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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 11d
Wrote about why it’s ok the be happy the rich and powerful have died for my new substack this week:

open.substack.com/pub/tomusher...
You're dead, you can't come back
Is it OK to be happy when the rich and powerful die?
open.substack.com
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gregk.co.uk
What a rotten state of affairs that a teenage girl had thrust upon her the responsibility of being the only adult in the room because actual grown adults refused to recognise her either as a child or, more importantly, as a human being. A sad indictment of a pitiful society.
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Tottenham Job Centre' (c.1985) by Ted Ellerbeck

(Bruce Castle Museum)
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🎵 'Career Opportunities' by The Clash
youtu.be/ihPenaGJ6P4?...
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'A late delivery on Shaftesbury Avenue' by Tushar Sabale
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🎵 'London is the Place for Me' by Lord Kitchener
youtu.be/dGt21q1AjuI?...
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
Good evening! This week's theme is South London.
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'Camberwell Flats by Night' (1983) by David Hepher

(Guildhall Art Gallery)
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
tomusher.bsky.social
Btw Arsenal fans if you don’t know who the illustrator was behind the tifo yesterday, its Dan Draws, one of the best in the game

www.instagram.com/danxdraws?ig...
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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afcmet.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
tomusher.bsky.social
Genuinely what percentage do you think of an adults life is watching or looking at adverts?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Lower bills. Tax billionaires.

We're just getting started.

What's next? with @politicsjoe.bsky.social

youtu.be/NYzp3UcxIGg?...
What's next for the Green Party? Zack Polanski interview
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
tomusher.bsky.social
Not saying I feel sorry for her but it does seem really weird that she’s signed up to be the fall guy for the absolute worst and hated policies of a already comically hated government
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jacksaundrs.bsky.social
It's funny how for some things owning a £1m+ house In London makes you a out-of-touch wealthy elitist with luxury beliefs and then suddenly when it's tax time they're back to being ordinary salt of the earth folks living in an expensive city
duncanweldon.bsky.social Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 5d
I sometimes feel like I am going mad.

Owning a £1.5m home is not normal in London or the South East of England.
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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jackinpogform.bsky.social
Every time I forget how grotesque this is and every time it stuns me.
johnnycrane.bsky.social johnnycrane.bsky.social @johnnycrane.bsky.social · 5d
Ah the MP who did a gambling ad at a foodbank
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Perhaps one more round of blaming falling living standards and a wrecked public realm on the poor, immigrants and the left will sort it? It never has in the last 45 years but it has to work eventually
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky... • 9m The truth politics dare not speak. Part of the reason this is unsolvable for Lab is that it isn't a real issue - it's a euphemism for political discontent. They could get immigration to zero, destroying the country in the process & it wouldn't help, cause it's not what ppl are actually angry about * HK @hkesvani.bsky.social • 10h One of the things that the "immigration debate" in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it's trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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ladyemily.nebula.tv
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
Something different for this week's theme: London Soundtracks 🎵.

Paintings paired with a song.
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'Golden Day’, Bar Italia, Frith Street (2011) by Ed Gray
edgrayart.com
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🎵 'Bar Italia' by Pulp
youtu.be/773fnQDq60I?...
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Cab in Dean St' by Jonathan Stewardson
jonathanstewardson.com
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🎵 'A Rainy Night in Soho' by The Pogues
youtu.be/PSyL-TrD_2g?...
November 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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gotitatguineys.bsky.social
Your da on December 25th
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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screenmedia.bsky.social
Martin Scorsese, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro on location in Nevada for “CASINO” (1995)

🎬 #UniversalPictures
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Just so: the plan is to lock the cabin doors to keep the passengers out, fly the plane into the ground and then walk out of the wreckage untouched to fancy jobs at Facebook and PWC. And if you don’t like it, fuck you.
Beth Rigby • @BethRigby • 5h In face of opposition, Mahmood clear in her argument. Said winning this fight more imp to her than a GE "Nothing matters more to me than holding my own country together, not even winning a GE... What's driving the decisions...is fixing this broken system & uniting our country"
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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hkesvani.bsky.social
NYT really put out an article saying that you couldn’t have another Jeffrey Epstein today because men are too isolated and phone addicted
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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hkesvani.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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paddington82.bsky.social
Labour is a “godsend” for Farage says the far-right.
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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notasentence.bsky.social
& Eubank vs Benn 1 was more like "These lads might one day fight a real champion, like McCallum or Nunn". They were famous in the UK due to terrestrial TV but neither was top dog at middleweight, it was more a provincial thing for what was then a pretend world title (WBO).

Plus ca change etc. etc.
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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artie.gay
Mind you, I'm old enough to remember when Oasis and Euro 96 were evidence that all Britain had to offer was nostalgia for the glorious past of the 1960s
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
tomusher.bsky.social
Something unsettling and sad about this 90s UK revival stuff, Oasis, Labour, Benn vs Eubank. It‘s nostalgia for a time when the UK actually meant something and some semblance of global soft power, and now all we have left is to do a weak, meaningless tribute to it.
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM