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Andy O'Hara
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He/him. 'Resting' portrait/performance photographer and medical secretary based in Brighton, UK. Living with the joys of long covid / MECFS. Neurospicy. Keen to get back into playing TTRPGs and eventually GMing again.
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aoharaphoto.bsky.social
What the absolute fuck, Labour. There seems to be no end to their capacity to horribly disappoint.
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 6 Dec 1938 members of the Australian Aborigines’ League led by William Cooper marched to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter condemning the "cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany". Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1265...
December 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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nancyfjorde.bsky.social
I wrote this on the 30th anniversary and included a list of their names along with small blurbs curated about them, their lives/dreams. Then I shared a powerful story I heard when I was invited to speak at a memorial at my old alma mater, @uwaterloo.ca. #Dec6

nancyforde.substack.com/p/imagined-l...
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
We navigated by The Hum. Transmission tower to transmission tower, compelled to walk below its prophetic song. The electric ley of the land manifesting in sound, steel and porcelain insulators. Writing itself as map tattooed on our bones. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
December 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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alasdairstuart.bsky.social
Currently exactly one response to this and the call closes today so if you want to get some eyes on your project this Friday, now's the time.
alasdairstuart.bsky.social Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 4d
Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Ol' Salty, Pirate Saltasaurus. A bit of silliness which became a personal favourite.

Sepia ink over blue pencil on Strathmore grey toned paper, 110 × 143 mm, from 2013.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Drawing of a Saltasaurus with its back to the viewer in three-quarter view, wearing a voluminous sash around its waist, in which is stuck a profusion of swords whose hilts are carved as the heads of various dinosaurs and pterosaurs. It also wears a tricorn hat trimmed with long feathers and carries a spear.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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scribblerpen.bsky.social
"The NUJ Disabled Members’ Council calls on journalists to challenge harmful portrayals about disabled people and shift the narrative from blame to one centred on rights, access and inclusion."
The NUJ statement on the #InternationalDayOfDisabledPeople

www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...
NUJ statement on International Day of Disabled People
Today (3 December) marks International Day of Disabled People, with this year’s theme focusing on fostering disability-inclusive societies.
www.nuj.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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mckelvie.bsky.social
Just so sad and angry about what's happening in the UK thanks to a small group of hateful transphobes and a much larger group of people who should do better but let the bigots walk all over them.
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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ianmcque.bsky.social
Gotham backstreets
Digital painting, Batman and his trusty hover batbike in the backstreets of Gotham City
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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loottheroom.bsky.social
The Mouth Of Winter starts today. Chapter 1 is up. It's a grimdark fantasy/horror novella about mercenaries, monks, and the ancient thing sleeping beneath a mountain monastery. One chapter every day through December 25th.

loottheroom.itch.io/advent2025 #TheMouthOfWinter ❄️ #HorrorSky
The Mouth Of Winter by Chris Bissette
A serialised dark fantasy novella
loottheroom.itch.io
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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kaiinreallife.bsky.social
I want to talk about Stranger Things for a moment. Before I do, I have to admit that yes, I notoriously like things, and yes, when I am part of a fandom, I generally just accept all aspects of being a fan of that thing, and care not for the little issues or problems. I LIKE liking things.
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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marshdavies.bsky.social
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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scientits.bsky.social
This is seriously worrying - do read the whole thread
jesbattis.bsky.social Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 8d
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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microsff.com
In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu lies dreaming. I focus on my dreamwatcher machine, making minute adjustments in all five dimensions.

The Great Old One whimpers, vast limbs twitching in unease. What visions can terrify such an entity?

An image forms in the machine.

A classroom.

No trousers.
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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thebadspot.bsky.social
TEETH BUNDLE!!!! TEETH BUNDLE!!!! TEETH BUNDLE!!!!

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TEETHazine Bundle by TEETH: A ROLEPLAYING GAME
A bundle by TEETH: A ROLEPLAYING GAME, $13.00 for STRANGER & STRANGER, BLOOD COTILLION, MORE TEETH
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November 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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cbffjuk.bsky.social
Thank you, Jen Craft MP, for raising the Covid Inquiry report at PMQs.

Boris Johnson's negligence resulted in thousands of avoidable deaths.

That is why we are calling for his access to the £ 115k-a-year ex-PM allowance to end.

Sign our Petition: c.org/7NCWHGntgg
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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scribblerpen.bsky.social
Patients shouldn't be risking their lives and health when going *into hospitals* for diagnosis or treatment.
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on #masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable.
Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CEV #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
Petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment...
petition.parliament.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
There comes a point when we begin to encounter more polite, respectful and well-mannered ghosts than we do people. This is why I tell those who ask that I prefer the company of spectres to that of the living. - #CJosiffe #Ghosts
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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tabathasouthey.bsky.social
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.

‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??

news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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marcwilson.co.uk
Lovely to be awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the The Royal Photographic Society alongside some great names in the industry, including Ragnar Axelsson , Amak Mahmoodian , Richard Billingham and Janine Wiedel.
rps.org/about/awards...
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow   When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.    One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.    It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.   Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.   But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.    The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.    Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.    The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have. It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.   As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.   It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.   And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.    Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.   But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.    That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine. Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.    I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.   Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.   For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’   This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.    The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.   But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us. Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.   And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.   So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.    That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.    And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends. 
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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goodlawproject.org
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”

If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM