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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · 10h

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 10h

Just seen Ian Rush on the box! x

BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · Jul 2

I am once again thinking about how kid Drebin looks like Ian Rush x

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 16h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · 15h

I think we know it's going to get worse, don't we? That's why I think Starmer's legacy will be that of absolute notoriety. Even more so than the Tory clowns that preceded him. For giving in. For going against everything he knows and believes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Keir Starmer to look at India’s digital ID system during visit to Mumbai

Prime minister hopes to learn from success of scheme rolled out to most of country’s 1.4bn citizens Keir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”. Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India’s digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licences. Continue reading...

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Chinny Honk @chinnyhonk.bsky.social · 17h

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 20h

Regularly think of this all timer

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Why do so many people romanticize the 1950's? Like calm down we still have milkshakes and racism
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.