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chbarts.bsky.social
I have, but it's more rare than turkey. My family also knows how to cook turkey, so I don't miss ham.
November 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
chbarts.bsky.social
So sweet. My niece loves to swim, has since she was that age. Just a little water baby. I'm glad she's at least going to be safe in the water.
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
My family does a traditional American holiday dinner on Christmas Eve and (for the last several years) hot pot on Christmas Day. 🙂
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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fenngh.bsky.social
Most social "rules" are arbitrary and it really saves so much time and effort if you're just upfront.

Open your heart and people will respond in kind. If they don't, oh well. At least you're living more authentically.

I can't think of anything more suffocating than pretending I don't care.
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
For those wondering, and wanting to read more, including where he compares the Home Secretary to Elizabeth 1st, it is from an interview today in the Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
To me, Shabana is like Elizabeth I – someone who is not only devoted to her job, but who never expected it.” He believes that the Home Secretary is here to redeem Labour and re-establish the integrity for the state. And though she’s “utterly unique”, in her “courageousness, her talents, her beliefs, her religion”, she’s not got her eye on the leadership
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Is that possibly because anyone with half a braincell and a genuine understanding of politics and issues knows GB News is a joke by any chance?
But he respects the Reform leader – both believe in sovereignty and reject untrammelled immigration – and insists on civility in public debate. He regularly joins Farage’s GB News programme, wryly observing that no one in the Houses of Parliament notices when he appears on the channel. “But when I do the BBC, with its 4,000 viewers, they’ll all mention it.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
What is this word salad?
Tag yourself
He came up with that phrase a few years ago. The lanyard is, to his mind, the ultimate symbol of the progressives. Of the technocratic managerialism, globalisation, transhumanism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics, society and, perhaps worst of all, desecrated the working class
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Why is transphobia the default state for so many arseholes?
Perhaps more than anything, Lord Glasman wants a return to sanity. He is repulsed by the officious, rules-based, professional classes who preach that “up is down, men are women, right is wrong”. Who tell us that truth is subjective and must be suborned to kindness. He recently took part in a Newsnight panel alongside a doctor. “In the lift afterwards, I asked him, ‘If a bloke comes to you with a penis and says they’re a woman, you’ll accept that?’ And he replied, ‘Of course.’ This is bonkers.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM