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Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link

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Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet, is an English sociologist and bioethicist. He has achondroplasia and uses a wheelchair.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please order The Ends: "exit, pursued by a polar bear" - I've even written the headline for your review. Hope you are enjoying the book: it's a laugh, but also about the climate crisis.

Cover of 'The Ends' featuring the hero, Fred, being pursued by a voracious polar bear.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 26m

At the launch of the Rahyab Initiative report on the human rights situation of persons with disabilities in Afghanistan.

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VoteClimate.uk @voteclimateuk.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 We've breached our first climate tipping point. A final, stark warning after the world smashed through 1.5C in 2024.
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

😶 The news was met with radio silence from Keir Starmer.

✅ Tell Labour to put climate first to win your vote: VoteClimate.uk/register

The world has reached its first climate tipping point

Milestone signals stark new reality for the planet – and raises the alarm about impending catastrophes

www.independent.co.uk

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

Even when Monday is your day off.

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Especially not then!

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

Uh huh. Fool.

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I KNOW, RIGHT?

Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

NEVER CHECK YOUR WORK EMAILS ON SUNDAY NIGHT.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 1d

The cardigan was a good touch. Sadly, Jimi didn't live long enough to wear one.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 1d

Have you read the good news?

A very poor Photoshop edit of the "Everything I Don't Like Is Woke" spoof Ladybird book, except now the man has Peter Thiel's face, the book is called "Everything I don't like is The Antichrist" and he's pointing at a car engine saying "This engine is the Antichrist".

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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ooOOOoona McCormack 🎃 @unamccormack.bsky.social · 2d

John Major was a vice-president of the Trollope Society. Discovered his books in Brixton library.

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🐝 Mrs Boooooo-b 👻🧙☠️👹🐝 @mrsbobhere.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone that needs it… #sea #vitaminsea

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social · 2d

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Well worth reading this

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

observer.co.uk

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 2d

I give it six months until there is an inflatable frog battalion of the Vatican Swiss Guards

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 2d

He's a lot gloomier than other Hungarians I've read, but you may have a point!

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(Nobel Prize in Literature)

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

László Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, he was in conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop

Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Sara Michelle Fetters @moviefreaksara.bsky.social · 2d

Can’t come up with something to say that does full justice to just how much Diane Keaton meant to me. A true iconoclast who somehow also seemed so down to earth and genuinely kind, this smart, fearless actor could do anything - and she could make it look so easy! She’ll be missed. 💔

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton was a singular artist. The way she accepted her AFI Lifetime Achievement Award was quintessentially her.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQse...

Diane Keaton Accepts the 45th AFI Life Achievement Award

YouTube video by American Film Institute

www.youtube.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop

Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

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Alison Birch @irishali13.bsky.social · 2d

What matters is precisely this: the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.

~ Virginia Woolf

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · 3d

"We don't need this fascist groove thong"

#ClothesWeWearInASongOrMovie
#topical