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@ficooper.bsky.social
Ceramic artist/Uni admin person, when not with nose in a book/wandering the landscape/knitting.
This podcast in which @lucia-oc.bsky.social talks about myths used to destabilise and dehumanise the testimony and character of victims of rape, and much more - is freely available to listen to here www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... #russellbrand #abuse #podcast Men, we must listen
Liberation Conversation with Lucia Osborne Crowley | Robin Ince
Lucia is an activist and author. Her work is one of the reasons I resigned from the Infinite Monkey Cage. The Lasting Harm is a remarkable
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What I'm reminded, continually, is this is small potatoes, no way to earn a living. My autumn royalty cheque for this book? BLANK. Not a penny. But I hope something might be building. If you'd like to help with that, there's FREE international delivery here... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Everything Will Swallow You
Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is watching? Have you wondered whether there's more going on than meets the eye? Eric and Carl live
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It gives me great joy to announce that at 3.59pm today precisely, it will be the tenth anniversary of one of the finest things ever broadcast
We're just normal men, we're just innocent men (Lauren and Hacker: full clip)
YouTube video by Antigone Journal
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Just a friendly reminder to support and appreciate your local forest witch.
I’ve written the introduction to a new Folio edition of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments - it’s published today as a stand alone piece in the Observer observer.co.uk/culture/book...
‘Gilead is not fiction. It is coming for all women again ...
Political movements the world over are creeping towards the fundamentalism of the republic in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
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There are already SO MANY reasons not to go into a Starbucks, why are they wasting time on another one? 👀
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.Starbucks CEO says the company is planning to focus more on AI and tech, including a adding system that would recognize customers as they arrive in stores to "present personalized digital menus."
Coming a little after midnight tonight. Wherever you listen. #BrokenVeil
I am here for this! Even though I've only ever played the Star Wars Cluedo, where I usually spend most of the game trapped in the trash compactor, my Cthulhu knowledge isn't bad 🐙
James Alistair Henry@jamesbluecat.bsky.social · last wk.When a bluesky post gets out of hand and ends up as a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play, on at 2.15 this afternoon and thereafter available on BBC Sounds. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Once you realise there are people out there who think One Hundred Years Of Solitude is a shit novel, or who think Wolf Hall is a shit novel, you realise there is no "correct" in writing novels. "Correct" isn't even part of it. It's about doing what you love, for you, and a few likeminded people.
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · last mo.The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I had my first school visit in 1972 and it was a bit like this, as far as my cloudy memory allows 😄
Helen Day@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · last mo.The first school visit, 1972 Artist: Harry Wingfield
I prefer the Sean the Sheep one tbh.
Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · last mo.Honestly guys isn’t this a bit weird? This is a bit weird
The AI industry continues to be trapped in an endless panicky improv game, where they have to think up new uses for the humorously pointless object they’ve been given.
Skyla Dawn Cameron@skyladawn.ca · last mo.Thanks, I hate it. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/a...
Well, I'm in! (I hope the brooding is as up to scratch as the brooding of his Mr Thornton in North & South, which I just re-watched again).
Sarah Dempster@dempster2000.bsky.social · last mo.I’ve reviewed new ITV maverick pathologist drama “Winter”.
Errr...yes, yes I could. What is wrong with these people?
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁@kalanthropos.bsky.social · last mo.
Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
Something very strange and disturbing is happening in this country, of which Braverman is just the most pitiful example. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-return...
The return of race politics
Ethnic minority politicians on the right are engaged in depraved acts of self-hatred, in order to capture a movement which will never accept them
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I can't think of a more telling small indictment of the modern world than the fact that most autocorrect systems insistently, repetitively want to change the word "cat" to "car".
“These anti-migrant vigilante groups claim that their intention is to protect women and children. This is manifestly false”: why we need to act now against far-right disorder By @hopenothate.org.uk’s @nicklowles.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last mo.There are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
