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Sweary Jewish Marilla Cuthbert. She/her. Books. I keep them, read them, try to write them. Twitter: @k8marsh NEW Insta: @katemarshwriting
I will never try to sell you dodgy Oasis tickets
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If anyone on here follows me on Instagram, please note that my Insta account has been hacked. It's not me trying to flog you dodgy Oasis tickets! Sorry about that. Lots of people have reported it now so I hope they will shut the account down
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Bluesky runs an appview.
Blacksky runs an appview.

A complete appview is a several terabytes sized database of the >18 billion follows, likes and posts of all bsky users, ever and forever.

To run a different appview is to make a fork in bsky’s timeline.

One has new posts from Łink.
One doesn’t.
January 18, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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this is an area where I’ve been doing a lot of work over the last several years to root out entrenched ableism in my language and I’ve found “willfully ignorant” feels more accurate. it’s a deliberate choice about refusing to take in new information, read, learn, use logic, question beliefs
January 19, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Eg, In the case of Hanania.

No.

Hard pass.

If you're expecting us to offer him an off-ramp, the answer is no.

He can stay on that side until he undoes all of this.
This Man Has The Ear Of Billionaires — And A White Supremacist Past He Kept A Secret
Hanania is championed by tech moguls and a U.S. senator, but HuffPost found he used a pen name to become an important figure in the “alt-right.”
www.huffpost.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Omg. Iran killed 16,500 protesters and injured 330,000 in two days.
Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’
Witnesses tell of the brutality inflicted on those taking part in anti-regime protests
www.thetimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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A third immigrant held at Camp East Montana has died, reportedly by suicide. Victor Manuel Díaz was detained in Minnesota. He is the sixth migrant to die since Jan. 1 in ICE detention.

My story:

www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
January 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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lol in conclusion: letting whiteness define the Black experience is like letting a fish define what it means to be a kangaroo, you have no idea what you're talking about.

Which means expecting white measures to define Black success is a fool's errand... at best. #blacksky
This is arguably a blueprint for how Black people should engage with the current moment if you ask me. We should allow our survival to inspire community, art, and intellectual thought that expands what opportunity is for us even amidst the chaos. #blacksky
Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind.

Second Enlightenment level.
January 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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It's funny that one of the things people learn as very small children is "you get better at doing the thing by doing the thing."

Everyone learns this as a small kid, it is very obviously completely true.

And using genAI manages to instantly make people forget it, and start arguing about it.
January 18, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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US government agency blocklist here:

bsky.app/profile/eva....
The Gestapo is here.

Registered since 26th November 2025.

Not posted just a lurker.

Just so people are aware.
January 17, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is attitude I aspire to
The President doesn't deserve to dictate my state of mind.
January 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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BREAKING: A measles outbreak is growing at rapid speed in South Carolina, with cases doubling over the last week and spreading to at least three other states.
'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles within a week
More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest current outbreak in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.
nbcnews.to
January 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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Gonna ask Meryl Streep to give me one of her Oscars
January 16, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power.

And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.
NEW

The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution

In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male
María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: “I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize”
January 15, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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You will pry my wired headphones from my cold dead millennial hands
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
"It’s not the first time the EEOC’s efforts to fight antisemitism have caused alarm among Jewish faculty."
Really?

How about: Fascist regime intent on destroying Palestine also decides to make a list of American Jews
January 15, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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Please can you help us with our rescue horse Diesel’s vet bill?

We have £600 to pay for blood tests

He has EMS & will be on costly medications for at least 3 months to control his insulin levels

Please help, if you can: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Thank you so much 💚

#rescueanimals
January 14, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community.

That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.
January 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM