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Da ghost Reilly

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Antifascist and staunch trans ally. World T-Shirt Champion. Superflyweight. WBA. Packers. Do you like Dexys Midnight Runners? Image descriptions: profile is Humphrey Bogart, cover is graffiti stating that Kier Starmer supports genocide

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Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · Apr 26

I think the best analogue for Rowling and the "I can't stop supporting her" crowd is Morrissey. It's hard to explain to people who weren't there at the time just how important The Smiths were for outsider kids as a source of solace, solidarity and hope. Far more than the HP books in all honesty...

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I do not have a cold @septicshockingpink.bsky.social · 11h

watched the Kneecap movie and it pisses me off how in England you have this naked contempt for education and art and the young while Ireland is having a great cultural moment. all this wank about defending heritage and 'englishness' but hostility to English degrees, every museum under attack, fucked

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Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 18h

A cropped image from the quoted post that reads James Cleverly: I cannot

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Saw a headline suggesting that one of Labour’s latest racist rules could accidentally stop the NHS functioning altogether. Accidentally.

Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 1d

He’s about as communist as our society is tolera- oh

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick is just saying out loud what his Tory colleagues think every time they have to leave the parallel society they inhabit, & are forced to an interface with the decay they've created. "This country has gone to the absolute shithouse *despite* our first-rate governance. These damned ethnics 😒."

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Birch @delargebc.bsky.social · 2d

A big takeaway from @500songspodcast.bsky.social is that bands could actually live off of music before they were famous. To have the chance to spend a few years trying to make it, even on little money would be amazing. But it's not an option anymore. Make you wonder what we've lost in music.

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LiLBazula 👻 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 3d

This is the Prime Minister refusing the most basic function of his office: protecting British citizens. Has anything like this ever happened before, where a government has simply shruggged its soldiers & abandoned its own citizens to a foreign power saying 'that's not my problem'?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 3d

A major new peer-reviewed Australian report warns that the UK’s Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide care for trans young people — and should not be adopted as a benchmark in Australia www.starobserver.com.au/news/new-rep...

New Report Says Cass Review Should Not Be Benchmark For Trans Healthcare in Australia - Star Observer

A major new peer-reviewed report warns that the Cass Review is fundamentally ill-suited to guide Australia's care for trans young people.

www.starobserver.com.au

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Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a timeline where Bowie and Prince lived but we got stuck in this one instead

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Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 3d

That’s what I think. I’m not saying they produced the best possible film from what they had to work with, but there’s a lot to commend it

Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 3d

Watched Quantum of Solace again. I will never stop. I cannot be stopped from watching Quantum of Solace.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

"The changes being considered for that bill include the UK abandoning a European list of species and habitats that need to be protected and drawing up a British one instead"

Starmer's war on nature won't end until everything is concreted over

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system

Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government

www.theguardian.com

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Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 3d

Taste the Bollocks of Dracula

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3d

Bring Me the Bollocks of Alfredo Garcia

#ISIHAC

Plain image with text: take a movie title and replace one word with "bollocks"

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Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 3d

Take me back to better times

Da ghost Reilly @doghousereilly.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew WK

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Paul Parker @rcquaker.bsky.social · 3d

There is no need for further restrictions to protest based on the concept of cumulative disruption. Repeated protests can be evidence of strength of feeling towards an ongoing injustice and are an important democratic mechanism for citizens to have their voices heard.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...