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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1/x Two of the best-known coats on any high street began as working kit for sailors on cold decks. Both carry names from my little corner of the North Sea: Duffel, a small town near Antwerp, and the Dutch word "pij". The story of the duffel coat and the peacoat. #maritimehistory
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Greetings and good morning it’s the Sunday farm rush hour, happy birthday Kate
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Billionaire Epstein associate Robert Kraft is a huge threat who's getting little backlash in comparison to Sheeran, so let's fix that. Planes owned/chartered by the New England Patriots have been used for deportation & Gitmo. "Why are sports teams helping ICE deport people?"
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are only five constituencies nationally where Sverigedemokratarna didn’t lose vote share in this election. It really is the most emphatic rejection of their campaign.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026
As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke...
A sample of neo-Nazi posts by the @ParallaxOptics account, displaying grotesque antisemitic caricatures and violent Jew hate.The @ParallaxOptics account's banner image depicting Adolf Hitler.Post by @ParallaxOptics of an article anonymously written by Nina Power and Daniel Miller: ON CULTS II "If we're proposing the the Left is a cult, the first question is what do cults want in general?"
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Janie Danger @wifesucker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CRISIS ACTING IS OUT NOW!! music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Crisis Acting
Album • Janie Danger
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I see your pervert glasses and raise you a pervert toothbrush
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Doesn’t matter how many times I see this, I don’t see “wonky”… 👀
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger Take That & Those
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Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Post a picture that should be an album cover
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Name a band using only emojis. 👮
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wondering what will survive in climate change? I've shrubs that haven't flowered, seedlings that remain stunted, nasturtiums with just two flowers all summer... I went to Beth Chatto Gardens, famed for its pioneering dry gardening experiment, to get some insight www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Which plants will survive and can I use grey water? Gardening as UK summers get drier
As parts of Beth Chatto’s visionary drought-tolerant gardens in Essex turn brown, the head gardener offers advice
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture? share.google/y3j4oJRusoq5...
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BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, What Happened to Counter-Culture?
Stewart Lee explores the story and ideas of counter-culture and its importance today.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein collection every fortnight?
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What’s your sign?
A sign on a train station reads:

Keep back from the platform edge

And then in much smaller font it says:

Or you may get sucked off
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
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Autistic Adam @autisticadam.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When I'm in group, I often feel like everyone knows how to socialise naturally. Autistic me is just trying to work out what is happening. Back ground noise makes it difficult for me to understand what people are saying. I catch a few words, miss the rest and lose track of the conversation.
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This monster must be stopped at all costs
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
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Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
First time I’ve ever vommed up before a World Cup final
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Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk · 17/07/2026
#OnThisDay 17 July 1936 🇪🇸 The Spanish Civil War broke out. My book, 'The Defiant: A History of Football Against Fascism', has a huge section on the impact of the conflict on Spanish football. For the abridged version, check out my latest post. Here 👉🏼 outsidewrite.substack.com/p/football-i...
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Amongst the glorious news an unexpected new euphemism emerges…
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 07/07/2026
There's another heatwave on the way. You're going to need more T-shirts. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/t-shirts
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Organic Cotton Graphic T-Shirts UK | Eco-friendly & vegan | Gail Myerscough
Organic cotton unisex t-shirts with bold illustrated prints. Eco-friendly and vegan. Inspired by brutalist architecture and music culture. Designed in Manchester.
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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Every once in a while, someone emails me to say they enjoyed this book, and I find myself completely unable to reply. It's like a massive hole in my heart.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Trump sued the British Broadcasting Corporation (#BBC) for $10 Billion for “intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring" a speech Trump gave on 6 January 2021, before the US Capitol riots. In court, the BBC asked Trump’s lawyers for the following:
Despite the limited nature of Plaintiff's claim, Defendants demand that Plaintiff produce:
• All Documents and Communications Concerning Your claim that you did not explicitly or implicitly call for violent action on January 6, 2021.
• All Documents and Communications that You provided to the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the events of January 6, 2021 that You provided to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the events of January 6, 2021 that You provided to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the events of January 6, 2021 that You provided to any other federal, state, or local agency or official.
• All of Your telephone call logs from November 3, 2020 to January 20, 2021.
• All of Your calendars, schedules, and daily diaries from November 3, 2020 to January 20, 2021.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 6. 2021 and the speeches given at that event, including Your speech. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes planning the "Stop the Steal" rally and Your speech, and includes all Communications with any of the following persons: Stephen Bannon; Christina Bobb;
Jeffrey
Clark; John Eastman; Boris Epshteyn; Michael Flynn; Rudy Giuliani; Preston
Haliburton; Bernard Kerik; William Ligon; Ed McBroom; Stephen Miller;
Russell
Ramsland; Roger Stone; Phil Waldron; and Kelli Ward, as well as all drafts of Your January 6, 2021 speech and all Communications about those drafts.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 21/06/2026
Looking for a haven from the AI quagmire? Subscribe to The Quietus for the best global cultural criticism, written by humans for humans: buff.ly/Fgn6Lxi
Quietus Spring Sale graphic. A giant robot, apparently composed of cardboard boxes, stands in a smouldering valley.
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icrawford17 @icrawford17.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#bestTindersticksSong Best Tindersticks Song #Tindersticks Last16 on now!
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
They do all these things, and they also make up a majority of the labs that create things like the computer you're using and NASA. Neurodivergent folks do a ton of things and contribute far more to a better future for you than this man ever will.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/06/2026
Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...
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Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney
Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/05/2026
Reminder that if you appreciate my coverage of events like the Trump rally that is about to start in New York, please support what I do by signing up for my newsletter. I'm proud of our coverage at PN and paid subscribers make my work possible. Thanks.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The bizarre insistence that Enoch Powell was not *really* talking about race is at odds with almost everything Powell himself said on the subject. gladstonediaries.blogspot.com/2018/04/fals...
For Powell, race was "the deepest and strongest instinct" of mankind: "plain and visible distinctions, such as colour", were incompatible with a cohesive society, "for men assume that those who look differently from themselves have different interests". "Every person in every country in the world", Powell insisted, was "a racialist", and three decades later he was still adamant that "racism is the basis of nationality".

