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European, veg grower, archaic surfer, economist & extremely appalled ex-central banker. RT ≠ endorsement. I may not entirely agree with all my own views either. https://mastodon.social/@tiggertherese https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/784397322696509320

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · Jun 19

Here we go again then. Some of us.

My dad and one of my brothers in a freezing cold Hyde Park at the million strong Feb 2003 Anti-Iraq War demo. Picture taken by one of my nieces.
We bumped into my next door neighbour randomly in Shaftesbury Avenue, the neighbours on the other side at the bus stop on the way home, and the family who lived opposite was there somewhere too but had to go home because their tiny children were frozen.
My brother had never been to a demo before and, being an engineer, designed a sign which could be easily dismantled and carried on the train. It was incredibly wide but not very tall and kept hitting other marchers in the head.
And here we are again. Most of us.

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Lee @justlee.bsky.social · 4h

It's not just higher taxes that should be getting pinned on Farage and Reform.

Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 6h

PRO-TIP: Live your life in such a way that nobody celebrates you being shanked to death in prison.

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 5h

Falling like flies. 😬

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 5h

L'actrice américaine Diane Keaton, oscarisée en 1978 pour son rôle dans "Annie Hall", est décédée en Californie à l'âge de 79 ans, a annoncé samedi un porte-parole de la famille au magazine People.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 5h

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 8h

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 6h

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Vietnam war
People setting themselves on fire in Prague, the US, Vietnam.
RFK and MLK being shot.
Seeing Lady Penelope's car in Teignmouth.

Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 9h

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Thatcher stealing my milk
Vietnam war
Star Wars
The Clash

Dragonrider Sue #fbpe #ktto 🐠🐟 she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 9h

What five events defined your childhood?

Poll tax riots
Brixton riots
Fall of the Berlin wall
Sex Pistols
Jaws/Grease/Poltergeist

Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 6h

I thought she was swept to power by people who weren't impressed by mountains of uncollected rubbish in the streets. Our entire history might have been different if Callaghan had gone to the country in the autumn.

Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 7h

That, or Rhodesia becoming Zimbabwe, until Mugabe made it terrible, which wasn't Thatcher's fault, for the most part afaik.

Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not surprised. Primary school fascists must've put 1000s of children off drinking the stuff.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 9h

Quite nice down here in Cornwall. 🤣

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 7h

Reminded me of passing cars. The cover was nice though.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 7h

Foxes didn't piss on our school milk as far as I know but it was often curdled at my primary school and they usually made us drink it, although the chief dinner lady/minder/villain did apologise on one occasion when it was really lumpy. Revolting.

Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly. Absolutely disgusting.

Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 9h

Quite nice down here in Cornwall. 🤣

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 14h

I think it has something to do with animal testing.

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Frogtifa @frogtifa.bsky.social · 1d

Your grandfathers fought in two world wars for your right to wear an inflatable penguin/chicken/frog/unicorn/dino suit.

Don’t let some dweebs who grew up on Call of Duty and Fox Late night intimidate you.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 1d

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

"Thus says the Lord: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs." - Exodus 8:1b-2

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs in the bedroom, the kitchen, the bakery...
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...