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Finisterre

@finisterre.bsky.social
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She/her, increasingly radical feminist & socialist, late-diagnosed ADHD along with 90% of my perimenopausal chums back home. Ex-Normal Islander now based, in all senses, in Spain.

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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 5h
Excellent summary.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18h
Very funny that the usual all-out, all-channels outrage hasn’t made Polanski less popular than Starmer managed, just by being himself and doing Sensible Centrist Politics
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Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll
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Zack Polanski is now the least popular major party leader....
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 17h
as much as i hate trump voters i'll never achieve the levels of contempt he has for them
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 6h
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Socialist Worker @socialistworker.bsky.social · 7h
250,000 on streets: Palestine march shows movement’s breadth and radicalism ⭐️Marchers spoke to Socialist Worker about the Greens, Labour—and where next socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...
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250,000 on streets: Palestine march shows movement’s breadth and radicalism
The Palestine movement burst back onto the streets of London on Saturday as 250,000 people joined the 37th national demonstration in three years. There were marches across the world as part of the int...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17h
“They think we are dogs, cockroaches and vermin. But we are the citizens of this country who have the right to ask questions of our government system.” Neha Bora leading the student movement in India. bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 19h
This feels really, really off. One guy grabbing 1000s of acres of Somerset, swallowing farms, shops, even a train station. It's antisocial & antidemocratic. & hopefully when people start to realise this, the truth about the rest of the UK will start to sink in. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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How a South African billionaire is turning a corner of Somerset into ‘one man’s estate’
Koos Bekker’s Newt estate encompasses luxury hotels, pubs and high street business, with local concerns including flooding
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 22h
"Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor". That had never occurred to me. Holy shit, what a damning observation.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/10/2026
Humanitarian and human rights groups call out Israel's continued killings and restrictions across the enclave.
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Gaza ceasefire ‘exists in name only', more than 100 NGOs say
Humanitarian and human rights groups call out Israel's continued killings and restrictions across the enclave.
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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are more Ketchup sachets than nurses. More operational Furbies than professors of human geography. More dogs named "Digger" than people licensed to operate a JCB. And you ask why people are turning to Reform?
telegraph headline: ADHD benefits claiments outnumber soldiers.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Respect to this artist.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The work of Anne Damer (1748- 1828), English sculptor. Described as a "female genius", one of the 1st recognised women sculptors, who lived with her lover, Irish actress Elizabeth Farren #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a sculpture of the upper half of a woman in a greek style
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is so painful. I can't deal with the world right now. Not today, not when we're being reminded everywhere that only Israeli pain matters.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a million years away (November 4th) but my dream is to sell it out. It's turning out to be a really fun show and I'd love a killer audience PS November 4th is not a million years away it's in a two-and-a-half-months wtf how did THAT happen?! 🎟️ www.pleasance.co.uk/event/sooz-k... 🎟️
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Absolutely nothing reining them in at this point.
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since October 2023, Israel has poured ever greater resources into what Benjamin Netanyahu has described as the “8th front” of the war: shaping how its actions are perceived amid a global image crisis that continues to deepen. This has done little to halt the erosion of Israel’s worldwide standing.
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Israel’s flailing chatbot army
No longer able to rely on traditional lobbying, Israel is pouring huge funds into ‘cognitive warfare’ aimed at manipulating the responses of AI platforms.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's like every day there's a new revelation about the damage AI is doing, and a LOT of the time, it's *not even the key purpose*! Just bull(dozers) in a china shop, trashing everything in their path and then offering you the crudely glued-together shards. JFC.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Holy shit, this isnt even hyperbole. It's the straightforward truth.
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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.” — George Santayana 📷🌱
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's a really good point tho, with some excellent replies re. how it comes about.
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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...
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What’s Doug Burgum Doing With Defense Production Act Authority?
It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Loooollllllllll
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Merciless evil, day after day.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This excellent person was a massive part of my own childhood and now also my kids'. Happy birthday to an absolute trooper who's lived an amazing life and AFAIK hasn't done anything seriously gross. 💜❤️💜
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a whole load of horrifying crimes here where we can’t now say “if only the world knew, if only everyone could see”. The world knows very well and anyone who wants to see, can see just fine.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally a leaflet talking about the real issues in the constituency
"Vote in Christian Values" - Saint Pancras was martyred age 14 by beheading
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Roadblocks, checkpoints. This is the current situation, of collective punishment, in the West Bank.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Propublica spent months (years?) investigating this on what I assume is a pretty meagre budget. The fucking audacity.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's looking like we've got about a year left with Sanchez before the right wing take over in Spain. He's centre-left at best but at least has *some* moral compass. It's going to be a horrible, depressing shitshow when the fash & neolibs take over.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ugh, this is exactly as disgusting as you'd expect. As always, unsurprising details but still shocking AF. That white ppl actually think it's ok to refer to slavery (1) as a joke (2) around Black ppl (3) in the fucking workplace should honestly blow everyone's mind. Get their asses, California.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agree with all of this, but also: HOW are you supposed to pronounce her surname? To rhyme with She-Ra? Terror? Clear?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t like any of the words in this
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22/09/2026
uhhhhmanda on tumblr:

"Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

#the relief i felt was immense #my stuff"
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm typing & deleting here, trying to express how excellent & useful this piece is while respecting the history & the pain behind it. I heard my 11yo (uncharacteristically) shouting on the phone recently, turned out she was arguing w/2 friends abt how race-based slurs DON'T hit wp equally. I...
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beep beep i'm a sheep @foxkvells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you're ACTUALLY interested in keeping trans folks in the Democratic coalition (rather than pushing us out by insulting/yelling at us), maybe try to understand our perspective? this article is incredible
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Eggsfuckingzactly.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, shit. I'd missed this, but the discourse around the chilling, hateful Converse ad brought this to my attention. No more #Adidas or #Converse in our house. They were two of the tiny handful of brands we'd pay the extra for, but we've bought our last product from the evil fucks.
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Yet Another Emily @anomily.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s always nice to see someone put into elegant language the thoughts that tumble around in my head. I feel this deeply in the narrative that is higher education as vocational training instead of learning - where business outsources its training costs to employees.
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Finisterre @finisterre.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So this guy is a boss. Babyface racist obviously took him to be some rancid boomer & tried to get him to agree that poor brown ppl are Spain's Biggest Problem Ackshully. Dude blasts him like a pro and calls out his tendentious "questions". ♥️💛💜
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It says "The Legend Of PolProf: Very Real Concerns" in the style/design of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, with a sword and shield against a light brown background
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dan's bang on, here. I've seen almost no international criticism, outcry or expressions of solidarity over Erdoğan's latest brutal crackdown on Turkey's LGBTQ community
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