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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉

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ofmd ate my life 🌟 She/they, 40, bi, white, disabled. 🌟🏴‍☠️,💍, neighbours, other stuff 🌟 now watching SPN 🌟 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🌟 Banner by ericavee

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · Dec 3

Lego Ed and Stede stand underneath their affirmation card, with a heart between them. Around them are an orange, an anchor, a pirate flag, a snail, a crab and a turtle. A sticker above them reads #LongLiveOFMD

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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 8h

Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1901
Gustav Klimt

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

Joseph Goebbels once explained that the long-term mission of the Nazis was to "erase 1789 from history".

And here we are.

John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 2d

It's really important to understand that anyone who says we should be like the UAE fundamentally hates every principle western society has held or attempted to uphold since the French Revolution.

And at a less ideological level, they also just hate Britain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

apparently being opposed to labour putting employment naggers in gp offices and at the heart of mental health services means im 'writing ppl off'.

i can't stand this nonsense. it makes me so angry.

this government is not trying to help disabled ppl. it is saying 'work or die'.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 1d

They're just going to keep shouting "YOU'RE NOT ILL, YOU'RE JUST LAZY" until enough people have killed themselves.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 8h

Last night I was thinking, this is as much pain as I can bear so idk what to do if it gets worse. I mean you can ring for a hospital when they're not going to do anything.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 8h

Pain is much better tonight though because I slept till 6pm I am now awake anyway.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10d

I may have found my defining quote.

Pair this with my pinned post and you will see what I mean!

From a poster called “just shower thoughts“ reading: when people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically, changing the present by doing something small, barely anyone in the present to really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

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🖤 Sandra’s Evil Twin 🖤 MWAHAHAHAHA 🪓 @sgwong.com · 15h

LRT
“In 2017, Kenyan conservationist Dr Mordecai Ogada published the book The Big Conservation Lie, which criticised ‘white saviours’ like Goodall...Have any African conservationists received a damehood or regular well-paid speaking opportunities across the world for their work?”

Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 21h

With Jane Goodall's death last week and the Nobel Prize announcements this week, I wrote about why it's a big problem that we lionise individuals for achievements that resulted from the work of collective groups of people.

We spend too much time lionising people like Jane Goodall

Idolising people only entrenches the idea that it is spectacular individuals, not collectives, who change the world.

www.sower.world

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 17h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 9h

By that point you'll have forgotten how much it cost, probably!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 2d

Another image from this summer Greenland adventures, this time during a moody day with a bit of fog, and the signature red sails.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

I FORGOT THERE ISN'T A POST CREDITS SCENE FML.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

Ok wait I think I worked out Steve staying in the past. I HATE TIME TRAVEL.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

You can have a little nap in the credits.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

(I wasn't disabled then. But I was very disabled in 2019! Not as much as now of course, thanks 2 doses of Covid.)

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

I'm actually exhausted, chronic fatigue is a bitch and idk how I did this in the cinema. (I also don't know how I did RotK, during which I cried so much my friend thought there was something wrong with me.)

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ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

I love the signature thing, idk which film invented that. #Endgame

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

That's an extremely stupid way to end (nobody's ultimate desire for this saga was that Cap creates an alternate timeline that doesn't make sense so he can live in the suburbs, surely), but regardless, five stars I'm afraid. I have no objectivity and am very impressed by lots of moving parts.

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

They're obviously playing it like Bucky knew that was going to happen, but still. #Endgame

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

He just left Bucky! #Endgame

ARGH!adia Ego 🎃🍉 @arcadiaego.bsky.social · 13h

I have no fucking idea how Steve staying in the past works so whatever, he died heroically taking the stones back or something. Fell off that big cliff. #Endgame