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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

#WarRavagedPortland

October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM

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Cassetteboy

@cassetteboy.bsky.social

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Andy

@andy.wrestlejoy.com

Bertrand Russel is how i aspire to respond to people

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,

Bertrand Russell

September 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM

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Simon

@simonxix.com

Fash overwhelmed by anti-fascists in Glasgow. As always, we're joyful, singing ABBA and chanting, and the fascists are just standing gloomily, not even bothering to chant or sing.

A huge crowd of anti-fascist counter protestors in front of Buchanan Street steps in Glasgow

A crowd of people. Someone holds a placard saying "Scotland is depopulating, we need migrants, ya numpties"

September 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM

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Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…

—“George Square”, by Jackie Kay
LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005

Hear Jackie Kay read this poem on the @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social:
poetryarchive.org/poem/george-...

George Square
by Jackie Kay

My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress.
‘What a pair the two of us are!’
my mother said, ‘Me with my sore wrist,
you with your bad eyes, your soft thumbs!’

And off they went, my two parents
to march against the war in Iraq,
him with his plastic hips, her with her arthritis
to congregate at George Square where the banners
waved at each other like old friends, flapping,
where they’d met for so many marches over their years,
for peace on earth, for pity’s sake, for peace, for peace.

June 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM

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Oliver

@oliver48.bsky.social

... plus - a win-win for divide-and-rule media - blame bored young people for the inevitable rise in petty crime

meme via Spotted News UK

May 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM

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Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

Glasgow, you look beatific in blue
and I’ve a Saturday before me
for galleries and poems,
a house full of Haydn,
and beneath my kitchen window,
tennis stars in saris
lobbing backhands at the bins…

—Donny O’Rourke, “Great Western Road”
from The Ghost of Liberace: New Writing Scotland 11 (ASLS, 1993)

Great Western Road
Donny O’Rourke

Glasgow, you look beatific in blue
and I’ve a Saturday before me
for galleries and poems,
a house full of Haydn,
and beneath my kitchen window,
tennis stars in saris
lobbing backhands at the bins.
French coffee, and who knows maybe
Allen Ginsberg in my bath!
then round to the dairy
where scones are cooling on the rack
and Jimmy won’t let me leave
till I’ve tried one there and then,
here, where the new Glasgow started –
an old grey city going blonde
whose Asian shops are full of fruits
we owe to Cap’n Bligh
and I’m so juiced I could walk clear
to Loch Lomond,
past busses stripping the willow
all along Great Western Road
but I just browse bargains in banjos
and pop-art knitted ties,
before checking out the crime section
at Caledonia Books,
finding freesias in the flowershops
and in the second hand record store,
Bruckner’s Third,
The Clevelend
under Szell:
so sad; like falling for passing students
with that black haired, blue eyed look,
or buying basil and chorizos…
In the afternoon I’ll look at paintings
in Dougie Thomson’s Mayfest show,
maybe stroll down to the studio
to view some archive film,
past the motorways and multi-storeys
of Grieve’s Ultimate Cowcaddens,
the peeling pawn at George’s Cross
where, today, everything is redeemable
because tonight there’ll be guitar poets
from Russia at the Third Eye Centre.
And later I’ll cook zarzuela
for a new and nimble friend.
God Glasgow it’s glorious
just to gulp you down in heartfuls,
feeling something quite like love.

May 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM

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Ron Hughes

@wherepond.bsky.social

Barbado's brilliant PM Mia Mottley educates a journalist who asked a dumb question
youtu.be/BPiwH5vENnA?...

Barbado's PM SHUTS DOWN an ARROGANT Journalist Asking a Dumb Question!

YouTube video by The Africa News Network

youtu.be

October 5, 2024 at 7:55 AM

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Best for Britain

@bestforbritain.org

If you have seen reports in the last few days claiming a majority of Gen-Z would like to be ruled by a dictator, and thought "that seems a bit iffy", you're not even close.

It wasn't just "iffy". It was utter, unadulterated, cow manure. ~AA

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/just-6-...

A fairer representation of Gen Z opinion is that just 6% say they support a dictatorship.

March 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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Tom Vamos

@tom.loopy.co.uk

@aiannucci.bsky.social
You've seen this right? Real life Partridge.

youtu.be/uLsDpkQY3xo

Peter Rosenfeld rides Zip World Fforest Coaster, Wales

YouTube video by Gizago

youtu.be

March 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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Helen Czerski

@helenczerski.bsky.social

It is quite hilarious to hear a bunch of adults on BBC R4's Broadcasting House moralising about kids "who won't put their phones down" when what I see in the world looks like a lot of **adults** who can't put their phones down. Maybe the kids are just learning from their elders...

March 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM

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Debby Williams 💙♐️

@dwilliams1210.com

🤣😂☠️

Joy Drew Hallas | they/them📍Seattle, WA. @hugatreeresistance.bsky.social · Mar 1

If only…
Salva Ukrani!
💪 🇺🇦

March 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM

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Dr. Robert Karl

@drkarlauthor.bsky.social

After Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s recent diplomatic debacle with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, I thought it might be helpful to contrast the current administration’s approach with that of President Jimmy Carter:

March 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM

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Glen O'Hara

@gsoh31.bsky.social

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields.

It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses.

The goal is destroy US universities.

February 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM

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Buitengebieden

@buitengebieden.bsky.social

Pretend to be on the phone and say your dog’s favorite words..

Watch until the end.. 😂

December 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly

@seamas.bsky.social

Been seven years since I first read this, on the English language's *completely universal but totally invisible* adjective hierarchy, and I can honestly say I've thought about it most days since.

Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you da. Have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And since since comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist."
- Mark Forsyth, quote from The Elements of Eloquence: How to turn the Perfect English Phrase

December 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM

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Clainy

@clainybskysocial.bsky.social

NEVER FORGET AND NEVER GO BACK.

November 24, 2024 at 8:03 PM

David Roth

@buddhapest.bsky.social

I'm going to be taking part in the London Legal Walk on 18th June, to raise funds for the charity Family Rights Group (FRG), that I used to work for. They do great work, and I would encourage you to follow this link and sponsor me: londonlegalsupporttrust.enthuse.com/pf/family-ri...

April 5, 2024 at 10:05 AM