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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

The lease to the mansion is legally tricky...but nothing is impossible.

Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

Lots of Brits (the majority, I'd guess?), self included, agree with you 100%.

But it really should be the royal family that takes the first step to strip him of all the luxuries of royalty, if only as a show of morals. Charles should step up and tell the govt that he supports such a bill.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

Lovely work.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

*never=unlikely

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

It would never be used in a travel guide or an article about the region. But it would be highly sought after as a visually pleasing image.

Many (inc self) would happily hang the photo on their wall, have it as a screensaver or in a book on the coffee table.

Totally get what you say. Just my 5¢!

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

It's an artistic representation. I really like the photo and think that it works very well. A lot of thought & work has gone into it. Another photographer or artist would come up with a totally different image. Were I to go to the location, I wouldn't expect to see exactly what is shown here. 2/3

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 13h

My view (pun totally intended😅):

A lot of nature photography (or fine art) is more about reproducing the impression that the scene left with the photographer, rather than a literal reproduction of the scene. There's a lot of post-processing here to create exaggerated colour, drama & perspective 1/3

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 14h

Funny 😂...but true 🥴🧐

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 15h

A real life horror story. I'm totally against capital punishment anyhow, but torturing someone to death is evil sadism.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 16h

SCOTUS just allowed Alabama's execution of Anthony Boyd:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Justice Sotomayor wrote this vivid dissent blasting AL for using the method of nitrogen gas.

@laurengill.bsky.social's reporting from an AL execution shows you why: boltsmag.org/alabama-nitr...

Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the
stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they
climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirtysecond mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute
passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long
time. Two . . . three . . . . The clock ticks on. Then, finally,
you make it to four minutes. Hit stop.
Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating.
You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are
strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping
your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the
gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe.
That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to
four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of
Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air.

Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 15h

I'm there!!!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

My god. Look at the “Major Events Timeline.“

We are living in hell.

www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

The White House Building

Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...

www.whitehouse.gov

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Chris Downs @chris-downs.bsky.social · 2d

"... one of the most alarming government documents I’ve ever read...
As someone who’s helped build the nation’s counterterrorism architecture, I’m telling you that it’s now being primed for (potentially) unimaginable abuse." - Miles Taylor, 1st October. ⬇️

Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 2d

Chilling in the extreme - under a new national security memorandum, ordinary American individuals can be designated as domestic terrorists - accused of being “anti-American” for normal acts of protest, or opposition to govt policies. WAKE UP, AMERICA. www.treason.io/p/must-read-...

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 18h

Cool head 😎☺️😎

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 18h

Ah, but he's *not* a short term tenant, is he? He's planning to be there for good.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 18h

🤢

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 21h

The survivors who support Jess Phillips remaining shouldn't have to be doing so.

Seems to me that Reform UK and their ilk are very accustomed to recognising people who might be *manipulated & groomed* and are more than willing to use those people for their own political gain.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 21h

Tracy Chapman, all the way!

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 21h

news.sky.com/politics-hub...

Watch the video on this page: 'In full: Tuesdays Politics Hub' timestamp @ 31:45

Gawain Towler, former director of comms, Reform UK confirming that one of the victims, 'Ellie', is "planning to stand for Reform".

Political influence? Draw your own conclusions.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 23h

Andrew is still a Duke. We need a law that strips titles quicker, MP Rachael Maskell is pushing this law through, and she’s asked us to help

Tell your MP to act now 👇
🔗 https://goodlaw.social/9155af

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 22h

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Waitrose should be thoroughly ashamed. An autistic man *volunteered* at the store for 4 years, giving more than 600 hours of his time free of charge. When his mum asked if he could be offered "just a few paid hours", he was told that his work placement had to end.

Waitrose-rejected autistic volunteer receives job offer from Asda

Tom Boyd's mum says she is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1d

Meanwhile on the instagram page of the manufacturer of that removal lift that was used in the Louvre heist:

"When things need to be done quickly" :)

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 1d

Hi everyone!

You are amazing, we are just 29 euros short of our target go buy a portable power station for the Ukrainian army.

Please, help me close it up!

4fund.com/rbjyg4

(but of course, you can keep donating too, so we can buy more stuff!)

Give power to Ukrainian soldiers – Donate on 4fund.com

In August this year I was rear-ended by a drunk driver as I was driving my car through Poland - but bear with me, this is not a fundraiser for me, this was just the event that started it all. As the i...

4fund.com

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ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social · 1d

Another from pinball expo: The remarkable, rare, fully-mechanical table Army and Navy by Rock-Ola.

This themed pin replicates the yardage of an American football game with a clever carriage system and snappy play action.

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

..and Diana Rigg's failed venture into US sitcoms was a revelation..

BCG really do go WELL beyond the usual 'what's on' guides (though that is, OFC, thoroughly covered). Always something interesting for anyone interested in any form of UK comedy. 😊

www.comedy.co.uk/features/com...

It seemed a good idea at the time #6: Diana - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide

A look back at the ill-fated sitcom Diana Rigg made for American network NBC in 1973.

www.comedy.co.uk

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Losd @losdemas.bsky.social · 1d

The British Comedy Guide - every form of current, upcoming & historic comedy in the UK across all media. Their Comedy Chronicles section features many interesting stories from the past.

I knew zero about Derek Nimmo's overseas touring theatre before reading this..

www.comedy.co.uk/features/com...

An Englishman abroad: The hidden life of Derek Nimmo - Comedy Chronicles - British Comedy Guide

Derek Nimmo was, for a long time, one of Britain's favourite character actors on television and radio - but then he just seemed to start to disappear. This is the story of what he was really up to dur...

www.comedy.co.uk

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