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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 2h

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 1h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Your Party 2: 🎃Season Of Dead Terfs🎃 @fasterfizzier.bsky.social · 1h

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 3h

I remember this when it first appeared a few years ago, and of course it makes sense.

Post-apocalypse, your money is worth nothing. OF COURSE your security team will instantly eliminate the one thing of no value in the room--the billionaire.

Simpley Thom. 🏳️‍🌈 @mongreldog.bsky.social · 9h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Saying you're 'buying a house in New Zealand' is kind of a wink, wink, say no more," Reid Hoffman previously said. The same presumably goes for bunkers.

But there's a distinctly human flaw.

I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking.

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 3h

Worth reading that speech to see what's ignored: unilateral disarmament and renationalisation.

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Kath Coyle @mrscoyle.bsky.social · 3h

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Eirlys (Simple Carrot) @simplecarrot.bsky.social · 4h

I am once again asking dodgy people to remember that the saying is "One bad apple spoils the barrel".

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

They’ve been calling a significant section of the public unBritish hatemongers. They’ve been telling everyone who objects to their horrible politics to fuck off, for years. It’s not that mild-mannered is it, and that’s before we get to the Enoch Powell speech.

Is Labour just mild-mannered Faragism?
The New Statesman:

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h

it is almost impossible to communicate how racist and colonialist this entire episode is lol

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 6h

Incredibly funny bit to hand the nobel peace prize to someone who does "President Trump thank you for bombing our fishers, our country yearns for freedom only you can deliver" lol

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 5h

I love how people will be dead wrong about every US backed coup attempt for the last 70 years but then be like… but this one, this one is actually good

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 7h

Ah here. Hurling n all??

#Áras25

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, we're really only wondering about the margin by which she'll beat HH at this stage.

Connolly could call Marty Whelan a prick or say she hates crisps, she'd still come out of it more popular than her rival.

Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 1d

Connolly has this election so in the bag.

Unless she hits Michael D with a stunner or something I dunno how charisma vacuum Heather Humphreys pulls it back

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Debbie Rua @debbierua.bsky.social · 9h

So many questions to answer. Fair play to Heather though, she's on the ball.
@finegael.bsky.social @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @independent.ie
#connolly #ireland #election #speirghorm

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 8h

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

As a general rule, if there's a South American activist who supports the actions of any US president, you can be assured they're a wrongun. Trump is, in foreign policy terms, not as much of a radical departure from his predecessors as people would like him to be.

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 8h

Not that liberals care, but they should.

Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8h

Where does this one rank, compared to - say - Laura Kuenssberg reading out drivel and bullshit she had been sent by Dominic Cummings live on air, directly contradicting the report full of Cummings’ drivel and bullshit she had just presented? I’d say it is barely a matter to care about, by contrast.

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 8h

🧵 Am I surprised they gave Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize? No. Does she deserve it? Also, no. There’s a reason she was barred from running for office in Venezuela: multiple violent coup attempts and calling of foreign governments, like Israel, to invade Venezuela.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h

well that was a nice few minutes of enjoying a duck drinking a milkshake.*

*I'm sure it's all more complicated than this keep in mind I am a cartoon cat on a social media site

Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 9h

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 8h

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 13h

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Anarchist Memes @anarchistmemes.org · 10h

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Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social · 9h

TIL Raf Vallone, the Mafia boss in The Italian Job, won the Italian cup with Torino while studying law. When he retired from football he became the culture editor of L'Unità, before becoming an anti-fascist partisan, and escaping from prison by swimming across Lake Como.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 9h

I think the NED’s last funded peace prize winner was Aung San Suu Kyi- so excited to see how this one turns out

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The Dublin Ghostbus That Never Arrived @keelanhothothot.bsky.social · 10h

I have called every radio station in this godforsaken country to play my favourite Spooky Season song and they refuse. Put @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social on the airwaves you cowards

youtu.be/HR74FsiTvbM?...

The Monster Mash but it's an Irish Ballad

YouTube video by Michael Fry (BigDirtyFry)

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