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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · Jan 21

Dr. Strangelove at least tried to hold his arm down.

a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .

Alt: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world . Dr. Strangelove gives a Nazi salute and tried to hold his arm down.

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 21m

Danny Torrance (from The Shining) is writing on the door in lipstick. Instead of REDRUM, he is writing live, laugh, love

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 37m

Religious persécution is when you are prevented from exercising your beliefs, NOT when you are prevented from imposing your beliefs.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 41m

Finding old stuff stored in my phone and sharing some of the good ones.

The Mandalorioan:
Silly putty implies the existence of serious putty.
Grogu:
I believe that's C4

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 51m

Looking through old photos, came across this....

Express headlines

News UK

Idea that farming will collapse after Brexit is absurd

Farming disaster: Brexiteer admits many farmers will go out of business due to EU exit

GETTY

The BBC's Countryfile focused on the importance of seasonal labour to farming

EXPRESS

20°

NEWS

SHOWBIZ

FOOTBALL

News UK

The farmer admitted he voted for Brexit during the 2016

COMMENT

EXPRESS

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NEWS

SHOWBIZ

FOOTBALL

COMMENT

MORE REASON TO LEAVE: Brexit Britain to take back control of its fishing waters

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News Politics

We didn't vote for this! Fishing collapse as UK firms go bust and exporters flee to EU

GETTY

A report has said Brexit will give Britain a chance to regain control of its fishing waters

Boris Johnson on board a Scottish fishing trawler in 2019 (Image: GETTY)

EXPRESS

Brexit lies EXPOSED: Mobile roaming charges WON'T come back for Brits travelling to EU

Vodafone brings back shock EU roaming charges and the price won't please customers

Mobile Data

Vodafone is bringing back EU roaming charges (Image: GETTY VODAFONE)

Mobile phone roaming charges fears have been allayed

News UK

COMMENT

Cheaper food AFTER EU exit: Consumer boost as experts now say that prices will come DOWN

Food shop alert as YOUR supermarket bill set to soar due to EU red tape

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BREAKING free of the EU offers an "unrivalled opportunity to halt "staggering" food price rises, a detailed paper revealed today.

BRITONS have been warned to expect a rise in food prices later this year, as new "red-tape" on trade with the EU comes into effect.

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 3h

For all that is holy, leave the bird alone!

(FYI, Reddit reference. r/beatmetoit goes to r/beatmymeattoitwhich rapidly escalates to r/buttfuckedabirdtoit)
No, I'm not 12, it's just arrested development 🤣

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 3h

Given von der Leyen's tone, I wouldn't be too surprised if that's the price they had to pay to get the US on board. Which I think is a massive mistake. It's appeasement of the worst kind, akin to paying ransom to a criminal.
And one who has repeatedly proven he cannot be trusted.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 4h

I started watching it on silent, I have no idea who this guy is, or what network (I'm not US based), and it seemed to me like he was agreeing with her, until I turned the volume up and heard her say the beginning.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Aafke van Zwieten @aafkevanzwieten.bsky.social · 19h

I wish I could organise in the USA, I'd be touring all townhalls dems would want me to give a tedx talk; in Ukraine people die for right to vote; in the US you took that for granted and here we are #NieWiederIsNow @govpritzker.illinois.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSlN...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 5h

I just messaged you, thanks!

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 19h

Marine Le Pen openly admits their aim is chaos.
And France is falling for it. I'm seriously afraid for one of my countries.

left-coast-1000.bsky.social @left-coast-1000.bsky.social · 20h

If France wants to preview what happens when a far-right government takes power look no farther than my country, America. Whatever your issues with the current French government & society the answer isn’t far-left or far-right. To me, Le Pen is an echo of Trump.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 19h

We said it would happen.
Women are prey.

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 21h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 19h

J'ai ressenti la même chose, j'étais ravie qu'il soit heureux.
J'espère que ça se passe bien !

Le. Mien, maintenant, ne répond plus à mes messages sur de sujets importants (vente de biens), et ne parle pratiquement plus à notre fils...😒

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

And it's jot just the US. I get that in Europe too.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

The current centre-right exists solely to push the Overton window.

euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 20h

The centre-right European People's Party is siding with far-right groups to slash EU sustainability and corporate due diligence rules, while business leaders and former EU heavyweights are urging to keep climate and human rights reporting rules intact.

EPP ready to join far-right in watering down EU sustainability rules

euobserver.com

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 20h

Thread of the Day 🥇 (category: Nazi Punks Fuck Off and Take the Bots With You)

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h

this guy did the most basic vanilla criticism of the gestapo and our pathetic press/culture acts like he took a dump on stage

then of course he can't stand behind any sort of principles and has to backtrack, insisting he didn't want to "get political," while ambiguously deriding "divisiveness"

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

I still don't understand how that passed me by. Ok, I was living halfway across the planet, and am not American, but this is the kind of thing someone would definitely have sent me.
I need to catch up.

Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

Social media may have terrible downsides, but I've never lived in a country for over 6 years at a time, much of that before the Internet was a thing.
Lost friendships were par for the course.
Reconnecting and being able to virtually interact with friends and family, from a distance, is priceless.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now some of history's biggest murderers.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Bowl of Petunias @sunriseflight.bsky.social · 20h

@cnn.com bends the knee and kisses the orange 🍑

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

Check the timestamps. On CNN’s website, the uploaded interview starts at 2:52. On their YouTube page, the upload starts at 2:47. The “plenary authority” comment by Miller was at 2:41, as shown in my side-by-side video post. CNN should be reporting on what Miller said. It’s news!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 20h

Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane

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