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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 3h

Yup. Membership isn't power (see the tories being funded by the dead and right wing sugar daddies, playing media on easy mode because right wing press barons) but it's a good start for alternate funding and activism.

onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 4h

There was a mod for Voyager Elite Force that kinda did something something like (or as best you'd get given the game's limitations).

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Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social · 21h

#MythologyMonday
Cadair Idris is one of Wales' most beautiful and storied peaks. Legend says that a night upon its slopes may grant the gift of 'Awen', or divine poetic inspiration. But it comes also with a risk: some who sleep there will wake not as poets, but as madmen!

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 7h

Every time I say something accurate about Israel, I get blocked by someone.

A self-solving problem really

yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 9h

So nice that the perpetrators of genocide get to have a peace deal.

yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 9h

So nice that the perpetrators of genocide get to have a peace deal.

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Imperial Dating System @imperialdating.bsky.social · 12h

The Imperial Date is: 0 785 025.M3

++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Only in your deepest self is the truth of what you can be. And, without a doubt, that truth is terrible to bear. ++

By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Monday'

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, sure, that happened.

Also time for the drird frog pills.

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 23h

Periodically I remember what this website was like when it collectively thought Hamas was going to win and crush Israel or whatever it thought for the month or so after October 7th and anytime anyone on here bitches about Biden, I remember that

yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 13h

Huh, I was brought up to say the area (not the five digit number though).

"Huddersfield, 421***".

Sounded quite civilised now I think about it.

yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 13h

Shame, because it's frigging hilarious for this old fart who started with Rogue Trader and it has that same 'this shit is stupid' self-acknowledging undercurrent. And I never thought 'child soldiers looking for daddy' could be such a source of humour.

yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

It did look good at the time. It stayed remarkably true to trek ideas despite being an fps.

The sequal...had tits. Massive honkers, so probably also what Rodenberry would have wanted

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks

Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."

- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022

Tweet from Manveen Rana on Aug 24, 2022

"Funnily enough Andy, the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and @Arron_banks. Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running. So I’m really not surprised you support him…"

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck, how did I miss this?

Also PRAISE BE TO SPACE KING!

(It perfectly sets up and skewers the setting. Perfectly, especially leaning into the child soldier thing that tends to be forgotten/glossed over)

youtu.be/lknNsZgzG1g?...

SPACE KING 1 - Pilot

YouTube video by Flashgitz

youtu.be

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

Back to killing Palestinians slowly, are we?

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian in the Maen area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/n5k3lj

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 1d

Why would you fuck with this guy

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

I installed the Star Wars MMO.

But should I actually play it?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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yorkshiremao.bsky.social @yorkshiremao.bsky.social · 1d

"I put a fried egg on my Cruque Monsieur to make it a Croque Madame and now JK Rowling is outside my house shouting at me" 😓😭😓

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

Tis the season of morbid shit.

When you think of witch burning you probably think of Salem. But haaaave you heard of Bridget Cleary being burned alive by her husband in 1895?

Because she was "a changeling."

www.waterfordtreasures.com/the-burning-...

The Burning of Bridget Cleary: Witches, Fairies and the Danger of Superstition | Waterford Treasures

Visit the The Burning of Bridget Cleary: Witches, Fairies and the Danger of Superstition page of Waterford Treasures. Find out everything you need for your visit to the only dedicated Museum Quarter o...

www.waterfordtreasures.com

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Joel Zico @joelzicomcg.bsky.social · 1d

Penny. Dropped.

It’s crazy that Doc gives away quotes like this for free - “…and the game is designed well enough to make every single enemy distinct and readable, even at a distance, so I am thinking about the encounter before engaging in the encounter.”

Pay the man.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Imperial Dating System @imperialdating.bsky.social · 2d

The Imperial Date is: 0 780 025.M3

++ THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: There is only the Emperor, and he is our shield and protector ++

By the old Holy Terran dates (UTC) it is 'Sunday'

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Bertoni @thebertoni.bsky.social · Aug 24

Foto meme de um tipo de efeito dominó em que as peças ficam gradativamente maiores, um homem esta prestes a derrubar a peça menor onde o texto diz em inglês "learning to draw" (aprendendo a desenhar) e na peça maior no final da fileira o texto diz "everybody knowing what your fetishes are" (todo mundo descobrindo quais seus fetiches são).

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Tara Tarantella @tarantella.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. An ad that’s a full-throated understanding and specific support of the LGBTQIA+ community. I’m impressed to the level of “Can this ad truly be coming from a Democrat?” level of impressed

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 3d

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 3d

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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