Jane
@localnotail.bsky.social
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
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
FSFA Birmingham - Jane
YouTube video by Final Say For All - Beehives
www.youtube.com
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...
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...
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Design Firm That Donated £200,000 to Reform UK Owed £218,000 in Tax
Design Firm That Donated £200,000 to Reform UK Owed £218,000 in Tax
Authorities threatened to close down Interior Architecture Landscape due to unpaid taxes. The design firm still managed to make a major donation to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The firm said the…
www.occrp.org
February 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Design Firm That Donated £200,000 to Reform UK Owed £218,000 in Tax
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Prof David Howarth sets out constitutional paths to stripping peers of their titles, but concludes it’s best just to get rid of the whole damned bloated corruption riddled thing. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/drhow/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/drhow/p/...
Peter Mandelson and the Future of the House of Lords
Nearly everyone in British politics has reason to hate Peter Mandelson.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Prof David Howarth sets out constitutional paths to stripping peers of their titles, but concludes it’s best just to get rid of the whole damned bloated corruption riddled thing. 👇
open.substack.com/pub/drhow/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/drhow/p/...
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Have you heard the story of the actual kids that Lord of the Flies was based on? Lovely bunch who in reality looked after each other.
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Have you heard the story of the actual kids that Lord of the Flies was based on? Lovely bunch who in reality looked after each other.
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
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UK textile artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #WomensArt
February 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
UK textile artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #WomensArt
new campaign slogan @reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform UK: starve a kid to save a quid! 🍻
"Single-parent families would be blocked no matter the work status of the parent, as would families where one or both parents are non-Brits."
"Single-parent families would be blocked no matter the work status of the parent, as would families where one or both parents are non-Brits."
February 3, 2026 at 6:08 PM
new campaign slogan @reformexposed.bsky.social
small print in Nigel Farage's Reform UK plan to reimpose the 2 child limit to fund cheaper beer:
"This means the party would reimpose the cap for most families. The only exceptions would be for families where both parents were British and working full-time"
"This means the party would reimpose the cap for most families. The only exceptions would be for families where both parents were British and working full-time"
February 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
small print in Nigel Farage's Reform UK plan to reimpose the 2 child limit to fund cheaper beer:
"This means the party would reimpose the cap for most families. The only exceptions would be for families where both parents were British and working full-time"
"This means the party would reimpose the cap for most families. The only exceptions would be for families where both parents were British and working full-time"
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Also March 2025: Harvey Fierstein speaks out against Donald Trump and how he's been banned from the Kennedy Center (for speaking out against Trump)
![Instagram theharveyfierstein I have been banned from THE KENNEDY CENTER.
[Black and white image of Harvey Fierstein and Marsha P. Johnson https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/marsha-p-johnson]
A few folks have written to ask how I feel about Trump's takeover of The Kennedy Center. How do you think I feel? The shows I've written are now banned from being performed in our premiere American theater. Those shows, most of which have been performed there in the past, include, KINKY BOOTS. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, TORCH SONG TRILOGY, HAIRSPRAY, SAFE SEX, CASA VALENTINA, SPOOKHOUSE, A CATERED AFFAIR, THE SISSY DUCKLING, BELLA BELLA and more.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHUaqGwSxFy/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihpovdxjyxh5qnkfcko6pmfxrqpiomqsnowgyylhim4xv5v77a3xa@jpeg)
December 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Also March 2025: Harvey Fierstein speaks out against Donald Trump and how he's been banned from the Kennedy Center (for speaking out against Trump)
This is why Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre on July 4 - nobody decent will play there for him after what he's done, so he's shutting it down as a cover-up
March 2025 Hamilton Producers Cancel Upcoming Kennedy Center Engagement Following Trump Takeover: “Some Institutions Are Sacred And Should Be Protected From Politics”
They had planned a 3rd season in 2026 as part of America's 250th anniversary (Semiquincentennial)
deadline.com/2025/03/hami...
They had planned a 3rd season in 2026 as part of America's 250th anniversary (Semiquincentennial)
deadline.com/2025/03/hami...
‘Hamilton’ Producers Cancel Upcoming Kennedy Center Engagement Following Trump Takeover: “Some Institutions Are Sacred And Should Be Protected From Politics”
Producers decried the "recent purge by the Trump Administration" of the venue's professional staff and center-produced events in their decision.
deadline.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is why Trump is closing the Kennedy Centre on July 4 - nobody decent will play there for him after what he's done, so he's shutting it down as a cover-up
This thread has my Kennedy Centre notes in
Trump & his gang went to see Les Mis at the Kennedy Centre, which is a little on the nose for the current climate of people rising together against government oppression.
