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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 2h

dont even know who this person is. they are the one who replied to me and i had said absolutely nothing back 😭😭

dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 2h

>sees the word dipshit in an internet post
>immediately assumes i was talking about them personally.

i love this app so much.

letyourlifebe.bsky.social @letyourlifebe.bsky.social · 4h

oh I don't know why blue sky put this on my Discover list :) I'm just trying to be the person that was called a dip shit earlier up thread, offering a different perspective. ;) Oncology is life-saving and medically necessary, but it's still called oncology.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 21h

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 9h

on jeff bezos this incredibly scottish man said “wherever he is i just hope he’s having a heart attack”. this is all for him now.

dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 1d

sex is pretty cool but have you ever had an incredible conversation with the stranger sat next to you on a train who you happened to align with politically

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 1d

sex is pretty cool but have you ever had an incredible conversation with the stranger sat next to you on a train who you happened to align with politically

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SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 2d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 1d

good. wouldn't be missed. scum.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

Betting firm threatens to end its entire High St presence if it has to pay any more tax bit.ly/4qhaL1j yet another in the too rich and too important to pay tax series

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred

Increased levies expected to be imposed in next month’s budget could cost the company 7,000 jobs, according to Joanne Whittaker, the chief executive

bit.ly

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 1d

do it.

end this blight.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

Betting firm threatens to end its entire High St presence if it has to pay any more tax bit.ly/4qhaL1j yet another in the too rich and too important to pay tax series

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred

Increased levies expected to be imposed in next month’s budget could cost the company 7,000 jobs, according to Joanne Whittaker, the chief executive

bit.ly

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 1d

trans healthcare is the term i stubbornly stick to. "gender affirming care" is dipshit cis ally speak and implies it is something optional (which it aint for the majority of trans people) which keeps them thinking healthcare bans are akin to a bully stealing a kid's sweets rather than murder.

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Emily ‘Cutie of Darkness’ AF 🧛‍♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ @rockstarelise.com · 1d

I kind of hate the term Gender affirming care, because from endocrinology to the four surgeries I’ve had, that shit was medically necessary, and life-saving.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1d

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

When there’s so clearly more people who don’t want fascism than do want fascism it becomes pretty fucking unignorable that the Democratic Party has a widespread candidate, platform and messaging problem. Every election is theirs to lose, and they do.

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 2d

Pepe The Frog was itself co-opted and stolen from a comic by online Nazis. They tried to make Gritty theirs but failed. Further highlighting that fascists cannot create, just steal and corrupt what is not theirs.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 2d

every colour, every culture
every language, every creed
but no kings, no kings
no kings

youtu.be/JXWDuv-ebrI?...

No Kings

YouTube video by Jesse Welles - Topic

youtu.be

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 5d

Arguments about reform vs revolution feel a bit Titanic feng shui in this particular political moment tbh.

I'm neither a reformist nor a revolutionary. I'm a "make sure as many of us survive as possible"-ist (-ary?).

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onion person @junlper.beer · 7d

zack polanski is so good and i genuinely think if the left rallies around this guy and the green party in the UK, they can easily beat back the hysteria of the reform party

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Empress Jessica😻👻🏳️‍⚧️ | Nekomata VTuber @empressjessicavt.bsky.social · 8d

I had to do a game review as part of my university course.

I think I chose the correct game to infodump about.

A screenshot of a word document titlted "Conker's bad fur day - Seavor's bizzare adventure" below is the front cover of the Nintendo 64 version of the game

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 9d

that "true crime" is even a genre really is evil and horrific and despicable if you actually think about it for more than 5 seconds huh

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 10d

Not trying to be obnoxious but I struggle to see how teaming up with a bunch of social conservatives is going to help us swerve “barbarism”?

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 10d

We stand at a crossroads: socialism or barbarism. The stakes couldn’t be higher — we have to win.

That means making Your Party truly democratic: to democratise the state, and in turn, the economy.

I’ll always fight for grassroots, member-led democracy.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/soci...

Socialism or Barbarism

Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute — and use them to take the socialist s...

tribunemag.co.uk

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 10d

let the transphobes keep swimming for all i care if we're lucky they'll catch something nasty.

dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 10d

sry but you have to be a little insane to want to go swimming in any UK river or lake anyway. not sure if these people missed it but water pollution is kinda a big issue rn!!!

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · 10d

filled in the consultation form about the ponds in London

screenshot from the form with two questions, two boxes and two answers.

Question 1: please tell is about your reasons for this
answer 1: we are funding genocide in Gaza and THIS is what you give a shit about? Hope everyone involved gets leprosy.

Question 2: are there any options that you think we should be considering? if so please tell us about them below
answer 2: stop selling weapons to Israel. stop supporting a blatant genocide. may all your ponds be filled with shit.

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dammitbelle @dammitbelle.bsky.social · 11d

i am very firmly of the belief that there is no such thing as a celebrity ally. would never ordinally stick my neck out an inch to defend anyone of such immense privilege.

but the disproportionate standards to which chappell roan is held to is very revealing and sets my teeth on edge.

Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12d

"queer person has homophobic family"

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 13d

Darin Chappell, who's a Missouri legislator actively pushing anti-trans laws, is her uncle. 🤎

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