table. The only possible conclusions are either/some combination of a) he's actually a terrible negotiator b) he's indifferent to what happens to Ukraine c) he wants Russia to win.
March 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Trump, the self-styled 'master negotiator', has removed any leverage for Putin to come to the table. The only possible conclusions are either/some combination of a) he's actually a terrible negotiator b) he's indifferent to what happens to Ukraine c) he wants Russia to win.