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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

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SeaYou 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 6d

#WakeUpAmerica & #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles !

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 1d

Which is why no matter what happens, no matter how much they pull down and destroy to create their idea of the 'perfect' world, they will never be happy. Their 'perfect' world, if they could achieve it, would disappoint them; they'd tear it all down again. For ever.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 1d

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

First Past the Post means millions of our votes make no difference to parliament. Add your name now to demand a fairer voting system

It only takes 30 seconds

action.electoral-reform.org.uk

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

A few photos from Monday's walk. It was a really lovely day. After days of strong winds, it was nice to go out and not have your head blown off.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

Shrooms from yesterday's walkabout.

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

Sherds! We've had rain, and the river level is higher, so there's even less bank to search, and yet these little beauties keep on popping up.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 2d

A recent arrival... 'The Egyptian Venus' by Reginald de Glossop, published by The Regency Press in 1946.

I don't know exactly what it's about (though I can guess), but the cover drew me to it.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Gary Lineker is a legend, he spoke out when no one else on TV would.

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives."

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 4d

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 5d

Locking everything up last night, hubs called for help. One of the teeny tiny baby meecers was in the back porch. She'd let herself in when he went outside to check on Meecehaven. Took a while to help her outside, but she seemed to enjoy herself. We certainly did.

a blue stuffed mouse says i 'm just a little mousey around the housey ..

ALT: a blue stuffed mouse says i 'm just a little mousey around the housey ..

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 5d

Me too!

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5d

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 5d

I received a refund a couple of days ago from Amazon for a returned damaged book. I was a bit baffled, as I don't buy books there any longer (unless they're absolutely not available anywhere else). And I haven't sent anything back for ages.

Turns out, I sent it back seven and a half years ago!

a close up of a cartoon rabbit with the words wow written on it

ALT: a close up of a cartoon rabbit with the words wow written on it

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely book post! ... 'The Jewelled Hand', a collection of 24 tales by Australian writer Lionel Sparrow, just published by the wonderful @valancourtbooks.bsky.social.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 5d

And another Marjorie Bowen up for pre-order, this time under her pseudonym Joseph Shearing...

The Fetch (which was published in the US as The Spectral Bride), based on a real-life legal case but with a sinister twist.

hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 5d

There's a new title up for pre-order...

Sheep's-Head and Babylon, a collection of eighteen stories by Marjorie Bowen. You can find out more here:

hauntedlibraryblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/shee...

Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 6d

Now that would be a headline! But I suppose it's different, being all for the glory of god and what have you. 🙄

King Charlie could sell off some of his property for the sake of his poor subjects, but that's about five million times less likely.

What a world.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 7d

🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.

Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations

Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 7d

I felt exactly the same way when I visited the Vatican. It's immoral for a church to possess that much wealth while people starve to death.

That said, I don't know how much power the pope has. The Holy See owns all of it. So, really, it's the whole lot of the church's top dogs who are to blame.

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Gina R. Collia @ginarcollia.bsky.social · 7d

A few photos from yesterday's walk.