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Tom Shakespeare

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Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.

Cover of 'The Ends' featuring the hero, Fred, being pursued by a voracious polar bear.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 15h

Eric Swallwell (D-CA) says it’s coming to an end and House Republicans are privately breaking, that a “jailbreak” is brewing the moment the Epstein files hit the floor, and that Trump’s aura of fear is finally cracking.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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SWALWELL’S BOMBSHELL EPSTEIN TWEET: "The Epstein Files Are Coming And The GOP Are Getting Ready To Abandon Trump"

218 or chaos: Inside the House moment that could shatter Trump’s grip

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Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks to Michael (who you might have spotted recently in #houseofguinness) for doing this.

Michael Hughes Reads From Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

YouTube video by Sagging Meniscus

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 23h

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

Kicking off our event, Senior Economist @mollybroome.bsky.social says that household wealth peaked on the eve of the crisis, and our new research examines the shape and distribution of that wealth.

Why 'before the fall'?...

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 1d

no words

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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drerinpritchard.bsky.social @drerinpritchard.bsky.social · 1d

Why does Amazon think it is acceptable to sell merchandise that includes hate slurs and constructs people with #dwarfism as a novelty? Would any other #disability or #racial slur be acceptable?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

Worth reading. And a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers: on.ft.com/3IYbvaK

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

www.ft.com

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 1d

PhD student Kirstie Stage spent five months at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History thanks to a @ukri.org Fellowship.

Researching histories of Deaf & disabled people between the UK & US, she conducted archival work, presented at conferences & learnt American Sign Language (ASL). ⬇️⬇️

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

#FoodFavouritesInASongOrMovie

MASH

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Olmo Calvo @olmocalvo.bsky.social · 4d

Manifestación por Palestina
Madrid, 04/10/2025

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favourite films.

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

Not very wheelchair accessible those mountains!

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

Anyways, please enjoy this video of the next prime minister of Japan singing X Japan's "Rusty Nail":

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 4d

Silly of me. I didn't see date. Deleted.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4d

Japan Is Set for Its First Female Prime Minister www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/w...

Japan Is Set for Its First Female Prime Minister

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Stuart Davidson @stutheeditor.bsky.social · Jun 30

Europe today. I'm a little to the right of the highest temperature 🔥🌡

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you - a focus on Winterreise?

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 5d

I only ever heard second-hand from my German relatives what the 1930s were like but it sounded like this. You see the story, it feels wrong, but everyone else around you is just carrying on, shopping, working, going to the cinema. So you do the same. Keep your head down, maybe this is fine? Normal?

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 5d

Trump's America: where you can get fired for...explaining how museums work.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 5d

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

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