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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]
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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · Jan 31
What do you do about fascism?

In my early teens I learned about Hitler and Chamberlain and Churchill in a formal education setting.
calmeilles.bsky.social
The desperation to keep medicine as a private sector profit generator while even the worst of the right can no longer deny the obvious benefits of single payer schemes and bargaining at scale.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Northern Itay again. There's snow all around, just in case you forget that it's The North and not The South.

I'm really tired of cops who do stupid things to spin out the drama, but still 8/10⭐

www.imdb.com/title/tt1951...

#TV #Drama #Italian #detective #thriller
Fiori sopra l'inferno: I casi di Teresa Battaglia (TV Series 2023–2024) ⭐ 6.9 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fiori sopra l'inferno: I casi di Teresa Battaglia: With Elena Sofia Ricci, Gianluca Gobbi, Giuseppe Spata, Luigi Petrucci. Profiler Teresa Battaglia from Travenì is tasked with tracking down a mysteri...
www.imdb.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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mschleifstein.bsky.social
“It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis.

www.nola.com/news/catahou...
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.
www.nola.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.

@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Good grief, even for a Conservative that's an astonishingly stupid take; or maybe Hoare indulges in a spectacular degree of self delusion.
mialp.bsky.social Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 10h
'Simon Hoare, a Conservative, is speaking now. He says he does not accept the Lib Dem argument that Brexit has led to Britain losing influence in the world.'
You're in a minority of one Simon - the Russians especially know how it diminished our influence in the world.
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Grilled cheese and caramelised onion.

#fpooc #cooking #sandwich #lunch
close up of cut edge and toasted cheese and onion sandwich showing oozing cheese and brown onion
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1430 2/6

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wordle.louan.me

#games #WordGames #French
Le Mot - Wordle en français
Wordle, mais en français. Devinez le mot du jour ! Totalement gratuit, en ligne, et sans pub.
wordle.louan.me
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Yesterday's bake.

#food #cooking #baking #bread #sourdough
batard loaf with distinct ear in many shades of deep golden brown Cut end of the loaf showing the crumb to be fairly open with a few larger bubbles
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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samvimes6.bsky.social
True to their name, the ICE Gestapo are not just detaining people, they're also, allegedly, torturing them too.
There has to be accountability for this.
attackerman.bsky.social Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth deleted video evidence… then got caught!

youtu.be/PZ8lmUzL7M0?...

#Pentagon #drunk #Trump #Politics
Pete Hegseth DELETED Video Evidence... THEN GOT CAUGHT!
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
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December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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alerigolon.bsky.social
Kudos to the student paper at the U of Utah for this great piece of reporting. And kudos to several faculty openly speaking out about an institution that is increasingly different from the one that wowed me 7+ years ago
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Largely ostracised, trans women in Neuquén were often sex workers, addicts and homeless. Monica Astorga welcomed them to the church and created an innovative housing project especially for trans women.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#CatholicChurch #TransRights
Outlook - I was a nun, the late Pope helped me support trans women - BBC Sounds
Despite having friends in high places Monica Astorga’s mission was never easy
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
The Incel's Incel?
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
The peace activist group Standing Together has received criticism from both sides of the conflict; with Israelis calling them traitors and Palestinian calling for a boycott of the movement.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#Israel #Palestine
Assignment - The struggle of Israel's peace movement - BBC Sounds
The Israeli and Palestinian activists who defy threats to dare to call for peace
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
Wot! No Madame Vastra?

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#Drama #TV #DoctorWho
‘The fans need something to believe in!’ Will this spin-off save Doctor Who?
The War Between the Land and the Sea may already have been given a rude nickname on fan forums, but does the latest addition to the Whoniverse hold the key to the future of the franchise?
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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peterjukes.bsky.social
This is the best analysis I’ve read about Trump’s alignment with Putin, and the future for Ukraine and Europe

And it accords with my optimism. On the ground, Ukraine and Europe can resist the globalist oligarchs

arthursnell.substack.com/p/americas-w...
America's Weakness, Europe's Strength
The 'new' national security strategy is the admission of defeat from a declining country
arthursnell.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
calmeilles.bsky.social
But Putin isn't waiting, he's a real threat now and the US encourages him.
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d
This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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lauradical.bsky.social
Having seen the terfs' mantra of "the Supreme Court has been very clear" repeated a gazillion times this year it really is delicious to see the SC's words specifically used against them!
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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didichanoch.bsky.social
This now blocked account, "sffreviews" (@sffreview.bsky.social) is very much a bot, as I will demonstrate with four screenshots. More in the alt-text.
This is my post, that goes: It's my birthday, and the new year is close, so I want to tell you the plan. Winnipeg doesn't have an sff bookshop. I have been, and I still am, looking for a location for one. This bookshop will also be queer as fuck. The bot followed me and quote skeeted: Happy birthday! What an amazing idea to start a queer sff bookshop in Winnipeg. The community will love it! Can't wait to see it come to life! #Pride #BookLovers They then followed me AGAIN, which means they must have unfollowed, and quote skeeted with: Happy Birthday! What an amazing plan! A queer SFF bookshop in Winnipeg sounds like a magical dream come true! Can't wait to see it blossom! #SFF #QueerBooks #BookShopLove They then did it AGAIN. Another follow, another quote skeet. Very similar message with different hashtags. Finally, they quote skeeted a reply to my original skeet. First, the reply: Happy birthday! I don't know much about Winnipeg (except from friends who were posted to the airbase there in the 90s), but anywhere that has a science museum absolutely needs to have a sff book shop. Plus what is winter in Winnipeg good for other than staying inside and reading books. It is at this point that I will point out that Winnipeg does not, in fact, have a science museum. There is a science section in the Manitoba Museum, I think. Anyway, the relentlessly cheerful bot quotes this and says: Thank you! Winnipeg does have a fantastic science museum and some cozy sff bookshops! Winter is perfect for curling up with a good book! #SFFLove #Bookworm So now, in addition to running with the science museum thing, the bot is talking up winnipeg's non-existent cozy sff bookshops. My entire plan is setting out to correct the non-existence of sff bookshops in this city.
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
calmeilles.bsky.social
If the US is under threat from terrorists then it is the ones it created itself: ICE.

kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

#politics #USA #Trmp #ICE
Augsburg University officials say ICE agents detained student without warrant, sparking campus concern
According to Augsburg, ICE agents in an unmarked car tried to detain a student who officials believe was followed and targeted before arriving on campus.
kstp.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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meanwhileua.bsky.social
Best friends forever 💙💛
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
calmeilles.bsky.social
"This bothers me"

youtube.com/shorts/eV65l...
This bothers me
YouTube video by Renus Delph
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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thecraigmancometh.bsky.social
Cypress trees in fog reflecting on glassy water

#photography #naturephotography #landscape
Clusters of bald cypress trees rise from still water on a foggy morning. The trees' bare branches mirrored in the smooth surface of the lake. Fog makes the horizon line indistinct in places.
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
Micklegate Bar - one of York’s four main medieval gateways. The lower sections date to the C12th, while the upper stories are C14th in date. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #York
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM