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Mostly cat pictures. 🇵🇸 Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. He/him
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grouchomerckx.bsky.social
Chucking a pic in the thread for posterity

(from www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/ne... )
A big mural on a building. A mermaid is lying on a beach holding a TNT plunger with a cable leading out to the masts of SS Montgomery at sea. Words read: "Welcome to Sheerness: you'll have a blast"
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
grouchomerckx.bsky.social
Have you seen the gallows-humour mural in Sheerness of a mermaid with a detonation plunger?
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
grouchomerckx.bsky.social
Might have got different results with a full-throttle Peter Bellamy impersonation instead of some gentle Gordon Bok
A small black cat looking serene, perhaps vacant The same cat looking slightly to her left with much the same expression
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
stan rogers' shipwreck song was so inspiring it saved a man's life in an actual shipwreck, hard to beat that
~ Connection to the sinking of the Marine Electric On February 12, 1983 the ship Marine Electric was carrying a load of coal from Norfolk, Virginia to a power station in Somerset, Massachusetts. The worst storm in forty years blew up that night, and the ship sank at about four o'clock in the morning on February 13. The ship's chief mate, 59-year-old Robert M. "Bob" Cusick, was trapped in the deckhouse as the ship went down. His snorkeling experience helped him avoid panic and swim to the surface, but he was left to spend the night alone on a partially deflated lifeboat he eventually reached, in water barely above freezing and air much colder. Huge seas washed over him, and each time he was not sure that he would ever reach the surface again to breathe. Battling hypothermia, he was tempted to allow himself to fall unconscious and be washed away. Just then he remembered the concluding stanzas of "The Mary Ellen Carter". (9) 12:43 三 And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. Rise again, rise again -though your heart it be broken Or life about to end. No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend, Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again. As Cusick tells in One Warm Line, a documentary about Rogers, he started to sing it and soon was alternately shouting out "Rise again, rise again" and holding his breath as the seas washed over him. (10](11) At seven o'clock that morning a Coast Guard helicopter spotted him and pulled him to safety. 19 Only three men of the thirty-four who had been aboard survived the wreck. After his ordeal, Cusick wrote a letter to Stan Rogers telling him what
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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avdeggar.bsky.social
Lest we also forget the contribution of the BBC's ex-political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, as the official stenographer for the Cummings/Johnson political project. An absolutely extraordinary state of affairs for the supposedly impartial national broadcaster.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/cum...
Cummings says he only dealt with Laura Kuenssberg and refuses to disclose text messages to journalists
Dominic Cummings said it was crazy that the PM and himself had so much power.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM