Karen D
@kardray.bsky.social
Very tired Yorks/Strayan recluse living in South Devon. Self diagnosed ADHD, nobody was surprised. Avid reader with enough books (I’m re-reading). Overdeveloped sense of the ridiculous and an abiding interest in politics.
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The boys' club generally push women out in front of them as human shields when they're under heavy fire.
Then, when it's all been damped down, the woman gets elbowed out and normal service is resumed.
Then, when it's all been damped down, the woman gets elbowed out and normal service is resumed.
February 11, 2026 at 11:12 AM
The boys' club generally push women out in front of them as human shields when they're under heavy fire.
Then, when it's all been damped down, the woman gets elbowed out and normal service is resumed.
Then, when it's all been damped down, the woman gets elbowed out and normal service is resumed.
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Apparently it's listen to Women in Science day. It'd be a great day for @royalsociety.org to announce they're kicking out the fellow with sexual abuse app.
February 11, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Apparently it's listen to Women in Science day. It'd be a great day for @royalsociety.org to announce they're kicking out the fellow with sexual abuse app.
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🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled
Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 AM
🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies
It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...
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Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
February 10, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
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The entire Tavistock scandal was over 8 complaints. They've fucked the entirety of trans and non binary peoples, because of 8 complaints, all of which have not materialised into anything as far as I can tell.
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised | A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture | Marie Shrewsbury
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 1:48 PM
The entire Tavistock scandal was over 8 complaints. They've fucked the entirety of trans and non binary peoples, because of 8 complaints, all of which have not materialised into anything as far as I can tell.
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if someone says their business relies on catapults being built on the moon i dont think we should have to take them seriously or subsidize their business with government contracts anymore
February 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
if someone says their business relies on catapults being built on the moon i dont think we should have to take them seriously or subsidize their business with government contracts anymore
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This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
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This book is a master class in critical analysis of SFF by the best working critic in the field. Walton loves SF, and is a magnificent writer, and _What Makes This Book so Great_ takes apart real great works and lets you see why and how to read them.
In time to read it before Trace Elements comes out next month, the ebook of What Makes This Book So Great is on sale as an ebook for $2.99. (Probably US only.)
www.amazon.com/What-Makes-T...
www.amazon.com/What-Makes-T...
What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Amazon.com: What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy eBook : Walton, Jo: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This book is a master class in critical analysis of SFF by the best working critic in the field. Walton loves SF, and is a magnificent writer, and _What Makes This Book so Great_ takes apart real great works and lets you see why and how to read them.
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A flame thrower kills cancer cells in a dish. Doesn’t mean the NCI should be studying flame throwers.
February 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
A flame thrower kills cancer cells in a dish. Doesn’t mean the NCI should be studying flame throwers.
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It's not like you were the first.
Back in 2019, Sky News "reported" that 100s of young people in the UK were seeking the GC movement's help to detransition.
Utterly and completely untrue, a fiction out of the mouth of a serial liar, reported for the nation.
Back in 2019, Sky News "reported" that 100s of young people in the UK were seeking the GC movement's help to detransition.
Utterly and completely untrue, a fiction out of the mouth of a serial liar, reported for the nation.
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
It's not like you were the first.
Back in 2019, Sky News "reported" that 100s of young people in the UK were seeking the GC movement's help to detransition.
Utterly and completely untrue, a fiction out of the mouth of a serial liar, reported for the nation.
Back in 2019, Sky News "reported" that 100s of young people in the UK were seeking the GC movement's help to detransition.
Utterly and completely untrue, a fiction out of the mouth of a serial liar, reported for the nation.
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In modern genocide, they make the ovens portable. 2842 lives.
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons...capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons...capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
In modern genocide, they make the ovens portable. 2842 lives.
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons...capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons...capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
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Ah yes, the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. The incident where Justin Timberlake ripped a woman’s top off and everyone got mad at her for it. Nothing describes the US quite like a black woman being assaulted on live TV and blamed for the whole thing while her white assailant gets away with it.
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Ah yes, the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction. The incident where Justin Timberlake ripped a woman’s top off and everyone got mad at her for it. Nothing describes the US quite like a black woman being assaulted on live TV and blamed for the whole thing while her white assailant gets away with it.
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Waiting rooms aren’t riskier than any other crowded environment…?
I can’t stop laughing.
Of course they are.
You have two groups of people in the waiting room.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
I can’t stop laughing.
Of course they are.
You have two groups of people in the waiting room.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
Worried about catching a bug in a hospital waiting room? Here's what infectious disease experts say
You can lower the risk, but you can't eliminate it. That being said, waiting rooms aren't necessarily riskier than other packed environments.
montrealgazette.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Waiting rooms aren’t riskier than any other crowded environment…?
I can’t stop laughing.
Of course they are.
You have two groups of people in the waiting room.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
I can’t stop laughing.
Of course they are.
You have two groups of people in the waiting room.
montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
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"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..."
time.com/7338205/rage...
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..."
time.com/7338205/rage...
It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."
time.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..."
time.com/7338205/rage...
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..."
time.com/7338205/rage...
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Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin is founder of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital.
All our institutions are corrupted. 😭
All our institutions are corrupted. 😭
Eva's billionaire husband Glenn Dubin was the first person to rape Virginia Giuffre. Dubin is vice chair of the Zionist lobby group the American Jewish Committee which regularly visits Tel Aviv to meet Israeli officials and helped lead the crackdown against pro-Palestine protests
February 10, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin is founder of the Dubin Breast Center at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital.
All our institutions are corrupted. 😭
All our institutions are corrupted. 😭
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Things are hotting up
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Things are hotting up
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Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
February 11, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.
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Knowingly damaged the British economy
Rewarded with a Lordship ?
Rewarded with a Lordship ?
+ as an MP, representing British interests, John Redwood knew Brexit would damage the economy, but promoted it anyway
While telling his clients to get their money out of the UK pronto
He should have been locked up for treason
Theresa May gave him a knighthood
@francescoppola.bsky.social in 2017
While telling his clients to get their money out of the UK pronto
He should have been locked up for treason
Theresa May gave him a knighthood
@francescoppola.bsky.social in 2017
British Lawmaker Advises Investors To Take Their Money Out Of The UK
John Redwood, investment manager and British lawmaker, advises investors to remove their money from the UK and invest it in more successful economies, including the EU. But his advice doesn't end ther...
www.forbes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:56 AM
Knowingly damaged the British economy
Rewarded with a Lordship ?
Rewarded with a Lordship ?
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One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 AM
One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…
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It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.
February 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM
It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.
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Chris Christie: So many of my fellow party members come up to me…in the green room at ABC, they'll say, 'You're so brave. That's so great. I totally agree with you. Trump's nuts.' ... Then on camera to be interviewed, and they go, ‘The greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.’ ...
February 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Chris Christie: So many of my fellow party members come up to me…in the green room at ABC, they'll say, 'You're so brave. That's so great. I totally agree with you. Trump's nuts.' ... Then on camera to be interviewed, and they go, ‘The greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.’ ...
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The BBC are still at it, Starmer bashing...
Lab MP's & especially cabinet ministers need to start calling out this biased onslaught live on air.
If they're worried about antagonising the media, they shouldn't.
The BBC & the rest of the media couldn't be any more anti Starmer/ Labour if they tried.
Lab MP's & especially cabinet ministers need to start calling out this biased onslaught live on air.
If they're worried about antagonising the media, they shouldn't.
The BBC & the rest of the media couldn't be any more anti Starmer/ Labour if they tried.
February 10, 2026 at 5:59 PM
The BBC are still at it, Starmer bashing...
Lab MP's & especially cabinet ministers need to start calling out this biased onslaught live on air.
If they're worried about antagonising the media, they shouldn't.
The BBC & the rest of the media couldn't be any more anti Starmer/ Labour if they tried.
Lab MP's & especially cabinet ministers need to start calling out this biased onslaught live on air.
If they're worried about antagonising the media, they shouldn't.
The BBC & the rest of the media couldn't be any more anti Starmer/ Labour if they tried.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Brilliant!
Do you get why people say "no one is free until Palestine is free" yet? You got a glimpse of what that really means yesterday with the police brutality, with the Labor Party's anti-speech, anti-protest fascism. With the destruction of our arts institutions and universities.
February 10, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Brilliant!
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