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Aerliss
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Talks to animals. Sometimes they listen.

My crochet patterns can be found at https://madeleineandfriends.com/
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One of my hobbies is rescuing #pigeons. City pigeons are prone to #stringfoot, where their feet get tied up in string, elastic, netting, & most often human hair. I catch them, de-string them, release them. I post with #CatchThePigeon over on Masto. Figured I should start a thread for it here.
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"More than 7 weeks into the ceasefire.. air strikes & attacks on Gaza have yet to stop.. at least 354 Palestinians have been killed since [it started].. Israel has violated the ceasefire at least 535 times, & Israels forced starvation & displacement have continued unchecked"
November 30, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Stop the pigeon hate. Help them, look up and report any trapped or dead birds in bird netting to info@humanewildlifesolutions.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Starting to think millennials and genXers hallucinated #InsideNo9

Saw the stage play tonight in #Edinburgh. Talking about it to colleagues, customers, the taxi driver and no one outside those cohorts has even heard of the show.

It was amazing, btw. See it if you can.
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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and brought joy, peace and serenity with them.

Cherokee street magician.

Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture.

If you like my work, please, please, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated.

cash.app/$lostcitymagic

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November 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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resembled the wings and body of one from the front with its great flapping ears and trunk, and like the butterfly, was gentle and delicate in its movement despite its size, as well as being surprisingly intelligent and never lost, always knew where it was going and what it needed to do
November 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The elephant is the same word for "Butterfly" because when the Cherokee first encountered one, they said it
November 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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I had a thought. I've been questioned many times, why I put Trinidadian dialect in my novella that is set centuries in the future.

The main refrain was, wouldn't that have been phased out?
And my thought was...would ppl make the same comment if I had used latin? or something latin sounding?
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Based on literature I think valets might be the better option - Jeeves restrained Wooster but Batman’s Albert let things get out of control. No way would Jeeves allow the building of high tech secret caves and dressing up in rubber
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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artists and designers using ai like
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Mamdani appoints trans woman to transition team and right-wingers are predictably outraged
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/28/zohran-mamdani-abby-stein-trans/?utm_content=1764360022&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Went into the reviews expecting racism. Was not disappointed. Or was disappointed, depending on your point of view...

Bollywood inspired A Christmas Carol. Sounds amazing.

www.imdb.com/title/tt2072...
Christmas Karma (2025) ⭐ 4.5 | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
1h 54m | PG
www.imdb.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Cherokee street magician.

Trying to preserve our Native American Magic Culture.

If you like my work, please, please, please help support it, any little bit helps a lot and is greatly appreciated.

cash.app/$lostcitymagic

www.paypal.me/JeramyNeugin

ko-fi.com/jeramyneugin
Pay me on Cash App
Instantly exchange money for free on Cash App
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November 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Cherokee family depended on them so much that the average home kept around two dozen. It was customary when riding in peace to have the horse wear bells so you would be announcing your coming. It was customary for traders and children's horses to wear bells at all times to know their whereabouts.
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The horse's name translates to "pack" or "burden" because it carried most of the day to day workload. Each
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The only acceptable reason for Hegseth not eventually being dragged to the Hague is if he shoots himself in a bunker.

And every fucker who related and carried out these orders.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The Oxfam Music Shop in Stockbridge sells upcycled sheet music as gift wrapping paper. I think it’s three sheets for £1.

#EdinburghHour
November 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Prison journalism project published some of the most moving articles I read anywhere this year, consider donating! Empowering incarcerated people to tell their own stories matters
If you want to support our work and/or even pass this along to MacKenzie Scott (hey, you never know!), please consider making a donation. Your gift will be matched! Our goal is to raise $50K by Dec. 31. Help us get there. ⤵️ S/O Bluesky if you make a donation.
On the outside, reporters write what they see.
On the inside, writers report what they live, what they hear, feel and notice in ways no one else can.

That’s the power of lived-experience journalism
And it’s the reason Prison Journalism Project exists.
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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For YEARS Greens have been saying we need a just transition for ppl in the fossil fuel industry because it will inevitably wind down.

We were told we didn’t care about those workers by right wing parties who didn’t want to think about the future.

Now they’re suffering for that short sightedness.
The headwinds for Mossmorran were clear. That's why in 2022 we commissioned a report looking in depth at future options, followed by summits with trade unions. Governments needed to act much earlier.

Now we need to see real investment in the future of the site and the workforce.
Mark Ruskell: Crumbs off corporate table won’t be enough for Mossmorran's workers
THE taps will turn off at ExxonMobil’s Mossmorran plant in February, meaning that hundreds of skilled workers and their families will face an…
www.thenational.scot
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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“There are moments to celebrate and there are moments to not be complacent. Sometimes, it is both. Eight years of work have at last rid the country of the benefit limit. And yet the backlash it provokes shows starkly how progress is an uphill battle.”

My col. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow | Frances Ryan
The right is already in a frenzy about the migrant groups it thinks will benefit – and the budget contained other trade-offs, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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BREAKING🚨 Campaigners were outside Dana Petroleum HQ in Aberdeen today to call out their contract with the Israeli government!

We join the International Day of Action against Dana Petroleum & its owner the Korean National Oil Company (KNOC) - in Ulsan, South Korea, in Aberdeen, Edinburgh & London.
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”

From a media law perspective: BS.

There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I don't wear jumpers, but I will make an exception for Alastor's jumper. Come on, merch peeps, gimme Alastor's jumper I will pay handsomely!

#HazbinHotel
Omgggg new Merch with Al and Luci!
And Luci’s Snake??? And how Al looks at him??? I'm GONE GONE 🫠🫠🫠

#hazbinhotel #hazbinhotelseason2 #radioapple #bambilu #appleradio
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I love the content warnings on #JurassicPark #ChaosTheory. "Violence & threat".

People get eaten every other episode! Main characters get thagomised, lose limbs, witness their parents getting eaten. It's a bit beyond violence.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Can you dig it?
November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM