Josephine Kavanagh
@ourhaus.bsky.social
Blackpool grown. Join a Union. Retired public health researcher and shop worker. Conan the Librarian.
More books and bookshops please, & history science & music & Comedy & art.
#Parkinson's #MDANT ☘️
I block ruthlessly.
More books and bookshops please, & history science & music & Comedy & art.
#Parkinson's #MDANT ☘️
I block ruthlessly.
Pinned
Josephine Kavanagh
@ourhaus.bsky.social
· Jun 13
Ban Trump? Top genocide scholar issues dire warning:
“Negotiating with Nazis didn’t prove useful in 1939. It won’t now either," says founder of Genocide Watch
⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' BASE thread (6 min) with added links 📖🍿🔊
“Negotiating with Nazis didn’t prove useful in 1939. It won’t now either," says founder of Genocide Watch
⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' BASE thread (6 min) with added links 📖🍿🔊
Ban Trump? Top genocide scholar issues dire warning
“Negotiating with Nazis didn’t prove useful in 1939. It won’t now either," says founder of Genocide Watch.
www.salon.com
🚨🚨 🚨 Essential 🧵
He's deploying troops to occupy opposition-held cities, openly solicits bribes from dictators, threatens to annex democratic neighbors, & sends innocent people to foreign prisons to remain until they die.
Canada & G7 must ban him.
USA must mass protest the regime now.
Read & RP 🙏
He's deploying troops to occupy opposition-held cities, openly solicits bribes from dictators, threatens to annex democratic neighbors, & sends innocent people to foreign prisons to remain until they die.
Canada & G7 must ban him.
USA must mass protest the regime now.
Read & RP 🙏
Brent Terhune at his absolute mental gymnastics best. 😆 "Engorged with rage just thinking about it."
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Brent Terhune at his absolute mental gymnastics best. 😆 "Engorged with rage just thinking about it."
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A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated won election to serve as the city’s chief criminal court record keeper.
A New Orleans man who had his murder conviction tossed wins election as city’s chief record keeper
A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated won election to serve as the city’s chief criminal court record keeper.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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⚡️Micsoda mérkőzés, micsoda befejezés! És természetesen: baszd meg, Orbán! Ha-ha-ha! 🇭🇺 Magyarország 2-3 Írország 🇮🇪
1/5🧵▶️
1/5🧵▶️
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
⚡️Micsoda mérkőzés, micsoda befejezés! És természetesen: baszd meg, Orbán! Ha-ha-ha! 🇭🇺 Magyarország 2-3 Írország 🇮🇪
1/5🧵▶️
1/5🧵▶️
Blossom Puzzle, November 16
Letters: A G I N M R W
My score: 293 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌸 🌼 💐 🌺 💮 🏵 🌷 🌹 🌻 🌸
Letters: A G I N M R W
My score: 293 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌸 🌼 💐 🌺 💮 🏵 🌷 🌹 🌻 🌸
November 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Blossom Puzzle, November 16
Letters: A G I N M R W
My score: 293 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌸 🌼 💐 🌺 💮 🏵 🌷 🌹 🌻 🌸
Letters: A G I N M R W
My score: 293 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌸 🌼 💐 🌺 💮 🏵 🌷 🌹 🌻 🌸
A great well-written insightful read.
"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
snyder.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A great well-written insightful read.
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And Bill Donohue’s Catholic League says she’s right.
These right wing Catholics hate Jews and love pedophiles. Sounds like Heritage Foundation.
Gift article from 2012.
www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/o...
These right wing Catholics hate Jews and love pedophiles. Sounds like Heritage Foundation.
Gift article from 2012.
www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/o...
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And Bill Donohue’s Catholic League says she’s right.
These right wing Catholics hate Jews and love pedophiles. Sounds like Heritage Foundation.
Gift article from 2012.
www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/o...
These right wing Catholics hate Jews and love pedophiles. Sounds like Heritage Foundation.
Gift article from 2012.
www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/o...
Extreme embarrassing techbro wankiness soo locked in. A delusional wet dream of white, wealthy, middle-aged techwanks who think they are the GOAT. 😬
November 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Extreme embarrassing techbro wankiness soo locked in. A delusional wet dream of white, wealthy, middle-aged techwanks who think they are the GOAT. 😬
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What a great read!!
"Lily Allen is so frank, so candid, so vulnerable, that it’s not enough to say she’s standing naked before us. We can see through her entirely—beneath her skin and into the depths of her soul. This isn’t TMI; this is MRI."
Sunday Pages: "West End Girl"
An album by Lily Allen
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What a great read!!
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Reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson fought to cover up these awful details. Now, he's fighting to keep the Epstein files secret.
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson fought to cover up these awful details. Now, he's fighting to keep the Epstein files secret.
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Nobody would leave the UK if the government introduced a wealth tax.
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Nobody would leave the UK if the government introduced a wealth tax.
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Mr #PeterGeoghegan of #DemocracyForSale warning parliament of Trump, Musk & Billionaires & US #ChristianRight having plans to get ever more involved in British politics, support to #NigelFarage’s #Reform & the right-wing of the #ConservativeParty. All undermining #Democracy
youtu.be/wBTUjm5fx8A?...
youtu.be/wBTUjm5fx8A?...
