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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If it wasn't so tragic, it would genuinely be hilarious
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Raven Stromdans @ravenstromdans.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Considering there are over a thousand accounts of sexual assault by ICE, women defending themselves from ICE "agents" by whatever means at their disposal falls squarely in the justification of "self defense".
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Let’s be clear about what the Trump regime is saying to Minnesota: “We will continue murdering your citizens unless you help us rig your election.”
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Dear God, man. You are Speaker of the House. Third in line to the presidency. Have some fucking dignity.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.
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The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
What naughty, naughty boyars...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Acting Field Director David Easterwood.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
It's strange for the President of the United States to be litigating in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs — but he's seeking an order barring "current, former and future" DOJ officials from releasing Jack Smith's second volume. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Mike Johnson will no doubt have been unable to see it due to his head being firmly stuck up his arse
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This year is NOT looking good for Florida...
NOAA Atlantic Tropical Cyclone names for 2025 - #11 is Karen...
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is comic-book villain levels of douchebaggery How utterly lacking in integrity, morals, or even self respect do you have to be to do this?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Andrew B. Watt @andrewbwatt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How about this? Assume that, in a federal government wholly captured by an American Oligarchy™, there are no random acts. Stop thinking like a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, and start thinking like a peasant whose aristocrat rulers are trying to steal your right to live as a free person.
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Wait, what?? My god, my other half is going to be so impressed that I’m a porn bot. Well. Surprised, anyway…
Some amount that’s already been suspended added me to a “Porn Bots” moderation list. Clearly I need to post more noodes…
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is brilliant. Also, I hate it.
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Cannot recommend highly enough “Kajaki: the True Story“. Possibly the best war movie I’ve ever seen. Apparently released in US as “Kilo Two Bravo” - ignore that cringe, 100% Rotten Tomatoes says it all. British Paras in Helmand get stuck in a minefield. TW - war, gore, paras singing.
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AllyCat Mama🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 @catmama42014.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The circus of 💩 is going to begin..brought to you by: a small group of greedy, ultra-wealthy, and horribly misguided individuals.
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
1 Breathless self help book, well meaning but absolutely idiotic. Will almost certainly mention crystals and energies. 2 Gonzo journalism, lauded by Rolling Stone as the next Hunter S Thompson 3 Frighteningly perceptive and erudite dissection of the human condition - she's not in favour of it
A very dim but very sweet cat who is very wide eyedVery large boi, squished and disheveled after falling between leg and cushion and sleeping there anywayVery elegant and exceptionally judgey cat sitting high and gazing down upon the untermenschen
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Be a disappointment, you say? I've got some good news...
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Inside you are the faithful 800 of Fushimi Castle
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Cmdr Brent Perry (RN) finally slipped his moorings and headed West today. BZ, Dad, for a life well lived. o7
HMS Blake, a Tiger class light cruiser and helicopter / Marine carrier
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts. Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵
side view of a British destroyer, with two funnels, at sea.
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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Because demographic wonk is my side hustle: CHERRY PICKED DATA ALERT From 1890 to 1940, the average age of first marriage for women was 21.5 to 22. (It slightly declined over that 50 years). In 1950, it dropped more than a year to 20.3. And didn’t recover to above 21.5 until 1980 (when it was 22).
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
CAT AND PERSON NEED ASSISTANCE
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I thought you guys might like this - so perfectly and succinctly put Ping @czedwards.bsky.social @rahaeli.bsky.social
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Emergency cat signal!! @angelalovesny.bsky.social You may struggle on this one 😬
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Nancy Mace’s former Communications Director.
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hey @widedamnawake.bsky.social , check this out - is it not gorgeous!
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Here are some nice mushrooms! Ping @lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Imagine you're 3 inches tall, walking a path carved through a land of mushrooms. They're a dark grey brown and done shaped with a little white frilly fringe and coming in great clumps. In the middle distance there are some white planar ones growing from a dead tree trunk. I wish I knew what they all were but I don't... But if we're lucky @lukelukeluke will know and will post
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Sam Potts @sampotts.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Daily dogs in the woods. Cold and sunny, 34*, December 7, 2024. #HennieandSilas
Small dog with head stuck in a hole she's diggingLarge mastiff walking toward the camera like a big dope
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If I could ask a favour... This clown has nicked my profile and banner pic and then blocked me. Please report...
Bluesky profile of johngbullock using, for fuck knows what reason, my banner and profile pics
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I am completely in charge of my books. I am not controlled by my books. No, you can't throw that away. No, I know I've said that I'll never read it again and it was completely crap. No you don't understand, if it went then *that* book would be sad. The whole shelf would be all wrong & upset. What?
media.tenor.com
a woman in a pink dress is making a funny face and saying `` i said what i said '' .
Alt: a woman in a pink dress saying "i said what i said". I really don't see what is so hard to understand here. That book may be garbage but it's lived on that shelf so long that they're all buddies especially with that one. Taking it out would be like losing a child. Ok, maybe not a very nice child. Or a particularly well written child. Or even a badly written child that kinda annoys you every time you think about it ... but that's not the point is it. IT'S STILL JUST A CHILD AND SHOULDN'T BE THROWN IN THE BIN like I don't know a magazine or something
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 06/12/2024
Korea's preeminent *conservative* paper of record exclusively reports that President Yoon ordered someone at the National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) to arrest the head of his own party (who would later vote against martial law) and when the NIS man refused, ordered his dismissal.
chosun.com
“‘정치인 체포’ 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치”
정치인 체포 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치 정보소식통 尹, 洪차장에 직접 전화로 지시
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theonollert.bsky.social @theonollert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Republicans are trying to throw out 60,000 votes in North Carolina, and they're making it hard to find out if yours is one of them. I had a friend throw together a spreadsheet with all of them. See someone you know? Tell them! Click here to search: tinyurl.com/ncchallenged...
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Perfect Kilgore Trout reference reporting from the ‘coup’ while absolutely fucking blasted. Editor at the Verge and goddamn magnificent
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is rather fun - BlueSky receipt at bskypt.vercel.app
The Bluesky receipt showing posts and likes and reposts and basically my Bluesky life in 2024. Silly. Fun. Pointless. Made me smile. You know, like Twitter used to do before the BlueTick times. JFC the workout my block has done over there the last couple of days. The hellsite just gets worse and worse. This place? Much better
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Exhibit #23303 Billionaires can’t even play 1D chess* and are the product of luck and a failed tax system. *TBF he probably could but ask him the simplest question requiring self examination and critique and he’d flounder like Trump doing 1st grade sums
Marc Andreesen - “Big Tech spent a decade doing everything possible to be the best conceivable progressive ally. They got treated with utter contempt, pounded daily, crucified in return. A full rethinking is required”
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Michael Dnes @roadscholar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We have a new report out today. Because we’ve found one weird fact that unites all four constituencies that swung Reform for the first time at the election.🧵
Four Reform MPs highlighted
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What in the flying fucking spaghetti monster* is he talking about? *BBHNA
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Exhibit #23302 Billionaires can’t even play 1D cheese and are the product of luck and a failed tax system.
Elon Musk: “Bluecry *laughing emoji * Aka Pedosky” This is presumably because Bluesky have publicly talked about the challenge of suddenly having 23mn accounts and moderation, and discussed how they’re facing the challenge with so few staff. Musk OTOH basically just quit all attempts at moderation because something something elementary AI something and so now Twitter smells like a septic tank of abuse, troll sweat, and sexual exploitation and still has 3000 employees, 2990 of whom are desperately trying to clean up his messes. Legal dept goes brrrrrrrrrrr
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Exhibit #23301 Billionaires can’t even play 1D cheese and are the product of luck and a failed tax system. … JFC Trump’s gonna be here a lot isn’t he 🤦‍♂️ …
Top cryptocurrency executives and investors are pushing President-elect Donald Trump to create a national stockpile of bitcoin, a move that could more closely tie the little-regulated, volatile industry to the future of the country’s finances.
Trump has publicly expressed broad interest in the idea, though some crypto advocates have urged him to take an even more aggressive step: They want him to acquire tokens worth billions of dollars, then hold them for decades in the hopes they will skyrocket in value and help pay down the national debt.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵
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Dr Sam @perrywadesam.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Great thread 👇
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