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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28m

The global network of the radical right is a threat to our democracy. 🚨

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Musk and Tommy Robinson: "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online could be funding someone who stokes far right extremism on our streets."

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27m

*narrows eyes* I’d let her fart in my Saab

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Tessa @tessicat.bsky.social · 23m

This scene from The Godfather 2 is quite possibly one of the greatest film scenes of all time.

Al even terrifies me, but Diane wins it. ❤️‍🩹

youtu.be/gxEvQwUJElc

"Our Marriage is an Abortion" - Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part II

YouTube video by Veronique Laurent

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 22m

Right. Choir/classical music nerds, this is for you. Everyone else, you’re dismissed.

A very deep cut: Do any of you know of a recording of Haydn’s Creation that uses as the text the Michael Pilkington Novello edition (i.e New Novello, not old Novello). For the life of me I cannot find one.

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Eytan Stern Weber @eytansternweber.bsky.social · 2h

All the hostages have been released. It's incredible, and we need to celebrate.

Now, let's take a moment to thank the President who brought the most of them home.

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 1h

Stephen Colbert, once again showing why the regime had to have his show killed.

This all ends once enough of us stand up.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20h

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

Neil Young says he plans to pull his music off Amazon’s streaming service as he urges fans to stop supporting the corporate giant.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14m

The Conservative Party’s plan for our economy? More austerity.

Keir Starmer: "We're certainly not going to be following the Leader of the Opposition."

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Alasdair Swanson @alasdairswanson.bsky.social · 22m

This just got forced through the door and turned out to be *way* bigger than expected.

The book Prime Minister, You Wanted To See Me?: A History of Week Ending by Ian Greaves and Justin Lewis. It's A4 and 670 pages so quite a chunk.

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TheSocioPhi @thesociophi.bsky.social · 14m

None of this would be happening if pogs were still a thing.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 1h

Not settling to any horror films today. Started Incident In A Ghostland, def not (EVER) in the mood for slasher home invasion. Started The Monkey, too OTT guts. I just want good old reliable demonic possession, or perhaps a spooky architecturally impossible mansion. Oh well, back to Hill House again

a man wearing a shirt that says schitts creek on the bottom

Alt: David Rose is disappointed

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 13m

I could feel more brain cells dying with every sentence I read of this pointless news story. Bosh.*

*a British slang word often used as an enthusiastic exclamation

'Big John' Fisher: British social media star detained in Australia over visa

Fisher says his visa is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 3h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13m

Shit show it is bsky.app/profile/donm...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24m

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Shitshow

As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Ian Hall @ian64.bsky.social · 1h

If a poster ever made you want to go and see a movie on the virtue of its artistic qualities alone, it was very possibly this guy.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Drew Struzan, poster designer for Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, dies aged 78

Artist behind posters for Harry Potter, The Thing and Back to the Future had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease

www.theguardian.com

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 4h

Learning this completely changed how I read these strips.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Dec 15

The top row of the Peanuts Sunday strip was called the 'throw-away panel'. If there wasn't enough space in the comic section that syndicated it, the top row could be removed and the rest of the comic would still make sense without it. Schulz often used the throw-away panel for private/obscure jokes.

Peanuts On This Day @peanuts60yrsago.bsky.social · Dec 15

December 15, 1963

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Ian Hall @ian64.bsky.social · 4h

This should affect the kind of people who stroll around at private parties dressed in Roman costumes while knocking back a swimming pool's worth of Moet Et Chandon. But I get the feeling it won't.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4h

🚨🚨Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledges she is looking at potential tax rises and spending cuts to fill a black hole in her Budget which she said was partly due to the lingering impact of #Brexit. 🧵
www.independent.co.uk/money/rachel...

Reeves eyes tax hikes as economy suffers ‘severe and long-lasting’ Brexit impact

Rachel Reeves said ‘austerity, Brexit, and the ongoing impact of Liz Truss’s mini-budget’ had weighed heavily on the UK economy.

www.independent.co.uk

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 4h

Starmer's words on Brexit were not an abberation, then - Reeves is going with 'Farage and the Tories put your taxes up'.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4h

🚨🚨Chancellor Rachel Reeves acknowledges she is looking at potential tax rises and spending cuts to fill a black hole in her Budget which she said was partly due to the lingering impact of #Brexit. 🧵
www.independent.co.uk/money/rachel...

Reeves eyes tax hikes as economy suffers ‘severe and long-lasting’ Brexit impact

Rachel Reeves said ‘austerity, Brexit, and the ongoing impact of Liz Truss’s mini-budget’ had weighed heavily on the UK economy.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ian Hall @ian64.bsky.social · 4h

It's a pity the firemen came to save us from the broken lift as I thought the recreation of the dance scene between the Jets and the Sharks from West Side Story was going rather well.

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David • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discokidnap.bsky.social · 5h

OK I post this and then immediately see the actor who played Roy died.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

"They know that in a functioning one-person-one-vote democracy, they could never pass the unpopular self-enriching policies they want. So they know they must focus on preserving and expanding the precedents that permit them to buy American democracy."

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