Janette McLeod
@truffle157.bsky.social
Feminist, socialist(ish), peace activist, human rights supporter, family historian, traveller, reader, political junkie.
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How salty is your bit of ocean? The Mediterranean is very salty. Where rivers flow into the ocean water is less salty. Fascinating map to study. Source: buff.ly/knrOS7J
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 PM
How salty is your bit of ocean? The Mediterranean is very salty. Where rivers flow into the ocean water is less salty. Fascinating map to study. Source: buff.ly/knrOS7J
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If you subscribe to my newsletter Nervous Laughter you, too, can enjoy me Clever Hans-ing my way through to a French plumber. And also occasionally my more serious thoughts on the world being properly cooked. It's free for all, paid if you want. rick-morton.ghost.io/plumb-and-pl...
February 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM
If you subscribe to my newsletter Nervous Laughter you, too, can enjoy me Clever Hans-ing my way through to a French plumber. And also occasionally my more serious thoughts on the world being properly cooked. It's free for all, paid if you want. rick-morton.ghost.io/plumb-and-pl...
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The Human Archipelago: only territories are shown where population density exceeds 1 human per square kilometer.
February 2, 2026 at 5:17 AM
The Human Archipelago: only territories are shown where population density exceeds 1 human per square kilometer.
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It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
February 2, 2026 at 8:20 AM
It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵
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I'm guessing that the "Jes" in this message is that other moral paragon, Jes Staley, though I can't be sure. A Labour government minister, channelling the demands of his finance-bro chums.
This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for.
This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for.
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I'm guessing that the "Jes" in this message is that other moral paragon, Jes Staley, though I can't be sure. A Labour government minister, channelling the demands of his finance-bro chums.
This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for.
This, my friends, is how it happens. This is why we don't get what we want, or what we vote for.
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And read part 1 of our Palantir report from earlier this week, revealing the extent of Palantir’s UK contracts, including with our nuclear weapons agency, here:
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
And read part 1 of our Palantir report from earlier this week, revealing the extent of Palantir’s UK contracts, including with our nuclear weapons agency, here:
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
January 31, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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And read part 1 of our Palantir report from earlier this week, revealing the extent of Palantir’s UK contracts, including with our nuclear weapons agency, here:
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
And read part 1 of our Palantir report from earlier this week, revealing the extent of Palantir’s UK contracts, including with our nuclear weapons agency, here:
www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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✨ Stories of Feminist Peace Calendar is out ✨
A month-by-month reflection of feminist organising, resistance & solidarity across our movement – a different way to read our #2025AnnualReport.
January–June stories are available now, with the rest of the year coming very soon!
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A month-by-month reflection of feminist organising, resistance & solidarity across our movement – a different way to read our #2025AnnualReport.
January–June stories are available now, with the rest of the year coming very soon!
🗓️ shorturl.at/Tq9n7
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 PM
✨ Stories of Feminist Peace Calendar is out ✨
A month-by-month reflection of feminist organising, resistance & solidarity across our movement – a different way to read our #2025AnnualReport.
January–June stories are available now, with the rest of the year coming very soon!
🗓️ shorturl.at/Tq9n7
A month-by-month reflection of feminist organising, resistance & solidarity across our movement – a different way to read our #2025AnnualReport.
January–June stories are available now, with the rest of the year coming very soon!
🗓️ shorturl.at/Tq9n7
Explains a lot of politicians.
The 4 desires shaping all human behavior – Bertrand Russell's superb Nobel Prize acceptance speech www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/21/b...
The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”
www.themarginalian.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Explains a lot of politicians.
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I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.
The evangelical creepshow returns.
I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo. Yet somehow Scott Morrison came back from the dead this week.
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The evangelical creepshow returns.
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
The evangelical creepshow returns.
I was always taught that if you cut the head off the monster, filled its mouth with salt, and buried the carcass at a crossroads at midnight, everything would be tickety-boo.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:28 AM
The evangelical creepshow returns.
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open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
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Hope is a strategy.
Funding women-led movements is how we make it real.
WILPF is proud to support #AccelerateTogether.
Learn more at accelerate-together.org.
@mamacashfund.bsky.social
Funding women-led movements is how we make it real.
WILPF is proud to support #AccelerateTogether.
Learn more at accelerate-together.org.
@mamacashfund.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Hope is a strategy.
Funding women-led movements is how we make it real.
WILPF is proud to support #AccelerateTogether.
Learn more at accelerate-together.org.
@mamacashfund.bsky.social
Funding women-led movements is how we make it real.
WILPF is proud to support #AccelerateTogether.
Learn more at accelerate-together.org.
@mamacashfund.bsky.social
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German magazine (1930). 📷 Echte Wagner
January 25, 2026 at 9:32 AM
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German magazine (1930). 📷 Echte Wagner
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What the Board of Peace will bring
January 25, 2026 at 9:57 AM
What the Board of Peace will bring
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What does this say about what the Australian government thinks we need to "sell" to the Trump regime?
PM appoints Greg Moriarty as next ambassador to the United States: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/greg-moriarty-us-ambassador-rudd/106266786
PM appoints Greg Moriarty as next ambassador to the United States
Defence department boss Greg Moriarty will be the next Australian ambassador to the US, replacing outgoing ambassador Kevin Rudd.
www.abc.net.au
January 24, 2026 at 10:44 PM
What does this say about what the Australian government thinks we need to "sell" to the Trump regime?
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🤔If you've got a billion dollars to give Trump's Board of Peace, you've got a billion dollars to renew & modernise the United Nations. It does not need to be overseen by countries who "won" WW2 & now rubberstamp "a veto" on anything other than their vested interests.
UN: One country. One vote.
UN: One country. One vote.
January 24, 2026 at 10:35 PM
🤔If you've got a billion dollars to give Trump's Board of Peace, you've got a billion dollars to renew & modernise the United Nations. It does not need to be overseen by countries who "won" WW2 & now rubberstamp "a veto" on anything other than their vested interests.
UN: One country. One vote.
UN: One country. One vote.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
January 24, 2026 at 12:29 AM
ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1
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The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t: AU has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors. Tom Tanuki.
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Could police check the lone actors for DV backgrounds, secure safety for the victims & remove guns, weapons?
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Could police check the lone actors for DV backgrounds, secure safety for the victims & remove guns, weapons?
The National Socialist Network is dead
The far-right group is gone but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors.
independentaustralia.net
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 AM
The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t: AU has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors. Tom Tanuki.
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Could police check the lone actors for DV backgrounds, secure safety for the victims & remove guns, weapons?
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Could police check the lone actors for DV backgrounds, secure safety for the victims & remove guns, weapons?
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Eunice Newton Foote. Scientific American. 1856: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_...
Eunice Newton Foote - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Eunice Newton Foote. Scientific American. 1856: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_...
"... There is one beneficiary of hybrid war, and that is the military-industrial-digital complex of the U.S. and Israel, with firms like Palantir and others profiting from their AI-supported assassination algorithms ..."
Jeffrey Sachs: The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran consortiumnews.com/2026/01/20/j...
Jeffrey Sachs: The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
Understanding hybrid war tactics helps to explain why Trump's rhetoric oscillates between threats of war and phony offers of peace.
By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares
Common Dreams
The question i...
consortiumnews.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:36 PM
"... There is one beneficiary of hybrid war, and that is the military-industrial-digital complex of the U.S. and Israel, with firms like Palantir and others profiting from their AI-supported assassination algorithms ..."