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Miranda Stevenson
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🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Cheerful pessimist. Collects cats, books & resentments. I am what I choose to become, a work in progress. 🇺🇦 ✊🏻
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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I've found the perfect Instagram account. Seattle's Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie recommends books and shows her cats. That's it.

IG twicesoldtales
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Everything thing this terrible man says and does is is an externalisation of his self loathing. It would be terribly sad - and perhaps a little funny - if he weren’t the President of the United States. Incomprehensibly he is and so it’s terrifying.
May 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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March 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Sir Keir Starmer tells President Zelenskyy "we are all with you"👏
March 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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In light of Trump’s latest catastrophe, here’s a musical reinterpretation of the Star Spangled Banner by the brilliant Bill Bailey youtu.be/_dVFknALySA?...
Bill Bailey - Major / Minor (We Are Most Amused and Amazed 2018)
YouTube video by King's Trust Music
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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👏
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
What America has done to itself out of anger that half of them voted an intelligent, competent black man President, and to ensure an intelligent, competent and highly qualified black woman isn’t, is truly wild. What it may do to the world is terrifying.
Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy.

Let that sink in.
February 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What America has done to itself out of anger that half of them voted an intelligent, competent black man President, and to ensure an intelligent, competent and highly qualified black woman isn’t, is truly wild. What it may do to the world is terrifying.
This is INSANE. Even if you think Zelenskyy was out of line or rude or whatever in the Oval, the US government is going to just throw the entire country of Ukraine under the (Russian) bus over this? Toddlers in kindergarten behave better, and more strategically, than this.
🚨The Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelensky’s remarks in the Oval Office on Friday and his perceived intransigence in the peace process, per senior administration official
February 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This!
Plus the fact that he’s speaking pretty much guarantees he’s lying about something.
February 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
An excellent idea.
January 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Exactly this.
Lot of bigots showing up. Remember, don't interact. Just report and block block block.
January 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Ugh! Our lovely, if imperfect, Bluesky is seemingly suffering from a sudden onset of hateful trolls in everyone’s replies.
a group of people are standing next to each other in a room in a wizard of oz movie .
ALT: a group of people are standing next to each other in a room in a wizard of oz movie .
media.tenor.com
January 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.

The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵
this is kind of a niche issue but: if you are getting weird and hostile responses that feel a little off, there are some folks on here making accounts that automatically reply to large quantities of posts in a vaguely hostile manner. you can ignore them, and also, it's not personal
December 3, 2024 at 1:55 PM
As a middle class woman of a certain age with what some might call a bawdy sense of humour, I think we may say this is bollocks. Clearly, he’s an arrogant, entitled sex pest. That an Old Etonian considers this “crossing some lines” is unsurprising.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, "I think its likely that Greg Wallace has what we might call a bawdy sense of humour, clearly that's offended people.. Clearly he's crossed some lines"

Really not impressed by this remark from HFW
December 1, 2024 at 12:39 PM
#Caturday night. Buxton says, always check your look in the mirror before you head out on the tiles.
November 30, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Righty-ho, I’ll give Bluesky a go…
November 17, 2024 at 11:19 AM