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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 4h

Today's charity shop haul... the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films, "Shadow of the Vampire", "The British Invasion of Tibet" by Francis Younghusband, and "In Sicily" by Norman Lewis.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 9d

BlueSky banned my friend Mohammed Ahmed once again, this time after posting how he will lose his land because of Trump’s plan for Gaza.

He asked me to share this with you all.

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Hello my brothers / I have some words that I must say from the beginning when I was displaced from Rafah I had great hope to return to my land which is located near the Philadelphi axis where my house, sheep and trees are. I was planning to rebuild everything from scratch with donations and I will not hide from you a secret that I was saving part of the money I received from donations to rebuild that. I was planning to connect water and build wooden or tin houses and connect water and start planting olive trees and buy 10 sheep and start establishing a herd and life goes on. / But a few days ago I saw Trump's plan to end the war. I was surprised that the plan includes a buffer zone on the Philadelphi axis and this news was like a thunderbolt for me. My land that my grandfather inherited from me, I will never return to it / Politicians are planning without considering the psychological and material damage that will befall me and my family as a result of this plan / I want to ask you, is this fair? Of course not / I will say something in the end. I swear that now I do not have an alternative plan for all this tragedy that | have been exposed to / I will honestly tell everyone that from now on I am not collecting money to buy food and tents / Rather, l am collecting money for something bigger than that. Now I must provide a better future for my children after their tand was occupied / All I want from vou is for vou to understand what

without considering the psychological and material damage that will befall me and my family as a result of this plan / I want to ask you, is this fair? Of course not / I will say something in the end. I swear that now I do not have an alternative plan for all this tragedy that | have been exposed to / I will honestly tell everyone that from now on I am not collecting money to buy food and tents / Rather, I am collecting money for something bigger than that. Now I must provide a better future for my children after their land was occupied / All I want from you is for you to understand what lam saying with your hearts and minds / What will I say to my seventy-year-old mother? Will I tell her that you will not return to your trees?
Or will I tell her that you will end up displaced from a tent that is not fit to live in? Or will I tell her that we must leave Gaza and go to another country? / Believe me, I am writing words that come from my heart to your hearts / You are my community that has always stood by me for many long months / That is enough because I write and cry

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 5d

Picked this up in a charity shop today... I have a LOT of ghost/horror/weird reading to keep me busy :) The Mammoth Book of Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories, edited by Richard Dalby

Book cover, in the style of a Victorian photo album. The title "The Mammoth Book of Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories, edited by Richard Dalby"

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 5d

Now watching... Halloween III: Season of the Witch. I think I may actually have seen this one before. Working my way through the original 5 this October.

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Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 7d

BBC News - Historic venue at risk without 'urgent support'
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Historic St Agnes venue risks closure without 'urgent support'

St Agnes Miners and Mechanics' Institute trustees want the community to safeguard its future

www.bbc.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 10d

David Pinner, author of "Ritual", the novel which inspired The Wicker Man, born this day 1940 #OTD #OnThisDay #FolkHorror Ritual is well worth reading, but don't expect The Wicker Man!

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 14d

The Former Free Church in Skerray has gone on the market. It's a little "tin tabernacle" church, constructed by the local Free Church congregation in 1903 after they left their building in Strathy when it became a United Free Church.

More on the sale here 👇
www.northern-times.co.uk/news/derelic...

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 15d

Now watching... Halloween (1978). I don't think I've ever watched it before. Recently bought all 5 original movies on DVD, so thought I should get through them this month.

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 16d

This just came up on Kenny Everett, Gordon Giltrap and Heartsong. I had forgotten just how great it is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaOf...

Gordon Giltrap - Heartsong - The Kenny Everett Video Show S01E03 - 17/07/1978

www.youtube.com

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 16d

Ramsay Muir, born this day 1872. British historian, Liberal Party politician and thinker who made a significant contribution to the development of liberal political philosophy in the 1920s and 1930s. #OTD #OnThisDay Some books of his from my collection.

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 16d

Just finished reading "Stories of the Strange and Sinister" by Frank Baker. More strange than sinister, but very good. Several have a Cornish setting, Baker of course having lived there for various periods of his life. Recommended.

Book cover. Blue words on a dark green background. "Stories of the Strange and Sinister" by Frank Baker.

Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 17d

I'm glad my Dad's too senile to realise what the Labour Party has become. It would break his heart.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17d

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 17d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 18d

Now watching... The Legend of Hell House.
It's really a Christmas movie, but just what I felt like tonight. Roddy McDowall is superb in it.

Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 18d

Now watching... Orson Welles Great Mysteries "Come Into My Parlour"

Anne Jackson and Dana Winter, sitting on a posh sofa

Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 18d

Now watching... Orson Welles Great Mysteries "Ice Storm".

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 19d

This government is obscene. There are no words for it.

Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 19d

I am genuinely baffled and distressed as to why the UK government is intent on destroying UK's genuinely world-leading universities, who bring £265 billion into the economy and support more than 250,000 jobs.

This tax will kill us.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Student visas crackdown and new levies to cause ‘£1.8bn loss’ to UK economy

The Government has proposed a 6 per cent tax on international student tuition fees and a reduction in graduate visas

www.standard.co.uk

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 19d

Lord Goddard, ID cards, and terrorism. Good article by Neil Hickman. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

Thank you, Lord Goddard

We would do well to recall a memorably sensible judgment from Lord Goddard, lord chief justice from 1946 to 1958.

www.lawgazette.co.uk

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 20d

“What’s the UK issue with ID cards?” …the answer is as follows: Many Britons are terrible people, and we know it… by @alecmuffett.bsky.social Well worth reading.
alecmuffett.com/article/115209

“What’s the UK issue with ID cards?” | …the answer is as follows: Many Britons are terrible people, and we know it…

I keep being asked or seeing people asking “what is the UK problem with having ID cards? We in Europe have ID cards and it’s fine!” — so I thought I would answer this question fro…

alecmuffett.com

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 21d

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 21d

Love those Shire booklets.

Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 25d

Try www.debs.ac.uk/monumenttype...

Guidance: Identifying Monument Types - Discovering England's Burial Spaces

www.debs.ac.uk

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Duncan Hill @duncanducky.bsky.social · 26d

John Burke, novelist, short story writer, died this day 2011 #OTD #OnThisDay. Amongst his many works were novelisations of some classic Hammer and Amicus horror films.

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