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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦
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Smallholder in the North, Rebel Among Hipsters, former Goth Babe of the Week. Somewhat original.
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After yesterday's big meal, we need a little roughage to clean up our acts. 1950s Betty Crocker arrived with several salad options. Just start with a bed of your favorite greens and build away. Which would you choose? Let me know below. 🍽️ 🍜 #FoodSky #Cooking #Recipes #RecipeOfTheDay
6 large bowls of salad are shown in 1950, The Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book. From 1950, The Betty Crocker Cookbook Asparagus tips sprinkled with grated cheese on thick tomato slices. Raw cauliflowerets, shredded raw carrots, toasted almonds Thin slices of cooked beets sprinkled with finely cut fresh mint leaves, julienne strips of celery. Sprigs of young spinach leaves sprinkled with bits of crisp bacon, sieved hard-cooked egg. Grated raw carrots mixed with seedless raisins in lettuce cups. Overlapping beet and cucumber and raw onion slices. Halves of peeled chilled tomatoes sprinkled with chopped parsley or chives. Basil in the dressing. Chopped mixture of diced cucumber, to-mato, and celery, with minced onion and green pepper. Cut-up cooked asparagus and sliced hard-cooked eggs in tomato aspic. Small tomatoes stuffed with cottage cheese and chives or toasted almonds. Shredded carrots and diced celery sprinkled with lemon juice, chopped nuts, and mayonnaise ... mixed. Tomato slices topped with egg salad (cut-up hard-cooked eggs, diced celery, grated onion, mayonnaise). Parsley garnish.
November 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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And Now For Something Different ... A Christmas Wreath Made From Brussels Sprouts Amigurumi - knit and crochet patterns to make your own! 👉 tinyurl.com/b9a77typ #knitting #crochet #handmade #christmas #diy #home #decor
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
rebeccablood.bsky.social
I’ve unlocked a new level in knitting by myself in which I listen to a history podcast while I work on a piece.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️

drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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xkcd's 15 Years: Randall Munroe reflects on the anniversary of his then-fiancée's 2010 breast cancer diagnosis, as he did at year two, seven, and 10 https://xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
"Want to feel old?" "Yes."
xkcd.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
rebeccablood.bsky.social
Lift yourself up with this thread.🧵
tomcoates.bsky.social Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 59m
I could fill this up with Doctor Who quotes that have more meaning to me than anything Starmer could come up with:

“Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before.”
danhon.com Dan Hon @danhon.com · 1h
"Demons run when a good man goes to war.

Night will fall and drown the sun, when a good man goes to war.

Friendship dies and true love lies, night will fall and the dark will rise...

... when a good man goes to war."
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
publius24.bsky.social John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 12h
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
In 1945, the US Army put out a training manual designed to equip rank and file soldiers with the tools to spot and combat incipient fascism were it to emerge in post-war America. Those lessons are just as American as Miller's illiberal bigotry, and worth remembering today. bsky.app/profile/seth...
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
1. Pitting of religious, racial, and economic groups against one another in order to break down national unity is a device of the "divide and conquer" technique used by Hitler to gain power in Germany and in other countries. With slight variations, to suit local conditions, fascists everywhere have used this Hitler method. In many countries, anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) is a dominant device of fascism. In the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti-foreign-born. In South America, the native fascists use the same scapegoats except that they substitute anti-Protestantism for anti-Catholicism. Interwoven with the "master race" theory of fascism is a well-planned "hate campaign" against minority races, religions, and other groups. To suit their particular needs and aims, fascists will use any one or a combination of such groups as a convenient scapegoat.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happy Black Friday! Shop smart and shop safe! Take it away, Gus!
A guy in a Santa hat selling brown boxes out of the back of a car. It's Uncle Gus! Back for another year of selling products of questionable quality and origin. The boxes say: Cheap lithium-ion batteries, enchanted crabs, Lafufus, KPOP ghost fighters, good social media website, electronic money, Christmas Tree Fire Skeleton T-Shirts. The text reads: Buy from retailers you know and trust. When shopping online, you could be buying directly from the manufacturer or through a third-party seller. Avoid buying counterfeit items - look closely at all images of the item, packaging and label for mistakes. If the price seems too good to be true, the product could be counterfeit and unsafe.
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#goals
chriswarcraft.bsky.social Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1h
Woke up early and took a shower to make sure I was ready for a long day of sitting around in my comfies
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The late 1950s through children's imagination - pop culture, aspirations, tea and sudden death

The 'Lollard Children's Magazine', linked with the Lollard Street adventure playground, gave Lambeth kids a space to express themselves on the page #HistChild

