Carole
@crolla.bsky.social
Occasional writer, forever a dog lover, runner, actor, theatre-goer, TV rerun watcher, reader and baker. 35+by quite a lot
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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I will rend an oak,
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till
Thou hast howled away twelve winters.
Love's Labour's Lost
#ShakespeareSunday
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till
Thou hast howled away twelve winters.
Love's Labour's Lost
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I will rend an oak,
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till
Thou hast howled away twelve winters.
Love's Labour's Lost
#ShakespeareSunday
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till
Thou hast howled away twelve winters.
Love's Labour's Lost
#ShakespeareSunday
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The Madagascan moon moth also known as the comet moth is native to the rain forests of Madagascar. The adult moth cannot feed and only lives for 4 to 5 days.
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#Moth #Insects #bugsky #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts
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#Moth #Insects #bugsky #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Madagascan moon moth also known as the comet moth is native to the rain forests of Madagascar. The adult moth cannot feed and only lives for 4 to 5 days.
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#Moth #Insects #bugsky #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts
folksy.com/find/item/85...
#Moth #Insects #bugsky #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #ChristmasGifts
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The most beautiful clouds I have ever seen 🌥
🔥 Busan, South Korea just witnessed a sky that looked straight out of a myth! 🇰🇷✨
This unbelievable cloud formation exploded above the coastline at sunset, fanning out like a fiery phoenix rising over the city.
🔥 Busan, South Korea just witnessed a sky that looked straight out of a myth! 🇰🇷✨
This unbelievable cloud formation exploded above the coastline at sunset, fanning out like a fiery phoenix rising over the city.
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The most beautiful clouds I have ever seen 🌥
🔥 Busan, South Korea just witnessed a sky that looked straight out of a myth! 🇰🇷✨
This unbelievable cloud formation exploded above the coastline at sunset, fanning out like a fiery phoenix rising over the city.
🔥 Busan, South Korea just witnessed a sky that looked straight out of a myth! 🇰🇷✨
This unbelievable cloud formation exploded above the coastline at sunset, fanning out like a fiery phoenix rising over the city.
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"Hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."
Troilus and Cressida
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot & Cold
Troilus and Cressida
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot & Cold
a heart made of flames with the word love written on it
Alt: The word "Love" is written in flames and enclosed in a smoky heart. It is captioned "Can you feel the heat??"
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November 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"Hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."
Troilus and Cressida
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot & Cold
Troilus and Cressida
Act 3, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot & Cold
‘What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!’
Sonnet 97
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
What old December's bareness everywhere!’
Sonnet 97
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
elmo from sesame street is standing in the snow in front of a sign that says no parking
ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in the snow in front of a sign that says no parking
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November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
‘What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!’
Sonnet 97
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
What old December's bareness everywhere!’
Sonnet 97
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
‘Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake—it’s everything except what it is!’
Romeo - Romeo & Juliet
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
Romeo - Romeo & Juliet
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
a woman is talking to another woman with the words he 's hot he 's cold
ALT: a woman is talking to another woman with the words he 's hot he 's cold
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November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
‘Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake—it’s everything except what it is!’
Romeo - Romeo & Juliet
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
Romeo - Romeo & Juliet
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
‘Too hot, too hot!
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
a black and white photo of a person holding another person 's hand with kbs2 hd written on the bottom
ALT: a black and white photo of a person holding another person 's hand with kbs2 hd written on the bottom
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November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
‘Too hot, too hot!
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hot and Cold
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November 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
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Dan Hannan was born in Peru.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Dan Hannan was born in Peru.
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This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is this gorgeous Creamy Milk and Roast Garlic Soup with Manchego and Green Olive Toast from The Spanish Home Kitchen by José Pizarro!
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
November 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This week’s Guest Recipe from the #CookbookCorner archive is this gorgeous Creamy Milk and Roast Garlic Soup with Manchego and Green Olive Toast from The Spanish Home Kitchen by José Pizarro!
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
www.nigella.com/recipes/gues...
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Musk's Grok was asked to verify if a tweet featuring a graphic image of the attack on the LNER train was real.
I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text.
1/3
I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text.
1/3
November 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Musk's Grok was asked to verify if a tweet featuring a graphic image of the attack on the LNER train was real.
I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text.
1/3
I'm not sharing the whole image but here is part of it and the text.
1/3
It is; you lie, you lie:
I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee!’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee!’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
a poster for futurama shows bender holding a stick and says " enough of your lies "
ALT: a poster for futurama shows bender holding a stick and says " enough of your lies "
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November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It is; you lie, you lie:
I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee!’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee!’
Leontes - The Winter’s Tale
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
‘Thou liest, thou shag-eared villain.’
Macduff’s son - Macbeth
#ShskespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
Macduff’s son - Macbeth
#ShskespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
squidward from spongebob squarepants is wearing a hat and standing next to a newspaper .
ALT: squidward from spongebob squarepants is wearing a hat and standing next to a newspaper .
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November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
‘Thou liest, thou shag-eared villain.’
Macduff’s son - Macbeth
#ShskespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
Macduff’s son - Macbeth
#ShskespeareSunday
Theme: truth and lies
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"When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies"
Sonnet 138
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Truth & Lies
I do believe her, though I know she lies"
Sonnet 138
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Truth & Lies
a woman wearing glasses is talking to another woman and says people can lie and still be telling the truth
Alt: Gif from the TV series "The Good Fight" - Christine Baranski takes off her glasses and tells another woman that "people can lie and still be telling the truth."
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November 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
"When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies"
Sonnet 138
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Truth & Lies
I do believe her, though I know she lies"
Sonnet 138
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Truth & Lies
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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Learn more about the upcoming Planning Bill and contact your MP to stop it: protectthewild.org.uk/stop-the-pla...
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Learn more about the upcoming Planning Bill and contact your MP to stop it: protectthewild.org.uk/stop-the-pla...
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Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies at the age of 93
Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies at the age of 93
Actor portrayed Sybil Fawlty and later charmed viewers with her canal boat journeys alongside husband Timothy West
Prunella Scales, the actor best known for playing Sybil Fawlty in the classic comedy series Fawlty Towers, has died aged 93.
Scales, who was married to fellow actor Timothy West , was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2013 . Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Fawlty Towers actor Prunella Scales dies at the age of 93
‘I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away;’
Hamlet’s Father - Hamlet
#ShakespeareSunday
#Hamlet
Theme: Hamlet and Macbeth
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away;’
Hamlet’s Father - Hamlet
#ShakespeareSunday
#Hamlet
Theme: Hamlet and Macbeth
two men are standing next to each other and one of them says " to be i mean not to be "
ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them says " to be i mean not to be "
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October 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
‘I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away;’
Hamlet’s Father - Hamlet
#ShakespeareSunday
#Hamlet
Theme: Hamlet and Macbeth
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purg'd away;’
Hamlet’s Father - Hamlet
#ShakespeareSunday
#Hamlet
Theme: Hamlet and Macbeth
‘For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion, carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;’
- The Captain Macbeth
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hamlet or Macbeth
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion, carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;’
- The Captain Macbeth
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hamlet or Macbeth
two men walking in a foggy field holding hands
ALT: two men walking in a foggy field holding hands
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October 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
‘For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion, carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;’
- The Captain Macbeth
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hamlet or Macbeth
Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valor’s minion, carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave;’
- The Captain Macbeth
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Hamlet or Macbeth
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This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme will be two plays, chosen for their supernatural elements: HAMLET 💀 & MACBETH 🗡
October 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This weekend's #ShakespeareSunday theme will be two plays, chosen for their supernatural elements: HAMLET 💀 & MACBETH 🗡
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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”
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I remember time gone by
When peace and hope and dreams were high
We followed inner visions and touched the sky
Now we who still believe won't let them die
When peace and hope and dreams were high
We followed inner visions and touched the sky
Now we who still believe won't let them die
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I remember time gone by
When peace and hope and dreams were high
We followed inner visions and touched the sky
Now we who still believe won't let them die
When peace and hope and dreams were high
We followed inner visions and touched the sky
Now we who still believe won't let them die
‘One sees more devils than vast hell can hold’
Midsummer Night’s Dream
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Halloween
#TheSimpsons
Midsummer Night’s Dream
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Halloween
#TheSimpsons
a pixel art of homer simpson in a devil costume holding ice cream cones
ALT: a pixel art of homer simpson in a devil costume holding ice cream cones
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October 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
‘One sees more devils than vast hell can hold’
Midsummer Night’s Dream
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Halloween
#TheSimpsons
Midsummer Night’s Dream
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Halloween
#TheSimpsons