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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Leave us alone
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Create wealth on the back of others poor pay, then complain about the benefits bill.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@nettlejelly.bsky.social
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/09/2026
‘Across London, the number of families in temporary accommodation is 73,000, more than twice the number in 2011 – an estimated 210,000 people in all, nearly half of them children.’ @jamesmeek.bsky.social on London’s housing crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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James Meek · ‘What kind of people do they think we are?’: On Social Housing
Now that Southwark has become desirable, the patches of neglect are placeholders for the chains and high-end outlets the...
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fluffiness, wind blown Rosebay willow herb along the lanes #seedheads #wildflowerhour
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Apple butter
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Got hypnotised and didn’t suffer. Huge relief and didn’t poison others anymore
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I had to say thank you.
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In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946-2026, Our Goddess of Kindness
We will always love her, and there will never be another like her, this artist who came out of deep rural poverty in the 1960s to become not just a staggeringly great performer and songwriter but phil...
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Nature and the environment, this time. You can only pick one. So ... which one?
12 vintage ladybird books about nature are laid out in a 4 x 3 grid, showing their different covers 
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Littering
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/08/2026
They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive
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They gave me to someone who could not read or write … it would be better if you buried me alive
I was the top student in my university class but when the Taliban took Afghanistan again I was forced to marry and my dreams of being a pilot ended
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Some big things we’ve been working on in the background and the hospital opening date… niallharbison.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...
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A Year Of Saying No To Everything
Complete focus
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/07/2026
Hosta hideout and a queen bee – readers’ best photographs
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Hosta hideout and a queen bee – readers’ best photographs
A selection of Guardian readers’ photographs from around the world
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bon appetite!
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
How many cyclists of any kind read the Highway Code? All operating from different road rules or none
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🙏🏼
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pretty blue harebell #campanularotundiflora #stillflowering #wildflowerhour north Kent meadow this afternoon amongst the drying grass
Blue bell shaped flowers in dry on slender dark stem
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/07/2026
If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels Abbey
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If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels Abbey
The idea that former colonies should pay reparations makes perfect sense to the new right. But have they got the telescope the right way round, asks author and broadcaster Nels Abbey
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh yes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Swift Awareness Week everyone! Swifts making themselves wonderfully aware in my heatwave skies atm. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Migrating swifts loyally return every year to nests in buildings, study finds
Conservationists emphasise importance of protecting nesting sites used by ‘strongly faithful’ red-listed species
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Plant into farmyard manure 😬
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Does it recoil when you poke it?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/06/2026
AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
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AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik
For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Media, Tories and Labour are all complicit but… “Reform has been cynical and reprehensible... It has worked tirelessly to prevent a rational or compassionate conversation about this subject, preferring instead to create a climate of hysteria and mob rule.” liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/443...
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The immigration myth Farage is desperate for you to believe
The right has relied on public ignorance in order to stoke anxiety around immigration
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We're sometimes shy about allegiances but how will you vote? Please share! I'm a floating butterfly voter agonising between Purple Emperor, Brown Argus, Swallowtail, Brimstone and Large Tortoiseshell (so exciting it is back!) @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly
Butterfly Conservation poll is open until 7 June with choice of 60 species from small tortoiseshells to purple emperors
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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 11/05/2026
Important to understand Reform UK is just a rebadged Brexit party, which was just a rebirth of UKIP, which had folded in core of Referendum Party and was previously a rebadge of Anti-Federalist League. It's all the same grift, with same grifters, and has not appeared out of nowhere in just 8 years
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
🙏🏻
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Groupthink
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Like they haven’t really thought about it at all……
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Why are they working that late at night, need more normal work hours then they won’t need to hang around
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2026
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/04/2026
Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr
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Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr
If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My god it’s a wasteland of cold shade and wind
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Would an eraser filled with chocolate be easier?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Farmworker Day, California. Wrote about the shift from celebrating an individual to a collective.
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We live among statues of lone heroes. But change comes through collective action | Rebecca Solnit
As Cesar Chavez Day becomes Farmworkers Day, we must remember that the hero is the movement
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11/03/2026
rough (like uff in buff) cough (like off in scoff) drought (like ow in cow) though (like o in no) thought (like aw in saw) through (like oo in woo) Enough.
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
And why not!
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
And Peckham please
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Hangover
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
And a lift please so it’s accessible, thanks
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In darker blue….
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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mossysuze.bsky.social @mossysuze.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Absolutely embarrassingly shameful
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