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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 10h

India
Turmeric, Rice, Spinach - 3 key ingredients of one of my favourite Indian dishes

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 1d

Recent legal reverses have caused Baroness Mone to chuck her toys out of her (superyacht) pram.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 4d

Are you exhausted by the world? Come take refuge in my weird and wonderful corner of #Bluesky - where I post medical history content that will make you happy to live in 2025!

Medieval urine wheels! Opium toothpaste! Cemetery guns! I got it all. I love sharing my passion for this niche subject.

A photo of Lindsey dressed in a blue jacket with a medieval urine wheel, holding a sign that reads: "taste the urine!"

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 3d

The "immorality" that they find so objectionable in Soho may be that many gay people and (horrors) women go there to enjoy themselves.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 9d

I'm really proud of my new 2026 London Underground Calendar and can't wait to share it with you all.

Thanks everyone for your support and love as always 🙏

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 3d

A Labour (in name only) govt of authoritarian technocrats burning through police resources to stamp out peaceful protest, all in defence of genocide.
Plus, a Home Secretary determined to stamp out civil liberties, "only approved protests will be permitted".
"Orwellian" doesn't begin to cover it.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

Vicars, grannies, blind people, those in wheelchairs all being physically carried away by police, one at a time after their rights are read… All for holding a placard.

…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 3d

In WW2, RAF Bomber Command flew 501,536 operational sorties, dropping 1.02 million tonnes of bombs and losing 8,325 aircraft in action. 55,573 aircrew were killed out of a total of 125,000, a 44.4% death rate. 8,403 men were wounded in action, and 9,838 became POWs.

electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 4d

I don't find antique ivory as objectionable, and I can understand it having great sentimental value to an old lady.
My Mum had a Victorian hairbrush with inlaid ivory. When she passed away, we gave it to the Beamish Museum.
But, I'd happily get medieval on people with modern ivory.

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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 4d

Please sign and share if you can. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Save NHS dentistry now!

I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 4d

If it were up to me, trade in or possession of ivory would be as unacceptable & face the same sort of penalties as child pornography. If you share this view, please consider signing this petition.
Tell Japan: shut down the ivory market, save elephant lives. action.eko.org/a/japan-ivor...

Tell Japan: Shut down the ivory market.

Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are butchered for their tusks despite a global ivory ban -- and Japan’s massive domestic market remains one of the main drivers.But we have a once-in-a-gener

action.eko.org

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow is Ctenophore Day!!! If you can't get out to look for ctenophores I would love to see your cteno art or hear about your favorite ctenos!
🐙🦑🌿🧪

JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 23d

It’s almost Ctenophore Day! I set up a BioBlitz on @inaturalist.bsky.social to celebrate. Spread the word, and let’s see how many people we can get out looking for ctenos!

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www.inaturalist.org/projects/cte...

An edited iNaturalist project page for ctenophore day 10/04/2025. In the about it says Celebrate ctenophore day by going out and finding ctenophores on October 4th, 2025! Can we get to 1004+ new ctenophore observations to celebrate? Are you ready for the Cteno Day Bioblitz? Join today! inaturalist.org.projects/ctenophore-day-2025

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 5d

YES LET'S!

Hi I'm Melissa, and I make friendly (but often bitey) monsters called the Woolbeasts in clay and watercolor.

I also do a fair amount of Baba Yaga Chicken Shacks, and have a kickstarter starting next week for a book all about wee Shacklings.

💖 thanks! 💖

Photograph of a sculpture with a flat grey backgound: the sculpture is of a purple creature with little horns and its tounge sticking out. It's knitting a long colorful scarf.

Photo of a sculpture in a mossy garden with leaves in the background. The sculpture is a small chicken-legged hut (Baba Yaga's house) painted purple with a green roof and a large eyeball where a dormer window would be over the door.

watercolor painting with a white border: The painting is of a tree canopy with strawberry birds perched around it. In the foreground is a large strawberry bird with teeth and jam dripping down onto the branch below.. where a bird appears to be missing.. oh no.

Graphite drawing: The drawing is of a chicken standing in a brambly bush with thorns and bees around. On top of the chicken is a small witches' hut, and on top of the hut is a little mouse witch talking to a bee. The witch is drinking a bloody mary.

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 5d

Tres chic

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 5d

The US religious right really does love their golden calves

electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 5d

It's the reverse Dorian Gray effect. There's a portrait of a cherubic little fascist in his attic that hasn't aged a day.....

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 5d

There's so much incest in the Old Testament, you could almost think that the Bronze & Iron Age bards who created the stories knew their (paying) audience of chieftains, high priests, etc, had a thing for shagging their daughters.

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Bad Boy 🔻 of Mandalore 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪🇮🇷 @dindjarinsway.bsky.social · 5d

Too right.....
#AntiZionismIsNotAntiSemitism

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 7d

If anyone knows folk who went to school with Nigel Farage I’d love to speak to them for an article and I’d protect their anonymity if they wished.

Do help pass this on please in the hope it reaches the right people. Thank you

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 6d

Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" is a great song; it was a reliable floor filler at a club night I ran in the 80s, popular with every tribe from goths to casuals. Interesting interview here with the models who appeared in the video, always a favourite, for obvious reasons.

The Girl in the Video: “Addicted to Love” (1986), part 1 of 3

Award-winning children's book author who speaks in schools and keynotes conferences worldwide.

www.noblemania.com

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Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social · 6d

Is it national poetry day? Time for this masterpiece

The Tiger
by Nael, age 6
From 'They're singing a song in their rocket'

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · Apr 28

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 7d

I come from County Durham, but I now live in Liverpool.
To me, all the locals are "southern softies" (an opinion I usually keep to myself).

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 7d

I think the Ojibwe hit the nail on the head here. I need at least two cups of black medicine water first thing before I can contemplate any sophisticated or complex behaviours - like talking, walking in a straight line, etc.

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electricpolecat.bsky.social @electricpolecat.bsky.social · 7d

Mone, like very many in the House of Lords, particularly but not exclusivley on the Tory benches, is a thief.
She should be in jail and the whole rotten farrago of donors, placemen crooks & cronies given places for life in our legislature should be abolished.

Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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