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Madame Brioche
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The impacts of predatory capital - impossible rents, failing public services, rising costs of living - are being blamed across the billionaire press on immigrants and Black and Brown people.
It's so crude, so obvious, so familiar .... but if you tell the lie often enough, people believe it. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
madamebrioche.bsky.social
Well, I can't be all things to everyone, Duo!
A screenshot of the Duolingo app widget. It reads 19 days abandoned. Duo the owl is turned away yet giving side eye. It's black and white but Duo is lit through Venetian blinds and basically it's like a poster for a film noir about an emotional blackmailer.
April 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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josephfasano.bsky.social
I hope this poem, which has been published today in @oneart.bsky.social, helps give thanks to those who really save us. Here's "Love Poems for Our Friends":
Love Poems for Our Friends Where are the poems for those who know us? Not for star-crossed loves, for agonies of longing, but words for those who go with us the whole road. How would they start, I wonder? You let me crash when I was new to ruin. You came to me though visiting hours were over. You held me when my loves were done, were flames. Yes, we will lose a few in the changes. But these are the ones who save us: not the charmers, not the comets of wild passion, not the ups-and-downs of love’s unlucky hungers, but the ones who stand by our shoulder at the funeral and lead us back to the city of the living and put our favorite record on the player and go away, and come back, always come back, with bread and wine and one word, one word: stay.
April 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
say "Hardworkingfamilies" in the mirror three times
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. Script as follows. Scene is the PRIME MINISTER’S OFFICE in No. 10, at night. KEIR STARMER is looking in a large mirror over the fireplace. We see him looking at his reflection, with the empty office visible behind him in the mirror.] 1 KEIR STARMER [chanting into the mirror]: Hardworking families… Hardworking families… Hardworking… 2 KEIR STARMER: …families. [Behind him in the mirror the GHOST OF DAVID CAMERON has appeared]. 3 THE GHOST OF DAVID CAMERON: Well hello, Keir. KEIR STARMER: H-hello David… 4 DAVID CAMERON: I take it you’ve summoned me… for help? 5 DAVID CAMERON: You want a new word, don’t you Keir… 6 DAVID CAMERON: A magic word that will make you rich with cuts beyond your wildest dreams… 7 DAVID CAMERON: The word, Keir… is… Workingpipple. 8 KEIR STARMER [confused]: Working… people? DAVID CAMERON: No - 9 DAVID CAMERON: No you’ve got to say it weird, like “Workingpipple”. And you need to do the hand. [He pinches his fingers aloft, like a politician does] 10 DAVID CAMERON: It sounds a bit like “workers”, but not too… KEIR STARMER: Labourish DAVID CAMERON: You got it! 11 DAVID CAMERON: Crucially it allows you to be nice to City ‘workers’… *and* step on benefits claimants at the same time! 12 KEIR STARMER [practicing in the mirror]: Workingpipple DAVID CAMERON: Don’t forget the hand [ends]
March 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
madamebrioche.bsky.social
Ah, my spirit animal
buitengebieden.bsky.social Buitengebieden @buitengebieden.bsky.social · Feb 25
How pandas clean their house.. 😅
February 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
🙌 Well done everyone! 🙌

Read (and share!) this piece by Robert McMaster, who started the petition:
Petition to rejoin the EU reaches 100,000 signatures
100,000 signatures - enough to be considered for a debate by MPs in Parliament!
northeastbylines.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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ohmrporter.bsky.social
How history works #1
Daughter 2: "In History we're learning about Hitler."
Me:"What bit?"
D2:" How he was making America great again."
Wife (next room ):"Germany!"
D2:"Oh yes Germany."
December 3, 2024 at 8:27 AM
madamebrioche.bsky.social
In #whamhalla already. It would have been my own fault for forgetting about #whamageddon and asking #alexa to play Christmas songs but it was the very first one she played. Cowbag.
December 1, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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beardedgenius.bsky.social
I feel like we were lied to as kids, about food. For instance, cookies are fine but not half as tasty as Cookie Monster made them look. And don’t get me starting on Turkish Delight and that little shit Edmund
November 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
madamebrioche.bsky.social
You can lead a horse to water but you can't get a teenager to put on a fucking coat for love nor money. Here endeth the lesson.
November 21, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
Oh, for god’s sake - the Winter-Shitstalgia has started on the other place.

“I suffered when I was a child, so best you do too!” is such a weird stance to take.

Also, just for a bit of context, 200 schools closed - out of 32,163 in the country, so about 0.62% of schools are affected.

Sigh.
Post reading: What’s the matter with this f***ing country??? 200 schools in England and Wales closed because of a bit of snow!!!!! Any excuse not to go to work. I remember walking to school in 2 feet of snow for weeks along with hundreds of others & teachers always showed up.
November 20, 2024 at 6:38 AM
madamebrioche.bsky.social
Loving the positive vibes over here ❤️

Also here for a bit of good-natured snark 🤭
November 12, 2024 at 9:56 AM