LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil
@leedsbookclub.bsky.social
Books, comics, films!
A small but mighty book club, meeting in Leeds since 2010.
#LBC3Reads, #LBCHorsforth, #LBCWSwan
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Bestie 📖 - Queen of Shadows
LBC📖 - instructions for a heatwave
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A small but mighty book club, meeting in Leeds since 2010.
#LBC3Reads, #LBCHorsforth, #LBCWSwan
- https://leedsbookclub.com/category/all-posts/
Bestie 📖 - Queen of Shadows
LBC📖 - instructions for a heatwave
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2025 Reads
08/01 - The Little Liar - Mitch Albom - #LBCHorsforth
11/01 - When God was a rabbit - #LBC3Reads
12/01 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Suzanna Clarke - #LBCWSwan
09/02 - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill - LBCWS
12/02 - Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - LBCH
08/01 - The Little Liar - Mitch Albom - #LBCHorsforth
11/01 - When God was a rabbit - #LBC3Reads
12/01 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Suzanna Clarke - #LBCWSwan
09/02 - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill - LBCWS
12/02 - Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - LBCH
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Exactly the point I was making last night. And here’s the thing: we didn’t all say things like that in the 70s and 80s. The reason I know is because I was one of the ones who did - to my lasting shame - and I did it for the shock value, to get attention. Because most people didn’t say racist things.
Many people on socmed responding to the Farage racism story with ‘We all said things like that in the 70s’. If you did, you’re one of those who made my childhood miserable much of the time. And if you have no remorse, face facts: you’re (still) a racist.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Exactly the point I was making last night. And here’s the thing: we didn’t all say things like that in the 70s and 80s. The reason I know is because I was one of the ones who did - to my lasting shame - and I did it for the shock value, to get attention. Because most people didn’t say racist things.
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So I’ve hesitated to share this but I will. When I was a schoolboy, I said cruel, hurtful, racist things to fellow pupils. By the time I reached sixth form I had matured enough to feel remorse and I apologised to them; they didn’t all accept the apology which is fair enough. 1/2
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
So I’ve hesitated to share this but I will. When I was a schoolboy, I said cruel, hurtful, racist things to fellow pupils. By the time I reached sixth form I had matured enough to feel remorse and I apologised to them; they didn’t all accept the apology which is fair enough. 1/2
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I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I’m beyond proud of Peter Ettedgui speaking out about Farage and the vile antisemitic abuse he endured. I first heard Peter’s story nearly 20 years ago when Farage was a virtual nobody. It’s not a hit job. Just the truth
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Gender-affirming care saves lives
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Gender-affirming care saves lives
And a political establishment that refuses to acknowledge it.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
And a political establishment that refuses to acknowledge it.
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Aargh I’ve lost a bookmark on here - print artist who’d done some folklore alphabet work
any help to find them would be appreciated
any help to find them would be appreciated
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Aargh I’ve lost a bookmark on here - print artist who’d done some folklore alphabet work
any help to find them would be appreciated
any help to find them would be appreciated
Shortly I’ll begin preparing my 3rd meal of the day (have someone staying that likes food & is a bit poorly).
If you enjoy cooking, more power to you.
But I am incredibly grateful for supermarket ready meals that save me from this repetitive drudgery.
#NoDomesticGoddess
#EverySingleDayWTF?
If you enjoy cooking, more power to you.
But I am incredibly grateful for supermarket ready meals that save me from this repetitive drudgery.
#NoDomesticGoddess
#EverySingleDayWTF?
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Shortly I’ll begin preparing my 3rd meal of the day (have someone staying that likes food & is a bit poorly).
If you enjoy cooking, more power to you.
But I am incredibly grateful for supermarket ready meals that save me from this repetitive drudgery.
#NoDomesticGoddess
#EverySingleDayWTF?
If you enjoy cooking, more power to you.
But I am incredibly grateful for supermarket ready meals that save me from this repetitive drudgery.
#NoDomesticGoddess
#EverySingleDayWTF?
Gorgeous shot.
Leeds is looking especially nice today*
*It may have changed since I took this photo
*It may have changed since I took this photo
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Gorgeous shot.
Tragically, based in the events after his last term, nothing will be done about it.
Whatever new republican leader (thankfully no longer Mitch McConnell) will ensure that it all gets swept under the rug.
And then lies will be endorsed to con the next gen of voters.
Whatever new republican leader (thankfully no longer Mitch McConnell) will ensure that it all gets swept under the rug.
And then lies will be endorsed to con the next gen of voters.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Tragically, based in the events after his last term, nothing will be done about it.
Whatever new republican leader (thankfully no longer Mitch McConnell) will ensure that it all gets swept under the rug.
And then lies will be endorsed to con the next gen of voters.
Whatever new republican leader (thankfully no longer Mitch McConnell) will ensure that it all gets swept under the rug.
And then lies will be endorsed to con the next gen of voters.
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What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Me as your bluesky therapist
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Me as your bluesky therapist
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Me as your Bsky therapist
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Me as your Bsky therapist
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Not the point of this thread exactly but I would like to add to this that when the disinformation crisis started to get really nasty I got tons of support and help from trans people, many of whom had already started up incredible projects of their own. The number of TERFs and similar who helped: 0
I've never had a trans woman tell me to get back in the kitchen, or make a "joke" about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never seen trans women outside the planned parenthood calling women murderers and whores. trans women have never dogged me out for incorrectly performing femininity
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not the point of this thread exactly but I would like to add to this that when the disinformation crisis started to get really nasty I got tons of support and help from trans people, many of whom had already started up incredible projects of their own. The number of TERFs and similar who helped: 0
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I've never had a trans woman tell me to get back in the kitchen, or make a "joke" about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never seen trans women outside the planned parenthood calling women murderers and whores. trans women have never dogged me out for incorrectly performing femininity
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I've never had a trans woman tell me to get back in the kitchen, or make a "joke" about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote. I've never seen trans women outside the planned parenthood calling women murderers and whores. trans women have never dogged me out for incorrectly performing femininity
Jesus wept!
Well, as @writesbright.bsky.social pointed out a while ago this is the entrance exam from 2011. They're taught to lie and deceive from a very early age.
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Jesus wept!
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Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮
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It's coming up to Christmas which means it's time to post about my BOOK!
A Yorkshire Year is my almanac of Yorkshire folklore, customs, and traditions, taking you through a whole year of traditions old and new!
Available online and in shops!
A Yorkshire Year is my almanac of Yorkshire folklore, customs, and traditions, taking you through a whole year of traditions old and new!
Available online and in shops!
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It's coming up to Christmas which means it's time to post about my BOOK!
A Yorkshire Year is my almanac of Yorkshire folklore, customs, and traditions, taking you through a whole year of traditions old and new!
Available online and in shops!
A Yorkshire Year is my almanac of Yorkshire folklore, customs, and traditions, taking you through a whole year of traditions old and new!
Available online and in shops!
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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13 yr old Ettudgui was not an isolated case…The Guardian says it has spoken to more than a dozen ex Dulwich College pupils who say they were at the receiving end of Farage’s racist/ bullying/ cruel rotten conduct -even in 6th Form
But adult Farage is too gutless to own up. He denies it.
But adult Farage is too gutless to own up. He denies it.
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
13 yr old Ettudgui was not an isolated case…The Guardian says it has spoken to more than a dozen ex Dulwich College pupils who say they were at the receiving end of Farage’s racist/ bullying/ cruel rotten conduct -even in 6th Form
But adult Farage is too gutless to own up. He denies it.
But adult Farage is too gutless to own up. He denies it.
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Those who say Trump is doing something where others sat on the sidelines, sure, but since he’s been president, attacks on Ukraine have only increased - dramatically so. Putin couldn’t even keep a lid on it during the bizarre bro-fest in Alaska, bombs literally fell as they met
November 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Those who say Trump is doing something where others sat on the sidelines, sure, but since he’s been president, attacks on Ukraine have only increased - dramatically so. Putin couldn’t even keep a lid on it during the bizarre bro-fest in Alaska, bombs literally fell as they met
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Trump has made a choice over the course of the past few months to publicly reward Putin for illegally invading another country and stealing their land, rather than make him an international pariah. Those who say Ukraine needs to accept reality, think what precedent this sets
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Trump has made a choice over the course of the past few months to publicly reward Putin for illegally invading another country and stealing their land, rather than make him an international pariah. Those who say Ukraine needs to accept reality, think what precedent this sets
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
If only we’d had some hint of this at the time…
So, Johnson was chaotic, Cummings toxic and Hancock a serial liar.
More revelations as they land.
More revelations as they land.
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If only we’d had some hint of this at the time…
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"If we come out of the inquiry thinking that the only solution is to shut down society, we have learned nothing" - right-wing opinion haver, Ella Whelan
200k people died because we didn't lock down fast enough OR hard enough & we had - and continue to have - ABSOLUTELY ZERO mitigation. #bbcqt
200k people died because we didn't lock down fast enough OR hard enough & we had - and continue to have - ABSOLUTELY ZERO mitigation. #bbcqt
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"If we come out of the inquiry thinking that the only solution is to shut down society, we have learned nothing" - right-wing opinion haver, Ella Whelan
200k people died because we didn't lock down fast enough OR hard enough & we had - and continue to have - ABSOLUTELY ZERO mitigation. #bbcqt
200k people died because we didn't lock down fast enough OR hard enough & we had - and continue to have - ABSOLUTELY ZERO mitigation. #bbcqt