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Page from 'Lollard Adventure Magazine', written by Lambeth children in the 1950s. It includes a drawing of a 'Teddy Boy' with accompanying text: "This is a real Teddy boy. There are lots of Teddy boys in Lambeth. I think they look smart. They have all sorts of styles in their hair. They are all stuck up, but quite stupid in their ways. I am never going to be a Teddy boy. David Jones." "Once a Teddy boy and a Teddy girl were walking along the road when they met each other and they said to each other, "Where are you going?" and they said, "I'm not going anywhere". Then the Teddy boy said, "Come to a dance at the Royal Log hotel". When they were there, they said, "Will you marry me?" So the next week they got married and they weren't a Teddy boy and Teddy girl any more because they liked to live ordanairy." "THE TEDDY BOY. Once there was a Teddy boy and he was a little shrimp but he could fight very good. He used to go and show off. One day he broke into a bank and took a thousand pounds. He was chased and caught and on the way he killed a man and he was caught and got hung. Leslie Presley." Page from 'Lollard Adventure Magazine', written by Lambeth children in the 1950s. It includes a drawing of five children doing the 'Six five hand jive' and text: "Rock 'n Roll. I'm crazy about Pat Boone, He just sends me like a balloon. Maureen Sullivan." "When I grow up I want to be a typist and type fast at the typewriter. I go to Walnut Tree Walk School. I want to get ten guineas from work and work over London somewhere. When I've got all that money I will spend it on clothes then take a holiday. Then I will spend the other that I have left. I will spend it for food and things. Carole Brookman." Page from 'Lollard Adventure Magazine', written by Lambeth children in the 1950s. It includes a drawing of the head of a 'Teddy Boy' with accompanying text: "The Teddy Boy. I saw a 'Teddy Boy' last night. His great big razor gave me a nasty fright. His turned-up velvet collar And his jutting out cigar Made him look like a villain His drain-pipe trousers And his awkward looking shoes Made me hurry away - Hurry, before he did chase me If he did choose. A. Pritchard." "My Birthday. My birthday was on Sunday And I am ten years old I have got six birthday cards And four birthday presents. A bucket bag, A tin of toffees, Seven and six, And a box of handerchiefs. But I did not have a party I could not have a party For my baby sister's illl. Anne Sweeny." "Rain Rain! Rain! Rain! Fall upon the house tops Fall upon the green grass Hang like beads On the flat leaves But don't rain on me please! Maureen Sullivan" Page from 'Lollard Adventure Magazine', written by Lambeth children in the 1950s. It includes a drawing of a country cottage in a field, with smoke coming out of the chimney, and accompanying text: "Trip to the country I went to Sevenoaks on Sunday to see some lady and I came home at 7 o'clock and I went at 3 o'clock and it was a nice day down there and I had tea with Mrs. Rook. Billy Long." "The Red Spotted Car One fine Spring day, a car drew into our village of Townsend. It was a bright yellow car with red spots on - quite an unusual car. It stopped outside our house and out stepped a queer looking little man. He got up onto the top of his car and started ringing a bell. Everyone came running out of their houses to see what was happening. When everyone was quiet, the little man began to speak. He said, "I wish to marry our Queen Caroline. If she refuses to marry me I will bring disaster to your town and everyone will be killed." Then he got down and back into his car and drove away."
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I'm sorry, but if the president calling people the r-word and threatening to revoke people's citizenship and eject every single immigrant from the country isn't the top story in the country on a permanent basis, journalists aren't doing their jobs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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I had no idea our pornography was subject to Canadian content quotas to begin with and I have so many questions
Porn no longer subject to Canadian content quotas, says CRTC In other words, any program 'devoted to depicting explicit sexual activity' will no longer need to ensure a minimum quota of Canadians either in front of or behind the camera
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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182 years ago, on the 28th of November 1843, England and France recognized Hawaiian independence. This day is still celebrated as the Hawaiian Independence Day (or Lā Kūʻokoʻa) by proponents of Hawaiian sovereignty. Hawaii became an American territory in 1900 and a state in 1959. #otd #history 🗃️
Cover of a flier printed in 1873 for the 30th anniversary of the Anglo-Franco Proclamation of November 28, 1843,in which Britain and France recognized the Kingdom of Hawaii as an independent nation.
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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sanho.bsky.social Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2d
This path leads to chaos.
Phil Gentry @pmgentry A professor of mine went to go hear Derrida speak once. The entire talk was about cows; everyone was flummoxed but listened carefully, and took notes about...cows. There was a short break, and when Derrida came back, he was like, "I'm told it is pronounced 'chaos. 11:28 AM • 4/5/21 from Philadelphia, PA • Twitter for iPhone
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Every immigrant to the United States has done more to assimilate to the actual culture of the nation than Stephen Miller, who despite the privileges of birth purposefully rejected it as a teenager and has spent his adult life at war with it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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transkribus.bsky.social Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social · 1d
Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.

Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint: 
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Melissa Terras on why cooperatives are the future of AI
Discover why Melissa Terras believes cooperatives like READ-COOP represent the future of AI, fostering community-driven, sustainable technological innovation.
blog.transkribus.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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UK politics followers, these graphs are in a paper by @jamesdgriffiths.bsky.social and co (inc. me).

There's so much useful info in them.

The long-term context for the politics of our time, how the 'Brexit elections' differed, though note the Y axes may need to be bigger for the next election!!
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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bruces.bsky.social
"The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves."

www.404media.co/americas-pol...
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Late November mood

#ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #scape #treescape #nature #photography #forest #hiking #PhotographersOfBlueSky
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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We now have a website for the project I've been working on the with Garrick Allen, Emanuele Scieri, and Maxim Venetskov on Codex H, the manuscript preserving the earliest Greek evidence of the Euthalian annotation and presentation system for the New Testament.

codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk#/home

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Annotating the New Testament
codexh.arts.gla.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM