Karen D
@kardray.bsky.social
Very tired Yorks/Strayan recluse living in South Devon. Pathological reader with enough books (I’m re-reading). Somewhat scattered in my interests with an overdeveloped sense of the ridiculous and an abiding interest in politics.
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Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Please stay home if you’re feeling sick.
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
If you absolutely can’t stay home, wear a mask.
There are people who can’t afford to get sick. People without paid time off, people who are disabled or immune compromised, people who are caregivers.
Help break chains of transmission
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Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
December 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
Here's Farage in 2020.
Man's a dangerous idiot.
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Enough is enough. We need to put a complete halt to new peers until the house has been properly reformed.
Oh yes.
electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-peera...
Oh yes.
electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-peera...
Latest peerages mean government has replaced the hereditary peers – before they’ve even left the Lords
Keir Starmer himself not long ago described the wholly unelected and grossly bloated House of Lords as ‘indefensible’. Nothing has changed since then so it was deeply disappointing t
electoral-reform.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Enough is enough. We need to put a complete halt to new peers until the house has been properly reformed.
Oh yes.
electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-peera...
Oh yes.
electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-peera...
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Getting barred from the USA because the ICE agent doesn't know who Ace Rimmer is or why I keep misattributing his catchphrase to recently dead celebrities and is angry that I didn't write out the context in full in case an American stumbled upon it
Getting barred from entry into the USA because I blocked a Steven Segal bot one time
Getting barred from entry into the U.S.A. because Trump actually likes Mrs Browns Boys.
December 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Getting barred from the USA because the ICE agent doesn't know who Ace Rimmer is or why I keep misattributing his catchphrase to recently dead celebrities and is angry that I didn't write out the context in full in case an American stumbled upon it
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Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.
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This is one of the things that really infuriates me. The vast majority of all this confected conflict would go away if injected with minimal grace, good manners, and minding-one's-own-business. Instead, people choose to be gratuitously rude, ungracious, and invasive.
It is ultimately so UN-BRITISH!
It is ultimately so UN-BRITISH!
December 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is one of the things that really infuriates me. The vast majority of all this confected conflict would go away if injected with minimal grace, good manners, and minding-one's-own-business. Instead, people choose to be gratuitously rude, ungracious, and invasive.
It is ultimately so UN-BRITISH!
It is ultimately so UN-BRITISH!
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Am I right in remembering (from my time as a Labour member) that it was once party policy to replace the House of Lords with a democratically elected second chamber?
That good idea seems to have been unceremoniously ditched...
Can't we at least get rid of the bishops?
share.google/Ja76GMntHCny...
That good idea seems to have been unceremoniously ditched...
Can't we at least get rid of the bishops?
share.google/Ja76GMntHCny...
No 10 publishes list of 34 new political peerages including 25 Labour, five Liberal Democrats and three Conservatives – as it happened
Downing Street publishes list including ex-Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and Iceland supermarket chief Richard Walker
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December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Am I right in remembering (from my time as a Labour member) that it was once party policy to replace the House of Lords with a democratically elected second chamber?
That good idea seems to have been unceremoniously ditched...
Can't we at least get rid of the bishops?
share.google/Ja76GMntHCny...
That good idea seems to have been unceremoniously ditched...
Can't we at least get rid of the bishops?
share.google/Ja76GMntHCny...
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Really? I wasn't aware that Europe wanted to hand over Ukraine to Russia and then negotiate with Putin to exploit its natural resources.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Trump and Europe want ‘same thing’ for Ukraine, Starmer says
The Prime Minister said there were a ‘number of issues still to be resolved’ but dismissed suggestions his optimism had been frayed.
www.standard.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Really? I wasn't aware that Europe wanted to hand over Ukraine to Russia and then negotiate with Putin to exploit its natural resources.
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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The Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets (wren, ivy leaves & floral/leafy) & two charm combinations (sewing & oak/woodland-thrned) that will be on sale this evening in my etsy shop at 8.30pm. Click 💬 on my etsy page to enquire after or reserve a piece: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Victorian & Edwardian stamp holders, lockets (wren, ivy leaves & floral/leafy) & two charm combinations (sewing & oak/woodland-thrned) that will be on sale this evening in my etsy shop at 8.30pm. Click 💬 on my etsy page to enquire after or reserve a piece: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
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Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.
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So apparently there has been some leavening and improving of civilisation in the past and maybe that was OK but it needs to stop now.
December 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So apparently there has been some leavening and improving of civilisation in the past and maybe that was OK but it needs to stop now.
