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Acton Bell
@actionbell.bsky.social
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Dead serious about crushing the Capitalist Patriarchy.
Likes to embroider The Thick of It quotes.
I listen to David Bowie instead of eating my feelings.
Renegade.
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From batch of new photos of Epstein released by the Democrats
Is that…Is that Noam Fucking Chomsky?!

Oh man I hate it here.
Two older men stand close together indoors, smiling and laughing warmly. One (FUCKING NOAM CHOMSKY) has an arm around the other’s shoulders (STEVE FUCKING BANNON), suggesting familiarity or friendship. Both are casually dressed in dark tops and jackets. The room is softly lit, with a decorative set of balance scales on a shelf behind them and a mirror on the wall, giving the scene an informal, convivial atmosphere.
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I have this image saved, from lockdown, as 'hasn't aged well' 😂
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Found a hidden folder on the cloud of memes I’d saved over lockdown. I’m so happy.
Screenshot of a tweet exchange. At the top, a tweet by Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) reads: “You’re going to lose your shit when you find out about the British Empire.” Below it is an embedded tweet from Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) saying he has heard claims that Brexit MEPs were “disrespectful,” and argues that what is truly disrespectful is “taking the ancient nation states of Europe and turning it into one country with its own anthem and flag, without ever asking for permission.”
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Again, Can anyone please comprehend how much I love Ren?
Black and white face of Ren Gill with scruffy hair, smiling, with an Ankara piercing in his right ear lobe Ren Gill wearing plaid trousers and bracers and a black t shirt. Learning against a concrete wall with his left foot up and knee bent. Wearing yellow visors.
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Documentary film 'Night Mail' by Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden
'The Way You Look Tonight' by Fred Astaire
youtu.be/dIW_Ah0wg-w?...
Image of the fine art piece Disques by Robert Delaunay Image of the painting The Strikes of June 1936 (Les Grèves de juin 1936) by Boris Tazlitsky
December 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn’t a selfie
A staged anti-smoking poster showing a woman holding a lit cigarette while a small toddler in her arms mimics her, holding a cigarette of their own. The child looks up at the woman, imitating her behaviour. Smoke drifts around them. Beneath the image is the darkly sarcastic caption: “WHEN YOU LIGHT UP, SO DO THEY. Now you both look cool as fuck,” highlighting how adult smoking influences children.
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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You will be visited by 3 spirits
A black and white image of the upper half of the three hip hop artists (from l to r) 2Pac, Rogre and Dr. Dre. 2Pac is holding a glass Tumblr with liquid in and is sticking his middle finger up on his right hand
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Have I discussed recently how much I love Ren and my boyfriend for buying me a ticket to see him?
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Aww the menswear guy is on there!
A visual circular graph depicting the profiles of people I most frequently interact with on Bluesky
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Check out a personalised festival made from my top Spotify artists.
December 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Soo it’s a new month which means a new #DavidsMonthOfMusic!
Here are the prompts:
A festive green-and-red holiday-themed graphic titled “David’s Month of Music.” It displays a 31-day music challenge in a grid of dark green boxes, each containing a daily prompt such as “a favourite song,” “a song from this year,” “a cover version,” “a song with four words in the title,” “a Christmas song,” and more. Decorative holly, leaves, and wrapped gifts surround the border. At the bottom, white text reads: “please use the hashtag #DavidsMonthOfMusic.”
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Text message I just sent to my best friend.
A smartphone screenshot displaying a green text message bubble. The message says: “Facebook told me to ask AI for gift ideas if I included 5 details about you so I asked it this: ‘Present for best friend who likes 1) taxidermy 2) art history 3) embroidery 4) antiques 5) her 4 cats. She collects crucifixes and pre-raphaelite paintings and is doing an English literature degree. She likes reading autobiographies of mentally ill women. She owns a jar of bees.’” Beneath the bubble is a text input bar with the microphone icon.
December 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Fucking fuck this fucking poetry book
A photo of an open book showing a poem titled “7 Lines for Adam” by Trista Mateer from the collection I Swear Somewhere This Works. The poem is formatted as a numbered list of seven short lines, each styled like a pickup line but blending humour with grief, love, and loss. Some lines contain italics for emphasis. The paper is off-white with a clean serif font. The visible lines are: 1. Is that a mirror in your pocket? Because I see myself in your pants. Or I used to, before you died. 2. Excuse me, but I think you dropped something. My jaw! followed by a longer emotional reflection about missing a funeral and the lingering intimacy of memory. 3. I lost my phone number. Can I have yours? And if I call, will you still answer? 4. A sentimental line about a blue suit worn to a grandfather’s wake and the grief tied to it. 5. Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? Can you do it again? 6. A longer section beginning with Your legs must be tired… that shifts into questions about carrying grief. 7. I should have let you take me home.
