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Jane
@localnotail.bsky.social
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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary
taking notes, library & research assistant

English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth.
Meet me in my pinned if you want.

🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Jan 30
I've been Charley on social media for over a decade & I've also had IRL harassment so no personal photo or surname on my profile.

But if you ever want to know what I'm like & who I am, in 2018 I did a video for Final Say for All about me & why Brexit was personal:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-JO...
FSFA Birmingham - Jane
YouTube video by Final Say For All - Beehives
www.youtube.com
localnotail.bsky.social
but we made it to February, finally
February 1, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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2001
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Jan 30
"Little wonder that a number of senior ministers and former colleagues were seriously wondering whether Mr Mandelson was suffering from some form of breakdown. It had sent his judgment haywire and coloured his perception of the cold reality that his behaviour was making him a liability to his party"
s/s from Telegraph article Has Mandelson gone mad? By Joe Murphy 11 February 2001 The gaunt figure eased himself out of an armour-plated Daimler limousine, smoothed his suit over his slender frame and marched into the building. Peter Mandelson, his face a ghastly white, looked a fragile but determined figure as he entered the marbled walls of the Daily Mail, a newspaper he had many times spoken of in tones of utter loathing, an enemy of everything for which the Labour Party stood. Many ministers had gone there before him, always on charm offensives to attempt to persuade the Mail group to be more friendly towards Tony Blair and New Labour. Mr Mandelson's mission was personal, however, and had the opposite intention. He wanted the newspaper to take his side against the Prime Minister, who two weeks earlier had forced him to resign from the Government and thus branded him a liar. https://archive.ph/iRmiW
January 31, 2026 at 10:13 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
crazy, crazy like a fox, or crazy fucked?

Peter Mandelson went mad in the early 00s, Mike Skinner just got the date wrong

youtu.be/Ue1U9Se6jQI?...

bsky.app/profile/loca...
March 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#ThisIsAmerica
jennycohn.bsky.social Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h
The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi
The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:07 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
#EpsteinFiles
peterjukes.bsky.social Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19h
This is new to me. We knew that Epstein was working with Kremlin official Belyakov to circumvent sanctions post Crimea, but his eagerness to help Putin beat the West predates that

“Reinventing the financial system”
January 31, 2026 at 9:53 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Photo of 1980s aerobics craze woman in leotard smiling manically while pointing to herself with her thumb text arranged around displayed in mint-green and berry: I am Tired so unbelievably tired SO HILARIOUSLY & ALARMINGLY TIRED
January 31, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
The Captain Haddock What a Week, Huh? meme is real Tintin artwork from The Crab with the Golden Claws (when Captain Haddock's opium cargo is discovered),
but the dialogue was added from 30 Rock in a 2017 meme
What a Week, Huh? Original Panel (English, from The Crab with the Golden Claws) Tintin: Thanks! I've just got out of them! I've spent enough time in your hold with its cargo of opium! Didn't you know? Captain Haddock: Opium!... But n-h now?... It's frightful!. I'm an hon- ... an honest man...and not but who...? it must be Allan, the f-first mate, who has... he.. he's double -cross ing me... 0.0.opium? There's opium in the hold ?... In my hold...m.-m-mine? ..." What a Week, Huh? Lemon, it's Wednesday 2014 Meme image of 2 shots from a 2009 episode of the TV show 30 Rock the character Liz Lemon, portrayed by Tina Fey, complains to her boss Jack Donaghy, portrayed by Alec Baldwin, about having finished a hard week at work, with Donaghey reminding her that it is still Wednesday https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
January 23, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
OK enough already 2026
Captain Haddock at a bar looking very frazzled, saying, “What a year, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame on the left and says, “Captain, it’s still January.” On his other side, Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found. The original meme is Captain Haddock: “What a week, huh?” Tintin: “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” What a Week, Huh? refers to a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics depicting characters Tintin and Captain Haddock that was recaptioned with a humorous exchange from a 2009 episode of the sitcom 30 Rock. The recaptioned panel gained significant popularity as a reaction image used to express tiredness and being overwhelmed, but is also used as a template for redraws. In November 2020, the Twitter gimmick account @whataweekhuh gained viral popularity https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
January 23, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
It is now 85 seconds to midnight

