Reposted by Athena KugblenuTom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social · 1hHow soon can the plague get here? 1617143
Reposted by Athena KugblenuProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 6hAh yes, the good old days of genocide everywhere all the time? It’s laughable that Rubio thinks he’d be spared by “European conquerors”. Whiteness is a moving target by deisgn. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/w...nytimes.comRubio Urges Europe to Awaken From ‘Slumber’ and Uphold Western Dominance (Gift Article)In Greece, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Western nations must embrace an earlier ethos of exploration and conquest as part of their civilization, to remain ‘at the head of the world.’ 1327
Reposted by Athena Kugblenustill a mfn simone stan account — yes, all of them!! @larrycurlyanfro.bsky.social · 14hLike clockwork 051
Reposted by Athena KugblenuFirst Name Greatest @percivalpenman.bsky.social · 14hQuite a few Black women singers have found their way into the Folk music categories at the Grammys, so what are they doing next year? Adding a Best Traditional Folk category. Lol 59031
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 15h21 billion Boots Advantage points 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBoots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire familyThe sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday. 2251
Reposted by Athena KugblenuDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17hthis… person is out here "joking" about "allowing" the destruction of a major US city because it's filled with people he hates. A racist, willfully ignorant uncle saying that shit just gets shunned from thanksgiving; the ostensible president of the United States saying it is something the fuck else 58316
Reposted by Athena KugblenuBig Bad Booty Daddy @bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 16hSo, he's a Republican. 49911
Reposted by Athena KugblenuBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 17hHaving trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌 9883336
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16hI love that they are besties in real life www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.com‘He was devastatingly sexy’: Frasier’s Jane Leeves and David Hyde Pierce on the love between Daphne and NilesFrom a breathless tango to a kiss that sent fans wild, the pair crafted a sensational seven-year TV crush. The real-life best friends talk first impressions, Casablanca moments – and having hot husban... 2438
Reposted by Athena KugblenuGT @granitetide.bsky.social · 18hthe common belief that so-called "back office" roles in the public sector are unnecessary is predicated on an understanding of the world of work that's no deeper than "when mummy hides her face she isn't actually there anymore" 225561
Reposted by Athena KugblenuSara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 16hI’m not for purity tests but lads, if you’re not even nominally listening to your leftie environmentalist anti-genocide Jewish friends on the reasons this Zionism is racism motion is so janky, you might want to ask yourself some difficult questions. 19113
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why are people driving with fog lights on when there is no fog? The answer is: because they are dickheads 5341
Reposted by Athena KugblenuChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 07/10/2026just think: boycotting the Harry Potter show means hurting JK Rowling AND the Ellisons now 161826623
Reposted by Athena KugblenuPunished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 06/10/2026I can smell this post and it smells like validation 126739
Reposted by Athena KugblenuJosh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's totally complete but also it's almost complete. 254950
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the most common observation I have when I interact with people IRL is not as many people are online as we think. Chronic consumption and production of content is still alien to a lot of people! 311513
Reposted by Athena KugblenuPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Freddie Jackson, the RnB legend known for multiple hits, including “You Are My Lady,” has died. He was 70 1242595752
Reposted by Athena KugblenuBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854193353
Reposted by Athena KugblenuGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 06/10/202620 years ago if I explained to healthcare staff my mom is a manipulative person who will sacrifice her own health as a 'fuck you' to us, they wouldnt have believed me. Now, there is a TEAM of people who deal with this kind of thing to help families make EFFECTIVE care plans. I could weep. 16710
Reposted by Athena KugblenuIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026oh no, did they make a new series of that children's programme you like, but they made it for children instead of for you? Oh no! 810710
Reposted by Athena KugblenuNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whether it's Obama telling farmers to plant arugula in Iowa or Donald Trump telling Iranians to take out Los Angeles, both presidents made deeply insensitive statements about regions of the country. 291048166
