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pault00.bsky.social
Cruiskeen Lawn
@pault00.bsky.social
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Paul. Dog owner, lover of ancient languages, bibliophile. Unsolicited DMs are likely to lead to a block.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 4h
Life's rich tapestry, those days are long past.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 6h
I came back to my flat one day when my psycho flatmate had kicked off one too many times and got himself pepper-sprayed and carted off by the police (yippee). The pepper spray was still overpowering. Eyes streaming and lungs burning.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 6h
Wallace and Gromit too. Just amazing patience and exactness. I've always liked the idea of being a model-maker for sci-fi films, a profession I guess basically no longer exists.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
"Their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

The effects are only permanent on trans youth apparently.
stephaniejane.bsky.social Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 20h
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 9h
Yesterday's Guardian article on Reform UK's Nathan Gill and the Russian bribery scandal Carole has been investigating.

One of the authors is Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social, a superb journalist and expert on Russia who's previously worked with Carole and has been reporting from Ukraine.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 9h
The output is a string of symbols to which humans assign a meaning that may or may not correspond to reality. Any meaning involved is always on the part of humans, the machine just manipulates strings of symbols.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 9h
A souvenir insert of a newspaper with headline "Gold Of the Pharaohs" and a picture of a gold Egyptian royal mummy mask. Edinburgh, 1988
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 9h
A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h
Goodwin says "it takes more than a piece of paper" or birthplace to make somebody British.

This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc

So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 18d
Anyone who still believes Israel has ever operated in anything resembling good faith would be thoroughly cured of that delusion if they read about Marwan Barghouti. In a world with any justice, he would be president of Palestine.
diplomatofnight.com Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 18d
Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.
Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says
Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons
www.theguardian.com
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d
One gained power because peace was on the table and that infuriated him to the point of inciting assassination.

One gained power because peace wasn't on the table.

Of course, in a just world, neither would hold power and Barghouti would be president of a free Palestine. Ask why that didn't happen.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16h
“Selma van de Perre, a valiant Jewish secretary who during World War II covertly transported suitcases bulging with cash, seditious newsletters, identity cards and ration books to Dutch resistance agents, even penetrating Nazi headquarters in Paris, died on Oct. 20 in London. She was 103.”
Selma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
www.nytimes.com
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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 16h
That headline and tagline just literally made me shout ‘FUCKING HELL’ so loudly that my wife and cat jumped. I run a book club and I teach literate subjects and this is absolutely, positively the wrong thing for the government to do. @athenakugblenu.bsky.social ‘s suggestions on the other hand 👏👏👏
athenakugblenu.bsky.social Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1d
If you want kids to read:

-Reopen the closed libraries
-Give them free books
-Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students
-Work on adult literacy

Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children
www.theguardian.com
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Pilar redalphababe #fbpe 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺 @pilargomez.bsky.social · 15h
How can we clean up the damage and tackle hate whilst social media platforms remain unregulated and poisonous and the main place where the flames are fanned? These people lie because nothing bad happens to them as a consequence, on the contrary they get clicks and attention and money 3/3
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 21h
The wonderful Ray Harryhausen.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22h
2 November 1936 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Jan Carl Albert Ruschkewitz, was born in The Hague.

In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A video about the first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Vintage photo of a little boy in a bonnet, sitting in a classic car under dappled sunlight.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 1d
C FOR OLD GITS LIKE ME
C PERHAPS
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 1d
It's about time somebody showed him how to put ketchup on his chips.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 1d
I think I had enough and either blocked or muted him. I'm sure he would demand his employer pay him his salary if he resigned from his job. "You're taking my wages away. You could pay me if you wanted to." Who needs enemies when you've friends like Andrew.
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 1d
Come back here, free movement, goddammit!
two dogs are running on a sandy field
ALT: two dogs are running on a sandy field
media.tenor.com
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 2d
If they were detained or arrested by immigaration agents, they can't be American citizens otherwise they wouldn't have been arrested or detained by immigration agents. That's the way things work now, isn't it?
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Cruiskeen Lawn @pault00.bsky.social · 2d
There's usually a good reason why they're known as "my better half"!
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Halloween!

@maargentino.com

Available: www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 2d
In the 1930s businesses refused to serve Jews.

In 2025 businesses are refusing to serve Muslims.

History repeating itself

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Head of UK government’s anti-Islamophobia partner ‘refused service in shop for being Muslim’
Akeela Ahmed, of British Muslim Trust, says experience is part of a wider rise in anti-Muslim hatred
www.theguardian.com
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