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Micro Rainbow @microrainbow.org · 2h

For #BlackHistoryMonth our National Director Moud Goba talks about 3 Black, #LGBTQI and UK-based icons you should know.

Who should we add to the list?

@africanrainbowfam.bsky.social @ladyphyll.bsky.social @bandykiki.bsky.social

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Pete Smith @reddite.bsky.social · 1h

🎶Slaanesh is icumen in
Lewdly sing 'CUCU'🎶

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1h

“Singing the Warhammer”

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 16h

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 3h

That many of us who were child bookworms were merely going for the most convenient form of escapism, and have no moral superiority over todays kids who are doing the same thing.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 4h

Yet another case of the Home Office noticing an increase in asylum claims by people arriving via legal routes and responding by immediately slamming that route closed. It’s like they WANT people to travel irregularly.

Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 4h

Here's the parliamentary statement outlining the changes (haven't seen the detail yet) questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservatives’ plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers' rights - @pwielt.bsky.social on the importance of the ECHR and HRA for workers' rights, giving example of recent Mercer case re carer suspended for her role in industrial action, found to violate Art 11 www.tuc.org.uk/blogs/conser...

The Conservatives’ plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers' rights

The Conservative Party’s latest flirtation with withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is not just a reckless political stunt, it’s a direct threat to the rights and freedoms ...

www.tuc.org.uk

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CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 5h

Government statement to MPs on digital ID yesterday evening. "Tackling illegal immigration" carefully positioned as the third of three reasons to do it, and even then "not a silver bullet" hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2025...

Digital ID - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : 'Digital ID' on Monday 13 October 2025.

hansard.parliament.uk

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16h

Happy birthday to the US Navy.

And in particular to the captain of the USS Missouri.

Who, when Cher walked out on deck in this, not in the jump suit they'd been promised, went:

"Ah. Fuck it. YOLO."

And later almost got stripped of command for it.

youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc?...

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cher

youtu.be

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7h

What is often ignored in analysis of channel crossings is the correlation between harsher border policies and increased risks. Use of larger, more unstable, boats directly contributing to greater loss of life, for example correlates with the ban on selling smaller more stable boats in Calais. 1/

Emergency call logs to French aid workers lay bare the risks taken every day by those trying to reach Britain. As more and more migrants crowd on to each boat, we chart:

Chaos in the Channel

Emma Yeomans

Tuesday October 14 2025, The Times

This is one of more than 1,000 distress calls from migrants on small boats, to aid workers in France, which underline the risks being taken in the Channel:

By 2022, when our data begins, the average number of people per boat had grown to between 20 and 40.

As the boats became increasingly overloaded, the risks grew. In December that year a boat with 47 people on board collapsed in the middle of the Channel.

The National Crime Agency's senior investigating officer, Kate Philpott, said that the quality of the boats had reduced, putting migrants at increased risk. After Rahimpur's conviction, she described "individuals really crammed on to these boats with bigger risks, going on to the boats without actual lifejackets”.

She added: "The worst conditions I have seen are 80 people on a boat which was so low in the water that it looked like a raft.

The majority of people had no lifesaving equipment. A couple of people had rubber rings and some insides from tyres."

France bans sale of inflatable boats from Channel ports in bid to stop migrant crossings

8 Sep 2021, 06:46 |

A group of migrants are brought ashore from the Dungeness lifeboat in Dungeness, Kent, after being picked-up following a small boat incident in the Channel. Picture: PA

By EJ Ward

@EJWardNews

France has been forced to ban the sale of inflatable dinghies from Channel towns in a bid to try to end a surge in migrant crossings.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 8h

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 20h

Really important reminder of how Reform aren’t just Little Englanders, but part of an international far-right network which wants to take away fundamental rights we all take for granted - and wants to use “free speech” as a lever

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 8h

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 7h

The only number I still know is my parents, which was limited use when I blew the electrics in my house at midnight trying to deal with a spider when R was away.

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Garden Court Chambers @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Recent media commentary has focused on members of Garden Court Chambers and others who sit as part-time judges.

This is Garden Court's statement 👇

gardencourtchambers.co.uk/garden-court...

#RuleofLaw #Judicialindependence #SeparationOfPowers #Constitution

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Garden Court statement: media commentary on part-time judges | Garden Court Chambers

Garden Court Chambers is aware of press and social media commentary focused on members of Garden Court Chambers and others who sit as part- time judges.

gardencourtchambers.co.uk

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 1d

www.chapter.org/whats-on/the...

Chapter | The Curse of Frankenstein

Set up in 1971, we're an international centre for contemporary arts and culture | Sefydlwyd Chapter yn 1971, ac mae’n ganolfan rhwngwladol ar gyfer y…

www.chapter.org

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 1d

Readers of the Hobbit may be familiar with attercop as an old regional English term for spider. This has a slightly interesting trajectory. First, atter is an old word for venom, but that association had been lost so the term applied very generally to spiders...

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 2d

"Cobweb" comes from an old word for "spider," coming from Old English "coppe." So a cobweb is really just a spider's web.

#etymology

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Sad news on entries to this year's @womensprize.bsky.social

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 2d

Aleister Crowley's 150th today. From my introduction to THE DEAD OF SUMMER...

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 2d

We all got to have a bit of practice recently at understanding that you can believe murder is bad while not being particularly sad at the death of a heinous individual. So let's just apply what we practiced.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 2d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 2d

The Toxic Avenger fandom exceeds expectations, helps to erase crushing medical debt for over 10,000 families in need, raising $15 million.

TOXIC AVENGER Fans Raised $15 Million to Erase Medical Debt

nerdist.com

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 3d

The analog hell-screams of bytes pumped in and relentlessly converted into sound and light.

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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 2d

You know, I think we have a real problem with market research. I don't believe for a second that 42% didn't know this. I'm betting the question was fucking weird.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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