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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2h

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

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Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5h

extremely extremely extremely qualified somewhat support for fellowish traveler Lord fucking Hesel ... no I can't do this

Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 6h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“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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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 4h

It was on the Best of Bowie 69-74 compilation from 1997 though

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 4h

You can't catch the Laughing Gnome

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 4h

I can't claim to have been super close to her, but with Rani I always felt like one of those bits from a film where the coolest kid in school takes the weird nerd under their wing

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 4h

How cool was Rani? Cool enough to inspire an Ozzy video, and that's just a start

Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · Jul 22

That time a "Satanic" anti-fascist protest, involving the late ROMhacker Rani Baker, was called out by lying alt-right fascist influencers.

That time Ozzy Osbourne reacted by thinking "that's cool" and impersonating the event and Rani in his music video "Straight To Hell."

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A fascist influencer named Andy puts Rani Baker on blast for taking part in an antifascist protest. Wet Andy is crying about it

Lying fascist influencer Andy Milkshake lies about the late ROMhacker Rani Baker, at a previous event where Andy was rightly mocked for being a lying fascist. Andy is crying about it, or pretending to.

The late heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne visually references the "Satanic Anti-Fascist" protest the late ROMhacker Rani Baker took part in, in his 2020 music video for "Straight to Hell." Staged chaos is ensuing, and Ozzy is enjoying it.

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 4h

It's been two years today since we lost the great Rani Baker and I've been thinking about her a lot lately. Online just hasn't been the same without her.

She was my friend and now she's gone. What more can you say about that?

Cover to one of Rani's albums - Gender Identity Witch by Destroyed For Comfort.

Cover art shows a slightly distorted photo of her face with what appears to be a burning camper van in the background

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 4h

All those crossdressing ladies from Panto, innit

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 4h

"Putin's communists"

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 5h

This is apparently also apparently how my parents' generation feel with those clips you occasionally see from the 60s, of a weird guy called David who kept popping up throughout the decade with an almost Alan Partridge-like determination to Be Famous somehow.

Eventually he managed it of course...

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 5h

There was a weird period for a year or two when every single discussion of Destiny's Child would mention "Beyonce's developing songwriting talents" in those exact words

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 5h

this is the guy responsible for the decimation of trans healthcare

this is a good example of how ppl refuse to acknowledge that transphobia causes problems

if there'd been pushback on him then we wouldn't be here now

the government used us trans ppl as a blueprint now they're using it on others

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 9h

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 6h

Rowan saw it last week and said pretty much the same thing.

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · Sep 7

Leto's career is so baffling. Is he a good actor? No. But is he a box office draw? Also no. Is he at least a nice guy who people just enjoy working with? Definitely not.

He has to know where a LOT of bodies are buried.

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 6h

Obviously Lydon is a massive prick too but he has a point sometimes

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 6h

Suddenly reminded of how Johnny Rotten once described Bragg as "the middle classes' Coco the Clown"

Post from Billy Bragg "Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧"

Below are stickers with an England flag with the words "No to hate - it's our flag too"

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Elizabeth Veldon @thatelizabeth.bsky.social · 7h

Happy dyke day!

Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️☕️🍰 @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 7h

A happy day to lesbians everywhere!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h

They all knew exactly what they were doing and I have seen not a trace of contrition

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson... • 33m
In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas
Captain Haddock @realcapt... • 43m
It was inevitable that "too many people speaking Polish" Brexitism would become outright "too many brown people"
And it's what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 18h

One day when I am super rich I will produce a reboot of Lexx where all of it will be as good as the first season.

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Xan @comicsbyxan.bsky.social · 1d

Pandora's Tale Chapter 2
Cover

Let's go with chapter two!

PANDORA'S TALE
Chapter 2: Broken, Part 2

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First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 19h

I've not heard the BF version yet, but I remember reading the extended summary in the David Banks Cybermen book and it was definitely a load of utter honk then.

First and Last and Wooloo @mockwooloo.bsky.social · 22h

TBF Schrödinger was only trying to mock the metaphysical sides of the Copenhagen Interpretation, not all of quantum mechanics entirely.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1d

There’s a lot of this about. Stop trying to guilt the left into voting for a Labour Party that hates us and shapes its policies towards people that hate them

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@irsuk.bsky.social

Reform voters are largely Tory voters.
What will gain Reform the election is Labour voters decamping to the Lib Dems and the Greens. Good work!

7 October 2025 at 06:52

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d

See, these kinds of claims are the ones you can't tackle with pointing out the obvious lie, because that cedes the basic argument to them. You have to take them at their word and then calmly ask, "So why was that a problem for you?"

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Jenrick defends ‘didn’t see another white face’ comment on.ft.com/3VSPahS

Robert Jenrick defends ‘didn’t see another white face’ comment

Shadow justice secretary is widely seen as the favourite to challenge Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch

on.ft.com

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Courtney 🐙 Lovecraftian 🐙 Actually @hexadecibelle.fyi · 1d

there’s a reason most companies keep us non-client-facing, even if we think we’ve got great social skills

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who’s been around tech people for a long long time it’s WILD to me that this website thinks devs should be their forward facing outreach. Like that dude asking about toxicity is a designer!

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