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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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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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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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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.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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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Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by worldsgreatestmusic
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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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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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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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
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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My latest, for New Statesman
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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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... 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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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November 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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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
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
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
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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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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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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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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”
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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With alt text.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A wonderful letter.
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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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.
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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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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when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM