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Louise Ankers

@louiseankers.bsky.social

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Mother, Wife, Product Manager (UK) Music, Reading, Running, Product, Chess She/her Banner : a digital cert of when I joined bluesky

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 20d

ISTR we did something this on Twitter when times were dark (like 2016, or 2020... and by no means limit yourself to only wholesome posts.. but if you can find one wholesome thing to post or repost a day, do it.

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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 4h

All successful bullies end up being cry bullies because it's such a powerful strategy - accusing the person you're hurting of somehow being hateful, dangerous, mad etc. doesn't win over your opponents but is enough to convince the undecided who are inclined to look the other way to do so.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson just called every American who plans to attend a #NoKings event on October 18 a hater of the United States.

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Britdjmatt @britdjmatt.bsky.social · 14h

Good guy that Robert Smith

consequence.net/2025/10/ice-...

ICE Propaganda Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of The Cure's "Friday I'm in Love"

A Department of Homeland Security social media post featuring The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” has been removed following a DMCA takedown request.

consequence.net

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h

RIP Diane Keaton, who has died at 79, here reinventing fashion in Annie Hall (1977)

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14h

That was lovely!

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Moyeen Islam @moyeen.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/oCIF1xr0tmw?...

The Bard of Barnsley

The Barnsley Poem

YouTube video by Barnsley Museums

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14h

You all know he's been milkshake ducked right?

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registered hyperclam 2 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 18h

oops! he's a racist

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14h

What like a Charlie Kirk kinda thing? Woah

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14h

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Racist Friend

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 14h

If you have a racist friend, now it is the time for the friendship to end

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7879169...

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What if you had a racist friend?

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 17h

We are doing some sort of real ale trail. We have been to Manvilles before ha, my step daughter was really in to him about ten years ago

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 17h

Correct!

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 18h

We are in a village whose entire personality is Harry Styles

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 22h

I’m not saying journalists should necessarily be great at maths, but probably wouldn’t hurt if more of them had at least a notion of how numbers work.

Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22h

Hmmm, no i don't think so

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

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Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 1d

Mayo Debut #TOTP

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

Some people don't super love Dubai but they get offered good money for a good job and they go for a couple of years. Wouldn't be my choice but I get it.
But a lot of people have made "slagging off the UK and going on about Dubai" their entire personality and it's quite dull

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 1d

My best one is a bassist leaving one band and musing all the problems seemed to have followed him to the next band, without any of the previous members in it

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 1d

PSA The two-part Arena interview with Orson Welles is on iPlayer. So good it deserves to be given a place in the Wellesian oeuvre.

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 3d

Have you read Breakneck by Dan Wang? I've started it and it seems to be advancing a thesis that Americans are lawyers and Chinese people are engineers but also drawing a number of parallels between the two countries

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 3d

Plus "financial advisers" this side of pond skimming pensions. You could probably write quite an influential piece on that

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 3d

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social your latest post on the 'Stack got me reading Do Not Go Gentle. I hope you're satisfied

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 3d

Wasn't she in a few think-tanks earlier in her career?

Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 3d

It's class. It's always about training for class consciousness