KD Smith
@kd-smith.bsky.social
I love animals, knitting, gardening, clean air, chick peas, photography and tractors.
Ancient feminist. She/Her.
Was once a cat, or maybe a mouse?
Instablock Covid-deniers and bigots.
Capybaras forever!
https://campsite.bio/wild_strawberry
Ancient feminist. She/Her.
Was once a cat, or maybe a mouse?
Instablock Covid-deniers and bigots.
Capybaras forever!
https://campsite.bio/wild_strawberry
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Boris Johnson's slurs are one thing. Keir Starmer overseeing the introduction of a new Section 28 in schools for trans and non-binary people, supporting segregation and backing Wes Streeting as he drives kids to suicide after stripping them of their healthcare is on a whole other level.
i hate it when i mention how bigoted keir starmer is and someone is like 'huh? are you forgetting that boris johnson called gay men bum boys?!'.
no. i haven't forgotten that. that's nothing compared to the shit keir starmer has done.
no. i haven't forgotten that. that's nothing compared to the shit keir starmer has done.
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Boris Johnson's slurs are one thing. Keir Starmer overseeing the introduction of a new Section 28 in schools for trans and non-binary people, supporting segregation and backing Wes Streeting as he drives kids to suicide after stripping them of their healthcare is on a whole other level.
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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This is important. Trans people and ADHD are on a checklist of MAGA targets. Opposition to trans people is all over Project 2025 and is in paragraph THREE of the Security Strategy document in which Trump announces a cold war against Europe. ADHD is targeted in the RFK jr. MAHA document.
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is important. Trans people and ADHD are on a checklist of MAGA targets. Opposition to trans people is all over Project 2025 and is in paragraph THREE of the Security Strategy document in which Trump announces a cold war against Europe. ADHD is targeted in the RFK jr. MAHA document.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I'm running a fundraiser for our local animal shelter in honor of our wonderful Fergus who passed away this year. I just really needed to do something to keep his kind and loving spirit alive by helping other shelter kitties like him. Please consider a donation if you can! ❤️ givebutter.com/n5l31M
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I'm running a fundraiser for our local animal shelter in honor of our wonderful Fergus who passed away this year. I just really needed to do something to keep his kind and loving spirit alive by helping other shelter kitties like him. Please consider a donation if you can! ❤️ givebutter.com/n5l31M
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The problem for Starmer is that the Greens are a damn sight shrewder than the Corbynites in emphasising the need to develop a post-American European military alliance, which is a more realistic appreciation of current political trends in the US than a lot of Labour and Conservative thinking
FWIW, the NATO line worked on Corbyn which is why I suspect that Starmer thinks that it will work on Polanski.
Ahh a low-salience issue and then a vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy. You can see the political geniuses behind the present disaster at work.
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The problem for Starmer is that the Greens are a damn sight shrewder than the Corbynites in emphasising the need to develop a post-American European military alliance, which is a more realistic appreciation of current political trends in the US than a lot of Labour and Conservative thinking
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Excellent response from @ealglasgow.bsky.social to #Farage.
"..the narrative that EAL learners are bringing attainment figures down is false as well..because..as young people get more fluent in their language, they actually outperform in the general figures."
www.scotsman.com/education/ou...
"..the narrative that EAL learners are bringing attainment figures down is false as well..because..as young people get more fluent in their language, they actually outperform in the general figures."
www.scotsman.com/education/ou...
'Our bilingual pupils are an asset': Teachers hit back at Farage immigrant comments
Glasgow’s English as an additional language pupils are an asset to the city, say teachers appalled at the comments of Nigel Farage
www.scotsman.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Excellent response from @ealglasgow.bsky.social to #Farage.
"..the narrative that EAL learners are bringing attainment figures down is false as well..because..as young people get more fluent in their language, they actually outperform in the general figures."
www.scotsman.com/education/ou...
"..the narrative that EAL learners are bringing attainment figures down is false as well..because..as young people get more fluent in their language, they actually outperform in the general figures."
www.scotsman.com/education/ou...
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A Minnesota preacher told sheriff’s detectives that his church made no attempt to “hide” a child abuser and encouraged victims to go to law enforcement.
But the words he chose stood out to reporter @jlussenhop.bsky.social: “We don’t protect either one.”
But the words he chose stood out to reporter @jlussenhop.bsky.social: “We don’t protect either one.”
What a Recorded Interview Between Police and Preachers Reveals About How a Minnesota Church Handled Sexual Abuse
A roughly 40-minute conversation shows how leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church kept an open secret quiet for so long.
www.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A Minnesota preacher told sheriff’s detectives that his church made no attempt to “hide” a child abuser and encouraged victims to go to law enforcement.
But the words he chose stood out to reporter @jlussenhop.bsky.social: “We don’t protect either one.”
But the words he chose stood out to reporter @jlussenhop.bsky.social: “We don’t protect either one.”
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Freeman's going to whittle down the whole of humanity until the only people who are socially acceptable are herself and daughter-marrying elderly filmmakers who have been credibly accused by the children they didn't marry of abuse
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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They're going to find it much harder to Cass their way to an adhd ban, but they're going to give it a go anyway.
Once again, overplaying their hand. Far more people with kids with adhd than with trans kids.
This will hopefully show more people who they really are
Once again, overplaying their hand. Far more people with kids with adhd than with trans kids.
This will hopefully show more people who they really are
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They're going to find it much harder to Cass their way to an adhd ban, but they're going to give it a go anyway.
Once again, overplaying their hand. Far more people with kids with adhd than with trans kids.
This will hopefully show more people who they really are
Once again, overplaying their hand. Far more people with kids with adhd than with trans kids.
This will hopefully show more people who they really are
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Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government."
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government."
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
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Contriving authority is what Jeff Bezos' Vanity Post is in the business of, and business is booming
(not so much the Financials, but it's not about the money)
(not so much the Financials, but it's not about the money)
December 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Contriving authority is what Jeff Bezos' Vanity Post is in the business of, and business is booming
(not so much the Financials, but it's not about the money)
(not so much the Financials, but it's not about the money)
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It is not easy being COVID cautious. It's crap not joining in social events. It isn't enjoyable being the only person masking. It is tough keeping quiet when being patronised by people with zero knowledge. It is all EXHAUSTING. Solidarity to everyone prepared to listen to science & put others first
December 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It is not easy being COVID cautious. It's crap not joining in social events. It isn't enjoyable being the only person masking. It is tough keeping quiet when being patronised by people with zero knowledge. It is all EXHAUSTING. Solidarity to everyone prepared to listen to science & put others first
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And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
Right, but is it that we’re “forgotten life can be stressful” or is it that neoliberal capitalism doesn’t allow us to have natural, normal reactions to stress, so we seek treatment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
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The three examples chosen to illustrate "Japanese Atrocities" on this history.navy.mil page are ALL incidents of the murder of sailors after their ships were sunk:
www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
Happy Pearl Harbor Day.
www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
Happy Pearl Harbor Day.
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The three examples chosen to illustrate "Japanese Atrocities" on this history.navy.mil page are ALL incidents of the murder of sailors after their ships were sunk:
www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
Happy Pearl Harbor Day.
www.history.navy.mil/research/lib...
Happy Pearl Harbor Day.
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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May seem mad to a lot of people but if we keep voting for the lesser evil in perpetuity, evil still wins and things will only keep getting worse.
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
May seem mad to a lot of people but if we keep voting for the lesser evil in perpetuity, evil still wins and things will only keep getting worse.
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This is slavery.
Reporters spoke with 61 young field workers, some 12 years old, about working in California’s farm fields, exposed to chemical fertilizers, paid below minimum wage, provided no water, shade or bathrooms. Most work to support parents who toil under the same conditions.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
www.latimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is slavery.
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We're taking the dogs to get pictures with Santa. Let's see if they go any better than last year. Lol
This about sums things up: Cassie and Tater Tot's friend Alvin = great. Tater Tot himself = well...
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We're taking the dogs to get pictures with Santa. Let's see if they go any better than last year. Lol
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neil (banging out the tunes)
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
neil (banging out the tunes)
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A brilliant idea by the marketing manager of my hot coffee drone delivery company to send President Zelensky a welcoming steaming oat milk caramel latte. Now to log onto BlueSky and see how it went down.
December 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A brilliant idea by the marketing manager of my hot coffee drone delivery company to send President Zelensky a welcoming steaming oat milk caramel latte. Now to log onto BlueSky and see how it went down.