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Not sure if I’ve mentioned recently just how much I fucking love Ren
The image shows two people indoors in dim lighting. The person in focus, seated or leaning slightly forward, has short dark curly hair shaved close on the sides and is wearing round glasses. They are dressed in a collared shirt with vertical black and tan stripes on a light background. They are looking to the right with a neutral or attentive expression. Behind them, there are several vertical metal pipes against a beige wall. Another person, partially visible on the left, is mostly in shadow and wearing a dark outfit. The mood of the photo is moody and cinematic, with soft, warm lighting and deep shadows.
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Daaaaamn Spotify, you know me too well....
The image shows a Spotify playlist titled “Sad Folk.” The cover features a black-and-white portrait of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and an unbuttoned collared shirt, looking directly at the camera with a somber expression. The text on the cover reads “Sad Folk” in white letters. Below the image, the description says: “folk songs for the weight of it all, featuring music from Gregory Alan Isakov.” The Spotify logo appears at the bottom, and at the top of the screen, the time is 23:55, with indicators showing a 4h call time, a 62% battery, and a green signal bar
November 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Reading poems by Trista Mateer and this is just unf
A photograph of an open book showing a poem titled “Hymn for an Open Mouth” by Trista Mateer from the collection I Swear Somewhere This Works. The poem reads: “Ask me about the summer I fell in love with someone more blackberry bramble than girl. Aching to be touched but never talking about the thorns. And me, all heavy handed and too proud to acknowledge the things I’d cut myself on. I dreamt about juice running down my chin for months.” The page has a soft, cream background with clean black serif text, photographed at a slight angle with natural lighting.
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Broken Britain
A photo of a supermarket shelf showing various hygiene and baby products. The focus is on a Colgate Total toothpaste box with two price labels below it. The regular price tag reads £8.10, and a yellow Tesco Clubcard label below shows a discounted price of £3.50, stating “£2.80 per 100ml.” Nearby, below the toothpaste section, are Aptamil baby milk bottles priced at £1.40 each, Tommee Tippee Natural Start bottles priced at £8.60, and sterilising tablets priced at £1.90. The photo captures part of the shelf labels, with products arranged in neat rows and the yellow Clubcard label standing out prominently.
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I found @harecomedy.bsky.social's Christmas jumper...
A festive green and white Christmas sweater with a humorous Excel theme. The sweater features patterns of snowflakes, pine trees, reindeer, and Excel error codes like “#DIV/0!”, “#NULL!”, and “#VALUE!”. The center text reads, “OHH… THIS CALLS FOR A SPREADSHEET” with a green Excel logo decorated with a sprig of holly. The sweater is surrounded by wrapped gifts, pinecones, holly, and small Christmas ornaments on a light background.
October 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Post something random or you’ll have an awful November
(You won't really it's just a stupid meme - I just want to post silly pictures)
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Four books to get to know me
Book cover of Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. The design is in a bold red, black, and tan palette with a vintage, woodcut-style aesthetic. It shows a man wearing a flat cap, his face buried in his hands in apparent despair. Above him, a streetlamp glows within a triangular beam of light, framed by geometric patterns. The title appears in large block letters at the top, and the author’s name, “George Orwell,” is written at the bottom with the Penguin Books logo beside it. The overall tone suggests poverty, hardship, and the struggle of urban life. Book cover of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. The design features a hooded figure in a long dark cloak standing in a shadowy, tunnel-like archway formed by twisting trees and tangled branches. The background glows faintly white, creating a contrast against the dark greens and blacks of the forest. Vines with curling tendrils and leaves frame the edges of the cover. The title is written in large, elegant gold letters, with “The Name of the Wind” at the top and the author’s name, “Patrick Rothfuss,” at the bottom. The atmosphere is mysterious, magical, and slightly foreboding. Book cover of Circe by Madeline Miller. The design is rich bronze with black and gold detailing in a classical Greek style. The title “CIRCE” is bold and black in large uppercase letters, with the author’s name “Madeline Miller” beneath in white. Ornamental patterns of vines, owls, snakes, leaves, and mythological figures frame the sides, evoking ancient Greek art. At the top left is a green circular sticker reading “Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 – Shortlisted.” The cover includes praise quotes describing the novel as “blisteringly modern,” “truly spellbinding,” and “powerfully affecting.” The overall tone is elegant, mythic, and timeless. Book cover of The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe by Frank Close. The background is a deep purple cosmic scene filled with stars, nebulae, and faint mathematical notations. At the center is an illustration of an onion with its layers peeled back to reveal atomic and subatomic structures inside — orbiting electrons and a nucleus made of quarks. The title appears in white and purple text near the top, with the author’s name “Frank Close” in a purple bar at the bottom right. The publisher logo, CRC Press, is at the lower left. The cover visually conveys the idea of peeling back layers of the universe to reveal its fundamental particles.
