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MandaSCREEEAM @mandalee.bsky.social · 34m

Honestly, unless you have to trek OUT OF SIGHT of your child, who by then should be safely in the car (and probably strapped into a car seat to boot), this is a non-argument. Just take the freaking trolley back - it takes 15 seconds & your precious darling is not going to die of neglect in that time

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 4d

I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!

Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 4h

Every pound of so-called “government debt” is a private financial asset. When the government spends, it creates money that becomes your wealth. Yet politicians pretend debt is a burden, and that is just wrong. youtu.be/lixZeo_jn-k?...

Government debt is private wealth — so why do people want to get rid of it?

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

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Skelton Porter 💀🎃👻 @skelton-porter.bsky.social · 8h

One of my favorite Japanese terms is borrowed from English, but I love what they did with it. Their term for a comb-over is “bar code”

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2h

Growth isn’t a vibe.

It’s what happens when schools don’t leak and hospitals don’t cancel surgeries.

The Bear on the fantasy of growth through cuts.

The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state

Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 2h

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 2h

Looks like the scammers who were going this all on various Mastodon servers a month or two ago have found a new target: Bsky.

SpiffySmallSound @doublecollusion.bsky.social · 1d

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff

Block, move on.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 2h

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

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MandaSCREEEAM @mandalee.bsky.social · 16h

Is it, by chance, an MG4? Cause we've named ours Cato

a man is making a funny face in a living room with a gun on the wall .

Alt: A scene from a Pink Panther film, where Inspector Clouseau's assistant Cato is trying to kill him unexpectedly

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Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social · 1d

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today!
observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

I have started dating a man who is very nice but does not share my politics. Any advice?
"You just have to get the fuck out of there. What are you thinking? He must be incredibly attractive-looking. I mean, what is it? Is he tall? Does he remind you of your father? There's only two kinds of politics these days, and you can't breathe the same air as the other kind."

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

I am very lost and Gaza is full of chaos. I am really afraid for my family from all this. Everything is about money and at double prices. Destruction is everywhere. Money is the thing that I can protect myself with. I hope that you will help me and support me to go out and work a software engineer

Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 3d

We survived the genocide in Gaza, but our dreams and ambitions did not. Everything was destroyed, but we still dream. Support us here to rebuild everything we lost and protect ourselves from the effects of this genocide.

chuffed.org/project/1389...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?

Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections? Am I irrita...

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Pete Davidson @petedavidsonny.bsky.social · 22h

This did not make the front page of the NYT, which means the NYT is now state media. Unsubscribe and ignore.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com are you going to write about the president of the United States posting a clip of himself literally dumping shit on Americans, or is it nbd?

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Mr Peter Lyall @missedmycue.bsky.social · 2d

Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?

Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 2d

Given how much the China spy case has dominated headlines, it really does beg the question: why is our political-media class so uninterested in Nathan Gill, his Russian bribes, his once close associate Nigel Farage, and Reform UK?

Our new Byline Times edition investigates what the media won't 👇

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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MandaSCREEEAM @mandalee.bsky.social · 20h

omg, the resemblance is truly uncanny! 😀

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celinawords.bsky.social @celinawords.bsky.social · 22h

Superb post. Read this #RachelReeves. BTW, why aren't you, as Chancellor, on this platform, it's a rational space?

East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

Labour whispers “hard choices.”
The Tories shout “more cuts.”
Reform shouts “maths is optional.”

The Bear hears only one thing: snip-snip-snip.

The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state

Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1d

Is Rachel Reeves about to tell the country the truth about Brexit? Exclusive reasearch shows she would be wise to.

🎧👇

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 22h

❤️ unsub today! They put this on page 23.

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MandaSCREEEAM @mandalee.bsky.social · 20h

No.

a black and white photo of a woman with a cross on her face

Alt: cute goth woman winking

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 1d

I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

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MandaSCREEEAM @mandalee.bsky.social · 1d

The longest ride I ever did in a day was 100 miles. I was 23, in the best shape of my life, and was on a trip where we'd averaged 40-50 miles a day for the previous month. I have never been so sore as I was the next day 👀

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 10d

Another day, another water price hike.

Yes, these are new increases.

By 2030 you’ll be paying an average of 35% more for your privately-owned & polluted water.

Sign below if you think it’s time for water to be publicly owned.

actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 1d

“Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City [in 1776]” by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, ca. 1852-1853, seen at the New-York Historical Society last year.

Painting of a group of people preparing to pull down a statue of a king on a horse.

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