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Jes Steele

@piratito.com

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Film, Theatre, Tennis, Politics, Human Rights. Not in that order, obviously. Professional maker and unprofessional pirate. Metalsmith. AuDHD. Crohn's. Chronic pain. Lives Slowly. Just trying to be helpful. A Ngarigo Country girl, now in the UK. ✊🏿🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · Mar 7

Have you checked out our starter packs for artisans, handcrafters and makers recently? Full of lovely people making wonderful things, filling the timeline with art. The first starter pack is full now go.bsky.app/C74PDjU and we are well into vol 2. go.bsky.app/GM9s5e8. Would you like to join us?

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 48m

1 hour 45. I am ready to commit murder. Oh god he's just got the whipper snipper out.

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

Oh no, wait, he’s still going.

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

1 hour and 22 long minutes. Apparently.

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

Shitbird.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 18h

It is also, needless to say, very funny.

Oatmeal cartoon saying "In my experience, the people who are excited about AI art also happen too be some of the most talentless fucking people I've ever met."

Oatmeal cartoon saying: "Virginia Woolf was a storyteller. Shel Silverstein was a storyteller. You work in tech, shitbird."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

I believe I may have stumbled across the very first benefit to Brexit.

Alice Hancock @alicemhancock.bsky.social · 2h

💦 EU citizens could face a future of cold showers because a key element for hot water tanks has not been authorised for use.

More here: www.ft.com/content/adf5...

Europeans risk cold showers in EU red tape snafu

Materials needed for enamelling of hot water tanks is excluded from bloc’s list of authorised substances

www.ft.com

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

How long does it take to mow a fucking lawn 😩

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

It’s usually ‘why are you blaming me for the actions of another man’ instead of understanding that it is SO MANY men that it could be ANY man. So we have to be careful around ALL men. But that takes some humility to appreciate.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing! Well, i guess if someone was going to get credit for this peace agreement, and the subsequent Nobel peace prize, it was always going to be TONY BLAIR!
#ShitStir

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

I am in actual hell.

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

A nice schedule of old and new is also good. Nostalgia, and new discoveries. Sentimental, and a journey into the great unknown. Mix it up.

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 1h

JD Vance is nothing more than a puppet of Peter Thiel. Having him in power would be a disaster. Thiel is like Trump but without not knowing what the fuck he’s doing stuff.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8h

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 9h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 2h

Why yes, mowing the lawn outside my window at 8.30 this morning IS exactly what I need, thank you so much.

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 13h

This has really caught people's imaginations - way more than I was expecting. Very lovely, but a tiny bit overwhelming and a tad surreal, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Houghton-le-Spring crafters create Houghton Feast fabric map

Houghton Feast's origins stetch as far back as the 12th Century.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 6h

I mean, there are so many other things you could say no to. No dictators. No authoritarians. No despots. No billionaires. No autocrats. No totalitarians. No elderly over-privileged white men avoiding the consequences of their crimes. Just a few suggestions..

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 6h

This has been bothering me. I think you guys are over estimating the power that kings have these days. It’s pretty much none. I mean sure they get to live a life of decadence on taxpayer money, but they don’t make laws or anything.

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 6h

#AussieAussieAussie ♥️

Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · 6h

I ❤️ Bankstown!

Banner near the station: Racism not welcome

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 6h

I have made some really good friends on social media. That’s the main thing - it really means a lot to me.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 9h

You’ll be happy to hear I made it home without a single (additional) injury. I was about to say incident, but I did manage to drop some chocolate from my muesli bar on my top where it melted in good and proper. Can’t win em all.

Jes Steele @piratito.com · 10h

I can only hope the have a tiny fraction of the bravery of this woman one day.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

Gisele Pelicot was in court today to face one of her rapists.

Husamettin Dogan is appealing his 9 year sentence, arguing he is a victim.

Gisele told him to take responsibility:

"I am the only victim … at what moment did I give you my consent? Never"

Dogan faces 20 years if he loses his appeal:

Gisele Pelicot tells rapist appealing guilty verdict to 'take responsibility'

Gisele Pelicot returns to court to face the only man, out of 51, who appealed against his guilty verdict in a mass rape trial that gained worldwide attention.

www.abc.net.au

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 10h

This shit is so embarrassing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

Good lord.

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Jes Steele @piratito.com · 10h

I know I know, not *all* men. But lots of men, ok? Like, LOTS of men.

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