They got both boos and cheers ( USA chants, sadly)
Enthusiastic applause however for the drag section
bsky.app/profile/artc...
They got both boos and cheers ( USA chants, sadly)
Enthusiastic applause however for the drag section
bsky.app/profile/artc...
February 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
This thread has my Kennedy Centre notes in
❤️ the daily diversity of @britishvoter.bsky.social
100% agree with this and the British Election Study bot provides plenty of evidence for it - regularly spitting out actual voters with combinations of beliefs which the terminally online would regard as impossible
oh I've written about this before! one of the big problems with people developing those assumptions is also that they become entirely unable to then engage with normies who represent like.....98% of the population, and whose beliefs are formed on a much more case-by-case basis
February 3, 2026 at 4:10 PM
❤️ the daily diversity of @britishvoter.bsky.social
Being openly MAGA must be like constantly punching yourself in the nuts
February 3, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Getting mad about movie casting is a gateway to enlisting with ICE
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Getting mad about movie casting is a gateway to enlisting with ICE
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There's only one reason why Donald Trump would order the closure of the Kennedy Centre on July 4th 2026, America's 250th yr
Nobody good wants to play for him
It's that simple.
Anyone with artistic credibility has been boycotting it since he took over last year, as the notes in this thread show ☝️
Nobody good wants to play for him
It's that simple.
Anyone with artistic credibility has been boycotting it since he took over last year, as the notes in this thread show ☝️
Q: Do you plan on tearing the Kennedy Center down and how much will all of the renovations cost?
TRUMP: Probably around $200 million. I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel. So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble.
TRUMP: Probably around $200 million. I'm not ripping it down. I'll be using the steel. So we're using the structure. We're using some of the marble.
February 3, 2026 at 3:51 PM
There's only one reason why Donald Trump would order the closure of the Kennedy Centre on July 4th 2026, America's 250th yr
Nobody good wants to play for him
It's that simple.
Anyone with artistic credibility has been boycotting it since he took over last year, as the notes in this thread show ☝️
Nobody good wants to play for him
It's that simple.
Anyone with artistic credibility has been boycotting it since he took over last year, as the notes in this thread show ☝️
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There's a truthful narrative that politicians in the west and especially in the UK could be telling voters and it is this:
Steve Bannon conspired to use far-right groups to destabilise Europe + destroy Western post-war progress into peace and equality.
Jeffrey Epstein helped him, Trump was his tool.
Steve Bannon conspired to use far-right groups to destabilise Europe + destroy Western post-war progress into peace and equality.
Jeffrey Epstein helped him, Trump was his tool.
March 2018 exchange begins with Steve Bannon saying he may give the keynote speech at the Front Nationale Conference in Lille.
The end:
Bannon: I now am advisor to Front: salvini/ the league; afd: Swiss peoples, orban; land and freedom, farage
Epstein: Roger that
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
The end:
Bannon: I now am advisor to Front: salvini/ the league; afd: Swiss peoples, orban; land and freedom, farage
Epstein: Roger that
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM
There's a truthful narrative that politicians in the west and especially in the UK could be telling voters and it is this:
Steve Bannon conspired to use far-right groups to destabilise Europe + destroy Western post-war progress into peace and equality.
Jeffrey Epstein helped him, Trump was his tool.
Steve Bannon conspired to use far-right groups to destabilise Europe + destroy Western post-war progress into peace and equality.
Jeffrey Epstein helped him, Trump was his tool.
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Around the same time these two were thinking about a Facebook role for him, Peter Mandelson was also tipped to be in the running for WTO chief
while Jeffrey Epstein was registered as the highest level of sex offender in New York “high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists”
while Jeffrey Epstein was registered as the highest level of sex offender in New York “high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists”
![Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Ruth Pickholz, J.), entered on or about January 18, 2011, which adjudicated defendant a level three sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (Correction Law art 6-C), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Clear and convincing evidence, including reliable hearsay (see People v Mingo, 12 NY3d 563, 571 [2009]) supported the assessment of points for risk factors sufficient for a level three sex offender adjudication (Correction Law § 168-n[3]). In the circumstances of this case, the court properly relied on highly reliable proof of criminal conduct for which defendant was neither indicted nor convicted.
