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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 9d

Selling the Kenickie/Frankie & The Heartstrings tees I have doubles of. All money goes to MAP! Vintage, BNWOT, unworn or I can sweat in them for you if you want, your choice! Link here (check my seller items) ebay.us/m/KZTj2w

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 11h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 12h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 4h

Thousands of Palestinians under the rubble, is the terror colony going to return them to life or at least find them?

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Israel was already 100% aware that Hamas would be unable to return the bodies of all the dead hostages because of the conditions created by the bombing campaign. They planned to use this to justify torching the ceasefire agreement before it even started.
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WORLD MIDDLE EAST 4 MIN READ
Israel assesses Hamas may not be able to return all remaining dead hostages, sources say
UPDATED OCT 9, 2025
Exclusive by Ami Kaufman and Tal Shalev
Haaretz.com
@haaretzcom 10h
Israel says it will keep Rafah crossing closed and restrict Gaza aid until Hamas
returns bodies of deceased hostages
haaretz.com/israel-news/20...

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 5h

lol it’s mad when you come across this hashtag resistance slop in the wild. I know Bsky is by and large one of those sites, but I just NEVER see it unless it’s to be mocked

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

Lads, I don’t think “We were fooled into doing genocide by mean fascists who outwitted us effortlessly” is a winner

JOE BIDEN HAD A PEACE DEAL IN PLACE, BUT THEN NETANYAHU AND TRUMP MET IN MAR-A-LAGO AND DECIDED THAT KEEPING THE WAR GOING WOULD BENEFIT THEM BOTH.
TEN MONTHS LATER, THEY'RE SIGNING THE EXACT DEAL BIDEN BROKERED.
DON'T BE FOOLED!

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manonanai5.bsky.social @manonanai5.bsky.social · 23h

@parismarx.com and the @techwontsave.us team do incredible work, and this is another example. Superb resource.

Given the monopolisation and weaponisation of media and socials to suit agendas and narratives, the more informed and agile we can be, the better.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

www.disconnect.blog

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Stone Cold 𓅃 @bisexualmorpheus.bsky.social · 15h

[sat upon a pile of corpses 750,000 deep] yes but how does this poll

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 19h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

www.politico.eu

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 15h

Smiley Culture cover pic taken in Penge, fact fans. The police station is now flats

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 18h

#BPHM8285 Match B21

1 ALEEM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5beG...
2 ILKARI MARU! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajNV...
3 REBBIE JACKSON! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Sd...
4 SMILEY CULTURE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCPQ...

Vote! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Aleem - Release Yourself - A cream "NIA" record label

Ilkari Maru - Black Sky - A cassette inlay with a picture of five Australian Aboriginal men and the track titles on a red background

Rebbie Jackson - Centipede - A woman in a black dress sitting on an enormous black couch

Smiley Culture - Police Officer - A young man coming out of a police station

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 16h

HOT MY DINNER WITH ANDRE ACTION

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16h

Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 16h

Jewish journalist
details torture in
Israeli detention
Noa Avishag Schnall was abducted at sea from
The Conscience, an aid boat seeking to reach
Gaza as part Of the Freedom Flotilla movement.

Any flotilla member who upset
the Israeli guards was subjected
to twisted and tightened
handcuffs, and some received
beatings. I was hung from the
metal shackles on my wrists and
ankles and beaten in the stomach,
back, face, ear and skull by a
group of men and women guards,
one of whom sat on my neck and
face, blocking my airways.
OA AVISHAG SCHNAL

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d

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Don Hughes @donaldhughes.ca · 21h

Now that I'm cola sober (28 months) it'd be cool to open a little place for other cola sober people without fountainheads around

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 21h

Toilet paper has more utility than a “ceasefire” agreement signed by a Zionist

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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 21h

Once again, the Zionist definition of “ceasefire” is “you cease, we fire”.

DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 21h

The evilest trick Israel always plays is to sign ceasefire agreements and immediately violate them.

Violating truces and human beings is in Israel's DNA.

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 22h

Already today, Israel has:

-Conducted a drone strike on Khan Younis in Gaza

-Shot & wounded two others near Khan Younis

-Killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

-Fired on & wounded a several others near Jabalia

All in violation of the “ceasefire.”

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 22h

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
Trump: I am bought and owned by Miriam Adelson, the world's richest Israeli.
Democrats: Trump is a Putin puppet.
Trump: I do whatever she says.
Democrats: A Russian secret agent.
Trump: I'm controlled by the Israelis.
Democrats: He's suspiciously close with many dictators, actually.
Trump: I gave Miriam a foot rub last night. I don't feel good about it.
Democrats: Ooh! You know what would make him mad and hurt him politically? If we play along with those conspiracy theories about him and Jeffrey Epstein!
Trump: I'm gonna bomb Iran again.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Corpse-us @corpus.bsky.social · 1d

I bet all the bureaucracy of making sure only a tiny portion of the population get the vaccine is less cost effective than just handing it out.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear: the decision to deny most people in the UK the covid vaccine is related to money, *not* based on a public health concern. In other words, Labour did not allocate enough money for covid vaccines so their "cost-effectiveness" end up the determining factor. www.gov.uk/government/p...

For the development of advice relating to COVID-19 vaccination from autumn 2025, JCVI has resumed the use of a standard cost-effectiveness assessment, in line with other routine vaccinations in the national immunisation programme and the JCVI code of practice. The advice is based on modelling of the impact and cost-effectiveness of vaccination where clinical outcomes are stratified by age, high-risk clinical disease groups and patients with immunosuppression. The use of cost-effectiveness is a key pillar in the consideration of immunisation programmes, ensuring that the substantial investments in the programmes are a good use of public money, and that those funds would not be better spent on other healthcare interventions. This has led to a more refined approach to the targeting of the COVID-19 immunisation programme, with a focus on individuals where there is good evidence of a high risk of hospitalisation and/or mortality.

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite miles

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's something to be said for bass to be more of a physically demanding instrument to play. Maybe it comes from the upright bass era, i dunno.

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d

That Grabber I bought is the only full scale I've woned for a while. Had a bunch and yeah was always like wrestling an alligator. That said they have a sound you can't do with a 3/4.

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d

fair play, you can get decent 3/4 basses now but she's still using a Precision

pgofton.bsky.social @pgofton.bsky.social · 1d

I do not know a note of Sabrina Carpenter's music but I always appreciate it when a fellow shortarse plays a full scale bass, a genuinely herculean effort

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

newrepublic.com/article/2011... Nice one, @davidklion.bsky.social

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

newrepublic.com

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G @grassi.bsky.social · 1d

Messing around yesterday..anyone wanna put a hook and drum beat over this...

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