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Caz 🏳️‍🌈
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(She/Her) Writer, fantasist, theatre enthusiast, dreamer; because why spend your time in this world when there are so many others to explore?
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London

Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"
December 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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susiedentwords.bsky.social
A little selection of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

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Some words to play with over Christmas!
December 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
In celebration of the winter solstice, it's the perfect night to make soup in a cauldron over an open fire with your local forest witch.
December 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social
We are so ready to welcome back the light!
Photo of a highland cow standing in a snowy field. Text overhead reads Happy Winter Solstice and golden stars and decorations surround the text.
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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arif.bsky.social
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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parkermolloy.com
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
Carol in Pluribus: All the brains in the world, and you can't navigate a fuckin' pronoun?
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
Okay, when are we going to answer back? Push back? Fight back? Anything? Because our way of life and society-building institutions are under attack from outside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump sues BBC for defamation over Panorama speech edit
The US president has requested $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Anyway, if you think it's vaguely fucked up that Nigel Farage could well become Prime Minister on just 30%-or-so of the vote

Join the campaign for a fair & porportional voting system, before it's too late! 👇😱
makevotesmatter.bsky.social Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 11d
🎄 It's day 2 of our 12 Days of Democracy 🎄

Every day, we open a present and reveal one reason to support a fairer voting system.

Today is @zoejardiniere.bsky.social's turn...
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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esqueer.net
When you've lost Marjorie Taylor Green on human decency...
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post in dark mode. At the top is a verified account labeled “Rep. Marjorie Taylor Gr…” with the handle @RepMTG. The post text reads: “Rob Reiner and his wife were tragically killed at the hands of their own son, who reportedly had drug addiction and other issues, and their remaining children are left in serious mourning and heartbreak. This is a family tragedy, not about politics or political enemies. Many families deal with a family member with drug addiction and mental health issues. It’s incredibly difficult and should be met with empathy especially when it ends in murder.” Below is an embedded post from a verified account labeled “Donald J. Trump” with the handle @realDonaldTrump. The embedded text begins: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.” The post continues with additional text criticizing Rob Reiner and praising Donald J. Trump, and ends with: “May Rob and Michele rest in peace!” At the bottom of the screenshot are engagement icons and counts, a timestamp reading “11:03 AM · Dec 15, 2025,” and a view count of “2.4M Views.”
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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europeanmovement.co.uk
"If we're really concerned about criminals in this country, leaving the ECHR would be exactly like Brexit, in that it would have the opposite effect" - European Movement UK Chair, Dr Mike Galsworthy, on Keir Starmer's calls to reform the ECHR.
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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manmademoon.bsky.social
AI imagery is the equivalent of Plato’s prisoner being bored of sunlight, clambering down into a cave, shackling himself to a rock to watch shadows cast by firelight and forgetting that the world above exists.
thoughtrise.bsky.social .chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 10d
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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eastangliabylines.co.uk
Angiolini warns many police forces still lack basic safeguards on sexual offences.
Real change needs funding — and follow-through, not slogans.
Jenny Rhodes reports
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
New report shows the way on violence against women
An inquiry has made sound proposals on reducing violence against women. But will the government implement and fund them?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray.

The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter.

These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby.

We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves.

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Sam’s Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago. The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations. Veraza’s wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the family’s vehicle with a mist of pepper spray. Video shows the moment Rafael Veraza says federal agents shot pepper-spray into his car, where he was with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. (Video: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying baby’s face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes. McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Sam’s Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video.
December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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markjacob.bsky.social
If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump.
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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askaubry.com
Dude so upset his video game characters aren't flirting with him.
Smash JT @SmashJT Follow I asked ChatGPT to make her beautiful Maybe this is all studios need to start doing if they want sales and avoid layoffs!? Side by side image of a video game character with the chatgpt version having large breasts and smiling suggestively. IG & Threads: @ask
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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bylinesnetwork.co.uk
India shows how BritCard Digital ID could be weaponised

Starmer’s BritCards have cited India’s Digital ID system as a positive example – here’s why that should scare you | Dean Conway
@deanconway.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
India shows how BritCard Digital ID could be weaponised
Starmer’s BritCards have cited India’s Digital ID system as a positive example – here’s why that should scare you
centralbylines.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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goodlawproject.org
So, Laura Kuenssberg's introduction to her interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson is just hideous.

Let me count the ways. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
December 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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weratedogs.com
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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simonpegg.bsky.social
As he celebrates his 100th Birthday this very day, can we all take a moment to acknowledge that time when Dick Van Dyke won the internet internet.

Forever.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
Remembering Plato’s argument that the only sound reason for seeking political leadership is fear of the mess others would make if they were in charge.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
I don’t understand why people ask you a question if they don’t want an honest answer. I was asked by someone what I would like for Christmas, but apparently a secluded castle on the Scottish coast “isn’t realistic.”
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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polygon.com
Remedy's sequel to Control spills beyond the confines of the Oldest House, leaning more into action-RPG elements
Control 2 has finally been revealed
Remedy's sequel to Control spills beyond the confines of the Oldest House, leaning more into action-RPG elements
www.polygon.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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leighsus.bsky.social
English was Queen Victoria's second language.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time

"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"

Chair says "have English as a second language"

Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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monochromesoft.bsky.social
you should all play more indie games made by 1 to 4 gay people in their bedrooms
December 12, 2025 at 4:34 AM