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Champion of the Outsider, Listener to the Survivor! Loving slave to 🐶 @marlabastine.bsky.social 🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist 📕Set Me Free (02/07/26) 🎬Children of the Cult docuseries 🎓 SGA personality development Rep’d: @sileloquies.bsky.social

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · Mar 31

Here’s the statement I made unsilencing myself in the hope that winning my case will inspire fellow survivors to pursue justice 💪

Police Scotland statement on behalf of Hope Bastine following sentencing of Derek Lincoln

Police Scotland is issuing the following statement on behalf of 41-year-old Hope Bastine, a survivor of sexual abuse who was instrumental in the conviction of Derek Lincoln. He was sentenced at the Hi...

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 17h

RIP Diane Keaton 🖤 I loved how you showed women how to be women in spite of it all.

Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 2d

I would like to believe this signals the end of this unspeakable war, but I fear it is just another manoeuvre on Netanyahu’s part. Time will tell.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

My statement on Middle East peace

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3d

A superb essay, plus everyone wish @thelincoln.bsky.social a happy birthday!

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 4d

Starting my October horror posting...

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Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to Jacqueline Rose and Yasmin El-Rifae discuss Rose's book, WOMEN IN DARK TIMES on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk Podcast www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

Jacqueline Rose & Yasmin El-Rifae: Women in Dark Times | London Review Bookshop

Women in Dark Times begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon; and film icon Marilyn Monroe. The…

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 6d

Attention: The U.S. is no longer rated a “full democracy” by many indexes. It is often classified as a “flawed democracy” or “electoral democracy with deficits.”

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 7d

You’re probably right about this

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BLAST! @blastliterarymag.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re launching a new online magazine publishing bold, contemporary short fiction. Subscribe to be the first to see our stories (link in bio)

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 8d

The IG mention undermines her credibility as a journalist.

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 9d

Still too close to home.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 10d

Picked up a book yesterday from Waterstones. The author bio referenced her background in journalism and previous books. Then, listed her IG following. I put the book down. Since when is a bot based influencer a criteria of adequate writing?

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 10d

Please don’t tell me Gropedia will replace Wikipedia

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 10d

‘If we lose hope, we’re doomed.’ RIP Jane Goodall. You are—and will always be—a role model for women.

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 13d

Morning to the #dogsofbluesky

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 14d

Jason Bassler

Billionaire #1 owns X.
Billionaire #2 is buying TikTok.
Billionaire #3 owns FB, IG & WhatsApp.
Billionaire #4 owns Amazon + The Washington Post.

Monopoly over media, monopoly over minds.

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 18d

What a magnificent edition of @writersmosaic.bsky.social this quarter

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18d

I never saw an action of such shame

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 20d

Until we make the unconscious conscious, we are doomed to repeat patterns and call it fate. — Carl Jung

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21d

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.

Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.

Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 21d

Watching The Queen's Gambit. Cutting the King of Kings into the benzo scene is a a work of genius on so many levels only certain types of kids will get.

Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 21d

The Swiped movie made me cry. What women must do to untangle ourselves from the patriarchal codes and find success is a process we will be learning for centuries.

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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 23d

A Syrian refugee living in Germany travels to France in order to trace the footsteps of his former torturer, in this convoluted blend of mystery and drama

In cinemas tonight:

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Ghost Trail (Les Fantomes) - DMovies

A Syrian refugee living in Germany travels to France in order to trace the footsteps of his former torturer, in this convoluted blend of mystery and drama - in cinemas on Friday, September 19th

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 24d

I never had a big friendship group - now I know why — The i Paper

I assumed I was an introvert because I love solitude - then I discovered there's another personality type

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 24d

Otroversion” psychiatrist Dr Rami Kaminskiexplains it as a sense of “non-belonging”, or a “lack of communal impulse…quite gregarious and rarely tire from one-on-one socialising…socially embraced and often popular ― yet are unable to conform to what the group collectively thinks or cares about.”

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Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com · 24d

The fears now that Starmer has accepted Trump’s investment will that the UK will now be onerous to the US.