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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 16h

The level of destruction and erasure in the Gaza Strip is simply incredible. North Gaza, before and after:

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Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 23h

I found out about the Rods through #JoJosBizarreAdventure but they're one of the pretty much debunked ones 😞

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 23h

Texas bishop had brought Pope Leo a packet of letters from terrorized immigrant families

apnews.com/article/vati...

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

apnews.com

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 23h

How about a happy thread…if you can, show me a photo of a time you were happy, or you captured a moment of joy or beauty.

I think we could all use it!

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Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 23h

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 1d

There's no reason #YoungWizards can't go trick-or-treating. But the results may be unexpected... At #Ebooks Direct, as the Spooky Season gets going: NOT ON MY PATCH. ebooks.direct/products/not...

Background: A pumpkin that seems to have... unusual eyes. Foreground captioning: "Too much candy corn. Too many zombies. And Ultimate Evil with a pumpkin spice latte. ...Tag along on a Young Wizards Halloween. Now at Ebooks Direct."

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Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 1d

Shouldn't this have been Polnareff on Cameo?

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Cursed JoJo @jjbacursed.bsky.social · 2d

I think I get it #jjba #stoneocean

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Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 1d

@jjbacursed.bsky.social found these figure-hugging pants: guess we know now...

Fightwear, apparently.

Tiger striped "spats"

Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinians are more Semitic than those fake "Jews" bussed in from White South Africa in IsNotReal at the moment

The term "Semite" refers to a cultural and linguistic group, not a race, and includes people who speak Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew, as well as their historical descendants

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 1d

*doing crimes.

When they come for you too, I'll laugh.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

15 UK banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners and other benefit claimants under DWP crackdown.

No court order needed. No right of appeal.

Banks will pass cost to other customers.

Those accused of fraud won't get legal advice. The making of another Post Office type scandal.

15 banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners under DWP crackdown

The Telegraph newspaper reports banks will be required to monitor pensioners’ bank accounts and share payments data

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over tax rises that could drive wealthy away. Ridiculous.

Capital gains, dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in tax than the richest 20%.

16m live in poverty. Millions rely on food banks.

End tax perks of the rich.

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over Budget tax rises driving wealthy away

‘The trouble is we have crossed a line in trying to encourage aspiration. The non-dom change and the VAT on school fees have sent the opposite message,’ minister tells The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

Gonna be fun watching the Sweatlords implode with both "female spacemarines are unreallistic" and "why don't these like delicate princesses?!" simultaneously

merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

are they soft-launching female space marines

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mattachine meowppy machine @spookybiscuits.com · 2d

holy shit

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Z. @thekrampuswife.bsky.social · 2d

Well, she has the terrible name to match...

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 2d

My hot take on female Space Marines is that the Facist Machine won't care what type of Meat it feeds into the Grinder.

(Also its your army, right? You bought it and built it and painted it. No one else gets a say)

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 2d

They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 2d

More 💩from transphobes. Falsely claiming research supports conversion practices, when the research explicitly condemns conversion therapy as "psychologically damaging" and linked to suicide.

“This is the most upsetting use of my scholarship in my career ...It's lethally dangerous to LGBTQ+ kids"

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

LOL.

No Air Canada. You do not get to "offer" me delay compensation less than the amount required by UK law.

That is not how the law works.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 6d

Really cool story - bird species from across the world make the same sound to warn against cuckoos, and they can even understand each other. Feeds into ideas Darwin had about the origin of language! www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

20 bird species can understand each other’s anti-cuckoo call

Several species of birds from different continents use and understand similar alarm calls when they see an invader that might lay an egg in their nest – this shared call hints at the origin of languag...

www.newscientist.com

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