Reposted by Athena KugblenuAshwin Kumar @ashwin-kumar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Re the debate on the cliff edge where tax-free childcare is lost at £100k leading to people keeping their income below this amount, it’s obvious that such cliff edges are bad as it skews decisions about work – no-one should be worse off if their earnings increase. /1 🧵 55316
Reposted by Athena KugblenuNational Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree. 291811449
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Parties who let members vote on policy aren't credible imo. Conferences aren't representative and you're too vulnerable to single issue members who join your party in bad faith, to further their own agenda 3220
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Britannia Dome" lol Thats the kind of shit someone blurts out in a writers room when you try to create a safe space by saying 'hey guys there are no bad ideas" 7655
Reposted by Athena KugblenuAndrew R @excelpope.net · 06/10/2026As Paddington leads Jeffery Archer into the great beyond, Archer excitedly explains how he's had a brilliant idea for a story about a Peruvian bear with a fondness for orange preserve sandwiches. 316737
Reposted by Athena KugblenuAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you care about democracy & justice, centre Brazil’s election. A global right-wing kleptocratic criminal network, led by powerful forces in the US, Israel and Russia, is operating across borders. No democracy can withstand this in isolation. Just Democracies need a global coalition of their own. 9326100
Reposted by Athena KugblenuRick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions 491503276
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You know they don't care about women and children because they time their protests to coincide with the school run 0203
Reposted by Athena KugblenuMatthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Jeffrey Archer, liar, jailbird, Tory and ‘nearly man’ of British politics (apparently) once took a long and very much unwanted look at my wife’s chest and followed that with a “nice rack” comment. Stick that in your obituaries x 3127941
Reposted by Athena KugblenuDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Archer is yet another example that there are no penalties for failure in British public life. 1213039
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Youth is so funny you need to watch it if you're not 010
Reposted by Athena KugblenuMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.” 81852553
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's funny because Archer was a liar and a fraud and I thought we didn't like liars and frauds? Or was he hounded to old age? 1281
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The last season of Search Party. I couldn't finish it. In fact I think I simply forgot I was watching it 272
Reposted by Athena KugblenuVictoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026BBC News still full eulogy on rotten old fraud Jeffrey Archer. Apparently him writing in long-hand is somehow impressive. On lined paper. One way he tried to be straight, I suppose. . 0425
Reposted by Athena KugblenuMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Monica Coglan was cross-examined for 13 hours by Archer’s lawyers in the libel trial. She was frequently in tears as her entire life and character was attacked. She died in a car crash before Archer was found guilty of perjury in that trial. Before it was found she’d told the truth all along. 5490169
Reposted by Athena Kugblenu@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Northern leg of HS2 was too ambitious. The upper atmosphere, apparently, is fine. bsky.app/profile/gile... 68318
Reposted by Athena KugblenuJim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins. 502618644
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I quote myself when I think I've made a very important observation and this might be the most important observation I've ever made! It can't just be me?? 041
Reposted by Athena Kugblenuimp >:D 🛹 @impswrld.xyz · 05/10/2026I'm NGL y'all euro-americans queers need to stop acting fucking shocked about this and go dismantle the fuckass billionaires and Christian Nationalist orgs doing this crap. I genuinely despise how everyone acts so shocked when this happens. American exceptionalism got y'all brains fried.mambaonline.comAnti-LGBTQ+ Rights Movement Sets Its Sights on South Africa with Cape Town Conference - MambaOnline - LGBTQ South Africa onlineLGBTQ+ organisations warn a major anti-rights "family values" conference planned for Cape Town could threaten LGBTQ+ equality across Africa. 24319
Reposted by Athena KugblenuSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Kansas hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate in nearly 100 years. Trump’s toxic legacy could finally change that. 09317
Reposted by Athena KugblenuGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them 31990269
Reposted by Athena KugblenuRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Saw THEY CLONED TYRONE last night. Whatever won the Oscar for cinematography that yr should return the award. So fucking funny & LEGITIMATELY touching. Altman-style sound mixing; director Juel Taylor rightfully was like “There’s too many jokes for ppl to hear them all anyway; fuck it, 102028
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I keep thinking about to commitment it takes for everyone to turn up with their own van 270