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Joolz Carman
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Soupy twist!
Why Don’t We Do It In Maine Road (for balance) #beatlesfootball
January 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Due to feedback from our testers, we have decided to patch "Happy New Year" to "Acceptable New Year" to avoid disappointment and better match the realities of the market.
January 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Watching two cheesy Christmas films in one night just so I don’t have to wait to listen to @helenlohara.bsky.social talk about them on her #BahHumbug podcast? That is, apparently, how I roll at this time of year.
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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succubus - female demon that seduces men

incubus - male demon that seduces women

vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.

Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Surround yourself with the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time.
October 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Literally had this conversation with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social last week. Podcast out later today! An immigrant is a doctor, a care worker, an academic, often a member of our armed forces. But sure, post pictures of young men on rubber boats.
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
September 30, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Saying that the St George flag waved at a far-right march is a symbol which “belongs to all of us” is like calmly discussing the elegance of Sanskrit symbolism and design during a Nuremberg rally.
September 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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September 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Protests against migrant hotels. Endless uproar about small boat arrivals. Keir Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech. Here’s a reminder from @ZoeJardiniere.bsky.social of why a more humane approach to immigration is needed.

#PodSaveTheUK #Politics #UKPolitics #News #NishKumar #Immigration
August 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Now *this* is how you display patriotism on a mini roundabout.
The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...
August 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Materialists is basically my dream film: romantic, funny, thought-provoking and, most importantly, unhurried. Is it possible to have a favourite director who’s only made two films?
August 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Have written to my MP using the Trans Solidarity Alliance template about the need for the new EHRC Code of Practice to be given proper parliamentary scrutiny, focusing on the impact it would have on my students if it's passed behind closed doors. You can write too. It's a good template.
EHRC Code of Practice Campaign | TSA
www.transsolidarityalliance.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.
August 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Hey, political parties, I'm a decent human being who cares about other human beings. How about pandering to me for a bit?
August 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.
July 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The ONLY way to "Smash the Gangs" is to destroy their business model by providing #SafeRoutesToSafety

@uklabour.bsky.social must ignore the #racist headline-writers & do what is effective, affordable and moral.

#NoHumanIsIllegal
As many as 20,000 homeless asylum seekers have crossed in small boats so far in the good weather this year

Starmer MUST negotiate w FR to provide a safe alternative way for people to reach us

Or these few desperate people will be used to tear our country’s soul apart #r4today
July 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
How not to cook dinner:
1) Preheat oven
2) Set timer for 15 minutes
3) Turn off timer when it beeps
4) Realise you forgot to put the food in
June 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one
June 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The #EmpirePodcast discussion with Wade Eastwood about the stunts on The Final Reckoning is fascinating and terrifying. I didn’t register how utterly mad the parachute scene was when I watched it but 😱😱😱
June 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS
June 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing.

Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust.

Unbound stole our money.
June 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM