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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

[Sade voice 🎵]

A picture of a packet of instant mash mix titled "smooth mashed potato"

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Excellent thread from Stephen Bush

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Naomi Klein: ‘WHAT THEY WANT IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING’ Klein breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'

The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

‘Pizabella dominated the conclave’

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is the content I come here for

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Bertrand Russell could really, really write.

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

So glad Palantir is so heavily involved in the NHS. I am sure they will be really responsible with all the data

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Katie Birkwood @girlinthe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.

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Hlavní nadraží Praha - znělka 02 (Dlouhá verze)

YouTube video by Pavel Jirásek

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth

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Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024

European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record

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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Just gonna leave this here…

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

More true every day

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I don't really know what's going on in rugby but Andrew Cotter gives great commentary

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

@maxrushden.bsky.social is it now possible Everton could challenge for the Everton cup?!?

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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In view of the recent Dominic Cummings revelations I would like to point out what is I think the definitive take on him from Viz

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Your weekly reminder that modern betting firms are Escobars in suits. Ruthless predators nurturing addiction and destroying lives. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission

Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

From Kate Conger’s book “Character Limit” on how Musk ruined Twitter.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 06/02/2025

Mitch McConnell Vows To Continue Falling Down Stairs In Face Of Fascist Takeover theonion.com/mitch-mcconn...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

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Sergeant Napper @meandmecousin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Been great to watch this talented young player play the game. He is a special talent. Was ready to dislike Barney's article, but its actually pretty accurate. No resentment from me or lots of other LFC fans towards Trent. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Alexander-Arnold could cool things down but Liverpool owners deserve heat too | Barney Ronay

The full-back is clearly itching for a move but an unrealistic Local Lad premium is demanded of him that reflects a wider alienation

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 08/01/2025

Will the ultra-rich dealing with the horrors of extreme weather do anything to change minds on climate change? Or are we living in a real-life version of ‘Don’t Look Up’…

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of my favorite parts of Ministry for the Future was the abolition of the billionaires. Just to be that rich makes you an enemy of democracy. Wrote early this year:

Let me put it this way: if you made $10,000 a week – a princely sum by the standards of most people – you would have to work every week from the year of Jesus’s birth until this week to earn over a billion dollars. To earn as much as Elon Musk’s net worth at that rate – currently $180bn, according to Forbes – you’d have to work every week for more than a third of a million years – that is, since before Homo sapiens first emerged in Africa.

Being a billionaire is arguably a disqualification for participating in the affairs of ordinary people
Another way to put it is: one day last year, walking on San Francisco’s western edge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, I saw whales spouting, and then I came home and rescued a bee buzzing at my window. The extremely disparate scale of these two wild creatures impressed me, and so I did the sums: a honeybee weighs about 0.11 grams and 4,000 bees weigh a pound; a grey whale weighs between 60,000 and 90,000 pounds, meaning that, even at the lower weight, it weighs about as much as a quarter of a billion bees. According to Oxfam, 81 billionaires hold more wealth than the poorest half of all humanity, meaning that in monetary terms 81 people are bigger than 4 billion people. So when it comes to wealth and impact, billionaires are whales and poor people are bees. Except that whales aren’t a menace to bees.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Now that's seventies entertainment - Bob Blackman, a tin tray and 'Mule Train'.

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