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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 6h

It’s good to see so much attention being paid to the genocide in Palestine suddenly, let’s just see what people are saying…*checks posts*…ah, of course no one’s actually talking about the mass murder of Palestinians, how silly of me.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 6h

I was just abouts to point that out…

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 6h

A peek into a gloomy future: closure of arts languages and music departments and the construction of a £10bn iron dome. One is definitely happening whilst the other is doubtful but still says a lot about where we’re headed as a country: straight to the fucking dogs.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7h

The train carriage has become intolerable as a place to travel in peace and quiet contemplation. It’s forced me to wear my own earphones and listen to music when I don’t even want to, otherwise I spend my whole time challenging people and it’s exhausting.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 7h

As Guardian goes full-scale attack on Green Party, I keep thinking of Gana’s @parapraxismag.bsky.social essay I read yesterday: so many work to transform Gaza into a site of sympathy that demands *no obligation or binding claim* on those who witness www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/gaz...

This transformation entails a redistribution of sympathy. Palestinian suffering does not disappear; it is absorbed into a broader field of concerns where it no longer commands a binding claim. The result is a geostrategic detachment: Gaza remains visible, its images and voices circulating as before, but the affective ties that might render its demands compelling are loosened. One sees, one hears, and one may even express concern, but without obligation.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7h

New Stephen King book out today and just got the email that it’s headed towards my doormat! Meanwhile like an idiot I’m 300 miles away teaching undergraduates how did I not plan this right and get it delivered to my office! Stupid stupid stupid! *bangs head against wall*

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7h

I swear I had a very geeky childhood I wear my nerd credentials proudly!

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7h

It was eventually eclipsed by playing my first MMORPG - EverQuest, which then swallowed my mid-teen years whole.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7h

God Rhys I can’t even remember. They had a unit called banshees? Elves I think?

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 8h

I went through a Warhammer phase as a kid and can believe this: I spent a fortune on those goddamn models. But I also went to community centres and local churches to play games against other people my age and older so let’s celebrate it’s communal nature as much as it’s economic output.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 8h

And the heart continues to break.

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 9h

This 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.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 9h

Especially books ABOUT babies

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 21h

What a dusk for this time of year.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 22h

Ok so just got a text from my wife asking me why she just took delivery of 5 book shaped packages when we can’t watch TV in our room because I have stacked piles of books on the dresser due to lack of space and I don’t know whether to tell her 6 more will arrive tomorrow or just leave town??

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But there were hot wars - loads of them. Korea, for a start, which Britain was a participant in, and then countless military operations across the empire to crush independence movements, followed by covert and overt actions of ‘regime change’ across Africa and Asia. WW2 deterred very little.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely - and many Brits were fighting to preserve empire rather than the notion of defending democracy or freedom or liberalism.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agree with @alanallport.bsky.social here on questioning this - Many Brits were fighting to preserve empire, white supremacy, British Great Power status, etc, and then it immediately gave way to the Cold War and, in Britain's case, the suppression of independence movements BUILT ON FREEDOM.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In 1852, the explorer Heinrich Barth met Africans in Baghirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), read the works of Aristotle and Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was about Africa. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-a...

africanhistoryextra.com

What Did Africans Know About The Outside World?

On British “Spies” and News from India

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026. Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani. In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Got the roast on the go and snatched time between peeling potatoes to finish this up. Oof, very affecting. Will stay with me. ‘Because things go away in the world, they fall sometimes and they break, they are there one minute and then gone’. Loved it.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026