Karilee Thorpe
@karey17.bsky.social
History is my passion. But I’m interested in almost everything.
PTSD sufferer. Domestic and child abuse survivor
PTSD sufferer. Domestic and child abuse survivor
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The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news.
This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.
Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda
This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.
Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda
January 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The BBC needs to have a debate about whether Musk's outbursts should keep leading the news.
This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.
Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda
This isn't about censoring or suppressing his views; it's about whether to amplify them.
Most Brits aren't on X, they don't follow Musk & not every raving from a foreign plutocrat should set the news agenda
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In 2016, when an Aboriginal Australian girl graduated from college, her grandfather, an Aboriginal elder from a remote island, travelled nearly 2,000 miles to attend the ceremony and dance with her.
December 19, 2024 at 3:55 PM
In 2016, when an Aboriginal Australian girl graduated from college, her grandfather, an Aboriginal elder from a remote island, travelled nearly 2,000 miles to attend the ceremony and dance with her.
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The clarity is absolutely spectacular…..The Pillars of Creation by the James Webb Space Telescope 💫😲💫✨💫💙💫
January 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The clarity is absolutely spectacular…..The Pillars of Creation by the James Webb Space Telescope 💫😲💫✨💫💙💫
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Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
January 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
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70k men in a rape chat. They boasted about rapes and live-streamed assaults.
Yesterday, a man set fire to a sleeping woman on a NY subway. People just filmed as he fanned the flames.
But all you care about is policing women to say “not all men” as we second guess every man in our life? Fuck off.
Yesterday, a man set fire to a sleeping woman on a NY subway. People just filmed as he fanned the flames.
But all you care about is policing women to say “not all men” as we second guess every man in our life? Fuck off.
December 23, 2024 at 11:32 AM
70k men in a rape chat. They boasted about rapes and live-streamed assaults.
Yesterday, a man set fire to a sleeping woman on a NY subway. People just filmed as he fanned the flames.
But all you care about is policing women to say “not all men” as we second guess every man in our life? Fuck off.
Yesterday, a man set fire to a sleeping woman on a NY subway. People just filmed as he fanned the flames.
But all you care about is policing women to say “not all men” as we second guess every man in our life? Fuck off.
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Noticed she hasn't
December 25, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Noticed she hasn't
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Personally I think that Greenland & Canada should now follow Iceland and set a course to joining the EU.
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December 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Personally I think that Greenland & Canada should now follow Iceland and set a course to joining the EU.
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You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇
December 24, 2024 at 1:37 AM
You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇
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The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
December 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
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Just a little background, if you don’t know my work… ‘When Beasts Spoke’ is a collection of illustrated thoughts from the animal’s perspective. Contemplations on anything from mindfulness, self-love, or gratitude, to observations on the little things and the joys of nature. And I paint the animals ☺️
August 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Just a little background, if you don’t know my work… ‘When Beasts Spoke’ is a collection of illustrated thoughts from the animal’s perspective. Contemplations on anything from mindfulness, self-love, or gratitude, to observations on the little things and the joys of nature. And I paint the animals ☺️
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What does it say that this took me zero time to understand.
December 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM
What does it say that this took me zero time to understand.
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....and another thing.
December 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM
....and another thing.
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.
December 20, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.
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Gisele Pelicot should named as the Time person of the year. For bravely waiving her anonymity in one of the most horrific rape cases the world has seen, to take a stand for survivors and shame the perpetrators.
Instead they’re featuring Trump, a rapist, for the second time. Obviously.
Instead they’re featuring Trump, a rapist, for the second time. Obviously.
December 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Gisele Pelicot should named as the Time person of the year. For bravely waiving her anonymity in one of the most horrific rape cases the world has seen, to take a stand for survivors and shame the perpetrators.
Instead they’re featuring Trump, a rapist, for the second time. Obviously.
Instead they’re featuring Trump, a rapist, for the second time. Obviously.
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This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy
The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 9:36 AM
This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..
www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
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This is unutterably stupid. Political donations should have been reformed YEARS ago.
We don't want a knee-jerk "stop-Farage" law; we just want a democracy that isn't a corruptible plaything of the rich, whether it's Lord Sainsbury, Frank Hester or Elon Musk.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We don't want a knee-jerk "stop-Farage" law; we just want a democracy that isn't a corruptible plaything of the rich, whether it's Lord Sainsbury, Frank Hester or Elon Musk.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2024 at 9:27 PM
This is unutterably stupid. Political donations should have been reformed YEARS ago.
We don't want a knee-jerk "stop-Farage" law; we just want a democracy that isn't a corruptible plaything of the rich, whether it's Lord Sainsbury, Frank Hester or Elon Musk.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We don't want a knee-jerk "stop-Farage" law; we just want a democracy that isn't a corruptible plaything of the rich, whether it's Lord Sainsbury, Frank Hester or Elon Musk.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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CNN confirmed on-air just now that top Trump aides are furiously calling journalists to insist that Elon Musk has been following the orders of Trump rather than the other way around. As predicted, Trump is horrified and enraged at the idea that Musk is now seen as the President of the United States.
December 20, 2024 at 7:32 PM
CNN confirmed on-air just now that top Trump aides are furiously calling journalists to insist that Elon Musk has been following the orders of Trump rather than the other way around. As predicted, Trump is horrified and enraged at the idea that Musk is now seen as the President of the United States.
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All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 6:33 PM
All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
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Oh hell naw. First, I wouldn't be up there to begin with. Second, I would have probably crashed once it landed in my foot.
December 19, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Oh hell naw. First, I wouldn't be up there to begin with. Second, I would have probably crashed once it landed in my foot.
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This is the person of the year.
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
This is the person of the year.
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"But there's something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot. 51 men. 51 men who are #notallmen… but who are, also, quite a lot of men. 51 of them, in fact."
Exceptional opening monologue by @sophyridge.bsky.social tonight. ~AA
Exceptional opening monologue by @sophyridge.bsky.social tonight. ~AA
December 19, 2024 at 7:39 PM
"But there's something that’s much more difficult to confront than the inspiration and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot. 51 men. 51 men who are #notallmen… but who are, also, quite a lot of men. 51 of them, in fact."
Exceptional opening monologue by @sophyridge.bsky.social tonight. ~AA
Exceptional opening monologue by @sophyridge.bsky.social tonight. ~AA
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“What’s that Skippy? Nigel Farage is trapped down a well of irrelevance? He needs a foreign billionaire to interfere in UK politics, to get him out of it?”
December 19, 2024 at 6:49 PM
“What’s that Skippy? Nigel Farage is trapped down a well of irrelevance? He needs a foreign billionaire to interfere in UK politics, to get him out of it?”
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You know, I realize how strongly many of you liberals on this echo-chamber website despise constitutional originalism, so I hope you don’t get mad at me for posting this.
But I happened to be re-reading the Constitution with my usual eye toward discerning the Framers’ original intent and … (1/2)
But I happened to be re-reading the Constitution with my usual eye toward discerning the Framers’ original intent and … (1/2)
December 19, 2024 at 3:11 PM
You know, I realize how strongly many of you liberals on this echo-chamber website despise constitutional originalism, so I hope you don’t get mad at me for posting this.
But I happened to be re-reading the Constitution with my usual eye toward discerning the Framers’ original intent and … (1/2)
But I happened to be re-reading the Constitution with my usual eye toward discerning the Framers’ original intent and … (1/2)
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Can we just start using WTYS for “We told you so” to save character space over the next 4 years?
December 19, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Can we just start using WTYS for “We told you so” to save character space over the next 4 years?