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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 2m

Never heard that, last I heard he was working for EU in South America

Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 44m

Well I'm a Labour voter and I cant support CC. Worth noting 41% of their members voted against supporting her in that vote so AK far from alone (and I suspect a majority of the PLP, who've actually met her)

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 46m

a woman says " maybe i like the misery " in a close up of her face

ALT: a woman says " maybe i like the misery " in a close up of her face

media.tenor.com

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

516.

Screenshot of aeschlus-stan account

“I hate it when I’m trying to look up a good golem recipe and the rabbi prefaces it with ten paragraphs about his life in 17th century Prague. Like, I feel for you, Maharai, but there are anti-semites going unsuplexed while I’m searching for the ingredient list.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 4h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 4h

Trump calls on the Israeli President to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu:

"Cigars and champagne - who the hell cares about it?"

Netanyahu is currently on trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, including allegedly accepting 700,000 shekels (approx. $210,000) worth of luxury goods in bribes.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 6h

"Ringing the bell for the butler can feel like the only option when your nutritional needs are not being met"

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 6h

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️

School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …

www.thetimes.com

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 6h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 6h

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 7h

"The four MPs* have little or no political experience or history of engagement in socialist politics. Their shoulders simply cannot bear the weight history was placing on them."

*"4 Muslim men elected on a pro-Gaza ticket last year"

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 23h

Loath though I am to link to the Morning Star, the bitter tang of this article is quite something, especially coming from Andrew SHITTING Murray, who is washing his hands of the whole legacy of Corbynism like the psychopath he is.

Your Party, their crisis, our hopes dashed?

CRY if I want to, Cry if I want to.The apparent implosion of Your Party is a mortifying moment for the left in Britain.Not everyone will be weeping at the debacle of the aborted launch of the new part...

morningstaronline.co.uk

Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when rightwing columnists in mewspapers mocked universities for having courses like media studies, and now those skills shortages are part of the reason that industry is dying?

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 7h

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 7h

My favourite example of this is when someone says "why aren't the mainstream media covering this", and they link to a report from mainstream media.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 7h

I see the Irish Times has a new 'Tip-offs' section.

Screenshot from the Irish Times website. Photo of a concerned-looking man on a beach. Headline reads 'A shortage of gardaí on Ireland's west coast makes it 'wide open' for crime'.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 23h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 20h

If trump ‘goes’ Vance doesn’t have same sway over the media

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 20h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 20h

Desecrating a cemetery.

A new nadir.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 20h

Also rot set in with mobile Internet. Before, was only saddos like me spent more than an hour a day online, but now normies have it on tap 24/7, every toilet break, during work, when TV isnt holding their attention.
We didnt evolve to deal with this and its killing us.

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 21h

Internationalism is so important because it touches on the means of economic prosperity (free trade), the international treaties that uphold global peace (what's left of it), and the cultural ties that creat bonds across nations and communities.

It's the glue that holds the world together.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 2d

I think Brown is very shrewd to identify internationalism as the key battleground.

Far too many on the centre-left and left are still indulging their economic nationalist fantasies – despite Biden and Starmer as clear examples of the shortcomings of such an approach.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 2d

A moving and intelligent call to action here from Gordon Brown. And yet another reminder of why he is my political hero.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

What To Know About NSPM-7 https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/

Q: Is this like that book Minority Report was based on?

A: We’d avoid referencing books from now on.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 23h

After ceasefire, Abbas’s PA may regain foothold in Gaza administration

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 1d

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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