#DoomsdayClock
Frame from Tintin comic made until a recurrent meme by people like me who can't cope with how fast we are falling right now Captain Haddock at a bar looking very frazzled, saying, “What a year, huh?” Tintin leans into the frame on the left and says, “Captain, it’s still January.” On his other side, Snowy aka Milou is very excited about the drink he has found. The original meme is Captain Haddock: “What a week, huh?” Tintin: “Captain, it’s Wednesday.” What a Week, Huh? refers to a panel from The Adventures of Tintin comics depicting characters Tintin and Captain Haddock that was recaptioned with a humorous exchange from a 2009 episode of the sitcom 30 Rock. The recaptioned panel gained significant popularity as a reaction image used to express tiredness and being overwhelmed, but is also used as a template for redraws. In November 2020, the Twitter gimmick account @whataweekhuh gained viral popularity https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-a-week-huh
January 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
The US alt-right have generated a fantasy out of an imaginary girl called Amelie in a 2023 UK animation choose-your-path game to help with screening for far-right ideology
(following a surge ever since Brexit enabled public xenophobia, compounded by increasing immigration under the Conservatives)
Screenshots from the linked article AI-GENERATED IMAGE of a smiling white girl with a slightly purple bob haircut at an unreal 1960s street market with lots of produce, a policeman, not many people and all of them also white. Text: This video portrays Amelia traveling back in time to the 1960s, the color saturation becoming brighter to portray how some far-right supporters perceive Britain was then. (Amelia the Patriot/X) AI-GENERATED IMAGE of purple haired Amelia in a uniform jacket marked ICE - UK DIVISION with a tablet computer I k e hand and the gesturing towards speaking two black males in handcuffs who are leaving their home. Behind her I the dark street there appear to be armed security officers Text: The videos play into anti-migrant and racist tropes. (Amelia the Patriot/X) AI-GENERATED IMAGE Amelia sitting in the chair from the Matrix where Morpheus tells Neo about blue pills and red pills. Subtitle: It's not the world that's wrong, Charlie. Text: The "red pill" is a popular incel meme. (Amelia the Patriot/X)
January 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Lookalikes @privateeyenews.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
maybe it was a deliberate sick joke?
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Oct 28
Was there really not a single British person on the Donald Trump campaign slogan team?
photo of Donald Trump at his campaign lectern which has "Trump Will Fix It" as the main slogan photo of flamboyant sexual predator paedophile and alleged necrophiliac Jimmy Saville holding a "Jim Fixed It For Me" badge from his Jim'll Fix it show
January 31, 2026 at 6:45 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
Please can we be sure to never let Curtis Yarvin appear on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social again?
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social - Newsnight should not be platforming these people
localnotail.bsky.social Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7d
finally understand what Curtis Yarvin's Neoreactionary (NRx) movement is all about

all a big pile of steaming yarbles
what a fking rotter
X-twitter post by Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin She drove her car at a cop. He pulled a gun on the cops. Watch the way the lib, without denying these basic and fundamental facts, sinuously works around them 8:53 PM Jan 24, 2026 206 Views this is his original version He edited it to remove the word basic from his self-serving denial
January 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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#ThisIsAmerica
2018 photo of a young person holding up a handwritten sign which reads "First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that" They are possibly Filipino, like the journalist Maria Ressa, who reads this line out in her 2020 documentary , ‘A Thousand Cuts’, about how press freedom has been threatened in the Philippines Explain more? "First They Came" (German: Als sie kamen lit. 'When they came', or Habe ich geschwiegen lit. 'I did not speak out'), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose piece by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). It indirectly condemns complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets. it has inspired many versions. "First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me" "Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat. Als sie die Juden einsperrten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Jude. Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte." (When the Nazis came for the communists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a communist. When they came for the trade unionists, I kept quiet; I wasn't a trade unionist. When they locked up the social democrats, I kept quiet; I wasn't a social democrat. When they locked up the Jews, I kept quiet; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to protest)
June 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
British Culture: Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979.

Photo © Virginia Turbett

via @britcultarchive.bsky.social
britishculturearchive.co.uk/archive-gall...
Black and white photo of young people in a protest crowd in West Bromwich, 1979 Young black man in the centre with a short afro with bleach streaks is holding a large sign on a long stick which reads "NO TO NAZIS IN WEST BROMWICH 28 APRIL 4PM HARDWARE ST MASS PICKET OF NF" (National Front) Young white man with close cropped hair has his arm protectively around the sign holder and a defiant grimace on his face Anti-Nazi Demo, West Bromwich, 1979. Photo © Virginia Turbett, all rights reserved https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/virginia-turbett-uk-protests-1970s/
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
We’ve got a 30 second cut and desperately want to put it on TV.

But we’ve gotta raise the money first. Chip in $6, $12, or our average donation of $32 to tell the people about my attack cat: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
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January 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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photonegative image of Kat Abughazaleh's ferocious attack cat which has glowing red eyes
January 31, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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#ThisIsAmerica
timothysnyder.bsky.social Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14h
Homan's message: When we kill you, you have to be especially nice to us. Or else we will keep killing you.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 31, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"
wajali.bsky.social Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d
Disgusting.

In an email on Sept. 11, 2013, Mr. Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, wrote to Mr. Epstein, “It was really nice seeing you yesterday.” He added: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Millions of Pages of Epstein Documents Released
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:47 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
#ThisIsAmerica
gelliottmorris.com G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h
Great work from the FT's John Burn-Murdoch www.ft.com/content/b474...
January 31, 2026 at 5:07 PM
localnotail.bsky.social
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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swearyspider.bsky.social
Let me get this straight. Boris Johnson is backing a campaign to deliver the ‘proper Brexit’ that Boris Johnson didn’t deliver whilst in power?
January 31, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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localnotail.bsky.social
New 1/30/2026: DOJ released volumes 9-11, nearly 300 GB of new Epstein Files. Currently being indexed and uploaded to Jmail
jmail.world

#EpsteinFiles
peterjukes.bsky.social Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15h
Jmail.world has not only begun to process new Epstein’s emails in readable inbox format, they’ve even begun to mock up his text messages.

Here’s Bannon boasting he called Yaxley-Lennon “the backbone of Britain” but also acting as Ehud Barak’s strategic advisor
January 31, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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nome.bsky.social
The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"
A goofy looking quadruped, something like a shell less turtle, with wide-splayed legs and a vacant expression.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
localnotail.bsky.social
Trump brand ceasefire

#Gaza
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h
Videos from Gaza show huge explosions as Israeli air attacks hit a building in Gaza City and tents in al-Mawasi.

Gaza’s Government Media Office says more than 500 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect on October 10.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 PM