I Warned Parliament: Trump, Musk & Billionaires Are Undermining Democracy - Here’s How We Stop Them
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Mr #PeterGeoghegan of #DemocracyForSale warning parliament of Trump, Musk & Billionaires & US #ChristianRight having plans to get ever more involved in British politics, support to #NigelFarage’s #Reform & the right-wing of the #ConservativeParty. All undermining #Democracy
youtu.be/wBTUjm5fx8A?...
youtu.be/wBTUjm5fx8A?...
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I hate this policy so much. It's simply morally wrong.
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
November 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I hate this policy so much. It's simply morally wrong.
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
I wrote this a few months ago about how emotional it was seeing a refugee I once hosted get his citizenship and, finally, be safe and welcomed.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Got 4 but missed lots of pangrams today!
Blossom Puzzle, November 15
Letters: B E I A L R T
My score: 345 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌹 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌸 🌷 💐 💮 🏵 🌹
Blossom Puzzle, November 15
Letters: B E I A L R T
My score: 345 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌹 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌸 🌷 💐 💮 🏵 🌹
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Got 4 but missed lots of pangrams today!
Blossom Puzzle, November 15
Letters: B E I A L R T
My score: 345 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌹 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌸 🌷 💐 💮 🏵 🌹
Blossom Puzzle, November 15
Letters: B E I A L R T
My score: 345 points
My longest word: 10 letters
🌹 🌼 🌺 🌻 🌸 🌷 💐 💮 🏵 🌹
I played squaredle.com 11/15:
*52/52 words (+16 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
*52/52 words (+16 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I played squaredle.com 11/15:
*52/52 words (+16 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
*52/52 words (+16 bonus words)
📖 In the top 8% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 1
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The Recommender: Nicôle Lecky
The Bafta-winning writer, actor and musician – star and creator of BBC drama Wild Cherry – on her favourite recent music, books and food tips
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
The Bafta-winning writer, actor and musician – star and creator of BBC drama Wild Cherry – on her favourite recent music, books and food tips
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The Recommender: Nicôle Lecky
The Bafta-winning writer, actor and musician – star and creator of BBC drama Wild Cherry – on her favourite recent music, books and food tips
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
The Bafta-winning writer, actor and musician – star and creator of BBC drama Wild Cherry – on her favourite recent music, books and food tips
www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
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"I feel like I have this front row seat to the destruction of our democracy. We are seeing it in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public." @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave. n.pr/4oFYdPL
She criticized President Trump during the shutdown. Now she's been put on leave
Jenna Norton has spoken critically about the Trump administration's funding cuts and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health. At the end of the shutdown, she says she was put on leave.
n.pr
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"I feel like I have this front row seat to the destruction of our democracy. We are seeing it in real time with a president who is asking us to do things that are illegal and harmful to the American public." @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
Jenna Norton was placed on administrative leave from NIH
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The Nerve Weekend Dish: cook and author Yasmin Khan shares her recipe for gheimeh badinjan – a warming, citrussy Persian stew with aubergines, split peas and dried limes
Interview by Mina Holland
🔗 www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
Interview by Mina Holland
🔗 www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Nerve Weekend Dish: cook and author Yasmin Khan shares her recipe for gheimeh badinjan – a warming, citrussy Persian stew with aubergines, split peas and dried limes
Interview by Mina Holland
🔗 www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
Interview by Mina Holland
🔗 www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
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If anyone’s in the South Cumbria area on Sunday 14th December and fancies a 5k Festive Fun Run head to the Alt Text for details on how to sign up.
Alternatively you can sponsor me, the link to my JustGiving page is below. 👇
#MentalElf for Mind in Furness.
Alternatively you can sponsor me, the link to my JustGiving page is below. 👇
#MentalElf for Mind in Furness.
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If anyone’s in the South Cumbria area on Sunday 14th December and fancies a 5k Festive Fun Run head to the Alt Text for details on how to sign up.
Alternatively you can sponsor me, the link to my JustGiving page is below. 👇
#MentalElf for Mind in Furness.
Alternatively you can sponsor me, the link to my JustGiving page is below. 👇
#MentalElf for Mind in Furness.
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Civilian apartment building hit by drone debris in Kyiv. There’s car on fire. Medics and emergency service going on the site
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Civilian apartment building hit by drone debris in Kyiv. There’s car on fire. Medics and emergency service going on the site
If it looks like, talks like & walks like a fascist . . . .
Bovino: "We're ratcheting operations up in Chicago. That's a very corrupt system in Chicago. Whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzker or those out of control judges, Chicago needs some attention. You're gonna see some very dynamic operations."
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If it looks like, talks like & walks like a fascist . . . .
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Bovino: "We're ratcheting operations up in Chicago. That's a very corrupt system in Chicago. Whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzker or those out of control judges, Chicago needs some attention. You're gonna see some very dynamic operations."
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Bovino: "We're ratcheting operations up in Chicago. That's a very corrupt system in Chicago. Whether it's those elected leaders like Pritzker or those out of control judges, Chicago needs some attention. You're gonna see some very dynamic operations."