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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 2h

Not so good for the people risking their lives to save him, thinking he is in the building 🤷🏼

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 2h

You better hope the building is never on fire.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a car alarm going off close enough to be really annoying. But it must be full pelt outside someone’s house. Can they not find their sledgehammer?

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 2d

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 2d

Just spent an hour on the phone with my bestie. In that time a corkscrew broke, needed pliers to get it out, had to unpack toolbox etc. all without breaking conversation. thank god for speaker phone.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 2d

God I’ve just had to work - be upbeat, positive and chatty ALL DAY. I think it’s broken me.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 12d

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d

The era of "It isn't fair to pick on him, he's just a kid, he didn't choose to be in the limelight" is definitely over, so feel free to say he looks like he throws pets into a woodchipper with an expressionless face and a heart rate of 60bpm.

Trump's weird, serial killer-looking son might get a top job at TikTok.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 4d

So tired of a society that treats us all as potential lawbreakers until we prove otherwise.

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d

No Sainsburys, I won't scan my receipt to leave the shop. I've paid for my shopping and fulfilled my half of the contract. You can't trap me in the shop, if your gates break, that's on you

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 6d

Oh good, Hugh Bonneville has written a children’s book. There’s such a gap in that market, it really needed a celebrity to fill it.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 6d

Thank the lord. This would be an atrocity too far.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you - so do I ! She’s got my spirit, not just my likeness.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely chuffed to pieces to have my portrait drawn - disconcerting that it’s my head three ft high. Trudy Barber is bloody great - big eads at Art Space Brougham Road Southsea. I’m Claire on the stairs.

A blonde smiley woman standing next to a huge drawing in charcoal of her smiley face.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 7d

I thought you were in that there abroad!

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 7d

Where was it?

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 7d

Just back from a gravitational waves event at the Spinnaker tower. Mind blown, amazing views, meteor went past. Well done UoP cosmology, you are so good at this stuff.

Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 7d

That’s gorgeous. I half expected you to jump in.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 8d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 10d

Once, survived another round last year.

Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 10d

Sadly not.

Claire P @princessclairina.bsky.social · 10d

A complete lack of footballing brains too if they don’t recognise the shift Bishop puts in (and takes defenders out, leaving gaps for others). Heard the Harry/Defoe song made a comeback too, ffs.

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