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Romenzo Mallas @rommallet.bsky.social · 8h

EXPLOSION DE LA CRIMINOULITÉ EN FRANCE

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 8h

Omg indeed 😂

Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 8h

A very informative but very dark thread because of the direct quotes from the said fascist authors, involving violence against animals, specifically cats (post 4) and racism (posts 10 & 11)

Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

Title page of a collection of animal stories by Henry Williamson: TARKA THE OTTER, SALAR THE SALMON, THE EPIC OF BROCK THE BADGER, CHAKCHEK THE PEREGRINE.

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 8h

I did not exactly “enjoy” this but it was informative and eye-opening. Thank you

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

"Turn all the way around, go back to the place you belong, and we’ll all forget this ever happened."

Two cows peering at me from a field at the top of some steps, where they keep the money they have stolen from people's houses

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 9h

but it’s a public footpath

*gets stared at by cow*

okay okay it’s not a public footpath

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 9h

1. Name and shame the companies that use low-income countries’ lack of regulation to get away with this
2. This is what you guys want in the US?

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 9h

#BBCNews - Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16 people
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16

The dead have been burned beyond recognition and officials have warned that the toll could rise.

www.bbc.com

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 9h

Do I want to know…

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 10h

Recently I came across a cat on social media called “Ramprasad”…

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂😂😂

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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 13h

Gaza is not the only ongoing genocide.

We don't hear much about South Sudan because the West has no skin in the game.

People we don't know are killing each other? Oh well. Not exactly pressing news, is it?

It should be.

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 14h

El Fasher Resistance Committee:

After a year of suege and famine in El Fashir, manufactured by UAE-backed RSF, animal fodder has run out.

#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan

Resistance Committees Coordination - El
Fasher
There is nothing left to eat today. All food supplies have run out, and even the alternatives people used to cling to for survival are gone. The Ambaz have disappeared, and the city is besieged from all directions by militias, the silence of the state, and the indifference of the world. We write, we shout, and we appeal, but it seems that words fall into a void: no aid planes, no humanitarian bridge, no real international action, no ground operation to lift the siege. Time is passing, hunger is increasing, and death is claiming lives. Today, we no longer count the number of clashes, for they are relentless. We no longer count the crimes, for they are too numerous to count. Talking about hunger is no longer enough, for we have moved beyond the stage of complaint to the stage of slow annihilation.
We write, but no one hears us. We call for help, but no one answers. It seems that we will be content to watch, as the world around us does.
We see our city being wiped out, and we die while resisting, simply because we have no choice but to resist. A mass death, amid the silence of the world.
Time is running out, and hunger will kill us before the cannons.
#Stop_the_bleeding_of_El_Fasher #Open_the_road_to_El_Fasher_by_force

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 11h

This is horrifying. UTIs in women are so common in our 20s and 30s that in the NHS, we are just sent to the pharmacy for them, like it’s a common cold or a cut. Imagine being told that you can’t get insurance and a modicum of comfort in your last few days because you soldiered through a few UTIs

Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 11h

Insurance companies are parasites and should not be allowed anywhere near health

Given that we're stuck with them for now, if you have to use one avoid MetLife like the plague

Pass it on

Terminally ill mum's life insurance cancelled after failure to declare UTI

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

www.abc.net.au

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 11h

This is absolutely fricking horrifying. Women’s UTIs are so common place that in the UK the NHS sends you to the pharmacy for these - like a common cold!

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 11h

indeed, always look for the £££ angle!

Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 14h

try to colonize the minds of human beings who have actual working bodies, trying to feel physical sensations through them. Finally they drive a man to death so that they can experience “death” virtually.

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 14h

There was a short story by an author I won’t name (ps he was a criminal - I read this story when I knew nothing about him) where a type of alien being develops technology that allows them to experience all the pleasures of the world virtually. Their bodies atrophy and they … (contd)

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 20h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 14h

Sam Altman plowing trillions into a s*x bot, meanwhile innovation in women’s health is still at the “sorry-gonna-have-to-amputate your bre*sts and uterus” to keep you alive bc we don’t invest sh*t into women’s health.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 20h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 14h

😂

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 14h

No pulp

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

So you want to reduce non white immigration by setting … an exam? In 20 years you’ll be complaining (again) that there are too many Asians.

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

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

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think we had A Shropshire Lad (probably the education board thought it would be too hard for us to relate to?)
But we had to do a group recitation of “Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight” and I was the sexton 😂

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 23h

I had forgotten that one of my post-flu complications is severe joint pain for some reason. That is worse than muscular pain somehow

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 23h

The frustrating bit is not the content but the additional cost, admin burden and - let’s face it - humiliation. I remember paying around £400 to ECCTIS to certify that my MBA degree was conducted in English; it feels a bit unnecessary to have to prove my proficiency again and again given my job

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 23h

we can do a three-way exchange where I get to live in southeast England and one random and unfortunate Italian has to stay in Bangalore forever

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Krittika @krittikaa.bsky.social · 23h

We are getting into “haha wouldn’t it be funny to hear [insert well-known bit of English literature] in [insert variety of South Asian accent]” territory

Guys. We study English in school. What accents do you think our teachers have while reciting Shakespeare and Wordsworth and Blake?

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