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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 11h

Are they showing him film of Gaza and telling him it's Portland?

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 16h

or just take some extra batteries, it's not like they are going to weigh you down.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 23h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 23h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 21h

Snap

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 21h

have another for lunch

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AVK @avk.bsky.social · 1d

2025 IS A LIE, Y'ALL!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Shout out to all the mansplainers who have never won any science writing awards telling me how communication works

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Hedge Wytch @hedgewytch.bsky.social · 1d

Boycott these companies for stealing artwork #Theft @fancywalls.eu
@decor2go.ca

@fancywalls.eu @wallsneedlove @ondecorstore @wallinvogue
@innovateinteriors
@sasiwallpaper
@stringberry
@lagrandclassique
@fabriclore
@loveyour__space
@mooseaccents
@barevnesiti
@wallflorashop @namly_design @northandnether
@deutschman_wallpaper
@humblebabygoods @jewellerysuppliesco
@eazzywalls @costacover
@fabart.custom.prints
@jamesandcolors @wellpapers_com
@mattenwelt
@the.wallberry
@torrechile
@stickr.interiors
@decor2go.ca @walltrendzus
@uniqstiq
@decordruk
@sewingpartsonline
@darocane

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 1d

I should probably advertise more often. You can buy prints from me, commission pictures, make 3d models, animation, come up with excellent ideas, all sorts. tell your mates. cheers.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 1d

Vintage Obscura Halloween Mix. Side A [2022] by Kaptain Carbon
https://redd.it/xss2yw
https://youtu.be/VOHALL2022A

Vintage Obscura Halloween Mix. Side A [2022] by Kaptain Carbon

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 1d

Marvelous place.
Even has a canal!

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 1d

I can't make 99s with f*cking Crunchies!

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AVK @avk.bsky.social · 2d

Anybody else notice the giant freaking planet skipping through the atmosphere?

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 1d

I guess you have already seen the chocolate they gave out at the conference.

She couldn't even get that right

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 1d

I like a fair.
We have one every year just up the road in Stokesley on the Market Place every year as part of Stokesley Show.

Always best after dark.

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Andy Ross @andyross1962.bsky.social · 1d

I'll have a dodgy video please

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 2d

Gene Summers & Dea - Do You Think I'm Sexy {US, Country / Disco / Synth}(70s)
https://redd.it/1m88we9
https://youtu.be/99fCnujcUSY

Gene Summers & Dea - Do You Think I'm Sexy {US, Country / Disco / Synth}(70s)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3d

Jarrow ladies fire brigade, 1916 (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum).

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Well, if it’s 6 October, it’s the 82nd anniversary of the day the world was deprived of Ignatius Trebitsch-Lincoln, who was born a Hungarian Jew, got elected to the House of Commons, spied for Germany in both world wars, and eventually declared himself the 14th Dalai Lama...