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LeedsBookClub aka Drneevil
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Books, comics, films! A small but mighty book club, meeting in Leeds since 2010. #LBC3Reads, #LBCHorsforth, #LBCWSwan - https://leedsbookclub.com/category/all-posts/ Bestie 📖 - Queen of Shadows LBC📖 - instructions for a heatwave 🎧 -
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08/01 - The Little Liar - Mitch Albom - #LBCHorsforth
11/01 - When God was a rabbit - #LBC3Reads
12/01 - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel - Suzanna Clarke - #LBCWSwan
09/02 - The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill - LBCWS
12/02 - Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese - LBCH
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It doesn’t get much greener in my camera roll. Greenfinch in northern Germany. #birds #BirdOfTheDay #green
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Do you know anyone interested in becoming the Irish Language Officer for Wikimedia Community Ireland?

#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #Ireland #IrishLanguage #Irish #Gaeilge
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Me an international Art Police officer grabbing a thief surrounded by his spoils. "I have you at last! Jail for you! For ten thousand years!"

Art Thief "But I'm using it to train my AI."

Me. "Me, oh, sorry, be about your business. I'll close the door on my way out."
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He’s donning a queen’s crown. Is that intentional?
Sweet merciful Zeus. The hubris.

Was raised to think charity/good works begin at home.

But given the British partitioned Palestine, seems particularly tin eared.
Not seen that one. Did William say that?
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Oh I don't condone murder either. I just think the very wealthy would do well to remember that, historically, when things become so unequal that people become desperate, it doesn't always work out so well for the ruling classes...
Well I couldn’t condone murder… no one learns that way. 🤣

But I’m also not a fan of ‘sins of the father’ nonsense.

If you’ve inherited wealth, property, position…give it back! (Not the average Jo so, obvs)
Personally I’m against FGM and harming children.
But given these are all adults, that’s right. Circumcise the lot.

(This is a joke. A bad one. But a joke - earnest blueskiers)
Given how ruthlessly he set out his ambitious stall, I agree.

Find it strange that no one ever comments that the current and future leader of the COE both proudly cut off their son/brother to curry favour with the press.

Hardly personalities to aspire towards. Yet the press just keep bootlicking
Disappointingly sycophantic article.

But then I just can’t respect a democracy that props up a monarchy.

I know, I know, fancy desiring not being leeched off by the unelected (especially as the elected do enough of it!)
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Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?
Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.
Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country
On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.
19thnews.org
How much does VD have?
Coz it’s pretty obvious that this is a defence if debit by the wealthy for the wealthy.

Don’t pay fair taxes? Bye bye then.

And leave the assets you made here at the door. Absolute scroungers.
Hang on… Victoria Derbyshire says no country has raised serious money with a wealth tax.

Then says Norway only got £2.7bn.

But it’s 1/12th the population of the UK!

Scaled up that would be £32bn. That’s serious money.

Now…
It’s ’never people like me’ always ‘go after people like them’.

This is an island. We all got here somehow.

Hypocrite.
Oh my gosh but no really, do this! I’ve boxes of ‘might get back to one day’ projects!
Okay new idea for a library service: leave a hobby take a hobby. When people get bored with a hobby they can come and leave their supplies and books and half-finished things, and exchange them for someone else’s supplies and books and half-finished things. Hobby swap.
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A Dutch court ordered Meta to provide Facebook and Instagram users with simpler options for a timeline that does not rely on profiling.

The court said design of both platforms were not in line with the European Union's Digital Services Act.

#Europe #EU #DSA #facebook #instagram #meta #socialmedia
Dutch court orders Meta to change Facebook and Instagram timeline settings
www.reuters.com
Yesterday’s response to the #NoKings march has been interesting.

I’m a citizen and never a subject, which colours everything I think politically.

The reverse is true for others. Watching people contort to express disgust for one, while maintaining its ‘different’ over here has been fascinating.
I’m rather hoping that his tenants, his labourers, his ‘subjects’ will have taken note.
People hide behind this fuzzy wuzzy tradition thing but it was a brutal land grab historically.

Democracy can’t thrive while these scroungers continue to bleed the country dry.
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I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.
I still wish her estate had moved her after Hugh Hefner arranged to continue violating her peace even in death.

And that’s LESS ghoulish that this.
I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.