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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 4h

I like geeks and nerds they’ve always been my favourite kids when I have worked in schools - but geeks specialise in niche knowledge while nerds just like to read a lot and know stuff

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 8h

I laughed when I read that he was a content director for the SMH which explained how he got his pity party published

Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 10h

I found it very moving when we visited there in 2018

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 2d

Buitres Mirando GIF

ALT: Buitres Mirando GIF

media.tenor.com

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 2d

My bird is out 😭

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Catherine Mack 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social · 3d

Not really God’s work, is it. Complicity.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · Jul 19

I concur.

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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 3d

There’s an eluded life within

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

They are pulling moms out of carpool lanes www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUNR594/

A blood-curdling scream erupted as ICE agents pulled a woman from her car in a school pickup line, shocking parents and onlookers at the scene.

TikTok video by New York Post | News

www.tiktok.com

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 3d

Sickening

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 3d

A really beautiful tribute…

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

An ethereally self-aware comedy genius: the loss of Diane Keaton is devastating | Peter Bradshaw

America’s sweetheart was so much more than that: an actor of astonishing singularity and freshness who starred in the very best films of the past century

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 4d

Currently being reprinted but available again by the end of next week (from @johnmurrays.bsky.social). Also available in paperback from @harvardpress.bsky.social in Notth America)!

Marja Kingma @marjakingma.bsky.social · 5d

If you read one book during #Bannedbooksweek read Burning the Books by Bodley’s Librarian @richove.bsky.social. The strongest wake up call yet that we need to stand up for our intellectual freedoms!

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 5d

Ukeleles being strummed en masse. Chickens openly addressing government officials. Line dancing in a public thoroughfare. Frogs, unicorns and dinosaurs getting their interspecies groove on.

Portland is lost. May God and Donald Trump save what's left of the United States of America.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 4d

This is not the final chapter; far from it. We are still a long way away from justice.

May God protect the people of Palestine and grant mercy and forgiveness to our martyrs.

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 4d

Your elitism is showing

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 4d

I meant to post this picture as well of some blooming flowers not that it does any justice to the vibrant pink

Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 4d

They were saying hello to their doggy friend Neil, out of shot

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 4d

Low tide at Falcon Bay and some

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 4d

I'm feeling quite chuffed #WQuers Wordle 1,575 2/6

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Holden Sheppard 🇦🇺😎💪 @v8sheppard.bsky.social · 5d

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Albumism @albumism.com · 5d

Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue' (1959) is included in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry, which celebrates culturally, historically & aesthetically significant recordings.

Rediscover the album here: album.ink/MDKindOfBlue

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 6d

When the AFP chief talks about the need to strengthen hate speech laws, why does she mean speech critical of Israel and not this:

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Benzie, the puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 6d

Across the street

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Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 6d

I’m sitting with a coffee and Frida on the sofa reading the morning’s Trump outrages

Michael J @michaeljongen.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Painted in 1968, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy is like a storyboard for an interiors magazine or a sober, even bourgeois, portrait of a marriage, one that could almost have come from the studio of a Gainsborough or Joshua Reynolds’

That’s me in the £45m Hockney! The man in the masterpiece relives sitting for David back in the heady LA party days

It was a landmark moment in queer art, painted when homosexuality was illegal in California. As this famous painting of Christopher Isherwood and Don Backardy goes under the hammer, the surviving sitt...

www.theguardian.com

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