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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 3d

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · 3d

I was at the Brussels Beer Project bar in Ixelles a week or two ago looking at the board with 20 different IPAs and had similar feelings: that's not what I go to Belgium for. But I guess someone must like it.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · 11d

When I was working at Reading festival years ago we were given a bunch of radio codes. I remember that the one for a small fire was Mr Ash, which didn't seem to really get the point of using a code word.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · 19d

I was not expecting this to be why you get cancelled.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 29d

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Sep 9

I haven't been in the stream for a while, has @frankynstein.bsky.social been got or does their curse continue to be fake?

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Sep 3

Dinnerladies should be on this list

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's funny how the educational attainment of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation migrant children isn't due to the hard work, resilience and assimilation the right wing beg of our communities. Instead, it's due to the idea we have somehow stolen our grades from the 'white working class'

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Aug 29

Did you think about the relative locations of all their bumholes?

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Aug 26

UK Guardian showing more sympathy for the speak and spell than it ever has for transgender people

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · Aug 21

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The Advocate @advocate.com · Aug 20

Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.

Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why

Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Jul 31

A screenshot of a tumblr thread.
Tumblr user the-frog-in-the-bog said "I want to decompose in a bog" well you clearly don't know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser.
Tumblr user thebigbiwolf adds a screenshot of the tags #in the bog is like the opposite of decomposition #get pickled idiot and says Huge fan of the phrase "get pickled, idiot"

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óÓÒò Spotted Menace óÓÒò @spottedmenace.bsky.social · Jul 24

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all.

The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · Jul 16

Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Jul 15

Not a proper trophy if you can't drink a beer out of it

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Jul 11

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Jul 8

This feels @brainmage.bsky.social coded

james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Jul 7

Eggmont Fleetway sounds like a motorway service station, perhaps on the M3 somewhere near Basingstoke

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · Nov 19

"So how will seeing a clown cure me?"

"I'm afraid you misunderstand. There is no cure; this is purely pagliative."

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Neil @enanem.bsky.social · Feb 2

Grandmaster Flash is swimming in his bear costume again.

He's like a Bungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how he keeps from going under.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Jun 30

"How is that going to win people over to your cause?" is only ever said by people who hate your cause oh my god they hate your cause so fucking much.

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james @jamesmoosh.bsky.social · Jun 24

I love this. May I use it as an avatar on here?

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thank you jamesmoosh, here is your bee. It has been on the honey but it's doing its best.

A soft fuzzy cartoon bee with a benevolent expression is doing a thumbs-up

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Take the clown statue and get out! WE DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS!!! @brainmage.bsky.social · Jun 19

Garfield launched its first strip on this day in 1978!

6 yrs ago, @wangleberry.bsky.social & I decided to do a Garfield review podcast. One strip per episode.

Neither of us care for Garfield.

I Don't Like Mondays is at 114 episodes! We have a lot of ground to cover

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Episode 114: Less Whimsy, More Toilet Ghosts

Oh no. This episode has done got a big wee in it. Err. Today, we talk about a second go at making pizza, further analyse Guy's fear of failure, Guy flounces out of a shop, a shoe falls apart at a the

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