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Nails the Tabaxi 🍉 @nailsthetabaxi.bsky.social · 1h

If I were writing an 80s style action movie and wanted the audience to understand without a doubt that Generic Evil Country is in fact the bad guys, and I had them do a tenth of the shit Israel does every day, the producer would tell me it was too on-the-nose to be believable.

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 1h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors."

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 1h

To be honest I doubt the spirits of dead people are still among us. That said, when bad events happen they can leave *something*, even if that's just a feeling. I suppose that's what ghosts are

Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 3h

This is an obvious promotional piece, but it's good to know Cardiff is the most haunted place in Wales. As someone who used to live across the road from where this city's most notorious murder took place, that doesn't surprise me a bit

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 3h

Wales has no shortage of ghost stories, from the White Lady of Oystermouth Castle to the Black Nun of Llangranog. A recent study delved into these haunted legends to rank Wales' spookiest places

Spookiest places in Wales revealed

Wales has no shortage of ghost stories, from the White Lady of Oystermouth Castle to the Black Nun of Llangranog. A recent study delved into these haunted legends to rank Wales’ spookiest places. Holi...

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 6h

Phillipson is scared being transphobic will harm her deputy leadership bid and hasn’t actioned this…

…and the EHRC have been publicly called out by the Council of Europe because the position puts human rights at risk…

…so someone is getting desperate.

Equality and Human Rights Commission @equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 7h

We've written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to request the government to revoke the 2011 services code and make our updated version statutory. It accurately reflects the law and updated guidance is urgently needed: www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Madeleine Moore @matheleine.bsky.social · 6h

Starting to get panicky the Government has seen through your overreach? The European Commissioner certainly did. You met him directly in the summer, he told you what you proposed was a breach, and you continued anyway.

In other news, I've been wondering, what does that 'HR' stand for in your name?

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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 6h

Do you ever worry that while you are sleeping at night a huge red insect will creep into your house and drink your blood?
#LegendaryWednesday #yokai

curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · May 14

In #JapaneseFolklore there is an insect #yokai known as tsutsugamushi. They are large and red with huge jaws and long antennae. They live deep in the mountains but come out at night and creep into houses to drink the blood of sleeping humans which can cause all kinds of...
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Two red insects with sharp rangs scurry out of a tunnel in the earth.

Two large insects can be seen near a stream.

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 20h

If you see this post a robot 🤖

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look.

lichen-spattered railway underpasses portal

Bodmin Moor portal, which offers the irresistible promise of "danger" and an excellent view

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 21h

*49 years

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

Israel limiting aid into Gaza because of a few dead bodies tells you a lot about the direction of travel vis a vis this deal

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 1d

You wouldn’t be able to see Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones because she died 39 years before it was made. What would be able to do would be to burn down a forest in order to see a lifeless puppet that vaguely looks like her riding around on slightly less lifeless dragon

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

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Irish unity Instagram post:

NOT DONE YET
Ceasefire - tick
END Occupation - unticked
END Apartheid - unticked
REBUILD Gaza - unticked
The Hague - unticked

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 1d

They joined the EU in 1973 as part of Denmark, despite voting overwhelmingly not to join. They got home rule in 1979 and left the EU, after a referendum, in 1985

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

"Capitalist designer vagina"

The dodgy-looking orifice that grows on James Woods' stomach in the movie Videodrome. He is about to put a gun in it.

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 1d

It’s for English language. 36,650 were entered for English literature. The numbers are just for England

I found the numbers for this year as well, and the entry numbers are down for both

Provisional entries for GCSE, AS and A level: summer 2025 exam series

www.gov.uk

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

5 years?

thinking about how those ppl who incited race riots not only got released early but were subsequently paraded around our press as victims of censorious ‘woke’ policies cooked up by commie marxists.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Afghan man jailed for five years for TikTok threat to kill Nigel Farage

Fayaz Khan, 26, was also sentenced at Southwark crown court for entering the UK illegally on a small boat A man who came to the UK on a small boat has been sentenced to five years in prison for making a threat to kill Nigel Farage in a TikTok video last year. Fayaz Khan, 26, an Afghan national, made the threat to kill the Reform UK leader on 14 October 2024 in a video on the social media platform that Farage said was “pretty chilling”. Continue reading...

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Andrew Guilford 🐺 (🌕) @andrewguilford.bsky.social · 1d

According to the government’s own figures only 13,010 people were entered for A-level English last summer, and the number of people taking it is dropping

Also any job that actually requires an A-level standard of English is already going to be asking for it

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1d

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China Historical Photos @chinahistorypics.bsky.social · 1d

Today marks the Double Ninth Festival a day for climbing mountains and honoring elders. In this 1980s photo, three ladies wear chrysanthemum garlands to celebrate Chongyang, once a rural autumn rite, later reborn as a symbol of unity and endurance in modern China.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 2d

Greens are going to overtake the Tory membership within a couple of weeks

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Sudden Deth ☠️ @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting point on the language being used today. Israeli: hostage. Palestinian: prisoner.
2 thousand people, including women and children.

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2d

The same group has worked with UK anti-trans organisations too.

Such as people in Sex Matters, who have been driving the anti-trans shift in government policy.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

Playing cricket at King George’s playing fields, West Bromwich, 1967

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cricket match, with a man made pile of rocks and stuff in the background

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