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Dead serious about crushing the Capitalist Patriarchy. Likes to embroider The Thick of It quotes. I listen to David Bowie instead of eating my feelings. Renegade.
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'We're no more real than money '
Wow, what a banger of a quote this is from Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad
The image shows a page from The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood. The visible text reads:

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THE PENELOPIAD

Never mind. Point being that you don’t have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don’t have to think of us as real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We’re no more real than money.

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The page has a cream background with serif text, photographed in warm lighting.
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danny.page
giving the nobel peace prize to someone who approved of indiscriminate military strikes on civilians is an indelible stain on the award.

but enough about Barack Obama,,
~ Aftermath
President Obama reduced the number of United States Army soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, but expanded the use of unmanned air-strikes on these countries, as well as Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Somalia. '12]
In 2016, President Obama joked in an interview with Stephen Colbert that even he didn't know
why he had received the award.!!13]
Analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations suggests that the United States Army dropped 79 per cent of all 30,743 coalition bombs in 2016.
Obama has been at war for longer than any other president in US history. 14]
The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, said in 2015 that awarding the prize to Obama failed to achieve what the committee hoped it would. "Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," he says. "In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for."
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actionbell.bsky.social
Re-listening to The Book of Dust - The Secret Commonwealth in preparation for the final book of the series and my GOD do I live Michael Sheen
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Day 11 of #DavesMonthOfMusic
A song with a non-primary colour/shade in the title

Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

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Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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actionbell.bsky.social
oh this is an absolute banger. Best Jamiraquai song. Safe. #totp
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Dame Bowers is probably the worst at lipsyncing out of any band I've seen perform on #totp but I appreciate the throwback to a band I'd also almost repressed
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I love hippie I can date this episode by the outfits as much as the music #totp
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If absolutely forgotten that Peter Andre had released more than one song. I think that was repression. #totp
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BEHOLD my recent book haul! a masterclass of feminist speculative fiction if I do say so myself... #booksky
The image shows five books laid out on a mustard-yellow bedspread patterned with white flowers and dark grey leaves. The books are:
	1.	A Language of Dragons by S. F. Williamson – features a dragon in flight on a blue and gold cover, with the tagline “Every fire starts with a single spark.”
	2.	The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood – a striking red cover with black silhouettes of birds in flight.
	3.	Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler – a cream cover with an illustration of a woman in a red dress and headwrap surrounded by falling red leaves.
	4.	Queen B by Juno Dawson – a black cover with a neon pink and yellow design showing a woman in Tudor-style attire framed by ornate gothic patterns and a pentagram, with the subtitle “Bow Down Witches.”
	5.	The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez – a vibrant cover featuring a stylised black-and-white photo of a woman with rainbow-coloured streams flowing from her mouth, against a striped pink, purple, and orange background.
actionbell.bsky.social
Oh they most definitely will that! I've only just clocked that you're the artist! Congratulations on a fantastic album!
actionbell.bsky.social
Well I'm 5 tracks in and I love it! Doesn't hurt that I was a sucker for a bit of dub in my youth
actionbell.bsky.social
The third volume of The Book of Dust has been released! You have no idea how long I've been waiting for The Rose Field and I'm re-listening to The Secret Commonwealth in anticipation of being able to buy it on Monday. I'm so excited! #booksky
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Stomping around my local independent bookshop this morning and spotted something I thought would be up @harecomedy.bsky.social's alley #booksky
The image shows the front cover of the book Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. At the top is a purple circular sticker reading “Women’s Prize Shortlisted Non-Fiction 2025.” Below the author’s name, the cover features a realistic illustration of a brown hare facing right, its large ear stretching nearly to the top edge. The text includes several endorsements:
	•	“More than a wildlife memoir… A masterpiece” — Clare Balding
	•	“A great and important tale for our times” — Michael Morpurgo
	•	“A glorious book” — Katherine Rundell
	•	“This book is exceptional” — Chris Packham

The background is a light cream color, and part of a person’s hand is visible holding the book at the bottom left. The image shows the back cover of the book Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. The text begins with the line “This edition includes a moving new chapter.” It describes the story’s premise — Chloe, a busy city professional, discovers a newborn hare, tiny and endangered, and decides to care for it despite her inexperience. The summary explains that the book follows their unlikely bond and the healing connection between human and animal.

Below the summary are several endorsements:
	•	“Written with tenderness and lyricism… A beautiful book” — Angelina Jolie
	•	“A love letter to the natural world” — The Times
	•	“Dalton has a zoologist’s eye for detail and a poet’s sensitivity to language” — Guardian
	•	“I will be recommending this to everyone” — Matt Haig
	•	“A remarkable debut” — Spectator

At the bottom right corner, there is a small illustration of a young hare sitting with its front paws raised, appearing to clean its face. The background is a pale cream color
actionbell.bsky.social
'Relief feels like happiness if you don't know the difference'
An absolute blinder of a quote from @tkingfisher.com in Paladin's Grace. #booksky
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*sends understanding and sympathetic hugs*
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