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Sparks
@petudo.bsky.social
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Tree freak, whovian, neurodivergent, likes Joni, Idles, Little Simz, jazz, allsorts, Klee, Bauhaus, mad little hermit crabs, macaroons and a good cup of tea.
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Sparks @petudo.bsky.social · Feb 26
We are a small axe, sharpened to cut you down...
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Small Axe (1973) - Bob Marley & The Wailers
YouTube video by Bob Marley
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4h
12 October 1911 | A Czech, Anton Nozicka, was born. A welder.

In #Auschwitz from 23 December 1942.
No. 84935
He perished in the camp on 15 March 1943.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you, @mit.edu, for taking the lead.
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling — Reuters
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she
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LynnMac 🐞🇨🇦📎 @lynnmaccanada.bsky.social · 20h
#HappyCaturday
First picture: cats sitting in cardboard boxes outside, with caption "...just set out boxes and wait". Second picture: leopard sitting in a cardboard box, with caption " Results may vary"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4h
New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...
Russia and the rise of the radical right
Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)
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Jonjust @jonjust.bsky.social · 13h
This is Cheryl every Saturday she sits at the capital square
Women sitting on a park bench out the state capital Madison WI
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h
Please pitch in if you can to help make next Saturday the biggest day of protest in US history! We’re seeing a surge in RSVPs and we need to match that enthusiasm with the resources and support that our groups, hosts, and volunteers need: secure.actblue.com/donate/indiv...
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 12h
Precious people protesting in support of immigrants at ICE facility in Broadview, IL. Thank youuuu!

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Nick Perri (@xplicitpolitix)
1,000 people at the Broadview, IL. ICE detention center today! Power to the fucking people!
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George @hannahtempler.com · 19h
there's a cafe in my neighborhood that is worker-owned and offers community meals that customers can donate towards. people can come in for a free meal and drink no questions asked. it's a great and simple idea, and also a reminder that a great deal can be done with just a little organizing
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aestrophe @aestrophe.plus.tattoo · 13h
its so weird how you can spend all day hanging out with friends and be overwhelmed by loneliness the second youre alone
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 4h
Viviane: 10yr Keir

Farage failed on Brexit.

Farage failed 8 times to become an MP

Farage has failed on Local Councils

Farage has failed to tell us who bought his house.

Farage has failed to distance himself from Nathan Gill

Farage will fail to become PM

Farage is a failure
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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 5h
Fascinating how "meal deal" has become a personality trait in the last few years . Love these illustrations
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John Allison @badmachinery.com · 5h
MEAL DEAL

Sandwich: unstabilised all-day breakfast
Drink: regional pop
Snack: the most resistible option

£4.50 with Clubcard
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h
Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.
Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas
With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.
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Sparks @petudo.bsky.social · 3h
Ffs! Poor teaching is not acceptable. Cut price shoddy education for the lower classes? My mum could only get a teaching diploma and earned less all her life, for the same work, than people with degrees.

A circle of discrimination and obstruction 🤬
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15h
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching

Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Tuition fees set to be lowered at universities with poor teaching
Labour is considering bringing the cap below £9,000 a year on campuses where standards aren’t met
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The Daily Edge @thedailyedge.bsky.social · 19h
DHS’s Kristi Noem targets country singer over song with lyrics about ICE www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
DHS’s Kristi Noem targets country singer over song with lyrics about ICE
When the federal government, including the White House, starts leaning on artists over song lyrics, there’s a problem.
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John Fielding Aerial Images @john-fielding.bsky.social · 15h
Steam from the British Sugar factory at Bury St Edmunds forms its own cloud over the Suffolk landscape. #BuryStEdmunds #BritishSugar #Suffolk #aerial #image #industrial
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 16h
Halloween is coming soon. Lupe" sent us this photo of the pumpkins he helped harvest in the Bakersfield CA area. He shares he is proud of the work he and other farm workers do to bring fruits and vegetables to the tables across America. #WeFeedYou
A field full of pumpkins that were harvested by Farm workers
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 4h
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Sparks @petudo.bsky.social · 4h
Hundreds of thousands march for Palestine in central London – Channel 4 News share.google/fNbODPfNfb25...
Hundreds of thousands march for Palestine in central London
Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestine demonstrators have marched in central London to mark two years since the start of the war in Gaza.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 15h
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17h
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 23h
"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016
Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill
UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as
www.bbc.co.uk
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mark-lev.bsky.social @mark-lev.bsky.social · 22h
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Glow
#photography
#sunset
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 23h
Do you remember in April 2024 when there was INSANE footage of two cavalry horses that had spooked, thrown their riders and were GALLOPING through London covered in blood? Well, both horses were caught and made a full recovery and the one of the left, Vida, an old boy, has just been retired.
black horse and grey horses chatting lovingly over a fence in nice grass
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h
A drawing of a Portland protest frog holding a One Piece flag with text overlaid that says: “RESIST "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - George Orwell”
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