Diane Purkiss
@janetanderson.bsky.social
I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
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Obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobic ex-BBC journalist Cath Leng, goes running to obsessive transphobic ex-DM journalist, Sanchez Manning, now working at obsessive trans-hostile newspaper, The Times, to get her soft-focus closeup and ‘woe is me, I woz silenced’ propaganda piece! 🙄😣
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobic ex-BBC journalist Cath Leng, goes running to obsessive transphobic ex-DM journalist, Sanchez Manning, now working at obsessive trans-hostile newspaper, The Times, to get her soft-focus closeup and ‘woe is me, I woz silenced’ propaganda piece! 🙄😣
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Please, would SOMEONE from the U.K. "Labour" party explain this to me like I'm 12.
Please explain how controls on social media and cell phones would have prevented these two 15-year-old killers from murdering Brianna Ghey in cold blood with knives.
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Please, would SOMEONE from the U.K. "Labour" party explain this to me like I'm 12.
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Minding her own business was free.
Kim Davis who tried to get the #SupremeCourt to overturn same sex marriage now owes a gay couple $360k — Fabulous 🏳️🌈
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Minding her own business was free.
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Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s with street scenes of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up1111
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s with street scenes of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up1111
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Re-upping this, with thanks to everyone who’s helped so far! 🫶🏻
I've a favour to ask of my cisgender UK followers. It'll take you 5 minutes!
Please use this template to write to your MP.
I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through.
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Please use this template to write to your MP.
I know, I know... AGAIN. But this is to counter the letter-writing campaign undertaken by Sex Matters, who want the awful EHRC trans-exclusionary Code to be rushed through.
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Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Re-upping this, with thanks to everyone who’s helped so far! 🫶🏻
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A wonderful little bundle of fluff and always a pure pleasure to photograph ~ the Long-Tailed Tit ~ this photo taken at Westhay Moor NR on the Somerset levels a few weeks ago 😍😎 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #birds #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturetherapy #titmouse #birdsofbluesky #bluesky
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A wonderful little bundle of fluff and always a pure pleasure to photograph ~ the Long-Tailed Tit ~ this photo taken at Westhay Moor NR on the Somerset levels a few weeks ago 😍😎 🪶 🦉 #ukbirding #birds #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturetherapy #titmouse #birdsofbluesky #bluesky
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The Great Carnivore https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-great-carnivore-1969
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Great Carnivore https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-great-carnivore-1969
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In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.
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Half of Europe is Democratic Socialism
Here's a handy chart for people worried about Dems promoting some form of communism.
#ProudBlue
#ProudBlue
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Half of Europe is Democratic Socialism
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TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
TIL that blood platelets have serotonin receptors, which is why anemia can mimic depression symptoms and that is absolutely fucking fascinating.
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man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
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We have installed new carpet in our woodland
I think you will agree, it is most appealing ☺️
I think you will agree, it is most appealing ☺️
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
We have installed new carpet in our woodland
I think you will agree, it is most appealing ☺️
I think you will agree, it is most appealing ☺️
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there's nothing I could say about this that wouldn't put me in prison so here's a picture of Maitlis with friend of the world's most notorious paedophile Peter Mandelson
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
there's nothing I could say about this that wouldn't put me in prison so here's a picture of Maitlis with friend of the world's most notorious paedophile Peter Mandelson
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Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. Or a social media app. She was murdered in cold blood with knives plunged into her 28 times by two 15-year-olds fed a constant stream of hate and dehumanization by UK corporate media and the UK government.
Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.
November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Brianna Ghey was not murdered in cold blood by a phone. Or a social media app. She was murdered in cold blood with knives plunged into her 28 times by two 15-year-olds fed a constant stream of hate and dehumanization by UK corporate media and the UK government.
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He really had to reach for that one.
Elon Musk Roasted For His Sputtering Explanation For Why Zohran Mamdani Is A 'Swindler'
www.comicsands.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
He really had to reach for that one.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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This sums it up nicely
The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.
Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset
By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it
www.arcdigital.media
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This sums it up nicely
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EXCLUSIVE: @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social have condemned the former Reform MP Rupert Lowe's social media comments about migration
EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn slam Rupert Lowe’s ‘utterly repulsive’, and ‘deeply un-British’ social media comments
'Beyond disgusting'
leftfootforward.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social have condemned the former Reform MP Rupert Lowe's social media comments about migration
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Eels are frequently active during thunder storms...a fact that the premodern English used extensively as a metaphor!
In 1604 John Hanson used the image of eels roused by thunder to describe Catholic priests coming out of their slimy caves to spread their heresy in the world.
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In 1604 John Hanson used the image of eels roused by thunder to describe Catholic priests coming out of their slimy caves to spread their heresy in the world.
🗃️🧪
November 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Eels are frequently active during thunder storms...a fact that the premodern English used extensively as a metaphor!
In 1604 John Hanson used the image of eels roused by thunder to describe Catholic priests coming out of their slimy caves to spread their heresy in the world.
🗃️🧪
In 1604 John Hanson used the image of eels roused by thunder to describe Catholic priests coming out of their slimy caves to spread their heresy in the world.
🗃️🧪
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Remember—if you gather an armed mob blocks from the seat of your government at a time it's closed to the public, a crime to trespass on, and accessible only by overwhelming cops, then tell them that unless they "fight like hell" at that building they'll lose their country, it's not inciting violence
Maybe the BBC can learn a thing or two about fake news from Trump | John Crace
The broadcaster didn’t make a very good job of its untruth – possibly because it hasn’t had as much practice
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Remember—if you gather an armed mob blocks from the seat of your government at a time it's closed to the public, a crime to trespass on, and accessible only by overwhelming cops, then tell them that unless they "fight like hell" at that building they'll lose their country, it's not inciting violence
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Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
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In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.
And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends.
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The BBC Surrenders to Trump
The capitulation of our national broadcaster to the political forces most determined to destroy it is a worrying sign of things to come
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The BBC has long pursued a strategy of appeasing its enemies and alienating its friends.
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...
The result is an endless series of capitulations to those political forces most determined to destroy it
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-bbc-su...