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Caroline Goldsmith

@goldcaro.bsky.social

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Book type. Kitchen and garden adventurer. Feminist, obviously. (UK) Freelance publishing stuff: https://goldsmithpublishingconsultancy.com she/her

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 50m

I don't think I can listen to this any longer...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1h

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 3h

Authors' copies of my latest book When Books Go Bad (published by the fine @blpublishing.bsky.social British Library folks) have arrived. Officially out later this week but I daresay already in a fine bookshop near you.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 11h

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know if there will be a representative of the Palestinian people present, alongside Trump and Netanyahu, when the president declares again that he deserves the Nobel peace prize, but it will be telling if it is only Israel and the US on the victory podium.

#r4today

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 16h

I honestly didn’t predict a world where Inspector Morse would be a welcome beacon of Woke in a dark misogynist dystopian world.

Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 16h

Been listening to a Kate Mann audiobook all weekend and we’re now watching the Morse where he tells Lewis off for calling a woman hysterical. I’m also possibly-almost-definitely perimenopausal so I shall be setting fire to everything shortly.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 1d

I've been earning part of my living over the last couple of years, tour guiding for American birders. A little private thought game I play involves timing how long it takes them to say unprompted: "I didn't vote for him". Yesterday was a record: under 90 seconds.

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 1d

A man can make a lampshade out of someone and it’s somehow a woman’s fault. Fucking patriarchy.

Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 1d

And, frankly, I sound fucking crazy in my WhatsApp messages to my not-True-Crime-initiated sister where I patiently explain how much of this is unsubstantiated bollocks.

Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 1d

‘Bitches be crazy’: The Ed Gein Story.

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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 1d

And nobody mourned.

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very cross - again - at Ryan Murphy. It’s my fault because I watch everything he ever makes. And also women are to blame for everything, clearly.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 2d

Every single day the internet seems more and more a pit of shoddy AI. On the verge of unfollowing one of my fave eighties artists on insta because her feed is a non-stop sludge of shitty AI as if she doesn’t have a real fucking artistic legacy to post about.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 2d

Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...

Two headlines in a row

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 2d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday, mate!

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 2d

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 2d

Found this blob of glitter glue on the path today. Fairly sure it’s some kind of metaphor for the state of everything.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 2d

I love my parents but I don't think I can do another ten years of saying "No, that's not true. That far right influencer/politician is lying to you again. Here are the facts." They get so frightened by all the lies. It's exhausting.

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 2d

Booze cruise, then 👍 We set sail and don't touch land - except to refill our wine glasses - until all this shit is sorted out.

Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 2d

We do have cheaper booze, though. But we need that.

Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 2d

I scuttled through the streets of Oslo like a pale English goblin in awe of their sexiness.