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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2h

Nobel Peace Committee's chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes: "We only give the award based on courage and integrity."

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Nathan Nelson @nathannelson.bsky.social · 14h

I had frogs once. Years ago I did design work for a developer who boasted about being sensitive to nature. Then in a quiet moment he said, “If you think some frog is going to hold us up from building, you’ve got another think coming.” Tedious, ignorant, ecologically illiterate bores.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 4h

"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs." (1 Timothy 6:10 ESV)
Guess he's selective about his Bible-reading.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 5h

Isn't there some way to stop Farage getting back into the country, the next time he goes to America?

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 5h

Did you have to share his picture? It makes me quite nauseous.

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 5h

I'll not even consider paying attention to anything Farage has to say about what happens in primary schools until *every* member of his party is legally allowed to be within 50ft of one

Nigel Farage says Britain's
eachers 'poisoning our kids' and
predicts a teachers' strike as PM
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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 5h

More trans activist silliness, shared by ostensibly intelligent Vancouver Park Board members, anxious to avoid, er, what?
Maybe attending this event could turn children into raving trabsphobes? Perhaps Rowling's evil influence will affect them?
Imperio! (See spells).
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Park Board apologizes for Vancouver Harry Potter attraction amidst outcry | News

An official Harry Potter event weeks away from opening in Stanley Park has had its future in Vancouver confirmed by the Park Board this week.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 5h

"Today's decision reaffirms the vital principle that free speech protects the right to offend, shock, or disturb – even when it challenges deeply held religious beliefs."
Or any others.
www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/10...

Success! Court upholds right to free speech in Quran burning appeal

National Secular Society welcomes decision as "important victory for freedom of speech" Read More »

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 6h

However they go about it, it's women who are at a disadvantage, whether it's having their genitals checked before sex, having miltiple pregnancies, taking the pill, having IUDs fitted, and after all that having female babies killed, or being raped or murdered themselves.
It's a dangerous country.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 16h

I haven't written that Catholicidm is totally responsible for poverty in India, and I'm aware of the religious mix.
I imagine the success of the Billings method will vary according to cultural attitudes towards fecundity.
Vasectomies would be much simpler.
Goodbye to you too.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know what you mean by "natural ones", or what Kirk has to do with it, but can we agree to disagree?
Bye bye!

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

He wasn't her only critic. The Catholic Church increases poverty due to its policies on contraception and abortion, leaving women to have babies they can't afford.
The church and Theresa's rich friends had money. Other aid organisations have procured medical supplies.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

He should go and live in America.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

How do men like Husamettin Dogan find wives? And will his wife divorce him now?
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French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

It's not surprising that Farage finds a ready audience for his nonsense in America, where conspiracy theories flourish. And I'm sure Mr Vance would love to share it.
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Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

So that's alright then.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 7d

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

The entrance to the walled garden I found today, with its broken door and big ivy hat.

An interdimensional portal in the walled garden I found today

A hole in the wall of the walled garden I found today, leading to 1785.

Ruined potting sheds in the walled garden I found today.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

She deserved to be locked up for allowing her poor patients to suffer "like Christ" for want of the analgesics they were denied in her vary basic facilities, among other things. She was a hypocrite.
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The Fanatic, Fraudulent Mother Teresa

In 2003, Pope John Paul II approved the beatification of Mother Teresa. At the time, Christopher Hitchens called Mother Teresa “a fanatic, a...

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize it wouldn't be the first time it had been given to an unworthy recipient. That dreadful old fraud Mother Teresa got it in 1979. But winners haven't usually promoted themselves, have they?
There's going to be a massive tantrum if he doesn't get it. Look out Norway!

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2d

They're probably wondering if it's safe to eat any of it.

MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2d

😵‍💫 The Kremlin showed Putin's celebratory lunch with the generals yesterday.

It doesn't feel festive at all. Everyone's expressions are gloomy…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

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National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

Some 500 National Guard troops were deployed near Chicago on Wednesday on President Donald Trump's orders despite the objections of the Chicago mayor and Illinois governor, who decried the militarization of their city as an unnecessary provocation.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2d

From what I saw of Badenoch's speech to the Tory conference yesterday, she's trying terribly hard to emulate The Iron Lady, but with a little more warmth, and hoping that everyone will forget the rapid turnover of party leaders over the last 10 years.
I almost feel sorry for her.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2d

The Times reports that Peruvian bishop Ciro Quispe López, 51, has handed in his resignation to Pope Leo after being accused of having 17 mistresses, including a nun and a lawyer. Some found out about each other and nearly came to blows.

He can't have had much time for doing whatever bishops do.

Bishop Ciro Quispe López, a priest with 17 lovers. Photo from The Times.

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John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social · 2d

On tonight’s Unspun World on BBC Two I talk to the great Steve Rosenberg about what it’s really like to be the BBC Russia editor — how do ordinary Russians react to him? Is he in danger? What’s going to happen there? Unmissable!

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