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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 18h

Who was president in 2020? There appears to be a concerted effort to get you to forget

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

‘Who was president in 2020?’ Trump and GOP want you to think it was Biden | CNN Politics

If you asked people what the worst one-year period in recent American history was, it’s a good bet that many would choose roughly between January 2020 and January 2021.

www.cnn.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

I note some opposition to this proposition, ie "But surely [author] holds up better than every other!" and "there is no perceptible variation in literary opinion based on disparate life experiences," and in both cases: oh, honey. Okay.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15h

The answer to "how does [author] hold up?" is always "for whom?" Bester holds up fine to me, but I'm a 56-year-old white dude who has a vested interest in the genre. My take on his hold-uppedness will be different than, say, a 15-year-old BIPOC girl approaching science fiction for the first time.

Publius Maximus @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 15h

How does Alfred Bester hold up?

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 3h

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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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 4h

one of so many things she made Dulcie suffer for. i adore them both

Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 19h

Spoilering for the jumpscare, but: this also happened to my good buddy Eddie Redcliffe.

#deadloch

Picture 11 from the property listing linked in original post, with a bedroom and ‘en suite’ toilet and shower cubicle that are encased only in clear glass. Asking price £1,750,000.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 22h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 1d

not available on this app : most of Africa, Asia and Latin America

very available on this app : people virtuously instructing other people Already. Using. This. App. that everyone should use this app

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 1d

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 8d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

Feminism win! The 19th-century robber baron cat is a girl!
www.instagram.com/persian_lucy...

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 1d

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

Random Waller is almost certainly a drystone waller! Which is a valuable and difficult trade and one which still exists today, although the art is dying out. skilled tradespeople are so important and it’s a shame that kids are discouraged from going these routes

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 2d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 1d

I met up with @singlecrow.bsky.social and co this weekend and they immediately did the jingle

Star Trek DS9 - Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun

YouTube video by HMDerek4

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 1d

[xkcd linear extrapolation voice] as we can see, by 2028 my entire wardrobe will consist of DS9-themed items

(ty @generalising.bsky.social for the pic!)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 2d

A quick reminder: The Salvation Army is an international organisation and the national branches are not administratively or financially independent. Australian Salvos may be (usually) less overt in, or better at getting away with, the fascism they do, but if you support them then you support US ICE.

kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 2d

et le Premier Officier, Martin du Creff

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr France. I am so disappointed. France has given is some of the most ill-thought out and poor taste outfits over the years and this is just *dull*. And also badly fitting. I so expect so much better from France (by which I mean much worse)

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 2d

also truly delighted that ‘breasting boobily’ has made it into the collective lexicon, another win for the tumblr vernacular en.wiktionary.org/wiki/breast_...

breast boobily - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 2d

love all the men in this thread breasting boobily

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

Mr Colombia is the first of our LOOK AT MY TITS contestants, but very much not the last. He looks slightly annoyed, but I cannot fault the combination of the maximum amount of skin on show but also the maximum amount of costume.

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Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 2d

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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🎃 Pumpkin Spice Mikell 🎃 @mikell.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a niche joke hahahahahaha

ᵀᴴᴱᴍ̴ᴇ̵ᴏ̵ᴡ̷ᴄ̶ʜ̸ᴇ̴ᴍ̶ɪ̵s̵ᴛ̶ ̵ @catpope.gay · 3d

heeeeeeeeeeeeeehehehehehe

not what im called meme but its calling a fourier transform a furry transfem

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Telesilla @telesilla.bsky.social · 3d

If the frog be Pepe, watch your stepe

If the frog be inflatable, they are relatable

Spooky Witch Kat (hag/witch/banshee) 🖤💜👻🎃💀🐈‍⬛💜🖤 @switchkat13.bsky.social · 3d

Pepe walked on the wrong side of history, so his fellow frog persons are making up for that in spades.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 3d

Please do as shaun says, but not before reporting the account for spreading disinfo.

genAI is so good nowadays that we're all gonna get got eventually, but being told/shown over and over that you're disseminating a lie, and just ignoring people who point it out, is a serious red flag.

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Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

(3/3) unfortunately the general thoroughness means my attention wavered in the several lengthy chapters on monogenist-polygenist debates, but I can't really fault that - it's a pretty necessary throughline to the fundamental contradictions right up to Nazi ideology. Complements another recent read:

Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · Jun 25

57. Culture Warlords - Talia Lavin. God this was a depressing read. It’s good! I only got through the intro after it came out, but I really want to read her new book (below) and am waiting til that price goes down a bit. Anyway, this is very clear-headed and gave me some interesting new angles (1/2)

It's not that I discovered that members of the racist far right are inhuman, or monsters beyond comprehension. They're not some entirely new species of being that requires forensic analysis and the dispassionate gaze of the scientist. They're not uniquely stupid or uniquely mired in poverty or uniquely beset by social problems or even members of any specific socioeconomic class. They're not monsters. They're people. Just people, mostly men and some women, all over this country and this world, who have chosen to hate, to base the meaning of their lives on hate, to base their communities of solidarity on hate, to cultivate their hate with tender, daily attention. They are just people, people with an entire alternate curriculum of history, who operate within an insular world of propaganda, built to stoke rage and incite killings and for no other purpose at all. There are rich men and poor men, tradesmen and office workers, teenagers and men cresting middle age. They eat and sleep and sometimes drink too much and sometimes are sober. They're lonely, some of them; horny, some of them; sometimes depressed and sometimes confused and sometimes joyful. They're people, just like you and me. They could work in the next cubicle over and you might not know it; sit one seat over in class from you and you might not know it; live in your neighborhood, play on your sports team, and you would never know that deep in the night they trade photos of lynchings like baseball cards, and laugh.

Laura @latriviata.bsky.social · 3d

…intertwined obsessions with racial categorisation. I found it particularly interesting for starting centuries before modern notions of whiteness/white supremacy really developed, but also showing how the more theological forms of racism and prejudice transitioned over time into scientific racism.

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