Finisterre
@finisterre.bsky.social
She/her, increasingly radical feminist & socialist, late-diagnosed ADHD along with 90% of my perimenopausal chums back home. Ex-Normal Islander now based, in all senses, in Spain.
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Wishing all billionaires a pleasant Three Ghosts
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Wishing all billionaires a pleasant Three Ghosts
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This is proper #Brummie: the Sikh Langar Seva Society feeding the homeless in New Street station: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Street Station hosts 300 homeless people for annual meal
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is proper #Brummie: the Sikh Langar Seva Society feeding the homeless in New Street station: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Protecting women and girls update.
So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Protecting women and girls update.
Finally don't need to politely dissemble any more when people recommend this skeevo's children's books for my kids. Always thought he was a nasty piece of work.
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Finally don't need to politely dissemble any more when people recommend this skeevo's children's books for my kids. Always thought he was a nasty piece of work.
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“Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour,
Is prized beyond the sculpted flower.”
- William Cullen Bryant.🌱
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour,
Is prized beyond the sculpted flower.”
- William Cullen Bryant.🌱
December 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
“Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour,
Is prized beyond the sculpted flower.”
- William Cullen Bryant.🌱
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour,
Is prized beyond the sculpted flower.”
- William Cullen Bryant.🌱
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Fascinating & tragic story of this little waif. ❤️
December 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Fascinating & tragic story of this little waif. ❤️
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This Labour government is allowing people of conscience opposed to genocide to die rather than be held to a slither of accountability
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This Labour government is allowing people of conscience opposed to genocide to die rather than be held to a slither of accountability
This is beautiful.
I said roughly ten percent of the things I could have said about Rob Reiner.
Remembering Rob Reiner, who made movies for people who love them
The movies Reiner directed, from A Few Good Men to The Princess Bride, weren't just good — they were people's favorites, the types of films people come back to again and again.
www.npr.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is beautiful.
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Incredible how Wes Streeting has gone from "being on leadership manoeuvres" to "triggering a doctor's strike during a flu crisis whilst comparing them to the mafia".
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Incredible how Wes Streeting has gone from "being on leadership manoeuvres" to "triggering a doctor's strike during a flu crisis whilst comparing them to the mafia".
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
Impressive mixed innings between ambitious backroom briefings and how bad he is at being a minister.
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One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
Entertaining but massively thought-provoking.
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Entertaining but massively thought-provoking.
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The problem with growing up in a society that rejects concepts of guilt or shame the way America does, is that when instances arise in which such affects should be expected, say with and worked through, they are instead sublimated into quite grotesque and disturbing behaviours.
Pardon me, but *holy shit* chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The problem with growing up in a society that rejects concepts of guilt or shame the way America does, is that when instances arise in which such affects should be expected, say with and worked through, they are instead sublimated into quite grotesque and disturbing behaviours.
Arrrrggghhhh infuriatingly correct.
It continues to tell you everything you need to know about British politics and media that the only person who has ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of inflammatory and racist comments, is a journalist who accurately reported them as such
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Arrrrggghhhh infuriatingly correct.
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Liberals: The Chinese and Russians are spying on you and attacking your rights (somehow), this is bad.
Liberals: Yes it looks bad that the EU , Canada, UK and US are spying on you and attacking your rights, and this looks bad, BUT,
Liberals: Yes it looks bad that the EU , Canada, UK and US are spying on you and attacking your rights, and this looks bad, BUT,
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Liberals: The Chinese and Russians are spying on you and attacking your rights (somehow), this is bad.
Liberals: Yes it looks bad that the EU , Canada, UK and US are spying on you and attacking your rights, and this looks bad, BUT,
Liberals: Yes it looks bad that the EU , Canada, UK and US are spying on you and attacking your rights, and this looks bad, BUT,
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It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
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I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
Fucking *hell*.
Cops are great
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Fucking *hell*.
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More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months ago
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months ago
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months ago
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months ago
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months ago
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Exactly. Trump's openly murderous grifting is disgusting, but these people are coldly assessing that condoning torture of vulnerable humans will benefit them politically. Supporting genocide and torture with corporate euphemisms isn't better than cheering it on with fascist pageantry. Be
This is the Torture Memos scandal and legal wrangling around the Geneva Convention wrt GTMO all over again, only this time with neither a war nor an inciting terror attack. Just desperate scrambling to find ways to legitimate cruel and inhuman treatment of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Exactly. Trump's openly murderous grifting is disgusting, but these people are coldly assessing that condoning torture of vulnerable humans will benefit them politically. Supporting genocide and torture with corporate euphemisms isn't better than cheering it on with fascist pageantry. Be
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"The winner of my Nobel Peace Prize"
"And mine"
Heh
"And mine"
Heh
Y el mío .
O ganador do meu FIFA peace prize.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"The winner of my Nobel Peace Prize"
"And mine"
Heh
"And mine"
Heh
Ha, this is great.
I honestly think most people are happier in a committed relationship, because we are social and emotional animals and everyone needs someone to love. And that makes the polarisation of political views by gender even more sad (except for gay people, which is nice! Lol).
There's >
I honestly think most people are happier in a committed relationship, because we are social and emotional animals and everyone needs someone to love. And that makes the polarisation of political views by gender even more sad (except for gay people, which is nice! Lol).
There's >
Wrote about being spiritually divorced for this weeks substack
My latest substack is on my recent realisation that even though I've never been married, I might actually be divorced:
tomusher.substack.com/p/am-i-divor...
tomusher.substack.com/p/am-i-divor...
December 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Ha, this is great.
I honestly think most people are happier in a committed relationship, because we are social and emotional animals and everyone needs someone to love. And that makes the polarisation of political views by gender even more sad (except for gay people, which is nice! Lol).
There's >
I honestly think most people are happier in a committed relationship, because we are social and emotional animals and everyone needs someone to love. And that makes the polarisation of political views by gender even more sad (except for gay people, which is nice! Lol).
There's >