The sex offender adjudication arises out of defendant's sex offenses in Florida. The evidence before the SORA hearing court established that defendant committed multiple offenses against a series of underage girls. The girls were brought to defendant's home to provide "massages" that led to very serious sex crimes.
https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/appellate-division-first-department/2011/6081-30129-10-0.html](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreig4qlrkvqnyzglhstn4cvdxan574ausqztt4xj7btbyjdsbmfzefq@jpeg)
February 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Around the same time these two were thinking about a Facebook role for him, Peter Mandelson was also tipped to be in the running for WTO chief
while Jeffrey Epstein was registered as the highest level of sex offender in New York “high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists”
while Jeffrey Epstein was registered as the highest level of sex offender in New York “high risk of repeat offense and a threat to public safety exists”
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Steve Wright, already serving a whole life jail sentence for murdering five women in and around Ipswich in 2006, today admitted murdering 17 yr old Victoria Halland in 1999 + also the attempted kidnap of a 22-year-old woman the night before Victoria disappeared.
He is due to be sentenced on Friday.
He is due to be sentenced on Friday.
Steve Wright: Serial killer pleads guilty to murder of teen years before Suffolk killings
The body of Victoria, an A-level student, was found five days after a night out in 1999. Wright is already serving a whole life sentence for the murder of five women in 2006.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Steve Wright, already serving a whole life jail sentence for murdering five women in and around Ipswich in 2006, today admitted murdering 17 yr old Victoria Halland in 1999 + also the attempted kidnap of a 22-year-old woman the night before Victoria disappeared.
He is due to be sentenced on Friday.
He is due to be sentenced on Friday.
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Is this the moment when Bill Clinton's cognitive impairment becomes well-established?
NEW: Huge moment in the Epstein story in the US. Bill and Hillary Clinton give into Congressional pressure to testify before the House Oversight Committee Epstein investigation
Will be the first time a former president has appeared before Congress in nearly half a century.
Will be the first time a former president has appeared before Congress in nearly half a century.
February 3, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Is this the moment when Bill Clinton's cognitive impairment becomes well-established?
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You're so right dude, things have gotten crazy downtown.
![1
[Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter]
MAN:
Please can I have a sausage roll.
2
GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT:
Certainly sir
[She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor].
Whoosh
3
[The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]:
Welcome, friend
4
[We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache]
COMMANDER:
You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”…
So now you're one of us.
5
MAN:
W-where am I ...?
[We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc]
6
COMMANDER:
You've joined the resistance…
...against people saying things all American.
7
COMMANDER:
We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”.
8
LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]:
Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir
COMMANDER:
Very good
9
[Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc
COMMANDER:
You may have heard our name... We are...
10
COMMANDER:
...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English!
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[Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]:
F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.
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MAN
You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack'
COMMANDER:
We didn't spot the acronym
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February 2, 2026 at 11:29 PM
You're so right dude, things have gotten crazy downtown.
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I'm old enough to remember when Matt Goodwin identified as a nerd.
(as is anyone born this decade)
(as is anyone born this decade)
February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I'm old enough to remember when Matt Goodwin identified as a nerd.
(as is anyone born this decade)
(as is anyone born this decade)
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I am writing a strongly worded letter to the president of the Royal Society of Nerds to demand that Matt Goodwin be stripped of his fellowship 🙃
![[s/s from Sunday Times article referenced in the quoted post by Mary Beard]
There was a time when Goodwin studied political history, but you get the sense he always dreamed of making it himself. Now he has that chance. But there won’t be invitations for pasta in north London arriving any time soon. “Most of these people criticising me are nerds,” he says. “The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard. I’d rather shoot myself in the head.”
https://archive.ph/ycr4Z](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreifmwboejymwtxtevtmsig76cbr4uiizckkpyzg2e7d647lqrquzli@jpeg)
![s/s of Matthew Goodwin's Twitter feed mentions of "nerds"
@GooidwinMJ • Jun 23, 2016 Matt Goodwin
The night nerds live for. 12 hours of political analysis. Let's go! @anandMenon1 @simonjhix
#Isebrexitvote #EUref.
[selfie photo of him with 3 other politics nerds from the LSE]
Matt Gooodwin @GoidwinMJ Jun 15, 2016
If you are an EU referendum nerd get a drink, sit back & watch some other nerds talk about the referendum
youtube.com/watch?time con... #euref](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihqjnvsfi5ndnmo5dz44yggxkwaqkasy5tr7thltazfuz5rqmnmla@jpeg)
February 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I am writing a strongly worded letter to the president of the Royal Society of Nerds to demand that Matt Goodwin be stripped of his fellowship 🙃