It was this, for Powell, that made Commonwealth immigration such a menace. It implanted into the soil of England a population that he insisted could never be English, no matter how many generations might pass. "The West Indian or Asian", he told an audience at Eastbourne, "does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman". He might, by legal fiction, gain British citizenship, but he remained, "in fact, a West Indian or Asian still". For Powell, it was this "immigrant-descended population" - a people born and raised in Britain, but bearing its difference on its skin - that "creates the extreme urgency of action".
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I see Simon Heffer, in Michael Gove's Spectator, is once again repeating his lie that Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech wasn't about race.. I debated Heffer recently (at the Oxford Litfest) - here's what I said. archive.ph/bqKZF
So, that’s the economics. But let me address the topic directly.  No doubt Simon Heffer will argue that, like his hero Enoch Powell, he is raising “legitimate concerns”.    Simon has written that Powell’s predictions were remarkably accurate, and that those who, like me, describe him and his acolytes as racist are deliberately lying. He has also said that Powell’s famous Rivers of Blood speech should be taught in schools, since it is so rarely quoted accurately. So I will quote it accurately

“Eight years ago in a respectable street in Wolverhampton a house was sold to a Negro. Now only one white (a woman old-age pensioner) lives there. This is her story.    When she goes to the shops, she is followed by children, charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies. They cannot speak English, but one word they know. “Racialist,” they chant. When the new Race Relations Bill is passed, this woman is convinced she will go to prison. And is she so wrong?”
So 3 points here. 
First, none of Powell’s classical allusions later in the speech can conceal the gutter-level racism here. And let’s not hear any crap about “everyone spoke like that then”. No they didn’t which is why mainstream politicians of both parties instantly recognised the speech as unacceptable racism
Second, Powell is obviously lying.  “They cannot speak English”? Seriously? Black kids whose parents were from the Carribbean?  
Third, and most important, this gives the lie to Simon’s repeated claims the speech isn’t about race or racist. The direct target of the speech is the Race Relations Bill. This was not about immigration, obviously; it made it illegal to discriminate on grounds of race in employment or housing.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
No, it is not time to uncancel Enoch Powell The racism my dad, grandparents and entire black side of my family experienced in Birmingham in the 60s and 70s was in no small part driven by his nasty, rancid brand of division and racism Enoch Powell was a racist and a demagogue, period
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band The Mounted Police
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 26/04/2026
If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Bold illustrated wall art, greeting cards and homewares designed in Manchester. Inspired by architecture, music and mid century design. Made in the UK.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We regret to inform you that a lot of people seem to believe this myth, and related myths surrounding the vulva. These myths been around for literal millennia, even though there is no rooting whatsoever in reality. Let's take a look at the history of misogyny and racism inherent in this belief...
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Ahead of the local elections, here's an easy guide of how best to assess the results as they come in, including the best metrics to use and some historical benchmarks. It's on the longer side, but is split into sections and filled with lots of (hopefully) useful data, and completely free-to-read.
dylandifford.substack.com
How to assess the 2026 local elections
A cut-out-and-keep guide of benchmarks for the 2026 council elections
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Thersites @greyg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.
Tim Robbins sits on a leather sofa, dressed in black, contemplating a future where he will never have to pay the price for the sins he has committed
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