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Cool, glad my instincts kicked in, I’ll get them from Blackwell’s. Glad I stopped myself! (Apart from RTH, that was an emergency, and I’m not giving away my copy, I’m too Gollum with it and I’m sure Jim probs sat on it for good vibes).

Tom, was in Waterstones Piccadilly today, to buy an emergency copy of Ring the Hill as a pressie. Nearly got 21st Century Yokel & Notebook but I saw they said Unbound (grr) on the back. I stopped myself, is this an “evil purchase?!” like Amazon? I know I can use Blackwell’s but I needed to pay cash

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Graciñas 🥰

Cheers dude, back atchya.

I currently have lockjaw - (a nasty side effect of 🦷extractions). It means I can sit down & read - between painkillers 1. I’m itching to get back to work to buy the rest of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social books & paid subscription. 2. Inspired by his folks my art materials are out right now too.❤️ this.

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I support this solution for the BC-AD/BCE-CE debate:

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

When ‘The land of the free’ stops being free “The land of the free” is becoming “The land of control”. Elections, rights, and truth are all falling prey to authoritarianism and fascist ideology

Fascism doesn’t always arrive in jackboots.

Sometimes it comes dressed as ballots seized, journalists arrested and the rule of law ignored.

Guy Anthony Ayres writes from America.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @guyanthonyayres.bsky.social

Your friendly reminder that pretty much everyone got cosy and/or ignored fascists in the 1930s. Those brave people that did anything about it were often vilified by their own nations and their service looked down on and largely forgotten.

This is amazing

BBC programme tonight "Reform: Ready to Rule?" Kuennsberg

Oh look, here's the BBC yet again giving a platform to the fascists and xenophobes, stockbroker's party.

On BBC2 tonight there’s a programme with guess who, Laura Kuenssberg called “Reform: Ready to Rule?”
Once again the BBC platforming Farage & his party!!😤🤬
Will it ask searching questions? Hold them to account? Unlikely!!
I assume an hour programme profiling the Green Party or Lib Dems will follow?🤔

Yet these idiots, Farage and Reform get an indepth interview programme with Kuensberg on BBC tonight ‘Reform ready to rule ? ‘ 🤢

You’d think that when English nationalists attempt to claim the superiority of their culture they’d pick things like Perpendicular Gothic architecture, Pre-Raphaelite art, Romantic poetry, but no, it’s always the shittest fry-up you ever saw

They wouldn’t know a four-centred arch from their elbow

Question for you young Thomas. Kindle? Where do you stand on it? (Not literally) I wanted to buy Ring the hill for a pal but she only does Kindle. I see it’s available there, is that ok for you or are there Unbound implications with that too? I’m attempting to “do the right thing”.

I’m so deeply sad that we have lost Catherine O’Hara and Rob Reiner within 6 weeks of each other — two of the greatest comedy storytellers of my lifetime, both with still so much to offer

Catherine was so good recently in The Studio, and I’m gutted 😞

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Moo thread….read the alt text…read it….READ IT!

Its been a month since I sold a colouring book. Countless hours to produce and I've sold around 25 copies. Slightly gutted, but I'm not giving up on it yet!

“It is too early to judge the assortment of war criminals, dictators and autocrats who have paid a demented racist warmonger a billion pounds to be a member of his exclusive club.”

Thank you @dreadships.bsky.social thread worth reading - a timely reminder 🧵🪡⬇️ The role of women in wartime needs to be shouted from the roof tops at the best of times but especially right now. It’s always been a remarkable story and one day I’ll be able to visit @westernapproaches.bsky.social

What a riveting read, class, thank you, loved it. 🏹

….obvs….🤫

Bibury Trout Farm earlier this year. NB, obviously they are not Trout-Ducks. Happy #InternationalUnsolictedDuckPicDay to you.

Happy New Year to you all, with and without fur. And thank you for being total stars….and I’m going to keep doing the odd lottery ticket so I can rescue you all…whilst helping out when I can of course when the pennies come in. Stay wonderful ❤️🥂🥳

Merry Christmas you absolute beauts. Thank you for improving our lives in all manner of ways ❤️