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"Miserable pony-tailed Communist" (Google).

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Come and see a real live miserable pony-tailed Communist while you're in town!

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 13d

Did a quiz tonight and we were asked to give the word that fits between raw and show. Turned out the answer wanted was talent so we had to make the case for dog

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matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social · 7h

A bit of Robert Herrick

DREAMES

Here we are all, by day: By night w'are hurl'd
By dreames, each one, into a sev'rall world.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 9h

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 10h

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

"Go West"

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

Feeling wan. Might need a Caramac.

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Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social · 14h

Krzysztof Penderecki drinking alone.

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 14h

Personal Mountains.
I wandered into the kitchen when this was playing for the first time.
Django, Martin (RIP) and Ken all looked round at me as if to say "Shut up, there's a new Keith record"

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 14h

Groombridge 686

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 16h

Church team just came second in the pub quiz. God be praised

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 20h

Me and my dad going off to fight for the Spanish Republic

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 20h

Really looking forward to this!

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 1d

I saw them play The Dublin Castle in '92

A tweet from Laura Loomer saying:

WOKE MARXIST POPE

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you though

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Those are even worse

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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d

Pilgrimage Sunday / mythic shells/ connecting nothing with nothing / the first woman lion tamer

Margate sands, connecting nothing with nothing

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

The stupid thing is: I enjoy the counter more than anybody else. I'm happy to do eight solid hours at the counter. But it only takes a minute to send that to shit. I had my own part to play in this. But even so.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Very disheartened to see the perhaps inevitable return of our (my) Google reviewer. I have no real recourse here. You might say that's as it should be. It's a pain in the arse though.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. It's exhausting. As I have said, I agree with my colleagues who are much hotter on this than me. By comparison, I must strike them as elderly and resigned. But when the shit hits the fan? Oh, it's me again. Annoying.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Very disheartened to see the perhaps inevitable return of our (my) Google reviewer. I have no real recourse here. You might say that's as it should be. It's a pain in the arse though.

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating lines of perspective

Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most deeply strange pictures ever painted

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Infinitely enigmatic Flagellation of Christ, c. 1455, by spatial genius Piero della Francesca. Today is his day.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! Thank you old thing. The review is back online, though my character has been downgraded.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Our hostile reviewer has returned. They've given me a downgrade this time.

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 1d

Like the Communists in Hail Caesar