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Tom Shakespeare
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Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link

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Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, is an English sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · Jun 10
Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.
Cover of 'The Ends' featuring the hero, Fred, being pursued by a voracious polar bear.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d
Really enjoyed Anne Ancher paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery - early C20th Danish - started realist, but ended v. Post-Impressionist
Painting of queue for early C20th smallpox vaccination in Skåne, Denmark.

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Tom Robinson @tomrobinson.com · 1d
Happy weekend everybody! If you would like to make it that little bit more joyful, do yourselves a favour and watch this video at least once: youtu.be/-tfH1nty62U
Ugly Nasty Commie Bitch (Official Video)
YouTube video by Carsie Blanton
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Prof Katherine Sleeman @katherinesleeman.bsky.social · 1d
The Health and Social Care Committee’s evaluation of palliative care in England was published yesterday.

It’s hugely important, not least in the context of the assisted dying bill.

It’s had almost no media coverage.

committees.parliament.uk/publications...

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen.
Velvet Underground
John Lee Hooker
Iris DeMent
Jordi Savall
Alfred Brendel.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d
Although he may not have returned home to boxes, sinks and 2" x 4" lengths of wood everywhere.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d
Tate workers are on strike. Not about to cross a picket line, even for Mr Turner.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d
Having been away for 3 of the last 4 weeks, while most of a new kitchen is fitted, I feel like Tim Curry at the end of Rocky Horror Picture Show (only without fiahnet stockings).

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TJMasters @tjmasters.bsky.social · 2d
Books & Reading #92
The great British novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote this in his 1940 work Books and You, a collection of essays which he subtitled "A Dissertation Upon Reading" #bookworm #booklover #booknerd #readingislife

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...

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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 3d
“Fame is a form of incomprehension, perhaps the worst.”

— A passage from Borges came to mind:

(“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” tr. James E. Irby)

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d
I am not 60. I am 59 1/2.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 5d
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:

1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.

2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.

3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5d
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
Photograph of a printed guidance memo stating that the U.S. Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year. Key points include: USG funds should not be used for related events, personnel should refrain from public promotion via social media or other channels, and CDC and other USG staff may attend local events but cannot speak or promote attendance. The memo notes this guidance supersedes previous blanket approval and may require adjustments to planned activities.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 5d
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 5d
There is a startling level of cultural illiteracy involved in complaining that a school's Christmas play has a plot about refugees from the Middle East. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inverness school's Christmas show cancelled after 'racist' abuse
Highland Council says some of the online messages were directed at staff at the primary.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 5d
Today, I had lunch with the friend I used to play Risk with, when Ivy was a baby (36 yrs ago). Next year, my friend is 80 & I am 60 (we might find a pub in which to play again).

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de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 5d
this is mesmerizing

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
a drawing of a boat heating torwads an iceberg - lower temps still collide with ice but not as badly.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 7d
Stop expecting any alternative to turn up any day soon.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 7d
This auction is live NOW! Bid bid bid! app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 7d
And remembering that USA has withdrawn from COP.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 7d
So depressing that COP30 fails to limit fossil fuels. We have had every chance & failed every time.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 8d
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 8d
Migrants didn't cut council funding.
Migrants didn't raise energy bills.
Migrants didn't close community centres.

Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.
Stop blaming refugees... for problems caused by billionaires. Scottish Greens.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8d
"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 8d
“Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner…”

Bob Marley

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 8d
The EU won 'Fossil of the Day' award at COP30 for a "committed and impressively diverse portfolio of obstruction and avoidance". Context for people wondering why some developing countries have concerns about fossil fuel phaseout. It is because of lack of support

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