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What the fuck is this weird bullshit?
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Opinion | Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
What the fuck is this weird bullshit?
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Not surprised, of course. But still. Steal from the creators who made your company what it is at a large enough scale, and you reward the thieves with wealth the likes of which none of us will ever see.
openai.com/index/disney...
openai.com/index/disney...
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.
openai.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Not surprised, of course. But still. Steal from the creators who made your company what it is at a large enough scale, and you reward the thieves with wealth the likes of which none of us will ever see.
openai.com/index/disney...
openai.com/index/disney...
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Private hired guns
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Private hired guns
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
The secretive Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received £640,000+ from fossil fuel companies & Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and 2005.
The aim is to subvert public choices for the benefit of paymasters.
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This is exquisitely fine work.
A seasonal object. A Woman's coif, made in Britain, c. 1590-1610 Linen embroidered with blackwork, silver-gilt threads, with a design of holly sprigs
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is exquisitely fine work.
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I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.
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Imagining an LLM trained on my grandfather.
“Mr Harkaway, your machine has committed 8421 acts of fraud since Monday and is now married to 11 women, 2 bishops and Nelson’s Column. It is also being sued by the estate of Frank Sinatra.”
Eep.
“Mr Harkaway, your machine has committed 8421 acts of fraud since Monday and is now married to 11 women, 2 bishops and Nelson’s Column. It is also being sued by the estate of Frank Sinatra.”
Eep.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Imagining an LLM trained on my grandfather.
“Mr Harkaway, your machine has committed 8421 acts of fraud since Monday and is now married to 11 women, 2 bishops and Nelson’s Column. It is also being sued by the estate of Frank Sinatra.”
Eep.
“Mr Harkaway, your machine has committed 8421 acts of fraud since Monday and is now married to 11 women, 2 bishops and Nelson’s Column. It is also being sued by the estate of Frank Sinatra.”
Eep.
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2 quotes. Please share them.
From the NHS England website after the last resident doctor strike:
“The NHS managed to ‘safely keep the show on the road’ despite industrial action last week, with data showing more than 95% of planned elective activity going ahead for patients.”
From the NHS England website after the last resident doctor strike:
“The NHS managed to ‘safely keep the show on the road’ despite industrial action last week, with data showing more than 95% of planned elective activity going ahead for patients.”
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
2 quotes. Please share them.
From the NHS England website after the last resident doctor strike:
“The NHS managed to ‘safely keep the show on the road’ despite industrial action last week, with data showing more than 95% of planned elective activity going ahead for patients.”
From the NHS England website after the last resident doctor strike:
“The NHS managed to ‘safely keep the show on the road’ despite industrial action last week, with data showing more than 95% of planned elective activity going ahead for patients.”
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Because there is in effect no meaningful scrutiny of UK trade deals, other countries make the assumption that the UK government can sign up to anything since there will be no public or parliamentary pushback. This is why trade experts recommended meaningful parliamentary procedure.
December 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Because there is in effect no meaningful scrutiny of UK trade deals, other countries make the assumption that the UK government can sign up to anything since there will be no public or parliamentary pushback. This is why trade experts recommended meaningful parliamentary procedure.
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On the UK-US pharmaceutical deal I'm afraid this does look like two nasty trends coming together to make a very bad agreement for the UK - namely Whitehall power to make deals with no scrutiny, and companies working with countries to coerce others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives | Aditya Chakrabortty
More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 AM
On the UK-US pharmaceutical deal I'm afraid this does look like two nasty trends coming together to make a very bad agreement for the UK - namely Whitehall power to make deals with no scrutiny, and companies working with countries to coerce others. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Frankly, I’m up for this.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Frankly, I’m up for this.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
I would like JD Vance to be forced to sit in a room and consume the last five years of my social media history.
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We are now attempting to explain the sword & sorcery boom of the eighties to Stepson.
US: And then Beastmaster 3 had time travel…
HIM: WHY
US: Cocaine is a helluva drug.
US: And then Beastmaster 3 had time travel…
HIM: WHY
US: Cocaine is a helluva drug.
For tonight’s Introduce Stepson To Classic Movies…
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
We are now attempting to explain the sword & sorcery boom of the eighties to Stepson.
US: And then Beastmaster 3 had time travel…
HIM: WHY
US: Cocaine is a helluva drug.
US: And then Beastmaster 3 had time travel…
HIM: WHY
US: Cocaine is a helluva drug.
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i like these home details designed for pets
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December 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
i like these home details designed for pets
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