A typical website visit in 2022 1. Figure out how to decline all but essential cookies 2. Close the support widget asking if I need help 3. Stop the auto-playing video 4. Close the “subscribe to our newsletter” pop-up 5. Try and remember why I came here in the first place

Good news. 16 year old #SoniaSharifi - down to be executed as of yesterday - was released from Ilam prison today at 3pm after being detained for a month. Thank you to everyone for spreading her name and image. Say their names, save a life. #IranRevoIution

❤️All 6 Iranian female Chess Grandmasters have defected! Atousa Pourkashiyan and Dorsa Derakhshani will play with the 🇺🇸 flag, Ghazal Hakimifard with the 🇨🇭 flag, Mitra Hejazipour with the 🇫🇷 flag, Sara Khadem migrated to 🇪🇸. Fun fact: The word Checkmate originated from Persia

Happy to see that Lonely Planet added the Chisinau-Kyiv route among the 8 best European train trips to try in 2023. Tours for foreigners is something we gonna develop this year. Will tell you more later. lonelyplanet.com/articles/best-…

If you're not well then put a bloody mask on and don't be a selfish, dangerous idiot. Even if politicians are happy to kill off the NHS, the least we can do as decent citizens is try to minimise the burden on hospitals My column in The Herald heraldscotland.com/opinion/232285…

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Hi Josh, To date, the government has used £320 million of taxpayer money to indemnify the train operators against any losses on strike days. That money would have more than covered the cost of any pay rises.

☠️ russian losses in 🇺🇦 as of 6 January. #StopRussia

10’o’clock news…..top story…royal family, blah, blah, Prince Harry….blah, blah….William….blah, blah. This has been going on for a week. Total nonsense. A few months ago Clive Myrie was reporting from Ukraine. Now he’s ‘reporting’ this absolute bilge.

Twitter has reinstated the account of General Mike Flynn - a supporter of fascist Russia, who thinks Zelenskyy is a "dangerous fool," and that Putin and Medvedev are "bold leaders." newsweek.com/trump-ally-mik…

Just before morning prayers, the security guards woke him in his cell and told him to get ready “we want to hang you”. Islamic Republic executed him for the crime of peacefully protesting and demanding freedom. Mehdi Karami was only 22 years old. His parents were street peddlers.

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Jan. 8, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

It’s love. #uaarmy #Ukraine️ #RussiaisATerroistState #RussiaUkraineWar #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOnTwitter #Bakhmut #Donetsk #NewYork #Kyiv #StandWithUkraine

Raise their names again: #MohammadGhobadlou (with UK sponsor Caroline Lucas) & #MohammadBroghani Executed 3 days ago #MohammadHosseini & #MohammadMehdiKarami Observe the first names & see how this “Islamic” regime is trying to wipe out its own youth. It must be stopped.

Russians have just shelled a maternity hospital in Kherson. (46.6337355, 32.6154041)

There’s always a discussion to be had about second parliamentary chambers. Proposing an unelected, unpaid, unaccountable second chamber is not a serious contribution to the discussion in Scotland or anywhere else

How Russia conducted its centuries-long destruction of the Ukrainian identity in the east of Ukraine. A short explainer on the 5 methods used by Russia during its Ukrainian identity-erasure campaign by WeAreUkraine.info: 📌 bit.ly/3GWNMEc

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These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Jan. 12, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The contrast between England and Scotland's ambulance response times is stark (comparing whole-nation metrics: Category 2's vs Ambers on 90th percentile responses). Scotland had a problem in December 2022, England disintegrated.