James Leakyboots Batty
@jamesbatty.bsky.social
I run a charity with my wife (One And All Aid), which funds education for Yezidis, following the 2014 genocide. In my spare time I fish and write. Two fishing books have been published, and my new book is a comedy adventure novel, Criminal Bycatch.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Brits, please remember with everything that's happening in the US right now, that Nigel Farage wants the UK to create an ICE-style organisation for exactly the same stated purpose.
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Brits, please remember with everything that's happening in the US right now, that Nigel Farage wants the UK to create an ICE-style organisation for exactly the same stated purpose.
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Biochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941.
She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM
She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM
January 26, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Biochemist/molecular biologist Joan Steitz was born #OTD in 1941.
She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM
She (& team) figured out how our cells read/use genetic instructions to make proteins. A key person who helped crack the code on RNA—the molecule that acts like a messenger between DNA & and the proteins our bodies need. #WomenInSTEM
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Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 26, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
.. she confided in one lunch guest that she found him 'very rude', Brown wrote.
He also alleged the Queen "particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting."
The late queen Elizabeth on Trump, per the Daily Mirror
He also alleged the Queen "particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting."
The late queen Elizabeth on Trump, per the Daily Mirror
January 26, 2026 at 6:53 PM
.. she confided in one lunch guest that she found him 'very rude', Brown wrote.
He also alleged the Queen "particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting."
The late queen Elizabeth on Trump, per the Daily Mirror
He also alleged the Queen "particularly disliked the way he couldn't stop looking over her shoulder, as though in search of others more interesting."
The late queen Elizabeth on Trump, per the Daily Mirror
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"Straight cringe" is a strange way to write "the murder of a nurse in broad daylight by nazi thugs in the service of the White House."
Rachael Bade has finally encountered a situation she cannot spin for Republicans
January 25, 2026 at 11:23 PM
"Straight cringe" is a strange way to write "the murder of a nurse in broad daylight by nazi thugs in the service of the White House."
January 25, 2026 at 7:37 PM
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
#FamousAndFelonious
Captain Jack the Ripper
Captain Jack the Ripper
January 25, 2026 at 7:29 PM
#FamousAndFelonious
Captain Jack the Ripper
Captain Jack the Ripper
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Have you seen Reform's plan to cut our NHS and give the wealthiest a tax cut?
youtu.be/TN3lGQzTpu4?...
youtu.be/TN3lGQzTpu4?...
Farage / Reform wants to privatise the NHS
YouTube video by National Rejoin March
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Have you seen Reform's plan to cut our NHS and give the wealthiest a tax cut?
youtu.be/TN3lGQzTpu4?...
youtu.be/TN3lGQzTpu4?...
Watching the horrific videos of ICE, I can only commend the brave people who take them.
If the goons behave like this when they are being filmed, I can't imagine how lawless & brutal they'd be if they thought nobody was watching & recording.
If the goons behave like this when they are being filmed, I can't imagine how lawless & brutal they'd be if they thought nobody was watching & recording.
January 25, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Watching the horrific videos of ICE, I can only commend the brave people who take them.
If the goons behave like this when they are being filmed, I can't imagine how lawless & brutal they'd be if they thought nobody was watching & recording.
If the goons behave like this when they are being filmed, I can't imagine how lawless & brutal they'd be if they thought nobody was watching & recording.
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Dr Assal Rad—
“If you’re rightfully horrified by what’s happening in the U.S., remember that this is daily life for Palestinians under Israeli occupation—funded by our tax dollars.
“The imperial boomerang is real. That’s why you can’t ignore what we do across the world as an issue “over there”.”
“If you’re rightfully horrified by what’s happening in the U.S., remember that this is daily life for Palestinians under Israeli occupation—funded by our tax dollars.
“The imperial boomerang is real. That’s why you can’t ignore what we do across the world as an issue “over there”.”
January 25, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Dr Assal Rad—
“If you’re rightfully horrified by what’s happening in the U.S., remember that this is daily life for Palestinians under Israeli occupation—funded by our tax dollars.
“The imperial boomerang is real. That’s why you can’t ignore what we do across the world as an issue “over there”.”
“If you’re rightfully horrified by what’s happening in the U.S., remember that this is daily life for Palestinians under Israeli occupation—funded by our tax dollars.
“The imperial boomerang is real. That’s why you can’t ignore what we do across the world as an issue “over there”.”
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January 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Want to make an author's day?
👍🏻Leave a rating or review!
👄Tell a friend about the book!
🛩️Hire a sky writer! (JK. Unless you really want to.)
However you pass the word about our books, we appreciate it!!!
Thank you for reading ❤️
👍🏻Leave a rating or review!
👄Tell a friend about the book!
🛩️Hire a sky writer! (JK. Unless you really want to.)
However you pass the word about our books, we appreciate it!!!
Thank you for reading ❤️
I am reading outrage on Trump's assertion that non-US Nato countries didn't do much in Afghanistan.
This comes from Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, Greens, SNP, & Plaid.
I wonder why the alleged uber-patriots of Reform are silent. Maybe they smell money from Trump's far right billionaire backers.
This comes from Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, Greens, SNP, & Plaid.
I wonder why the alleged uber-patriots of Reform are silent. Maybe they smell money from Trump's far right billionaire backers.
January 23, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I am reading outrage on Trump's assertion that non-US Nato countries didn't do much in Afghanistan.
This comes from Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, Greens, SNP, & Plaid.
I wonder why the alleged uber-patriots of Reform are silent. Maybe they smell money from Trump's far right billionaire backers.
This comes from Labour, Lib Dems, Conservatives, Greens, SNP, & Plaid.
I wonder why the alleged uber-patriots of Reform are silent. Maybe they smell money from Trump's far right billionaire backers.
I was lucky. Power cuts for 5 days, total 40 hours. Local shops had no card payment facility. I had cash, so bought bread & milk for a couple of older folk with none, against the promise they'd shove something in a charity box later.
We Cornish are resilient.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
We Cornish are resilient.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Cornwall isn’t resilient enough’: towns struggle with broadband outage after Storm Goretti
Politicians call for more infrastructure funding amid anger that county is seen as ‘holiday playground’
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I was lucky. Power cuts for 5 days, total 40 hours. Local shops had no card payment facility. I had cash, so bought bread & milk for a couple of older folk with none, against the promise they'd shove something in a charity box later.
We Cornish are resilient.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
We Cornish are resilient.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Waiting for Nigel Farage to justify Trump's comment here.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump sparks anger with claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line
The US president said allied troops had
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Waiting for Nigel Farage to justify Trump's comment here.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#MyHandwritingSays anything you want it to say
January 23, 2026 at 7:05 AM
#MyHandwritingSays anything you want it to say