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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 15h

I seem to remember having one of these, and it being just a cardboard skeleton, about a foot tall, with riveted joints. If there was an associated illusion I suspect it would involve low light and hidden thread, rather than Pepper's Ghost, which would be hard to pull off in a domestic setting.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 16h

Marinated in the Coach and Horses, more like.

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 18h

A rite of passage was when you first went into a specialist shop. For me, that was going to Daddy Kool and buying King Tubby meets the Upsetter at the Grass Roots of Dub, which John Peel had played a track from. Real JA records were mysterious, with strange typos and other arcana.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 19h

Wait till he posts the AI generated video of him collecting the medal

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 19h

Counting down until someone claims that this proves that psychiatric conditions can affect the blood...

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 1d

Radium baths and monkey balls never did me any harm. Look at all these children I fathered! What's a few extra heads, anyway?

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 2d

A damn shame Liam Gavin hasn't made a follow up, it was a cracking debut...

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

If you are looking for an unusual, tense, and oddly beautiful horror movie this Halloween, I highly recommend A Dark Song, should it have escaped your notice before.

Woman facing a doorway with arcane symbols with title A Dark Song and accolades including Outstanding abd An Utterly Unique Film.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

oh thank you lord and baby jesus

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

Time to start a grift as a fake doctor who diagnoses celebs as "money addicts".

"It's ableist to criticise me, I've got an illness."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

You can sing "honey monster genitalia" to the tune of "deutschland uber alles" should you so wish.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

A man of your qualities? Surely not! Place an advertisement in the personal columns. I suggest "Carbon-based lifeform seeks similar. Vertebrates preferred."

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

But I had just returned from visiting my then girlfriend in Paris, so possibly there's a clue.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

It's a mystery.

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St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2d

My Mum once found a used one in my bag ...

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

Years ago, as a youth coming home after a party, I put my used clothes in the laundry basket. Later, in my room, I found the "just in case" condom I had had in my pocket with a note "Found this in the washer. Suggest you bin it as it was on a hot cycle. Love Mum".