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I laughed so hard at this
A humorous tweet by Josh Billinson responding to a Financial Times post about arrests in an €88 million Louvre heist. Billinson’s tweet reads, “Not trying to backseat heist here but if I successfully robbed the Louvre, I would simply not try to leave a country in the Schengen area via its only hard border.” Below it is the Financial Times tweet, which says, “One of the men was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport while attempting to leave France,” with an image of three French police officers standing outside the Louvre, the glass pyramid visible in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Young boys just tell edgy and offensive jokes. Normalisation of this bullshit make Andrew Tate happen
The image is a screenshot of a tweet by Paul Blest (@pblest) mocking another tweet about political outrage. Blest’s tweet reads: “My precious little 31 year old boys were just joshing around when they said ‘I love Hitler.’ My baby children. They’re so little.” Below it is a quoted tweet from The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) that summarizes comments made by JD Vance, shown speaking at a podium with an American flag behind him. The Bulwark’s tweet says: “Vance on public outrage over the ‘I love Hitler’ group chat: ‘Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats… The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do.’” At the bottom of the image, a TV chyron reads: “JD Vance – Vice President of the United States” with the logo Real America’s Voice and The Charlie Kirk Show visible. Blest’s caption satirically ridicules the idea of excusing adult men as “kids” for making hateful or extremist remarks.
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The perfect meme doesn't exi...
The image is a meme showing a tweet. The first tweet, from user @hallie_jacksonn, says “Caption this” above a photo of a mostly empty stadium section where a small cluster of people are seated together in the upper-left corner, leaving the rest of the blue seats empty. Below it, another user, @Glucosebaba, replies with the text “1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6”, which is the electron configuration for argon — humorously implying that the filled seats resemble the full electron shells of a stable atom.
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I have just read a genuinely terrifying short story from this book and am half way through another one. I made a good pick choosing this. (The short story was The Ship of Silence by Albert R. Wetjen)
The image shows the cover of the book From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley. The design is part of the “British Library Tales of the Weird” series. The cover features a striking blue illustration of a large anchor descending into swirling ocean depths, with ghostly tendrils or seaweed coiling around it, suggesting something eerie or supernatural beneath the waves. The background is dark, almost black, creating a strong contrast with the vivid blue artwork. The text is printed in a white serif font at the top and bottom of the cover. The image shows the back cover of the book From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea, edited by Mike Ashley, part of the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series. The background is dark, with white and blue text. The top section reads “WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MIKE ASHLEY” in blue uppercase letters. Below is a blurb describing the book: it speaks of “choppy waves,” “the choking darkness of the abyss,” and “tales of inexplicable events and encounters with the unknown.” The summary highlights eerie sea stories — sailors facing nightmares from the deep, a tormented U-boat commander, a ship trapped in the kelp of the Sargasso Sea, and supernatural revenge. Further down, a paragraph introduces editor Mike Ashley, describing him as the author and editor of over a hundred books and a leading historian of popular fiction, with notable works including Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World, and The Age of Storytellers. At the bottom left, the cover design is credited to Mauricio Villamayor and the illustration to Enrique Bernardou. The price (£10.99), social media details for the British Library (@BL_Publishing), ISBN (978-0-7123-5236-9), and a British Library logo are also visible near the barcode.
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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*dances around her room* BEHOLD today's book haul! #booksky
A photo shows six books laid out on a bed with a yellow and blue blanket. The top row includes Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher, The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, and The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick. The bottom row features The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea edited by Mike Ashley, and Earthsea: The First Four Books by Ursula K. Le Guin. The arrangement shows a mix of fantasy, horror, historical nonfiction, and classic speculative fiction.
October 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM