Katherine Babbs
@babbskt.bsky.social
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What a year this week has been.
January 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
What a year this week has been.
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We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
There is video of the shooting of a woman by ICE in Minneapolis circulating that shows an ICE agent repeatedly shooting her at point blank range while she tries to drive off. There was no obvious threat to any ICE agent.
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 PM
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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What the actual giddy fuck??
January 3, 2026 at 9:45 AM
What the actual giddy fuck??
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I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic
Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates
He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den
#DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've got to be honest, we may as well call it a night #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
What a joke
lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
What a joke
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🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🎶Papal reign, papal reign…🎶
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
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Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."
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The new Lily Allen album is absolutely magnificent. It’s impossible to exaggerate her influence over so many modern artistes and ‘West End Girl’ shows why. But my goodness it’s brutal. Tunes like nursery rhymes, lyrics like razor blades.
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The new Lily Allen album is absolutely magnificent. It’s impossible to exaggerate her influence over so many modern artistes and ‘West End Girl’ shows why. But my goodness it’s brutal. Tunes like nursery rhymes, lyrics like razor blades.
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Ex-Tory mayor Andy Street slams Robert Jenrick's claim part of Birmingham is "a slum" with "no white faces".
"If you go along the main streets there you will see Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, African and Caribbean ... and of course white people"
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-to...
"If you go along the main streets there you will see Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, African and Caribbean ... and of course white people"
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-to...
Top Tory Slams Robert Jenrick For Saying Part Of His City Is A 'Slum' With 'No White Faces'
Former mayor Andy Street hit back at the shadow justice secretary on Newsnight.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Ex-Tory mayor Andy Street slams Robert Jenrick's claim part of Birmingham is "a slum" with "no white faces".
"If you go along the main streets there you will see Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, African and Caribbean ... and of course white people"
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-to...
"If you go along the main streets there you will see Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, African and Caribbean ... and of course white people"
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/top-to...
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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If your response to Jewish people being stabbed to death and mowed down by a car in Manchester is “Gaza” you’re a charlatan and an antisemite and you need to get in the fucking bin.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
October 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
If your response to Jewish people being stabbed to death and mowed down by a car in Manchester is “Gaza” you’re a charlatan and an antisemite and you need to get in the fucking bin.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
I’ve had enough. Jews have had enough.
And you’re no ally of the Palestinian people if you behave like this.
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A lot of pieces and people who visibly have forgotten that the quarter of people in England and Wales who are not white British or white English are also people, with electoral concerns and interests.
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A lot of pieces and people who visibly have forgotten that the quarter of people in England and Wales who are not white British or white English are also people, with electoral concerns and interests.
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Danny Kruger having a big role in Reform immediately takes them in a decidedly more anti-abortion direction. Implausible he'd have jumped without discussions on that point
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Danny Kruger having a big role in Reform immediately takes them in a decidedly more anti-abortion direction. Implausible he'd have jumped without discussions on that point
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The United Kingdom literally went from being a country where only 70 per cent of people were happy for their kids to be in a mixed-'race' relationship to a 90 per cent in the worst period for wage growth since the Napoleonic Wars!
I don't know why people on the left keep acting like people who go to open displays of nationalism featuring the Literal Are Tommy can somehow be reframed as agreeing with them
jesus, that's a wall of text
September 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The United Kingdom literally went from being a country where only 70 per cent of people were happy for their kids to be in a mixed-'race' relationship to a 90 per cent in the worst period for wage growth since the Napoleonic Wars!
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Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
When her son died in utero, a venture capitalist went to extremes to punish her surrogate.
www.wired.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Surrogate pregnancies are increasingly popular in tech circles, and the practice is expected to explode globally in the coming decade. It’s also shockingly unregulated. This is a story about what happens when it goes horribly wrong.
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Claire's was once a place where tween girls went to be tween girls. Now it's in trouble, @elcush.bsky.social writes: https://theatln.tc/8D1ts6RS
August 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Claire's was once a place where tween girls went to be tween girls. Now it's in trouble, @elcush.bsky.social writes: https://theatln.tc/8D1ts6RS
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not an attack on OP by any means but it sucks so bad to see these posts like "no one's going to the cinema, no one's reading books, no one's reading articles" as it's obviously entirely correct but also I'm doing those things!!! I don't want to lose them!!! I'm still doing all of them!!! stop!!!
You do have to wonder about the future of these industries when no one goes to the cinema any more, the highest rated TV shows get about 3 million viewers, and streaming is practically dead.
Blimey, Red is shutting down. The production company that made It’s a Sin and Happy Valley can’t continue operating in the current UK television landscape. Bloody hell. 😬
www.screendaily.com/news/studioc...
www.screendaily.com/news/studioc...
June 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
not an attack on OP by any means but it sucks so bad to see these posts like "no one's going to the cinema, no one's reading books, no one's reading articles" as it's obviously entirely correct but also I'm doing those things!!! I don't want to lose them!!! I'm still doing all of them!!! stop!!!
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think of this tweet every single time I see a normal family with their goth teen
December 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
think of this tweet every single time I see a normal family with their goth teen
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Find someone you love as much as Tony Blair loves ID cards.
December 12, 2024 at 8:18 AM
Find someone you love as much as Tony Blair loves ID cards.
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Presenting: The Australian Museum's most popular exhibit - a skeleton man popping a wheelie on a skeleton horse, officially called "the Bone Ranger" #straya
November 23, 2024 at 6:23 AM
Presenting: The Australian Museum's most popular exhibit - a skeleton man popping a wheelie on a skeleton horse, officially called "the Bone Ranger" #straya
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my opinion is that when the other lot have spent years not only going low but relentlessly finding new and exciting ways in which to go lower, then maybe you too can go low just this one time to prevent a man who's had a complicated life from being used as a torture puppet for four years
December 2, 2024 at 9:11 AM
my opinion is that when the other lot have spent years not only going low but relentlessly finding new and exciting ways in which to go lower, then maybe you too can go low just this one time to prevent a man who's had a complicated life from being used as a torture puppet for four years
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NEW: Wes Streeting ‘compromised’ government neutrality by expressing assisted dying views, says Baroness Harriet Harman
Harman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that by expressing his views on the issue the health secretary had “crossed a line”
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/11...
Harman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that by expressing his views on the issue the health secretary had “crossed a line”
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/11...
Streeting ‘compromised’ government neutrality by expressing assisted dying views, says Harman - Politics.co.uk
Parliament will debate the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on 29 November. It is marked as a free vote by the government.
www.politics.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 9:30 AM
NEW: Wes Streeting ‘compromised’ government neutrality by expressing assisted dying views, says Baroness Harriet Harman
Harman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that by expressing his views on the issue the health secretary had “crossed a line”
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/11...
Harman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that by expressing his views on the issue the health secretary had “crossed a line”
Full story 👇
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/11...