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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I'll be teaching my first course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social during the last week of August. Focus is on the personal essay. If there's something you've been longing to write, but dallying, put it off no longer. faberacademy.com/tutors/marin...

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

my father looking at his own River Styx days before he died at home. A long long life lived on his own terms. This mid-winter a blessing from his fierce atheist spirit, saying live on, love on, in all the complexity of the relationship between father and daughter. hamba kahle

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We are all, at times, horribly tired of being ourselves. Djuna Barnes (and also me!)

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Give the public what they want! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Love this. Larry the cat.. and Macron

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still lifes #WomensArt

Painting of red poppies in seven differently shaped clear glass bottles on a shelf or table top

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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Someone prove this wrong.

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

jirre vok! if you were South African you would ABSOLUTELY know what kind of day its been

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

EVERYBODY on the internet planet who had never heard of them before HAS now heard of the Irish rappers KNEECAP and of some random punk people called (brilliantly I have to say) BOB VILLIAN and is now listening to them thanks to BBC censorship anxieties and flip-flops at Glastonbury

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I'm excited to be running a 5-day course for the @faberacademy.bsky.social on Crafting the Personal Essay. Last week of August. Online. A chance to act and write that essay that won't leave you alone. faberacademy.com/product/craf...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

People think I'm biased against Jeff Bezos, but here's Sartoria F. Caraceni, widely considered one of the best bespoke tailoring houses in the world, commenting on Bezos's wedding suit. "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. I'm really suffering"

A photo of Jeff Bezos in his tuxedo. The low armhole is causing the jacket to lift off his neck.

A comment from Sartoria F. Caraceni on Instagram. It reads: "The most terrible, frightening, horrible tuxedo ever seen in my life. Omg .. [face palm emoji]. Elegance is not an empty word. I can't stand it. Really suffering ..."

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Lauren Sanchez et al totally offend all my eyes and fashion senses. The weird big boob Barbie -in-formaldahyde look is frightening: a gondola zombie apocalypse

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/06/2025

Two paths diverged in a wood and America took the psychopath.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

overwhelmed with gratitude that I am NOT at Glastonbury - given my pathological phobia of crowds, port-a-loos and competing sound systems also these rude radishes from the garden

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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 26/06/2025

New York City’s probable next mayor will be the first in history to have attended St George’s Grammar School in Cape Town, an Anglican school in Mowbray.

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US POLITICS: Meet New York City’s likely next mayor — a former SA schoolboy

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

how many sleeps till Donald Trump is GONE

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Women writers in Afghanistan are subject to the harshest living conditions and censorship. This essay on Forced marriage was a joy to work on, in collaboration with @untold-narratives.bsky.social. aeon.co/essays/the-s...

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The story of a girl sold into marriage with a Taliban leader | Aeon Essays

Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

MEN & BIRDS Dont know who made this work of utter documentary genius but I found it in my old photo file and had to share

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

a world gripped by violent and stupid and narcisstiic old men who think they are playing a video game is not a good one for those of us who align with the 'women and children' side of live

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

summer flowers picked for solstice

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

summer flowers picked for solstice

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

the most ominous words in the entire domestic lexicon are BREAKFAST IS READY

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

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TRIUMPH FOR REFORM AS IT SWEEPS INTO THIRD PLACE

by Our Political Correspondent
Hugh Kip

In the most seismic upheaval in the history of politics, Nigel Farage's Reform party continued its inevitable
march to Number 10 by spectacularly coming third in the Hamilton by-election.
After a disastrous night for Labour which saw the party only come first and win the election, it was clear that Starmer's days are numbered. If this result were replicated in a General Election, Reform would win a massive no seats, while labour would be consigned to the dustbin of history with another massive majority.
The records will show that our prediction that it would be a two horse race between the SNP and Reform became a reality - as the Scots rejected the discredited SNP and consigning them to second place. This proved, as we said, that Reform is the only option north of the border, apart from Labour.
A bruised and battered Starmer was clearly on the ropes as he addressed cheering crowds, and he must now only be days away from resigning - thus paving the way for Nigel Farage and his four MPs to sweep to power.

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

slaying my deadline like Judith did Holofernes - all hail to Artemesia Gentileschi

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I have such cabin fever - writing cabin fever

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Watching TV is good bad indifferent

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

is nuclear war in Europe immanent Yes No

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

NOBODY ON THE PLANET believes this - not even people on the Platform Formerly Known as Twitter

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I know I should take this seriously but this ICE tweet genuinely made me laugh.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforceme... '
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Contact us if you were harmed by an alien.
855-48-VOICE
ICE.gov/voice

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Louise Fairbairn @scarletrix.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

You're not burning my copies, those are too precious! Tho burn everything down and start afresh always is a tempting idea...

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

all week I have been fighting the impulse to burn all the books I have ever written. Every single word - I want to see it go up in a binfire of the vanities. Every book, every word turned into heat and light and then gone. Ash

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

reunion with niece, nephew and Lion's Head clouds

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Margie Orford @margieorford.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

with my baby-love - I never imagined such devoted attunement with anyone until this, my first, grandchild appeared

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Barbara Holtmann Fixed.Africa @bholtmann.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

They are now officially known as the Voetsekkers.

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