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Court Jester & Fool! Philosophy, psychology, politics, amateur economics, silliness, animals, Bad Jokes, Jungle / DnB 5% USA commentary 95% anything but! Recovered 4-quad of all 4-quads! Recommend: 👇🏻 @dailyherald.bsky.social 👇🏻 @socialistsunday.bsky.social

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This'll be my new pinned post.
This is the most positive thing I've seen on BlueSky in a long time and that includes WeRateDogs.
The UK Labour Party are getting a LOT done both immediately & for long term planning so there really is cause for hope for them, and UK despite an onslaught of propaganda!

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 26m

This is Finley. He has a rare genetic mutation that causes patches of different colors in his coat. It is completely harmless, but it does make him completely handsome. 14/10 (IG: jaktlabben.finley)

a lab pup sits and looks up at the camera. his fur is a mottled blend of blond and black, and he’s standing on his leash with one front paw.

a closeup of baby finley resting his little chin on a blanket. one of his ears is curled under at the tip and his eyes look a little sleepy.

finley sits on a rock next to a body of water and squints slightly into the sun with his pink tongue sticking out.

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The Horseshoe Party UK 🦄🧲🥳🇬🇧🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🗺️🇵🇸🇺🇦☯️ @horseshoepartyuk.bsky.social · 17d

Else for positivity I always recommend
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positive.news
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Positive News | Good journalism about good things

Positive News is the first media organisation in the world dedicated to quality, independent reporting about what’s going right

positive.news

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The Horseshoe Party UK 🦄🧲🥳🇬🇧🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🗺️🇵🇸🇺🇦☯️ @horseshoepartyuk.bsky.social · 10d

All are insane but he who can analyse his delusions is called a Philosopher.
Ambrose Bierce
Hope for the best prepare for the worst.
Maya Angelou not Aurelius as I thought.
Who is my Master? He who decides what I do or don't like.
Epictetus.
Making the world a better place is a marathon not a sprint

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Yet in my case I wonder if I'd be better off without psych meds, unless a manic episode is starting up; especially now I don't chase the best THC weed anymore. Bored of being constantly disappointed by the most immoral of weed dealers.
Plastic & ket filled soapbar,
else laced wi spice & monkey dust!

Soapbar

The UK Cannabis Internet Activists Website: Website of the Legalise Cannabis UK Campaigns. Cannabis Information and UK Cannabis, UK campaigning for hemp, marijuana , cannabis.

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Drug induced psychosis from a specific weirdly putrid tasting "bubblehash" from the illegal online markets. I stopped buying it soon as that happened.
I can count on my fingers and toes the best bits of real hash I've been certain were clean in my life & that wasn't one of them.
Yes I'm Bipolar sure

Vapes laced with spice drug sold to schoolchildren on Snapchat

Parents speak of horrific experiences after their school-aged children bought the vape liquid via Snapchat.

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My head just went after taking my psych meds half an hour ago, which seems very ironic and paradoxical.
I'm not anti-Psychiatry or anti-Pharmaceuticals, I'm just for whatever works.
I've been long skeptical of my schizo-affective diagnosis forced on me while on a Section 2 when it was just as likely

a man in a suit is ironing while wearing headphones and sunglasses and says oh the irony on the ironing board

ALT: a man in a suit is ironing while wearing headphones and sunglasses and says oh the irony on the ironing board

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Female vocals #dnb drum and bass minimix GO!

Rameses B with the spectacular Sweet Surrender featuring Charlotte Haining to start.

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Rameses B - Sweet Surrender (ft. Charlotte Haining)

YouTube video by Rameses B

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Starz feat Veela. Still very sweet but a slightly different vibe.
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Starz ft Veela - Second Nature [FREE DOWNLOAD]

YouTube video by VEELA

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The Horseshoe Party UK 🦄🧲🥳🇬🇧🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🗺️🇵🇸🇺🇦☯️ @horseshoepartyuk.bsky.social · 5d

J Majik and Wickaman with Feel About You. Vocalists Jeanette Hedge and Rachel Brown.
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J Majik & Wickaman - Feel About You (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by UKF Drum & Bass

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The Horseshoe Party UK 🦄🧲🥳🇬🇧🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈🗺️🇵🇸🇺🇦☯️ @horseshoepartyuk.bsky.social · 5d

Next up the legendary MC Skibadee with Rachel Wallace on All of my JUNGLISTS!
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MC Skibadee Feat. Rachel Wallace (Produced by erb N dub) - All Of My Junglists

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Gotta love a bit of RockStep.
Pendulum with Wargasm - Cannibal
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Pendulum & WARGASM - Cannibal (Official Video)

YouTube video by pendulumlive

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Keeping with the RockStep vibe we have this brilliant cover of Bring Me to Life by Evanescence.

Venjent on the sounds the massively underappreciated Oktae on the vocals.

Seriously she's very, very good and very little known.
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Venjent, Oktae - Bring Me To Life (Official Video)

YouTube video by Venjent

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Now for a different direction of dnb altogether with Reggae vibes!

Caloosh featuring an Elisabeth.
Night Nurse remixed by Ed Solo!
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Night Nurse (Ed Solo Remix)

YouTube video by Caloosh - Topic

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Ed Solo and DJ Deekline on Top Rankin with some cracking female vox.
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Top Rankin (Original Mix)

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Now in the ANDY C DIRECTION we have Heartbeat Loud!

BRAP BRAP BRAP BRAP BRAP

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Andy C & Fiora - Heartbeat Loud (Andy C VIP) (Official Video)

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2h

Plenty of amyloid, very little tau
Low inflammatory response

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Today's Positive News highlight.
Completely biodegradable shoes anyone?
www.positive.news/environment/...

Step forward the ‘fully biodegradable’ shoe that leaves no footprint

Made from organic materials and designed to return harmlessly to the earth, could this be the end of landfill-bound footwear?

www.positive.news

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but Antifa is everyone who is or was anti-Fascist.
This includes Winston Churchill.
It's absurd False Equivalence to say people who want Ethno/Religious Supremacists stopped are the same as drug dealing cartels, or the other Tyrants of Palestine, Hamas & friends.

Kristi Noem compares antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State

Homeland security secretary calls loosely affiliated network of anti-fascist street activists ‘just as dangerous’

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3h

Is dark chocolate good for you?
"Sadly for chocoholics, the health claims for dark chocolate come from wishful thinking and sly marketing, not the findings of science."
Sorry
www.economist.com/science-and-...

Is dark chocolate actually healthy?

We assess whether that tempting idea is too good to be true

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 6h

Good morning with good news: Solar will generate 20% of global electricity in 2029 and 40% in 2045!

Fossil fuel generated electricity now is losing market share & plunges to 4% from 59% today.

See just released DNV Energy Transition Outlook 2025:
brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal... #energysky

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 6h

DNV also forecasts that EVs will be 50% of global passenger sales in 2032 and more than 80% near 2040.

Also, Behind The Meter (BTM) or "rooftop" solar flourishes due to lower pricing and battery storage, generating by itself 13% of all global electricity & is 30% of global solar output. #energysky

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 4h

From FT: positivity on the economy.

It has become fashionable to express Eeyorish views on the state of the UK economy. But amid talk of rising debts and falling growth, there’s a more reassuring diagnosis: things are, at worst, solidly mediocre, and maybe not bad at all.

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Households are also more willing than they were to make big purchases. Young people are particularly optimistic, the index shows. This shouldn’t be surprising. Inflation hit hard in 2022, but wages have now been rising faster than prices for more than two years.

The UK’s animal spirits may not be driven by record highs in the stock market, unlike the US where share ownership is more widespread. But the housing market is helping. Interest rates are falling, while various indices show prices rising.

This is filtering down to companies, with signs of higher demand for large discretionary purchases such as cars, kitchens and sofas. New car registrations jumped almost 14 per cent year on year in September, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Yorkshire-based settee specialist DFS just reported its first year of revenue growth since 2022, with like-for-like orders up 10 per cent.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4h

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line.
The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes.
Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland.

On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld

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The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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