Anna McDuff
@annamcduff.bsky.social
Here to hang out and chat about life, my hobbies and my cats! I am owned by two Maine Coons, Prospero (Perry) and Artemis (Misty). I love #pottery, dabble in fountain pens, am interested in the world, and obsess over US/UK politics more than is good for me
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“Have I been an angry person at times in my life? Who hasn’t? If you’d crossed me at the peak of my tabloid notoriety, you soon would have known about it. I will hold my hands up & say I was mean to some people. Jennifer Aniston did not call me ‘that tiny scuttling slag with the ears’ for nothing."
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Have I been an angry person at times in my life? Who hasn’t? If you’d crossed me at the peak of my tabloid notoriety, you soon would have known about it. I will hold my hands up & say I was mean to some people. Jennifer Aniston did not call me ‘that tiny scuttling slag with the ears’ for nothing."
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THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
November 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...
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NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
NYT: “Epstein emails a distraction from the Republican shutdown victory”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
WSJ: “We estimate the Epstein files to be 67% Trump by weight”
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November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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This is possibly the longest thread I've ever seen but if you have an interest in the subject matter it is worth your time.
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is possibly the longest thread I've ever seen but if you have an interest in the subject matter it is worth your time.
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
(If you're in the GRTS community, there are some portrayals mentioned, especially later, that are... well I thought I was sufficiently braced.)
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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I didn’t think the early 20th-century’s preoccupation with the god Pan was capable of generating an actual news story, but here we are (one for @pjrobichaud.bsky.social)
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I didn’t think the early 20th-century’s preoccupation with the god Pan was capable of generating an actual news story, but here we are (one for @pjrobichaud.bsky.social)
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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I want to spend my free time today with music and art and deep thoughts as a counter to all the [waves at the state of things]
This song will absolutely rock your socks. "Vitamin C" by CAN. This is from 1972, sounds like it could be out now.
youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw?...
This song will absolutely rock your socks. "Vitamin C" by CAN. This is from 1972, sounds like it could be out now.
youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw?...
CAN - Vitamin C (Music video)
YouTube video by Stick a Label On
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I want to spend my free time today with music and art and deep thoughts as a counter to all the [waves at the state of things]
This song will absolutely rock your socks. "Vitamin C" by CAN. This is from 1972, sounds like it could be out now.
youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw?...
This song will absolutely rock your socks. "Vitamin C" by CAN. This is from 1972, sounds like it could be out now.
youtu.be/JXsd5W8ofDw?...
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
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It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"
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This great blue heron is thoroughly disgusted by the number of labor law violations Starbucks has committed
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This great blue heron is thoroughly disgusted by the number of labor law violations Starbucks has committed
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ohhhh. the "new vine" is just an attempt to drive customers to nostr, which is where jack dorsey went when there weren't enough nazis on bluesky. that explains it
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ohhhh. the "new vine" is just an attempt to drive customers to nostr, which is where jack dorsey went when there weren't enough nazis on bluesky. that explains it
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November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If this sounds like your kind of podcast, share it, tell your friends about it, get the word out! Past Lives is a 100 percent independent production, and we're going to depend on your support to make this work. I'll be sharing the link to our Patreon soon, and be sure to subscribe!
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Maybe when he wakes up he'll be a Democrat again
John Fetterman was taken to the hospital after suffering from a “ventricular fibrillation flare-up” and falling near his home
John Fetterman Hospitalized After Fall
www.huffpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Maybe when he wakes up he'll be a Democrat again
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
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just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
"All they could do to distract from the Schumer shutdown cover-up is leak Epstein emails ... What a sleazy leak."
Jesse Watters attacks Democrats for releasing Epstein emails
www.mediamatters.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
just a reminder this guy slashed the tires on his much younger female coworkers tires to trick her into getting in his car
he was married at the time
he was married at the time
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it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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The 1950s must have been strange magic to people who spent spent the 1930s struggling to get enough calories to stay alive.
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The 1950s must have been strange magic to people who spent spent the 1930s struggling to get enough calories to stay alive.
Jet lag is miserable, but the new Anne Bishop novel is a lot of fun. It’s similar to the Others but the fae instead of weres and vamps. Strong recommend if you like that sort of thing.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Jet lag is miserable, but the new Anne Bishop novel is a lot of fun. It’s similar to the Others but the fae instead of weres and vamps. Strong recommend if you like that sort of thing.
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it is unfair how stupid everything is
I'm envious of the world we should have lived in
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
it is unfair how stupid everything is
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Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.