Jess Hayden

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Yes, more of this please.

"You might have to share a cell with a member of the Burke family" would be a powerful anti-recidivism message.

In the Loop (2009) - The mountain of conflict YouTube video by Alexei Djalagonia

youtu.be/L24Wol8yLwo?...

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⚠️East Pier Closure Update

The East Pier, Dún Laoghaire is currently closed due to wave overtopping.

For your safety, please remember: Stay back, stay high, stay dry.
We’ll reopen the pier once conditions improve.

Painting in ink of two swimming otters one above the other

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt

Country diary: Ding ding! Round 2 for the brawling badgers | Ed Douglas Abbeydale, Sheffield: I’m genuinely scared when I wake at 2am to the sound of screaming. Then I see two male badgers in an almighty scrap

Lawkes I do love @environment.theguardian.com Country Diary… here’s another from @calmandfearless.bsky.social, politely shouting at badgers.

‘Below me, about 20 feet away, what seem to be two large carpet bags are going at it.’

Just brilliant.

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

Last week, the DOJ released 1.3 million files from the Epstein case. We've processed all of them.

709,000 are emails, all searchable and readable on Jmail.

The rest: are documents, photos, and more. All browsable on JDrive.

Missing an email you expected to find? Let us know.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social

Sculpture of an upright irregular shaped driftwood piece inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass sited on a pebble beach by the sea at dawn

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Elon’s emails to Epstein.
Location: Starbase, Texas

Goodnight Blooski!

Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...

Petition to stop scraping of huge quantities of seaweed from West of Ireland coast #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm
please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/st... @uplift.ie

cat: 1065

The blank page - 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20508

Close-up photo of an embroidered garment with complex patterns and flower motifs in multicolours on a white background

Huipil, traditional garment created by Ingenous Maya women from the small towns of the Guatemalan highlands, who formed their own union to stop large fashion corporations stealing their designs. #WomensArt

I kept thinking- Wes Streeting reminds me of somebody but WHO
Drove me crazy but then suddenly I remembered

Me, increasingly wild-eyed, to my students:

As communities around the country recover from Storm Chandra, I joined @unitetheunion.bsky.social for the launch of their proposals on new laws to protect workers, during extreme weather. With climate change, these events are becoming more frequent and the law has to evolve to keep workers safe

MY PETS (Palindrome)

Dog.
A sad dog
or fat cat.
Nine dragons
(no garden intact).
A frog,
odd as a god.

Website: and your postcode?

Me: my address is—

Website: no no I’m keen to guess! Postcode?

Me: *enters postcode*

Website: is it no. 132?

Me: no

Website: is it no. 134?

Me: it’s 1—

Website: SHUT UP is it no. 136?

Government to offer free training to all adults to help them learn to enjoy the smooth smooth taste of Benson and Hedges

Illustration with two hybrid black rabbit human creatures, in black dresses, with arms in the air dancing together

'Dancing through it all' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt

I'm completely out of my depth. I'm one of 3 people responsible for investment fund of £2bn. I got here by blagging, incompetence of my superiors, and good timing. I rely on advisors and repeating keywords I've heard from others. I need an exit strategy before I get found out

Board of Peace - Season 1

Photo featuring the a view to the front of a very tall buildings with a large scale mural of a pink blossom on a stem against a yellow background, the building towers above a street with motorcyclists

Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born artist, known for her large scale murals of wild flowers connecting to environmental concerns #WomensArt

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Trump paramilitary ICE forces are going house to house in Minneapolis terrorizing families, pointing guns at children and mothers, illegally rounding up people in their homes despite their legal status or any prior criminal activity.

The Power of Poetry   with things falling apart and anarchy let loose,   it was only poetry, he found, which had any use,   so he reached for his copy   of The Complete Works of Yeats   and bludgeoned the President of the United States Brian Bilston

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.