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Lydia Strachan
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Comms geek, angry feminist, lover of books and ballet. Founder/Director at www.https://confidentconversationscharity.org/ #hEDS #queer She/her.
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#Chumbawumba #Nazi
Nazi - Live
Chumbawamba · Showbusiness! (Live) · Song · 1995
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May 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Really helpful guide to the upcoming #Polish presidential elections from @notesfrompoland.bsky.social, including where and how to vote (if you can), who the candidates are and the main campaign issues.

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Your essential guide to Poland’s presidential election
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April 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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April 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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vaginamuseum.bsky.social
The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is one month away from closing – forever The Vagina Museum will be forced t… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum
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March 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Recently added #Affirmation by #SavageGarden to my writing playlist. Genuinely astonished how relevant it remains, 26 years after it was released. Holds up so well.

I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality

I believe the struggle for financial freedom isn't fair

I still believe it all
Screenshot of a Spotify page playing Savage Garden's 'Affirmation'. The cover photo is of Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones looking at the camera. The background is blue and they are wearing blue jumpers. They are looking moodily into the camera.
February 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 20. #TheresAGoodGirl #MarianneGrabrucker
'There's A Good Girl. Gender Stereotyping in the First Three Years of Life: A Diary', by Marianne Grabrucker. The top quarter of the cover is dark teal blue. The author's name (in red) and the title (in cream) take up all this space. Below, on a red background, is a painting of a young girl. She is pictures from the chest up. She is White, with short brown hair and big, dark blue eyes. She is wearing a white, long-sleeved top and blue dungarees. She stares at the viewer with an impassive expression.
December 15, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 19. #Pompeii #RobertHarris
'Pompeii', by Robert Harris. A black cover, with Robert Harris' name picked out in large yellow and red font. Under his name, is the title in white. Beneath that is a picture of an aqueduct. The picture is grey and has very little detail. It looks like the negative of a photograph.
December 13, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 18. #LadyChatterleysLover #DHLawrence
'Lady Chatterley's Lover', by D. H. Lawrence. The cover is a painting of a naked woman, sitting side on to the viewer. She is beside a bed. Behind her is a wooden dressing table, with a mirror and a lamp - which is the only source of light.
December 12, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 17. #TheLShapedRoom #LynneReidBanks
'The L-Shaped Room', by Lynne Reid Banks. A white cover with a purple rect angle covering the top three quarters. A faded photo of a woman, wearing 1960s clothing, looks at the viewer.
December 11, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 16. #NorthAndSouth #ElisabethGaskell
'North and South', by Elizabeth Gaskell. The top three quarters of the cover is a painting of northern England. In the foreground, is a green field. Cows graze and a couple can just be seen at the edge of the painting, possibly having a picnic. The background of the painting shows an industrial landscape. Tall towers belch smoke, and the land is dry and yellow.
December 10, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 15. #TheCitadel #AJCronin
'The Citadel', by A. J. Cronin. The majority of the cover is a mid-blue background. The title takes up the top half of the cover. Underneath is a large old-fashioned doctors bag. A stethoscope is hanging over the bag's handles.
December 9, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 14. #AliceMunro
December 8, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 13. #TheDeathOfGrass #JohnChristopher
'The Death of Grass', by John Christopher. A black cover with a photograph of fronds of green grass on it. The grass is dramatically backlit and seems to be covered in dew or frost.
December 7, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 12. #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien
'The Lord of the Rings', by J.R.R. Tolkien. The cover is a dark green painting of a grassy hillside. A tree looms in the right background. In the centre a wizard, dressed in a grey robe and a grey hat, wields a staff.
December 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 11. #ChildrenOfTheNewForest
'Children of the New Forest', by Captain Marryat. The title of the book is written in a yellow circle at the top of the cover. The rest of the cover is a painting of a lakeside in the English New Forest. Trees are growing down to the shoreline. Two deer are looking across the lake.
December 5, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 10. #Poirot #AgathaChristie
'Curtains: Poirot's Last Case', by Agatha Christie. The cover is pale yellow. The title and author's name take up the top half of the cover. The bottom half shows a black bowler hat on top of a gold-topped black walking cane.
December 4, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 9. #FeminineMystique #BettyFriedan
'The Feminine Mystique', by Betty Friedan. A white cover with just the book title and author's name.
December 3, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 8. #CrestOfTheDragon #AlisonLeonard
'Crest of the Dragon', by Alison Leonard. A colour drawing of a young man on horseback, looking at a bearded man also on horseback. Both are wearing clothing dating from the late 1300s. The man wears the emblem of a dragon's head on his tabard.
December 2, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 7. #Fahrenheit451 #RayBradbury
'Fahrenheit 451', by Ray Bradbury. The cover is orange with red flames licking up from the bottom.
December 1, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 6. #TheHandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood
'The Handmaid's Tale', by Margaret Atwood. The cover is a painting of a blurred white-skinned woman on a black background. She is wearing a red cloak and is looking in the direction of the viewer.
November 30, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 5. #ThingsFallApart #ChinuaAchebe
'Things Fall Apart', by Chinua Achebe. A drawing of African men wrestling. In the background is a crowd of enthusiastic people. To one side is a row of drums. The drawing is done in black ink on a creamy yellow background.
November 29, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 4. #HenryV #Shakespeare
A close-up of a bookshelf with red books. The books are all the same size and have their titles in gold writing on the side. A book is pulled forward. It reads King Henry V.
November 28, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky💙📚
#Books
#BookChallenge

Day 3. #EdithWharton
'Three Novels of Old New York', by Edith Wharton. The cover shows a painting of two women in late 19th century dress looking at the viewer. Both wear white dresses and one wears a wide-brimmed summer hat.
November 27, 2024 at 8:24 AM