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@playtwowords.bsky.social I love the way two words collide in your game ☁️🌧️⛈️
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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As of Wednesday, and without warning, it seems Bonners, one of the last remaining fresh produce suppliers in Oxford's Covered Market has closed. This is very sad. Market needs diversity.

Bonners were absolute stars during Covid lockdown.

cc. @oxfordclarion.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Check out Great & Small - Organ and Fiddle Album by Will Allen & Becci Pamely on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...
Great & Small - Organ and Fiddle Album
Will Allen and Becci Pamely are making a full album of traditional English music for fiddle, viola, and pipe organ.
www.kickstarter.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Now that’s an English folk song I can get behind … love the musical references too!

youtube.com/shorts/Z731N...
Song for Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Suella Braverman and everyone else who wants to divide us 😎
YouTube video by Joseph Tawadros
youtube.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Almost there:
Trump is of today officially supporting fascists.
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Posting this for no particular reason today. Nope. No reason at all.
www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-histo...
Why all Soviet jokes needed to be approved by the Department of Jokes
In Soviet Russia, comedians needed to run every joke they planned on telling in a given year through the Ministry of Culture of the USSR.
www.wearethemighty.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Corruption Inc

Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals.

Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals.

Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data.

Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat.

£200,000 from a hedge fund.
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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The United States moved on Friday to dismantle a "burdensome" federal program that tracks greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S. economy.
U.S. moves to scrap emissions reporting by polluters
U.S. President Donald Trump has heavily promoted new oil, gas, and coal extraction while moving to suppress competition from solar and wind.
ebx.sh
September 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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target CEO about to start wearing kente cloth
September 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Every state that doesn't ascribe to fascism should pass a version of this bill. If I have to show my papers to the Gestapo, the Gestapo needs to show me their face and their badge number.
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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qualify, a loyalty screening for funds. A judge in Rhode Island ruled that this was not permissible and blocked the government from enforcing those conditions.
US judge blocks HUD from tying homeless grant funding to Trump policies
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from requiring applicants for grants to build housing for the homeless to align themselves with U.S. President Donald Trump's positions on immigration enforcement, transgender people and other issues.
www.reuters.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Like this🤔🤔🤔🤔✊✊✊✊✊
September 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
www.france24.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
@playtwowords.bsky.social some pairs of words go well together
August 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Kicking off with a stormer! ⚡️Some incredible opening turns played against Susie:

'Noel' played RETAILS for 83
'Squeezyjohn' played QUEERER for 111
'HUDDY' played CUTTAGE for 97
'Chiller12345' played PERFUME for 104
'Birdman' played ACCREWS for 111

#PlaySusie
June 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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They just grabbed one of the top winemakers in our region. A leader in the industry. #FuckICE www.opb.org/article/2025...
ICE to deport Willamette Valley vineyard manager despite public outcry for his release
Family members of Moises Sotelo Casas say he will be deported this week. He was detained by immigration officials in June.
www.opb.org
July 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.
July 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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10 years ago, #OnThisDay in 2015, NASA's New Horizons probe performed the first flyby of dwarf planet Pluto, completing the initial survey of the Solar System. This 'true colour' photo was taken on 14 July 2015, showing numerous impact craters and the large basin of the Sputnik Planitia.
July 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Posting our paper, out today in preprint, for the western hemisphere crowd. Predictions and deductions about our new interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, from our Ōtautahi-Oxford model arxiv.org/abs/2507.05318
From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population model
The discovery of the third interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS (`3I'), provides a rare chance to directly observe a small body from another Solar System. Studying its chemistry and dynamics will add t...
arxiv.org
July 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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ILLINOIS… Gov. Pritzker…
April 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Here comes the arrests of journalists now.
April 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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First they came for the Venezuelans.

And I was not a Venezuelan so I did not speak out.

THEN THEY COME FOR THE UNIVERSITIES,

THEN THE PRESS,

THEN THE JUDGES,

then protesters,

Then students,

then the tourists,

then writers,

then the pregnant,

then any citizen who complained.

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April 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM