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DSA-LA @dsa.la · 19/12/2025

From Seattle to LA, the demand is clear: NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE. Join us on the picket line tomorrow: dsa-la.org/event/dsa-la...

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Events for December 2025

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Mimi, expecting balls to be thrown #Caturday

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

During WW2, Stephen Bone served as a civilian camouflage officer and later as an Official War Artist attached to the Royal Navy. This picture depicts Ardrossan, a town on the North Ayrshire coast in Scotland, which played a key effort in the war when it was used as a naval base.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2

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‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot

Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

After the rise of AI-generated fake case citations, we're now witnessing the proliferation of references to fake academic articles... www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Huguette Clark was the daughter of Senator William A Clark, a copper tycoon who in the early 1900s had been as rich as John D Rockefeller. Huguette painted this scene from her Fifth Avenue apartment window just after a snow storm in the mid 1920s.

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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

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Naomi McAuliffe @naomimc.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This is a personal favourite, heard it a while ago and love it from so many directions.

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Evans The Crime @evansthecrime.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

A man repeatedly plunged a kitchen knife into a stranger outside a Gorseinon social club in an attempt to kill him, a court has heard. Kane Evans stabbed his victim a total of 10 times in the unprovoked attack, with one wound so deep it cut his intestines. www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

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Young rugby player repeatedly stabbed in murder attempt

Morgan Hopkins - known as 'Hoppy' - was in surgery for more than 10 hours and had to have part of his bowel removed after Kane Evans attacked him outside a south Wales social club

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Eleanor Crook @eleanorcrook.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’m embarrassed to report today was my first visit to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries high up in Westminster Abbey. Waxworks, effigies, souls in flight… now one of my highlights of London, and getting up close with that architecture……

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thomas w schaller @thomaswschaller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I could not be more thrilled to learn that my work has been selected for the 159th Annual International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. Thanks so much to AWS for all the hard work. And special thanks to the Jury of Selection: "Golden City" 30x22 inches Watercolor on Arches Paper #art

An evening view of the 59th Street Bridge and the illuminated Manhattan skyline from Roosevelt Island

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"My client misjudged his descent, your lordship." The geese used to walk about the campus at York like tasty geezers. They never attacked anyone, but you had the feeling they might at any moment.

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Simon Osborne Pitt the Younger @pitt-the-younger.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister on this day in 1783! #Blackadder

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

One last one for the road (my apologies as this thread has gone on far too long)...

Two women having tea...

Woman A: Can I ask a stupid question?
Woman B: Better than anyone I know

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

❌ "Seasonal depression" ✅ "It's morbin' time"

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Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Lambert Rd, Brixton. Home of the avant garde knitted Christmas tree.

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Tom Burgis @tomburgis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The Trump trail has taken me to Gibraltar. To answer a question: Why did the son of the most powerful man on the planet show up at a law firm in a tiny British outpost one Friday this November looking for money? @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Why did Donald Trump Jr turn up in a tiny British enclave looking for money?

Meetings in Gibraltar are the latest twist in worldwide campaign that is enriching the US president’s family

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 19/12/2025

When people reveal who they truly are, through words or actions, trust what you see. "Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

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Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid

As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 19/12/2025

The suspect in the Brown University shooting has been found dead in a storage facility in New Hampshire

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Brown University shooting: police investigate link to MIT murder

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The word ‘whore’ is etymologically related to ‘charity’, ‘to caress’, ‘to cherish’, as well as Romance words such as French ‘cher’ and Spanish ‘caro’, which mean “dear”. They all stem from a Proto-Indo-European word meaning “desired; loved”. Zoom in on my new graphic to discover their stories:

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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

youtube.com/playlist?lis... Understand why the label “mercenary” is Russian disinformation, and why he is nothing of the sort. Hear from foreign soldiers recruited by Russia, including Wagner PMC, to help overthrow a democratically elected government in Europe. The very definition of a mercenary.

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MY DOCUMENTARIES: Reality vs Headlines - YouTube

Documentaries Some stories can’t be told in five minutes — they need time, space, and depth. This playlist gathers my documentary films and long-form project...

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Andy Ledger @lowfeller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Famously, when the dot.com bubble burst, that was the end of the Internet, wasn't it?

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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This is one that I haven't shown for a very long time & I don't know why! Painted in 1938 for a joint show with his brother, Walter, at Alex. Reid & Lefevre galleries at 1a, King Street in Mayfair, this is "Woodham Ferrers" by Harold Steggles. #HaroldSteggles #EastLondonGroup

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Happy 79th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to make you wonder how he lived for a further 19 years:

Thursday 19 December 1946
I went to London by the early train. I have now reached an age when any disturbance of routine is disagreeable, and I sat misanthropic, smoking cigars, while the train lost more and more time until it halted for three-quarters of an hour in a snowstorm just outside the Paddington station. I had time to try on a suit which has taken six months to make and then went to luncheon at the Beefsteak where I talked to Harold Nicolson and Clive Bell and drank enough wine to fuddle me slightly. In that condition I went to Duckworth and signed sixteen copies of When the Going was Good for Christmas presents. Also to the travel agency who are sending me to Hollywood. At 5 o’clock there was the Beefsteak committee meeting. My candidates Maurice Bowra, Ran Antrim and Randolph Churchill all got in the latter after long discussion in which 1 Hugh Sherwood made a spirited defence and overbore two men who had come with the firm purpose of blackballing him. During the meeting I drank a lot of whisky and went rather drunk to a cocktail party given by John Murray’ where I got very drunk. Rose Macaulay attempted a serious conversation in which I did not shine. I spent most of the time with Hermione Ranfurly jeering at people who were introduced to me and ended by bearing off a diminutive man called Gibbings to White’s for champagne cocktails. From then my memory is vague but I went to bed early I think at the Hyde Park Hotel.

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Ail wraig tad Dr Julian Tudor Hart, sy’n enwog yn Sbaen am ei ‘rheol gofal gwrthgyfartal’, law of inverse care.

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Jalata @jalata.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Very good but a plan to reopen the town of Cardigan’s closed swimming pool has twice been rejected by Ceredigion Council, leaving the local community without swimming facilities.

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Laura 4 NAFO @lmnash123.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Alex's vehicle fundraiser for Kherson defenders has been running since October, now at 65%. If you are donating this fiver Friday, please consider sending some his way. #NAFO #donatetoukraine #boostUA

NAFO meme. Ukraine's defenders need vehicles, can you help?

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Elwyn Rain @elwynrain.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

5 years ago I decided I wanted to create art like the one in DnD books. I might be not here for now but I learnt a lot, especially on how to learn. ⬇️

A comparison of two drawings, one showing a rogue in brown cloak running with a rapier in her hand. The second one showing a tiefling mercenary sitting on a stone wall. A strong difference of complexity and rendering is visible berween the two.
Accompanying text : 5 years of drawing progress
What I learnt on how to grow as an artist

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Gas boiler is off, half the electricity is off (bedroom and bathroom okay, sitting room/ kitchen buggered). I'm sitting on my bed, having quaffed the remaining half-bottle of Vieille Ferme white (Chicken Wine) and made a start on the VF rosé, in despair. Messages left with electrician.

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I thought I'd put some food in the oven for my dinner. As soon as the oven heated up, the electricity went off in the sitting room and kitchen. As per usual, it's just one switch in the fuse box that will not cooperate. So I am now without heat, hot water and half my electricity. What larks, Pip!

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Anita @anita1956.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I woke up with ten pounds of mashed potatoes in my fridge because today is Lefse Day, a yearly labor of love, rolling out potato dough paper thin and cooking on a jumbo round electric grill for my Norwegian-leaning wife. Let the flour storm begin!

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Crikey! It's hard to avoid Ant and Dec on commercial TV 🙁, even in the trailers and ads.

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

#FirstWorldProblems, I know, but this crepuscular life, even if I had heat and hot water, is not for me! Just as well I don't live in Norway or Finland!

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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Margaret Bloy Graham (1920-2015)

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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This is an important read by a researcher who has investigated the many deceptive and harmful practices of unregulated pregnancy centers in the US. It's astounding what these fake clinics are allowed to get away with.

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Supreme Court case about ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ highlights debate over truthful advertising standards

There are some 2,500 of these centers across the United States. Many are located within a mile of an abortion provider.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Never forget this is the pathologically narcissistic manbaby whom Farage & Badenoch are supporting to bring down the BBC, an occasionally flawed but cherished British institution. None of them want their torrent of lies scrutinised by independent media. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Trump attacks Democratic foes in White House presidential portraits

New plaques on ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ scorn ‘divisive’ Obama and ‘by far the worst’ Biden – but Reagan is praised

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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This fits in with my theory that the low fat diet wars of the 60s, 70s & 80s have created a generation of dementia sufferers.

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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Italian has "fatti i cavoli tuoi" (mind your own cabbages) which is the more polite version of "fatti i cazzi tuoi" (mind your own dicks)

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”

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Gaynor Madoc Leonard @madocleonard.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

New followers who DM me as soon as I follow back are blocked. If you want to say "hello," do so in the usual way, not via DM!

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

What's especially contemptible about this and pushed me over the edge into posting is that today, December 17th, is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. www.nswp.org/event/intern...

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