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seamas.bsky.social
80% of British media spends all day everyday calling trans people predators and freaks, and the remaining 20% say tsk tsk that's a bit much while still arguing they should be banned from even having a fucking hobby and, honestly, would it be so hard for them to just piss before they leave the house?
December 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Something new. A #postcardadventcalendar. Stick with me for some nicely odd vintage images for the month, and you may end up with an expression like our friend in a deckchair in front of painted sea. Hold tight. The thread starts today:

1. Woman in a deckchair.

Cheers, T.
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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bfletcherwatson.bsky.social
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
And if you are outside the UK, Blackwell's will - amazingly - send it to you with free international delivery:

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Everything Will Swallow You
Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live
blackwells.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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harryrose.bsky.social
Here it is...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGeC...
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by worldsgreatestmusic
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November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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richardnicholls.net
Day 328 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Only a golden retriever could make friends with a worm
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator

Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit

A new post by me:
emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...
Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator
Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit
emptycity.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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bcdreyer.social
one of the great Tony speeches of all time
Natalia Makarova wins 1983 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
YouTube video by awardscrazy
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November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
My latest, for New Statesman
newstatesman1913.bsky.social The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 15d
Tinkering with ECHR definitions will not help the government, by David Allen Green

The proposed changes to Articles 3 and 8 in asylum cases will achieve little or nothing
Tinkering with ECHR definitions will not help the government
The proposed changes to Articles 3 and 8 in asylum cases will achieve little or nothing
www.newstatesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
We begin today with a content warning: this dispatch from history is not for the faint-hearted. However, if you wish, do please join me for the tale of the Sun King’s anal fistula and the three-hour operation performed on it without anaesthetic on this day in 1686... 🧵
Louis XIV in 1685, the year before his operation. Image shows a large man in huge long black wig and long blur robe trimmed with white fur and decorated with gold fleur-de-lis. He is clutching a sceptre in one hand and a laurel crown in the other, and one stockinged, gartered leg is sticking out of the robe
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
andyinmilan.bsky.social
One of the greatest writers ever. I so enjoy listening to her during interviews. The first book I read of hers was The Blind Assassin and I loved it. I've never been disappointed with her writing. Margaret Atwood is, as he says at the end, a marvel.
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
Margaret Atwood on reading palms, getting older — and holding grudges | CBC Radio
Margaret Atwood’s new memoir Book of Lives explores how the world has shaped her writing, and how that writing in turn shaped her life
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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stacescases2.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
I know this is hard for commercial journalism to understand but LGBTQ ppl are not heard as virtue or vice signalling devices. We’re just ordinary ppl trying to live in peace as right wing politics tries to make our lives harder.

Before you write a story about us, visit an ordinary gay bar…
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
andyinmilan.bsky.social
This is, possibly, the best thread ever on BlueSky (or, for that matter, Twitter).
Marun Buchstansangur is my kind of cartoon character. Missed this at the time though
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22d
So, happy 43rd birthday, Murun Buchstansangur, one of the oddest cartoon characters ever to grace a screen, who made his debut on Channel 4 #OTD in 1982
Murun Buchstansangur sits on the ground in his messy home, looking confused, facing his neighbour, on whom he has a crush. We see her back view, and she looks recognisably human, if small with a big head, and is wearing a red dress and has blonde hair. Murun is a small blue/grey creature – essentially a head with arms sticking out of the side, and feet coming directly out of his neck. He has a mop of brown hair
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
It’s the 22nd anniversary of a man sitting in a bath of beans. This may not seem remarkable, what with that being a staple of rag weeks everywhere, but this was in the window of the House Gallery in Camberwell. This was Art
Two people walk past a large plate glass window looking in, possibly scornfully, at a man in white clothes sitting in a bath full of baked beans. He has crinkle cut chips up his nose and a number of sausages strapped in a bundle to the top of his head Close-up, by Grame Robertson for Getty Images, of a man in white clothes with a crinkle cut chip up each nostril and a number of sausages strapped in a bundle to the top of his head
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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eleanorrylance.bsky.social
I’m sad that fellow remainers block me for pointing out that accession to the EU takes a long time and requires a lot of buy in from a large majority of the population, but that is the case. We are not looking at a fast process, and we would be far behind even Ukraine in the accession queue.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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alltherightmovies.com
TOY STORY 2 was released 26 years ago today. The second entry in Pixar’s beloved series, and regarded one of the great animated sequels, the story of how it was made will make you realise you can’t rush art…

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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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davidallengreen.bsky.social
NEW

The letter the BBC could send back to Trump

A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim

By me. Enjoy.

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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russincheshire.bsky.social
News! #BookSky

Sequel to #BabysBreath: "Fallen Feathers", out late Nov.
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Baby's Breath reader quotes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“Brilliant from the first page”
"This book is extraordinary"
“Edge-of-your-seat from start to finish”
“Sensational, an absolute rollercoaster”
“An astonishingly accomplished crime novel”
Cover of Fallen Feathers by Russell Jones. The cover depicts a cool blue background, with a white feather drifting above a drop of blood. The tagline is "Salvation has a price"
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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With alt text.
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
andyinmilan.bsky.social
A wonderful letter.
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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orkneylibrary.bsky.social
It's a little known fact that Otis Redding spent time in Hoy, #Orkney during the 1920s while engineer Ernest Cox carried out salvage work on the scuttled German fleet, as shown in this photograph.

Apparently Otis was often seen sitting on the dock in Mill Bay, watching the tide roll away.
A black and white Archive photograph of a dock and ships in Mill Bay in Hoy. It's captioned The Dock in Mill Bay, Orkney.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
Doug Brazil is the cameraman who captured the glorious footage, which eventually, of course, found its way to YouTube and became very popular indeed
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
YouTube video by KATU News
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM