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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 5h

Clever granny evades old-age "colony" established by Brazil's authoritarian government, in this gently dystopian drama set in a terrifyingly near future

From the BFI London Film Festival:

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The Blue Trail (O Ultimo Azul) - DMovies

Clever granny evades old-age "colony" established by Brazil's authoritarian government, in this gently dystopian drama set in a terrifyingly near future - from various festivals

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 22h

I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online

Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 1h

They care more about paedophiles and the Epstein files than the rank and file.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 2h

Going on the offensive certainly helps!

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godlessbitch.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social · 2h

GOP

Party of Lie & Deny

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

The entire Trump administration is full of shit.

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 3h

I was wondering this with regard to Sunak. Although there are probably many who will accept a minority in a position as long as politics are aligned, with what could be termed cultural assimilation, but won't accept it at a societal level. Same as "So and so is not white but is okay".

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 3h

I doubt there is much love for Farage in the Tory appointee circles, but unpicking this may be detrimental to Brexit and various other right wing causes.

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 3h

Probably when various BBC board positions reach the end of their tenure, next year or so.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Shane O'Mahony @conciousawareness.bsky.social · 4h

I reckon Scooby Doo could investigate this whole thing better/more thoroughly than the mainstream media.

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 3h

One of them said "Britain should be more like the UAE"... So let's have more mosques, "Sharia law" etc! And rename Big Ben to Massive Mohammed.

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SweaterWeatherLife @cozyfallmemories.bsky.social · 15h

They bullied her for being different. They had no idea they were looking at a mind with a higher IQ than Einstein's. Meet the incredible young girl who is shattering every stereotype about autism and reaching for the stars.

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Secret Drug Addict @scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 3h

When someone asks me if i'm seeing anyone, I automatically assume they're talking about a psychiatrist

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Author Krishna Prasanth Guttikonda @krishna-author.bsky.social · 3h

"The audacity"

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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 3h

I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 3h

Nigel Farage for UK-Russia relations via the Channel or Cayman islands.

Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 3h

Reinforcing failure!

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 4h

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck trib.al/3vhBGId

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck | The Observer

It was touted as the future of motoring, but has proved to be a turkey in a stainless steel jacket. It’s time Elon parked his Cybertruck for good

trib.al

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 4h

Calling yourself "Kid Rock" is way more stupid than that.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 4h

getting a lot of haters talking shit about my set at the epstein island comedy festival, as if those young women don’t deserve to see me do stand up

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 5h

With seemingly unlimited funding, the Cold War gave rise to a freaky menagerie of exciting warplanes, some charismatic, utterly daft or downright evil. Here are 10 cool (or utterly batshit) Cold War planes: hushkit.substack.com/p/insanely-c...

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Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 4h

Euan Blair does not exist anyway. I
He was sacrificed to the god Moloch by his father in return for power, eternal life and a mullet. There is a Euan Blair team that is increasingly reliant on AI to maintain the pretence.

Old Hobbit✌ @oldhobbit.bsky.social · 4h

Just let AI do it all. I am old and tired. Make facts easy even if they are not facts.