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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The word you are looking for is hanged—otherwise, you're just repeating a wishful daydream of Donald Trump.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Funny isn't it how misogyny and actual violence towards women can be overlooked by some folk who claim they are 'champions of women'?

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Loads of manosphere dudes are going to have to go and see that baffling new movie where Johnny Depp is playing Ebenezer Scrooge hahahahaha

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thank God Trans World Airlines is out of business—or deeply confused Donald would be wasting so much time trying to ground them.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I reckon the threat to Farage is about 100th of that directed at Diane Abbott but his performative whinging is 100x greater.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The polar opposite reactions here to the deaths of Sam Neill and Lindsey Graham are such a reminder that we all have a choice whether to live our lives in a way that brings joy or misery to those around us. I think if you’re remembered fondly as Sam Neill is today, you’ve pretty much won at life.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/07/2026

The question for Nigel Farage now is whether it's less embarrassing to un-resign and claim that was an establishment stitchup, or to spend a month competing with a bin. Neither is exactly a *great* option. Neither solves his ongoing scandals. And it's a mess entirely of his own making.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nigel Farage statement options: a) He's stepping back from public life for the sake of his family. b) He's staying put for the sake of the country. c) He has a great new investment opportunity: gold purchased with cryptocurrency. Click on the referral link, enter $NIGEL, and get a 20% discount.

Screencap of tweet by Nigel Farage:

"I will make a statement on my future in public Life at 2pm."

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Dave Burke @daveburke12.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s 1.20am, everyone’s getting tired, but thankfully Count Binface and a candidate dressed as a fox have rocked up. You can’t beat a British by-election

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There can’t be a better obituary than this. Cheerio Hocker’s! 🤣

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In agreement about the music. That's normally the bit I'm looking out for. Also who they've thanked (or dissed) and location info. The good stuff's all towards the end! I'm impressed you generally stay. 👍

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

🙌 Though credits are so long now compared to when I first started going to the cinema in '80s. I used to always stay until the end, because it would only be a few minutes and was interesting. Now you'd be there for 10 mins. or longer with many films. How long do you give it?

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

He'll yeah. Would love to bury my face in there. So hot!

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'm betting I'm not the only one done -- I mean completely done -- with Nicki Minaj.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Last post I promise: And that suggests that in one and half thousand years time a company like Disney might make an animated light fantasy very loosely based on the story of Jesus . . .

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

So someone in 150 AD who said they believed in Hercules's myths would have got no more than a “huh, okay then” too. We're at that stage I guess!

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Just looked this up: the cult of Hercules was still widespread and active into the early Christian era, and early Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria offered historical dates for Hercules believing him as real person. It wasn't until 4th to 6th centuries CE that those cults totally died out.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It must have taken a while for belief in Greek and Roman deities to go from "fact" to "myth." In terms of time, we are less than 150 years since the historical veracity of the Bible was seriously questioned by many in western countries. That's no time at all compared with ancient Greece.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I've been following the progress of this foal called Rocky who was born with three legs! I've NEVER seen this before, a horse with three legs isn't like dogs or cats with a missing limb, it's basically unheard of. But he's 7 months old and the vet says he's doing great. I love the way he eats grass.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Dare I ask, what did the smell of no. 9 "????" turn out to be?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

and the mix of melodrama, camp, and some truly odd choices (a dance sequence that looks like Wuthering Heights–era Kate Bush performing that scene from Flashdance spliced with a montage of truly gagworthy face slapping) produces sometimes riveting entertainment.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The great Anupam Kher steals every scene he’s in. The score is lovely, flecked with classical Indian and Rajasthani folk music,

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Coupled with some gorgeous evocations of Rajput paintings, the exotic locations here include the Rajasthan desert, a field in Derbyshire, Alton Towers, and what looks like the travel tavern Alan Partridge lived in next to a dual carriageway.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Having said that, it feels old-fashioned and slow compared with the films Yash and Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar would make with Shah Rukh Kahn starting later in the same decade.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

What I’ve been watching, no. 2: Lamhe, dir. Yash Chopra, 1991, India. A classic Yash Chopra romantic Bollywood epic of boy meets girl, boys loses girl, boy falls for girl’s identical daughter, made shortly after Chopra hit on his hit formula of romance, exotic locations, NRI subplots, and wealth.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Kimmo Pohjonen's experimental score is also superb.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Stylistically, the film bears the influence of Tarkovsky and Parajanov (and Sofiko Chiaureli is among the cast, adding to the Parajanov connections), but it has a style and breathtaking beauty all of its own, making it heartbreaking that Saakyan died only a few years later, aged 37.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

What I’ve been watching, no. 1: Mayak, dir. Mariya Saakyan, 2006, Armenia/Russia. Mariya Saakyan’s extraordinary debut film about women’s lives in a war zone, depicting the Nogorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

One minute of my goat Bertie eating hazel leaves then trying to eat my phone, with one of the pair of kestrels that frequent the garden providing accompaniment.

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hope you start feeling better soon!

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M. G. Wendt @mgwendt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If you're not sure what action to take, you could try contacting NHS 111, who can advise whether you need to go to A&E or may be able to help with getting an appointment with a GP www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Another open letter. This time to M&S. I don’t have any nostalgic desire to protect this brand. Other undies are available. And back in the 70s my local store had fuzzy, mustard yellow pillars that gave me static shocks every time I went near them. Anyone else?

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An Appeal to M&S over Transphobia

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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today” #TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/05/2025

It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot. Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass. Guess what it finds?

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Money that JKR earns from Harry Potter is used to fund legal actions designed to reduce trans women’s rights, e.g. in the workplace. The harms from this will affect all trans communities. Personally, I will do what I can to not line her purse further.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The best way I can articulate how I know trans women are women is….whenever I’ve met a trans woman I’d have to work extremely hard to see them as anything other than a woman, ya know? I’ve seen GCs call women “HE!!!” and just thought “you’ve had to try SO hard to do that to her”.

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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I just want the confidence of a 1920’s ice delivery man

Photo of a man from the 1920’s wearing boots and carrying a block of ice with a metal hook(?) looking very cool with cigarettes in his hat and a cigarette hanging from his lip- he’s got obvious swagger and possibly scoliosis

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