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Ex-RM from NI with a PhD. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · Nov 19

I spent a decade arguing with antivaxxers on X. Showing them papers. Explaining their errors. Correcting their disinformation.

I've done my bit for "dialogue with people I disagree with".

I'm here to hang out with people I like. For everyone else, I have no guilt about using the block button.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 10h

I have one or two mementos from the old days, yes.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 10h

Hear me out: why don't State Troopers just arrest the Guardsmen when they arrive, on charges of "conspiracy to commit a breach of the peace," confiscate their equipment, and then let them go home?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 10h

Dammit, will work never end?

Apparently, my halloween movie role is "the killer".

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 12h

I want to know what @gailsimone.bsky.social makes of the Punisher logo having *surfer hair and a Santa hat*

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 13h

Never having seen this before, I am desperate to learn where it came from!

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 14h

History doesn't repeat, but sometimes it rhymes. The image below is coming ever closer to America, as the rest of the world watches in horror.

Father (later Bishop) Eric Daly, waving a bloodstained white handkerchief, escorts the mortally wounded Jackie Duddy to safety after the latter, an unarmed 17-year-old, had been shot by British forces. 30 January 1972, "Bloody Sunday".

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 16h

"I still see myself as..." is practically the dictionary definition of 'subjective.'

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17h

Matthew Syed, who recently wrote a long read about why he just joined the Conservatives, objected to his BBC introduction including this fact: "Yes, I just joined the Conservatives, but I still see myself, first and foremost, as an objective journalist, if I may say so."

Phew! Glad that's settled.

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 20h

The last Chinese imperial eunuch could have listened to the Spice Girls' first album.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1d

*That's* a key question

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

That the claims made in support of its use are horseshit, peddled by grifters hoping to profit from disinformation, and that these charlatans are so far from moral behaviour that a civilised society would put them in stocks to be pelted with rotten fruit?

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG...

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

They love flags because there's no spelling involved in using them.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

I particularly liked the scene in one of them where Langdon clung to the skids of what was very explicitly labelled a UH-6O Blackhawk.

Which has wheels.

Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 2d

I am being forced to read The Secret of Secrets for work by my "friends" and Dan Brown is so loudly and confidently wrong about everything and I want to tear my hair out.

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

"MOD inadvertently reveals that they have no plans to declare war on Wales (for which they would need Welsh interpreters)."

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 2d

Sure they do, but to get them to change, you need to them off and then turn them on again...

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 4d

This rings horribly true.

NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d

If we can embrace the Israeli destruction of Gaza City, surely we can take the next step and accept the armed occupation of our own cities.

by Bari Weiss

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 4d

He describes himself as "happy go lucky". I dispute the first and third, but would be delighted to see him avail himself of the second.

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

I struggle to imagine a decision the Israeli government could have made regarding the UK that would evoke more widespread revulsion among the British public.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

Bad Enoch strikes again.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

Kemi Badenoch: "Last time I checked Northern Ireland did vote to leave."

Might be good idea to check again.

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

Generations not just of Americans but of people all over the world are going to quote Charlton Heston's line from the end of The Planet of the Apes - "You maniacs! You blew it up!" - looking not at a ruined Statue of Liberty but every time they see a picture of Donald Trump.

Dr van Tilburg @drvantilburg.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.

Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

I thought a "procreate brush" was something arborists used to pollinate trees.

Pati Cmak @paticmak.bsky.social · 6d

testing new procreate brushes

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

Love this. I have headed notepaper and everything.

Steffi @larkistin89.bsky.social · 5d

No more social media. Let‘s all go back to writing letters please

Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

(I can't vouch for the veracity of the Messerschmitt story but the bit about my grandfather is absolutely true)

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 5d

You know the story about Blair Mayne ripping out a Messerschmitt's cockpit because he'd brought one too few bombs to blow up every aircraft?

My grandfather always blamed himself for that.

He'd been Mayne's maths teacher.

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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 6d

That's alright. Neither did he.