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#Finnegans woke #Adoptee #guest #Cisgender #Trans Ally #Sufic @ishraq #Comfortably cosmopolitan: #English-Irish (non-Brit). Spero ergo sero sum Pronouns: Thee & Thou & Yon

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · Jan 29

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Toshiro Mayuzumi [黛敏郎]: Nirvana-Symphony

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 13h

Aunt Polly Jackson would know how to deal with Maxwell.

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A photograph of Aunt Polly Jackson. She is renowned for her ferocity in resisting slave-catchers. In the photograph, Aunt Polly has a pan of boiling water to hand--and ready to hurl on any intruding slave-catcher. She has a butcher's knife, in her right-hand.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 14h

Like Odysseus, I stop my ears and lash myself to the mast. I adore you, Victoria but will not follow your siren song and click the link to that whirlpool of cess.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17h

Join us today from 2–8pm in the heart of London for Diwali on the Square.

The day will be packed with exciting activities for all to enjoy the vibrant spirit of Diwali.

It’s a fantastic opportunity to come together and celebrate the triumph of light over darkness.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The constant lies to steal power and money . . .

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

In This Pageant, the Ugliest Face Wins

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🍄 Psilocybin and suicide risk

A review of 9 trials (N=593) found psilocybin therapy led to a small but significant drop in suicidal thoughts. More data and long-term follow-up are now needed.

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#SciComm #MentalHealth #Psilocybin 🧪

Psilocybin therapy linked to reduced suicidal thoughts in people with psychiatric disorders

Psilocybin therapy may reduce suicidal thoughts in people with mental health diagnoses, according to a new review in Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. The analysis combined results from clin...

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t ask people where they were then. Ask them where they are now.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 1d

The tragedy is that it looks AI generated.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Massive news for Leeds.

Tom Cruise, Taylor Swift, David Beckham, Barack Obama, Kylie Jenner, and Justin Bieber may all not be coming to your city on Monday... but I am .. and I promise not to sing.

So come along if you're free.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2d

I have a demi-urge to sic my own backward dog on the Yaldabaoth o' yer

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

"In the U.S. the risks of stepping forward pale compared to those faced by dissidents elsewhere. Surely it’s not too much to hope that some heretofore timid Americans could find inspiration from the example of María Corina Machado and 'refuse to stay silent.'”

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The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t understand why he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The #GOP clearly thinks it is peaceful to rape children.

And peaceful to drag people from bed.

And zip-tie kids.

And throw people to the ground.

And invade cities.

And prosecute your enemies.

And react violently to protest.

#NoKings

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

María Corina Machado win Nobel Peace Prize.
Venezuela’s most influential opposition leader receives the award.
TRUMP: You were never in the running!

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 2d

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America is better in service sectors and litigation; with AI, it might be able to generate even more lawsuits. China has far superior training data on manufacturing, it might grow even better at producing electronics, drones and munitions.

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News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 3d

The Lord G created men with foreskins. Later He told his chosen people to cut them off because Lord G figured out that removing the foreskin makes a man equal to a woman.
Lord G learnt that when he flew down to earth with a tray brim full of wooden foreskins.
Full disclosure Me:
no FS
+ = woman.

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 3d

What Goes Around…..

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3d

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British during the Revolution—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement. Andrew Lawler on the journey of the Black Loyalists:

The Black Loyalists

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 3d

My favourite Beatle song is She said, she said.
My favourite Lennon solo is Across The Universe.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 3d

What's one of your favorite Lennon solo or Beatles songs? 🎶
Remembering John Winston Lennon today, he would have been 85 years old if he was still with us. Born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940, his songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney is still the most influential & successful of all time. 👇

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jimbucktoo.bsky.social @jimbucktoo.bsky.social · 3d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 3d

Race and the Conservative New Order. Really good piece by @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social, highlighting the similarities between history graduate Robert Jenrick's language and Oswald Mosley's: davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/not-anothe...

"Not another white face"

Race and the Conservative New Order

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