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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

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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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 1d

Giving away Betts was just such a profoundly bad move by Boston...

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

While both Dave Roberts and Rob Thomson flailed with poor strategy in the ninth last night, Mookie Betts stepped in and took over. mollyknight.substack.com/p/mookie-bet...

Mookie Betts wins game with his brain

Dodgers' shortstop outsmarts both managers in ninth inning to give team a commanding 2-0 NLDS lead over the Phillies

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking about it a few days on, 'One Battle After Another' is one of the strangest, most wondrous, intriguing, and just plain great films I've seen in a long time. It's a definite must see.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 4d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 5d

Democratically elected leaders don't put their faces on currency. That's what monarchies and autocrats do.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 5d

Bracing for the coming revelations of institutionalised misogyny in the Church of England.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 5d

Thinking of my mom, who got involved as a lay woman in the campaign for women's ordination. She lived to see women ordained priests. She'd be tickled by a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 7d

Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets

The new guidance said students will be asked to use toilet facilities which correspond to their biological sex.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 6d

My hopes for the new Archbishop? That they will, without qualification, dissimulation, or prevarication, recognise the full humanity and holiness of all God’s children, and that they will have the courage and wisdom to oppose the cooption of Christianity by populist nationalism and nascent fascism.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 9d

More Ta-Nehisi Coates than Ezra Klein.

Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 10d

First porridge of the autumn. Hit it with a little salt and maple syrup, compliment it with some good black coffee, and you can take on the world.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 10d

It was never meant to be workable. It was meant to push trans folk to the margins of society.

UK businesses fear new EHRC guidance on toilets will be ‘unworkable’

Exclusive: Stonewall writes to ministers and warns cost of compliance could be ‘significant’ for struggling companies

www.theguardian.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 11d

reminder:

Tropes invented by Herman melville
weird guy
Something in the natural world is a symbol weird animal
Only one bed at the inn!
Love triangle
Workplace romance
Interesting details
The sea

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 15d

If Labour try and win against Reform on technocratic and competency grounds, they will lose like Remain lost in 2016. Farage knows this. They need to come out swinging on values and decency. They need to grow moral and ideological spines.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 16d

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 16d

People are dying from a lack of vision and hope. The right gives them something to hate. The left gives them pragmatic moderation and hesitancy. We need leaders of vision who can set out the case for a joyful and inclusive democratic future. We need hope.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 17d

I don't need the Government attacking Reform's plan to end ILR, and rescind the status of settled folk, because it's unworkable or economically damaging. I need them to say it's wrong, immoral, vicious, and evil.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 17d

To be a non-citizen legal resident of this country is now to be frightened for your future.

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 17d

This coming to pass would be terminal for many UK families of mixed-nationality - a truly dark future.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17d

erm hello pardon excuse me, what

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17d

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 17d

So, Reform really are going for the mass deportation of settled legal immigrants approach.

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Brett Gray @bcgray.bsky.social · 17d

Kevin Young’s new poetry collection is wonderful. You should all know this.