Emma Shaw
@victoriankitten.bsky.social
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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
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The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s.
The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.
The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.
September 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The people marching in London today are very obviously the ideological descendants of the Mosleyite BUF fascists of the 1930s.
The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.
The mainstream news and media are too timid to point it out, but that's what they are - and we normalise it at our peril.
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Migrants can't answer back.
They have no voice.
So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.
In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.
That is what is really going on here.
They have no voice.
So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.
In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.
That is what is really going on here.
August 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Migrants can't answer back.
They have no voice.
So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.
In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.
That is what is really going on here.
They have no voice.
So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue.
In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess.
That is what is really going on here.
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Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.
Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
Voices: Forget poor ‘Generation Covid’ – me and my A-level classmates never had it so bad - The Independent
August 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Voices: Forget poor ‘Generation Covid’ – me and my A-level classmates never had it so bad - The Independent
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As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.
August 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.
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www.itv.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#Springwatch is back! Like a very long exhale. Appointment television at its very best. Happy 20th birthday 🎉🦉🐝🦋🦇🐣🦊
May 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#Springwatch is back! Like a very long exhale. Appointment television at its very best. Happy 20th birthday 🎉🦉🐝🦋🦇🐣🦊
Great thread.
What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
April 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Great thread.
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My Nigerian friend said this to a colleague who was being so stubborn while wrong "Wisdom is chasing you but you are faster" .
April 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My Nigerian friend said this to a colleague who was being so stubborn while wrong "Wisdom is chasing you but you are faster" .
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Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
April 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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there is no plan(et) b.
April 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
there is no plan(et) b.
My goodness. Four episodes in to the new series of Black Mirror and could anything be more aimed at Gen X. Charlie Brooker going for the jugular.
April 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My goodness. Four episodes in to the new series of Black Mirror and could anything be more aimed at Gen X. Charlie Brooker going for the jugular.
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Hubble is going on 35 years old, and it's STILL taking incredible images 🤩
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
April 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hubble is going on 35 years old, and it's STILL taking incredible images 🤩
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:
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The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail
April 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The otter keeper gave this baby otter a sock to keep warm. She later turned it into a onesie with holes for the hands, feet, and tail
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A rainforest in Devon, today.
April 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A rainforest in Devon, today.
Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers (with 10 years still to go) - The Independent
April 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Fifty and out: How Gen X became the biggest work losers (with 10 years still to go) - The Independent
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Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.
March 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Well, now I’m just sobbing. Thank you Laura Gilpin. You are missed.
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Where is my chicken?
March 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Where is my chicken?
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