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Simon F
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Pathological Londoner enjoying later life in the Scottish Highlands
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Simon F @sfeegrade.bsky.social · Mar 13
When I saw this story I didn't believe it's true but I like it.

A yachtsman got into difficulty and radioed the coastguard for help.

COASTGUARD: What is your position?
YACHTSMAN: I'm finance director at a textiles company.
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clairemullaly.bsky.social
The content of 22,000 predominantly right-wing accounts is pushed to new Twitter accounts by Musk's algorithm. More than half of the political content came from accounts that used hateful or extreme language.

Government bodies, MPs, unions ..they all need to shut down their accounts.
mimmymum.bsky.social Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 20d
Incredible piece of data research and reporting on the undeniable biased and intentionally manipulated X algorithm.

The article talks about how it influences the visibility of prominent, powerful political parties.

Now think about how it impacts already marginalised & targeted trans people! 😣
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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lachlanthesane.bsky.social
He received a prophecy that his firstborn daughter was destined to kill him
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
The 1982 documentary series Police, about the Thames Valley force, is remembered for officers' appalling handling of a rape victim. This recent Panorama shows that nothing has changed - or it did, but they've reverted to neanderthal level. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
300 people tell BBC of police misogyny and racism after undercover investigation
Following a BBC undercover investigation, many describe incidents of domestic violence and sexual abuse being dismissed by officers across England.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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brooklynmarie.bsky.social
Well, that was the point
October 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
To all in & around #Inverness who see this, please sign this petition to save the Spectrum Centre. It's been a great hub for the community, providing space for events, classes, kids activities, the cafe, & is much missed since its recent sudden closure. We need it back.
chng.it/PFTN7HcbFB
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
@adwaithmusic.bsky.social MWY in ep1 of The Guest - yay!
October 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
The "rattling cutlery drawer" sound was a mainstay of 80s music
#TOTP
September 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have of changing other people"
- Arnold Glasgow
September 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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joshfwd.bsky.social
“Unite the Kingdom”

By scaring people.
September 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
A piece on the difference in Trump's reactions to the murders of Hortman and Kirk
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Trump's partisan double standard for assassinations is chilling
Why Trump’s different responses to Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman's assassinations matter.
www.msnbc.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
@thecatreviewer.bsky.social Beautifully coloured chap, very vocal - before filming, wouldn't shut up, much miaow-purring "breeow", rolled around ON THE KERB if you please, then jumped up at the merest tap on the wall. Note braced paw deployment. Went all tranquil, heard a bird, forgot we existed.
September 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
I went past a wall topped with ornate metal railings that were very melodramatically crying. I realised it was an overwrought iron fence.
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
I'm so glad we got another look at that utterly shit Fleetwood Mac cover by the Corrs
#TOTP
September 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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snowrespecter.bsky.social
i don't understand was i supposed to kill him
h4ckys4ck.bsky.social h4ckys4ck @h4ckys4ck.bsky.social · Jan 11
Lenny Kravitz turns 61 in a couple months. What’s your excuse?
January 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
All Saints with their naff light fluffy girly-voiced version of Lady Marmalade there, complete with low-grade choreography and pointless word re-spacing
#TOTP
September 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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davidebrown.bsky.social
Have reached the Cagney and Lacey rewatch stage where Barry Primus was featured in the opening titles with both 'tache and no 'tache. #CagneyAndLacey
August 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
I love #Radiohead but the 6Music feature with Yorke & Donwood about the HTTT artwork & playing some of the live tracks is making me cringe at how bad his voice is in these recordings, really wobbly. And I'm reminded how tedious We Suck Young Blood was. But some of the interview chat is interesting.
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
Even as a kid I was bored by excited news items about panda couples and whether they were going to fuck. It's one of my most prominent news memories from the 70s and 80s along with the phrases "The conciliation service Acas" and "The soviet news agency Tass..."
August 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
Such an iconic spot. Really surprised that people don't know that's where it happened. It's practically Dylan's Abbey Road.
July 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.
July 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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snig.bsky.social
In June 2018 Lionel Shriver railed against the Penguin Random House publishing group, saying they were "drunk on virtue". The clear implication of her words is that people from minority groups can't write good books.
"Thus from now until 2025, literary excellence will be secondary to ticking all those ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual preference and crap-education boxes. We can safely infer from that email that if an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter, it will be published, whether or not said manuscript is an incoherent, tedious, meandering and insensible pile of mixed-paper recycling. Good luck with that business model. Publishers may eschew standards, but readers will still have some."
July 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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james.barisic.fr
Have a nice Friday everyone!
July 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
sfeegrade.bsky.social
"Enough cocaine to fill a football stadium." But which one?
July 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM