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Mags Campbell

@magscampbell.bsky.social
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Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 5h
What? There is literally no overlap between Palestine Action and "skinheads who support neo-Nazi and fascist terrorist organizations/white supremacist terror". The Venn diagram is actually two separate circles. There are zero people who believe this nonsense claim. inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Mahmood says Palestine Action proscription is needed to curb support for neo-Nazis
Mahmood said 'you've got to be able to apply your principles, even when it's uncomfortable for you'
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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 7h
Cis folks, put this on your radar; if the government starts collecting Genetic information about the population you just KNOW it's going to be weaponised for transphobic purposes. We will all need to exercise any and all opt-outs and refusals in order to munge the data set so its useless.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 7h
President Donald Trump went after former special counsel Jack Smith on Sunday, a day after photos of Smith at a Maryland music festival spread across social media.
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Jack Smith enrages Trump by wearing 'No Kings' shirt to Springsteen show
President Donald Trump went after former special counsel Jack Smith on Sunday, a day after photos of Smith at a Maryland music festival spread across social media."Deranged Jack Smith is a Crooked Prosecutor!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.His post linked to a Just the News story headlined "Ex-Special...
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW from @accountabilityji.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org: Reporter @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has an important story on the changing dynamics of the politics around transgender rights and issues. www.importantcontext.news/democrats-lo...
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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 20h
76 years ago today, Snoopy made his first appearance in ‘Peanuts.’
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 10h
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 11h
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11h
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 13h
My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 14h
I am continuing my advocacy for autumn velvet with a sapphire blue gown trimmed with both golden sleeve baubles and sparkly beaded floral motifs. Lots to see and cosy cloth to boot. Dates to c1883, sold via #AugustaAuction #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Back view of the top half of a sapphire blue bustle dress with ruched skirt and a row of gold passementerie baubles running down the back of each armSide by side image of the side and front of the early 1880s blue velvet bustle dress which shows the large beaded floral motifs on the front of the skirtA close up of the beaded sparkly blue flower with green leaves decorating the skirt of the blue velvet bustle dress
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Laura Bee, Trench Wench @writerlaurabee.bsky.social · 13h
90 years ago. Which is why the fascists think they can get away with it now. Who's around who remembers? And THIS is why you tell your kids about the past. "It was before my time" should never be an excuse for ignorance.
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 13h
I'm tired.
Screenshot of my Instagram story because it won't fit in the text. In short, we've built social media apps that promote content about male violence only to the victims - - women - - and the men get to read about anything else. And then people wonder why we're angry and triggered while they haven't seen a word about Cornell.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14h
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hosted an in-conversation with AI minister Kanishka Narayan at Labour conference We covered a lot of ground... He said there was too much AI “doomerism” in Westminster And revealed he has used synthetic AI focus groups to gauge public opinion on a range of topics 1/9
Zoe Crowther and Kanishka Narayan speaking at an event hosted by ThinkLabour at Labour Party conference 2026
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 19h
I thought I'd sleep better after sorting out the stuff that was stressing me out but I do still have a chronic illness that makes my abdomen feel like an overinflated balloon filled with rocks at times and that's why I've been awake since 4am.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We've all been there
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Also, there are folk who are disgusted that period underwear and washable pads go through the washing machine AT ALL, never mind with other items. I bet they're the fucking anti-vaxxer, you-can-cure-autism-with-bleach-enemas types because no one has uses their fucking brain.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There are weirdos on Instagram claiming they wash their underwear separately from clothing or teatowels separate from everything else. How many fucking teatowels are they using to justify a load? Do they understand the actual function of a washing machine? I'm only strict about colour separation.
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People: Why do women mask so much? Huh, it's a mystery *One (1) very clearly autistic, unapologetic woman is on TV for two episodes* People: Look at this twat, God she's awful, pretending to be quirky for attention, fuck that one broad in particular, Christ, nobody'd better act like that round me
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember how quickly the big dollar university donors threatened to walk in response to the campus Gaza war protests? Any hint of that occurring with the major donors to Cornell? Telling demonstration of rich people’s values.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was thinking about this experience while reading @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's piece today. As Solnit writes, "We know that nearly every campus in the US has a plethora of rape victims and rapists."
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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit
Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've always found the US fraternity and sorority system to be deeply weird, but I didn't know this 👇. You couldn't design a more perfect system for enabling SA if you tried. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We know that the Greek system that sets the rules for most sororities and fraternities does not permit alcohol at sororities, which makes fraternities the hosts of the alcohol-saturated parties, which sends young women into enemy territory, which is where they are sometimes manipulated to get them drunk and stranded and abused.
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Eldritch Bog Chris @gothcasual.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is no different to the taliban blowing up ancient monuments.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Come on all you horror flash writers - we need your biologically hazardous wordage in the bin☣️ Our Halloween sub call is open until 11th October. 100-1000 words. Any horror subgenre. Visit our sub call page for inspo and info 🦝 trashcatlit.com/call-for-bio... #horrorwriting #submissioncalls
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That Rab Florence Batman poyum reminded me of my years-long bit with a former workmate who loves Batman. It was basically, "When you think about it, Batman's a dick to everyone who cares about him." With deep, serious psychoanalysis. The retaliation was, "Here's why Spock sucks." Fucking nerds.
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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 03/10/2026
Extremely cool thread
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When I take a couple of paracetamol for a headache, I always remember just as I swallow them that one aspirin and one paracetamol would have shifted it in ten minutes flat. Every fucking time.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 03/10/2026
Rees-Mogg showing both how unhinged Carlson is but also his own nationalist priorities. The best reason to defeat the Nazis wasn't to avoid changing what language we speak!
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Today we are spotlighting a double-bill from our prose poetry issue, from Lavanya Arora 🦝 We loved the immersive nostalgia in one piece, the sense of time passing and also pausing. In the second, we loved the surreal exploration of love and hunger. trashcatlit.com/two-prose-po...
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/10/2026
This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers
Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...
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Christa Pike on ventilator after failed execution attempt - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator a day after she survived two doses oft the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, according to a court filing.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 02/10/2026
Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists because his nemesis is investigating them
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Trump says ‘I feel badly’ for accused Cornell gang rapists after Hochul announcement
Trump was prosecuted by James for business fraud after losing the 2020 election
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
No matter what someone says or does while off their face on drink or drugs, they cannot consent. Their inhibitions are gone. There's no consensual sex with an intoxicated person. It's impossible.
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We discuss taxpayer funded Trump ads, the Supreme Court approving a shoddy database to purge voter registration, the frat gang assault at Cornell, Trump reinstating the 2020 version of Title IX, and how Peter Magyar is cracking down on Orban’s corruption. @bridgettodd.bsky.social linktr.ee/ICHHpod
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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 02/10/2026
Horrifying to see people genuinely conflating the idea that a woman can desire group sex or chem sex or kink or anything outside of the norm, with consenting to gang rape. All it does is put the focus onto a supposed sexual deviancy of a woman instead of the *intentions* of the men who abused her.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Since last week I've dealt with a bunch of stuff that was stressing me out and making my colitis worse. I feel much better for having it sorted. It's taken a lot out of me physically but I'm used to being fatigued. The real problem is that my nervous system hasn't caught up and I feel...weird.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s not the right way to think about it. Putting a Brit label on it but doing the same things that Palantir does is still wrong. We need a rethink of *what* as well as *who*.
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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ooof fucking course it won't include disabled people under 65, because showing empathy and concern towards us would be inconceivable. 🤬 I don't personally need care services yet but abandoning a third of the people using the adult care system purely for not being pension-age is so morally bankrupt.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

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Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

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Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

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Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I keep seeing people in winter coats here and I don't know how they aren't melting. When it hits 17°C in the spring, we're out in t-shirts. Why are some folk acting like it's winter already?
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