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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Performative cruelty. Imagine what those kids are going through…

Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every week we wait to see if #SCOTUS will defend the most basic principles of American democracy, and every week we are haorrified at the inaction and seeming collusion

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The same people who said ‘all lives matter’ in response to BLM are now arguing that refugees should be left to drown in the Channel.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

He buys almost nothing made in US for himself or his business. Almost everything he sells on his website is made overseas, he hires foreign workers, he advertised Trump Mobile as made in US then deleted that from website after people paid. Even his Trump Bibles are from China.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A large part of rightwing discourse consists of denying other people's suffering.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Again, Canada bitch-slaps the rancid pussy.

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Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A former Shin Bet Israeli security chief, Avraham Shalom, compared the Israeli Defence Farce to "the Germans in World War 2" back in 2012. I don't think there's any doubt left that they are genocidal fascists.

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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andrewknightfella.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Ohhhhhhhhhh SNAP 😂 We're going to need some ice on that #BURN 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows:

Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles. Each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines.

Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet!

Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins

Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines.

Bottom right: A central band delineated with white lines contains white 's'-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background.

This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 31/07/2026

Outrage isn't a bug. It's a business model. If you've ever wondered why Facebook seems to amplify anger, conspiracy theories and division, this article explains why. 👇 @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

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Clicks at any price: the corruption of Facebook

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book about Facebook documents its decline from a force for good, into a global monster

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some good news:

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A regime built on a monstrous lie

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gawd I can feel the ghost of the Falkland War in this match …

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 11/07/2026

Whatever happened to empathy? In a noisy and divided world, the ability to imagine another person's experience may be one of the most important qualities we possess By John Heywood @handhyorkshire.bsky.social

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Whatever happened to empathy?

In a noisy and divided world, the ability to imagine another person's experience may be one of the most important qualities we possess

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If the USA team wanted to show integrity, they wouldn’t have played Balugen

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Scrutiny and accountability . At last.

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He taints everything he touches. Even if USA win, it will always be with the knowledge that they cheated.

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NorthEndRick 👁️♥️🇨🇦 @northendrick.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Let's just all pray that Belgium does what is necessary to make sure there is no question who the better team is, and the decision (ridiculous decision) to remove the red card from the previous game is made moot.

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Literally everything. But shame (again) on FIFA

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12/06/2026

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is how communities show up for each other. Do read this by Nicola Browne from Act Now👇

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A group of literally hundreds of people has sprung into action, coordinating, donating, providing lifts for families to get somewhere safe for the night, bringing food to those who don’t want to leave the house, offering shelter, car seats, toys and arts supplies for children. Ordinary people from every background, community and colour are carrying out thousands of acts of care and repair, looking after people they do not know, and showing clearly that none of this is in their name.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Let us lash ourselves to the most unpopular President in recorded history who will be either dead and or not President within two and a half years. Metternich level shit.

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 04/05/2026

This is grotesque

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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

He really does attract the worst people.

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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media. The AI-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook dumb conservative voters. #FakeMAGAInfluencers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

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Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

A 2,000 year-old Roman-era cobalt blue glass flask signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. A Greek inscription reads ‘Ennion made me/it’. He is the first known glassmaker to sign his work. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

The Met photo shows a mould-blown translucent dark blue hexagonal-shaped flask (amphoriskos) signed in Greek with the name of the glassmaker ‘Ennion’ (not seen in image). Displayed against a graduated dark to light grey background.

The flask has a short cyclindrical neck, hexagonal sloping shoulders curving inwards towards the hexagonal straight-sided body which tapers downwards towards the base. It has two thin handles attached at the top of the shoulders and top of the rim.

The mould blown glass has relief decoration associated with the god Dionysus and his retinue on the shoulders and five of the six body panels; double flutes, pan pipes, wine cup, wine jug, and vine leaves and grapes. On the sixth panel is the Greek inscription in three lines of parallel text ENNIWN/EΠWH/CEN translated as ‘Ennion made me/it’.

The bottom of the flask is broken in places and the body has patches of creamy brown weathering with faint iridescence. Height: 14.3 cm, width 7.9 cm, depth: 7.2 cm

“Mould-blowing developed in the early decades of the first century A.D. as an offshoot of free-blowing. The earliest makers of mould-blown glass probably came from the Syro-Palestinian region, although their wares quickly became popular throughout the Roman Empire. The most famous and attractive vessels are signed in Greek by Ennion; about thirty examples of his work survive today”(Met Museum info label).

The flask was excavated in 1876 in Potamia, near Golgoi, Cyprus, by Luigi Palma di Cesnola, entering his private collection. It was purchased from Cesnola before 1879 by Jules Charvet. In 1881 purchased from Charvet by Henry G. Marquand who gifted it to the Metropolitan Museum in 1881.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What's that you say? You have a plan to kill a few thousand people, burn through $200 billion, spread war throughout the middle east and drive the world into oil shock, inflation and recession, just so you can end up with exactly the same deal Biden and Obama had? What a stable genius!!

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Lucy did you know we have a suburb in Sydney named after her?!

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Five-time draft dodger says what now?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

That would never work in the US.

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Alison @happysceptic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

EXACTLY what you would expect

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

There's a special place reserved in Hell for hacks and apologists who attempt to explain the verbal dribblings of Donald Trump. Trump is insane and dangerous. It's that simple. Call it out.

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It’s an illegal war, launched by men (Trump, Netanyahu) of flawed character and questionable motives. I certainly would welcome collapse of the hideous Iranian regime, more freedom for its people, and greater security for the region. But, such interventions always have unpredictable consequences.

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