CactusPens
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CactusPens
@cactuspens.bsky.social
British Penguins fan
a man with a beard wearing a uss seal sea hat
ALT: a man with a beard wearing a uss seal sea hat
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Can't fucking believe my luck
November 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Spot on from Andrew Marr on the vacuity of the Government's unquestioning embrace of AI and big tech, at the same time as that technology is accelerating the far right radicalisation and economic division of our society
July 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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a software ceo got caught in 4k on the jumbotron with the company’s chief people officer at a coldplay concert
July 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This is absolutely extraordinary, both the stalking itself and the alleged conduct of the Bishop of Leicester when the victim approached him - accusing him of witchcraft!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leicester Church of England: A preacher asked me out and then started stalking me
When Jay Hulme complained about the harassment to a bishop, he was accused of witchcraft.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone
On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone
A subreddit tracking apocalyptic news in a calm, logical way comforts users who believe the end times are now
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today I finally answered a question that I've been wondering about for a while. Turns out that no 2 great seasons of Andor does not make Rogue One any better.
May 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"What you reckon lads, get another bag in?"
Today at the European Political Community Summit in Albania.

Caption this image?
May 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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"I look at Starmer's trajectory and it is immensely difficult not to notice the trail of devastation left behind. Disabled people, Palestinians, trans people, and now immigrants. All I can see is someone who is willing to throw anyone out of his hot air balloon, just so it can rise higher."
🚨NEW SHOW

This week it’s Naomi, Alex and Kenny!

We discuss the appalling rhetoric around immigration and set out everything we think we know about what’s actually happening at the big 🇬🇧🇪🇺 summit on Monday.

💚 open.spotify.com/episode/6NvN...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
The Unkindness of Strangers
Quiet Riot · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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A comprehensive comms success.
May 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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This needs to move urgently from the "considering" to "doing" category.

We've just watched the world's richest man handing out cheques for $1 million in an attempt to buy an election.

UK campaign finance laws are decades out of date. That leaves our democracy dangerously open to plutocratic attack
🔴Keir Starmer Plans to Crack Down on Political Interference by Foreign Billionaire Donors

The PM is under pressure to close loopholes that would allow tech billionaire and Trump aide Elon Musk to funnel millions of dollars into right-wing political parties in the UK
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/02/k...
Keir Starmer Plans to Crack Down on Political Interference by Foreign Billionaire Donors
The Prime Minister is under pressure to close legal loopholes that would allow tech billionaire and Donald Trump aide Elon Musk to funnel millions of dollars into right-wing political parties in the U...
bylinetimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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I'm in LabourList, writing about Project Chainsaw, Scottish DOGE, and Labour talking about making Britain great again, all of which does nothing but signal desperation and a clanging lack of ideological self confidence.

labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
‘Labour should drop the chainsaw rhetoric and stop trying to impress journalists' - LabourList
Morgan Jones argues that Labour does not need to riff on Milei and Musk.
labourlist.org
March 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Please share. 🙏🏻
March 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/

Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral
“Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.”
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...
Trump is making false claims about Zelensky's popularity, say experts
US President Donald Trump has once again echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%. In reality, polling by ex...
www.manchester.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Everything is fucked.
February 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Well this is fucking worrying and like so much worst than what was being reported at the time.
Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold
US president demands higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at Versailles
www.telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Now that there’s been an arrest I feel safe sharing this story:

TMZ reached out to my job asking if I worked there. I called them up to see what they wanted. They claimed to have multiple sources saying I was the killer, then expressed shock that the NYPD hadn’t contacted me yet.

Call audio:
December 10, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Ian Hislop for PM.....
November 21, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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One possibly underrated factor is I’ve spoken to a few journalists who expressed concerns, shared at the institutional level, about using DMs on a site run by someone who’s not just a right-wing troll but literally part of the executive branch.
November 22, 2024 at 7:10 PM