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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater)

@catvincent.bsky.social

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Word spiv, cunning-man, queer cyborg crip. REALLY Not for the Jesus-Man. No fash, no terfs, No Pasaran.

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · Jul 11

Since I have no intention of giving an American Red State my ID data to use fucking DM's here because of a puritanical and short-sighted British law change, if any of you want to keep in touch, I am on Signal as Cat Vincent (catvincent444.23).

NB I have a higher standard of conduct there.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2h

apparently a lot of people need to hear this: harmful practices that violate fundamental rights are not a matter of ethics or morality. please don’t frame it as “unethical”. the “ethics” lens undermines the fact that is it unacceptable under any condition. not a matter of debate

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2h

Politico is owned by a literal Nazi who asked his employees to pray for Trump to win the election. If they publish a story exposing racists in the Trump administration, it's because they want people to think they're all about reporting the truth (they're not). The Epoch Times strategy.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 3h

She was an actual human being. A person. This kind of thing rejects the idea of human interiority mattering, of artistry and craft mattering, of people being anything more than just their image.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 4h

Writing is how poor people, as long as they have something to say that continues to be meaningful, can live forever. Rich people too, obviously, but they rarely have that much of interest to say.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 5h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 3h

RIP legendary illustrator Drew Struzan.

US one sheet: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 4h

I love this Udo Kier quote too and mentioned it often on Twitter and someone sent me the actual audio

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

From the company that brought you “identifying photos of Black people as gorillas” and “paying contractors to record dark skinned unhoused people in order to train facial recognition.”

Google Meet launches an AI-powered makeup feature | TechCrunch

Google Meet finally has a makeup filter for those days when you don't feel like applying lipstick.

techcrunch.com

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 5h

funny how Musk and Stephen Yaxley-Bigot-BackInCourtAgain never mention stats like this

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 5h

Both knife crime and homicides are falling in London. This is thanks to our record funding in the Met, targeted police action and vital prevention work through London’s VRU. But there is still much more to do, which is why we won’t let-up in our work to build a safer London for everyone.

A graphic reporting homicides fall by more than a third since 2019.

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 5h

And the award for Most Metal Name In History goes to...

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 20h

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 4h

The greatest Udo quote, from an AV Club interview...

Udo Kier, with his best interview quote (about one of his worse films): "I cannot answer, because it's toitally unknown to me what you just asked me, and also very boring."

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 5h

It's Udo Kier's birthday! And I'm feeling a little low today so I am posting a photo of me with Udo in 2013 to feel better. Also noting that I, empirically speaking, look better now than in 2013 in order to feel better, too.

Actor Udo Kier looks into the camera with his trademark devilish expression while a younger man does his best to look cool while standing beside one of the world's coolest men

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 7h

It's so hard to credit that Reform councillors keep having "incidents" and failures revealed ...

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

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Flintlock but scary or something dunno not feeling it this year @flintlock.bsky.social · 23h

Calling 14 year olds "young adults" has strong "libertarian who's memorised the age of consent laws in every country" vibes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 7h

We need to start to insist people use the full term for Antifa.

It's anti-fascist. Anti. Fascist.

Shortening it down tries to defuse the latter and we cannot allow it to happen. Make them say they think anti-fascists are evil people. Make them say anti-fascism is wrong.

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 5h

Wishing you a very, very Long Covid.

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Wisp Summer #JoinAUnion @waspsummer.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Birthday, Heroes

www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 6h

Bowie released his twelfth studio album “Heroes” on this day today in 1977. It was recorded at Berlin’s Hansa studios, which is still in operation today.

www.slowtravelberlin.com/hansa-studios/

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 5h

New Simpsons season is going some places!

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

I’m so sick of this government finding ways to say “piss off” and then claiming they want “the best” to come here.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 8h

I am for ghosts at the glass. Ghosts of the twitching net curtain. I am for those wounds in time that discharge phantoms, leak glimpses of yesterday. If each pane is a haunted possibility, we may walk the city observed by a thousand spectral eyes. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

A black and white photograph of an old window in an Ashcourt street. The bottom half of it is curtained with net, the top half reflects the Georgian terraced house across the street. The image reeks of phantoms and time as a sickness.

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Kirsty Hall @kirstyhall.bsky.social · 10h

I know it was a legal thing but everyone is probably going to just keep calling it W.H. Smith anyway or ‘oh you do know it, it was W.H. Smith but it’s got some other stupid name now’.

Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 11h

Enshittification.
Default typeface; logo created in Word in 3.6 seconds; a name that rolls off the tongue about as smoothly as if you were trying to say it with a snow globe in your mouth. Teejyjo, Teajeedjo, Teagueyjones.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 11h

After 110 years on Cornmarket, stationery shop W.H. Smith has been rebranded T.G. Jones – a name invented by investment company Modella Capital, which acquired the high street shops in June. The Abingdon branch was renamed in August. www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/cornmarket/e...

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 10h

Sketchy drawing of Doctor Phillip K. Decker from the movie Nightbreed. He's in his serial killer outfit, which some fans have taken to call Button Face because of the creepy face mask featuring two buttons over the eyes. The drawing was done on an index card..

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 8h

Chuck us your Signal details before you're away.

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Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 9h

Re-upping this skeet for those who may want to follow, as I'll be bailing from this place soon 🙏 Join me!

Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social · 4d

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Cat Vincent, (he/him, Useless Eater) @catvincent.bsky.social · 8h

...early John Constantine cosplay?