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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 11h

I saw wee Dougie Alexander on the tube once. He had very creepy Cornish-pastyesque shoes on.

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 11h

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 18h

This is just *too good*

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t believe in prayers.
But I do believe in Dolly.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Phew

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

I just meant - did you mean the chancellor or the person you reposted!?

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Can you clarify?

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 1d

...and now we can add "snails" to "swifts, newts, bats, and allotments" on the list "Things that Starmer and his soulless billionaire-fellating shills hate"

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words get real written on his face

ALT: a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words get real written on his face

media.tenor.com

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Meredith McClaren at ROMICS Oct '25 @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey.
This is nice.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like he’s forgotten to pack and had to make his own jacket by skinning a bus seat

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 I think it would help if people stopped ‘feeling’ whether or not a person or party is/was extreme or far right.

There’s actually a fairly respected definition. Let me take you through it & then you can decide if someone meets the definition. This is aimed, in particular, at journos [1]

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

All fun and games until someone loses a tooth, but gains a sixpence

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

With padded walls

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 2d

Even worse if the pudding is spotted dick.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d

UNLAWFUL ARREST

This woman was arrested for holding a sign with “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” on it, a totally lawful statement to make, even under the Labour government’s absurd new laws proscribing the direct action group.

wedonotcomply.org

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

I thought the seagulls had taken over

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

#ChemTrails4independence

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

*cue arguing for religion-based, gender-based, eye-colour based etc legal opt rights

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe we don’t need to pay taxes for every day? Or obey all laws every day?

Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Careering into power

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

Not the most “I can definitely be trusted with power” kind of statement I’ve ever heard

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Willie Mackenzie @williemackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Check out the pavement-parking : flag ratio

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying,

"It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza"

"These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

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