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Seymour Strangely

@seymourstrangely.bsky.social

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Ex-bookseller, writer, Epicurean. Lefty, Scottish not British. Curiosity, perspective and humour are what keep us from despair or ennui. I will block any "followers" who have zero posts.

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 12h

imho, I reckon Epicurus had it sussed..

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 14h

oh.

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 14h

as someone who stopped listening to Good Morning Scotland's endless litany of anti-independence/ anti-SNP propaganda some time ago,
this will not upset me much..

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 21h

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has gone to Maria Corina Machado. The committee lauded "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

Trump:

a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a tie and a white shirt .

ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face is wearing a tie and a white shirt .

media.tenor.com

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 21h

particularly liked the "1831 Peasants Revolt."😂

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 22h

"The UK Government would be unable to prevent its preparatory work, McCormick said, because it would be independent of the Scottish Government and Parliament and would signal to Westminster that it had to negotiate."

www.thenational.scot/news/2553117...

SNP members to vote on 'provisional government' in independence strategy battle

SNP members will vote on the creation of a provisional government to run in parallel with the Scottish Parliament as part of a plan to push forward…

www.thenational.scot

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 2d

The winter Olympics we actually want to watch.

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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is a welcoming account 🏳️‍⚧️

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

There are so many things wrong with this idea you wonder how it was not immediately binned by whatever focus group wonks brought it up.

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

If those are the options, always go weird as f*ck.

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Sharon Somerville #IAmAntifa @arcticlass.bsky.social · 1d

The Medium IS the Message. Very clever 👇

SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 2d

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

yep. they look normal. for Tories.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a sign of how far to the right British politics have been driven that the extremist idea of leaving the ECHR is now mainstream. The correct response by a journalist when a British politician says they want to leave the ECHR ought to be an incredulous: "Are you out of your tiny mind?"

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

oh.

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

that was certainly classic..

maybe they should get Basil Fawlty to thrash some "enemies of the people" judges with a tree branch, live on stage at the Conference?

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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

"i will not touch bread if it's moist" has to be one of the weirdest phobias ever..🤔

Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 1d

the best strategy for the Tories now would be fully to embrace the clown archetypes that they so embody.

instead of wearing sober pin stripe suits and union jack ties, they should do all their speeches and interviews dressed as full-on circus clowns, complete with enormous shoes, red noses etc.