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lewys

@generalquixote.bsky.social

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scrambled eggs all over my face, what is a boy to do? (he/him/they/them) scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 free palestine 🇵🇸 trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ I lurch back and further between opinionated and earnest left-wing politics takes, asoiaf, and shitposting so much you'll get whiplash

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 11h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 3h

I say this in the nicest possible way: I hate you for making me see this image

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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 3h

Who am I? How about a failure, a fraud, an utter sham. I'm a poet without merit, a slave to my own stupidity and will likely ruin your day.

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Sonia Sulaiman is an Ignyte Award Finalist @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 16h

It has to be said, I’m struggling. I am still in over draft after paying my bills. If you’ve ever enjoyed what I do here, be it writing, curating the Palestinian Speculative Fiction reading list, or just my vibe, please consider using my tip jar: ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 12h

do you know how your own app works??? y'all are the ones who made lists and custom feeds!!!

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 19h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 12h

This is in response to people asking why she follows a Nazi organisation and why said organisation is allowed on Bluesky. Does everyone in the mod team actively hate their user base?

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 19h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12h

Idea: the app could have something called lists or feeds where you don’t follow someone but you can look at what they post

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 19h

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 14h

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 14h

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

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Leona Scream @editor.scot · 14h

hoohoohee

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750lbs of Horse Bones @anon24601.bsky.social · 17d

heh, well now that I'm out of that NAZI bar i can relax and enjoy drinks in this NORMAL pub! [camera slowly zooms out to reveal I am bar hopping in the third reich] ah piss

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 14h

Wow cool, follow the direction of travel of a fascist regime

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Keir Starmer to look at India’s digital ID system during visit to Mumbai

Prime minister hopes to learn from success of scheme rolled out to most of country’s 1.4bn citizens Keir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”. Speaking on his two-day trip to Mumbai, where he met an expert on India’s digital ID system, Starmer defended the introduction of a similar measure in the UK, saying he believed the rollout of a voluntary system could be expanded to school applications, mortgages and driving licences. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 15h

I have already made 135 pounds on day one 🫶 please donate if you can

www.justgiving.com/page/lina-s-...

Lina's fundraiser for Crisis

Help Lina S raise money to support Crisis

www.justgiving.com

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 18h

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 19h

It really does drive home that it's just always the same small club of people constantly making all of our lives worse in a variety of different ways

lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 19h

That former UK Deputy PM Clegg, who entered a coalition with the Tories, helped usher in a wave of austerity that has led the country to where it is now, broke his promises regarding tuition fees, went onto work for Meta and became a techbro and AI guy...

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 19h

People are sharing this article again, and as with when it was first posted a few months ago, a lot of international people finding out for the first time that Nick Clegg is a dickhead, welcome to the club.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 19h

that new account glow worked its magic

lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 19h

TMK is my favourite, but yeah they're all so good and the supporting characters are god tier

lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 20h

Dunk and Egg is (possibly?) my favourite part of this series so I am nervous to say to the least! But cautiously optimistic!

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 20h

Dunk the Lunk, thick as a castle wall

We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 20h

Trailer for 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' drops tomorrow!

Premieres this January on HBO Max. #AKnightoftheSevenKingdoms

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

In Gaza, another humanitarian crisis has emerged: the soaring displacement expenses — or, as many people in Gaza bitterly describe it, “The fees you pay to become homeless in the south.” Tents cost $1,000 and securing a patch of land to pitch it on can be almost as costly.

Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Offer No Safety. Many Can’t Afford to Flee Anyway.

Displacement costs, which many call “the fees you pay to become homeless in the south,” have reached nearly $5,000.

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STABITHA🔪🔪🔪 @crabitha.slutmo.de · 20h

white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great "First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the
stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku
prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who
presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't
agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly
advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute
misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering
than outright rejection."

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 22h

This is bigotry taken all the way to fascist ideology.

Nasty, hateful, ignorant, and racist.

Stephen Daisley @stephendaisley.bsky.social · 2d

The Manchester synagogue attack is a story of mass immigration and multiculturalism. We must bring an end to both.

My latest for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/immi...

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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 22h

Either way, it's bleak, the UK will have well and truly sunk into fascism, and is a lost cause