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Cornucopist

@cornucopist.bsky.social

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Writer and humanitarian. Optimistic realist. When you sleep you wake up eventually. Politics, philosophy, humanism, books, photography, history, football, post-punk. And cats of course.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · Oct 17

Morning! Final postcard of the River Tweed from my week away. If you haven’t been to the Scottish Borders, do go. So much to enjoy. Finished writing my book so now for the hard part.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 13h

Trust in Labour has broken for me. Looks like political expediency. All head and no heart. I want conviction and authenticity without the cynicism, brutality or ideology.

Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 14h

Morning! Reach for the sky

Black & white photo of female statue on one foot one arm reaching for the sky in ballet style above hedges

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

My wife hates going through the car wash. She ducks. Now she’s never going again. ‘Working at the car wash, yeah. Ain’t no telling who you might meet’ youtu.be/PkxaunLybuM?...

Rose Royce - Car Wash

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

The car wash as horror film!

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

Good film about a guy with Tourette’s Syndrome. Sad and heartbreaking. Made me laugh and cry. Based on a true story. But why don’t they use Scottish actors/actresses for Scottish roles? Well worth seeing.

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jane fae @janefae.bsky.social · 1d

Some thoughts on Zach Polanski turning out to be rather good at this politics lark.

1. By raising issues like wealth tax, and Brexit, he has not so much shifted the Overton Window, as re-opened the awkward loo window that over-looked the garden, but has been rusted shut for the last decade

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

Do they all have to read Pride & Prejudice?

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Just as a not so insignificant point, such a level would mean that the majority of people born in the UK would not be able to meet this criteria, considering the percentage (fewer than half) who actually complete A levels, let alone ones which effectively demonstrate an A Level standard of English.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

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NYSloth @nysloth.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 6

The petrified remains of a troll, Hvítserkur rises 15 meters from the sea. Geologists would tell you that it is a sea stack composed of basaltic rock, but what fun is that? #photography #Iceland

A dark rock formation resembling a drinking rhinoceros rises from the sea. Behind it, the clouds catch the light of a sun that is beginning to set at 20:30.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

So…..Starmer is moving to ban protests against genocide in order to root out the tiny contingent of antisemites who take part (reminder these marches also contain a large Jewish bloc/descendants of Holocaust survivors) but won’t ban future Unite the Kingdom rallies which are explicitly Islamophobic.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Alors, I don’t know to do the accent

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 1d

Quality article by @andrewduffeu.bsky.social on a royal commission on Brexit.

Essentially there are two chapters to this.

The first is addressing the effect of Brexit on the UK.

The major issue is the lack of an established truth that Brexit was a mistake in public and across WM.

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

Yours means ‘Isn’t that the same thing?’ Mine says ‘the more things stay the same’. C’est vrai ca, eh? 😉

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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Cornucopist @cornucopist.bsky.social · 1d

Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Are we living through another wave of fascism? I met a Holocaust survivor who fears we are.

More here.

open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

Fascism in Britain

My meeting with a Holocaust survivor

open.substack.com

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I was sent an advanced screener to watch this film and oh, it is SO good.

It premieres this week at the London Film Festival. Tickets all sold out there, but find another way! It's worth it.

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ORWELL 2+2=5 - Official Greenband Trailer - In Select Theaters October 3

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1d

“Some business tycoon in London benefits from the conflict in South Sudan – but again I was the one pushed away, told I don’t belong here, that I’m ruining your country, while your weapons and bombs destroyed my home and my livelihood.”

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Adam Powley @adampowley.bsky.social · 1d

London haters latest.
Less than Copenhagen. COPENHAGEN. They've got about 15 different words for hugging, for crissakes

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 1d

So MI5 have found Nathan Gill a serious threat to the UK,and the mainstream media find this a none story? No doubt MI5 have Nigel Farage on their radar considering the close links he has to Mr Gill.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Faintly amusing that the IFS' argument to Reeves on tax reform is basically: You're fucked either way, so you might as well do something decent for the country while you're taking all this pain www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...