Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦
rebeccablood.bsky.social
Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦
@rebeccablood.bsky.social
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
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
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
Lift yourself up with this thread.🧵
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.”
"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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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.
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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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...
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.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happy Black Friday! Shop smart and shop safe! Take it away, Gus!
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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

mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/LAH/...
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
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 🗃️
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This path leads to chaos.
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
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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"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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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