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Purple Gharial

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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
If I were to be charitable, this represents the political stance the Greens have historically taken: the party for the parts of the soft left who don't want to have to deal with trade-offs and want to believe they can have everything they want without loss of virtue.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."
It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Numbers of students are down 1.9% as opposed to the 25% predicted by the Independent Schools Council and various right wing think-tanks.
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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🧵 NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country? Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades. What’s going on? 1/7 @thetimes.com Free link 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/25aa...
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Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Great photo and caption by BBC News
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Rishi mate, the issue wasn't the slogan. The issue was that your plan did not actually deal with the issue. You had expensive policies, the most ridiculous laws (defining Rwanada 'safe'), but made no attempt to process the backlog, nor work with other countries, nor any attempts to stop any boats.
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‘Stop the boats’ slogan was ‘too stark’, admits Rishi Sunak
Former prime minister says drive to stop Channel crossings was correct, but message ‘wasn’t quite right’
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🇺🇦 UPDATE… Ukraine’s parliament undermines Trump’s (Kremlin-aligned) argument…
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Honestly, this is an insane thing for a major political party to be running with. It’s mad. It’s by mad people for mad people.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Nice I hit the anniversary on this one
@Caitoz: I want you to promise me you'll completely revise your worldview and drastically change your media consumption habits when March gets here and the invasion still hasn't happened
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 21/01/2025
It’s a sign of how far the GOP has become simply the Trump party and democratic norms and guardrails have completely weakened that the incoming president could issue pardons for insurrectionists who committed violence against police officers and the old party of law and order barely says a thing.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/01/2025
Bit ableist of you people to make a big deal out of my invading Poland. Be better.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Labour pointing out that the Tory amendment would kill the whole bill. Source: “It’s a bizarre approach to child protection to vote down a child protection bill which includes powers such as stopping another home schooling scandal as we saw in the tragic case of Sara Sharif.”
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 07/01/2025
This is not what he said and they know it. Something very disturbing has happened to much of the British press and a fair amount of conservative politics. The extremist Musk tail wagging the formerly mainstream dog.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/01/2025
Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault! 🧵
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
With apologies to Helene I do think there is a material difference between an article expressing a general endorsement about the AfD (which is *bad*) and 200 tweets explicitly about Starmer and a calling for a sitting Minister to be lynched.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
You can't make this sort of thing up.
Angry about homeless ppl on tubeHates taxes
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Qusay Noor @qusaynoor.net · 30/12/2024
He meets his mother in #Masyaf City in #Syria after 13 years of forced displacement
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)
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A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article)
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 30/12/2024
"The number of cases [of Guinea worm disease has] been reduced by more than 99.999% [from 3.5 M in 1986] to 14 in 2023 with only six countries remaining: South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Ethiopia, Angola, and Central African Republic." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eradica...
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Eradication of dracunculiasis - Wikipedia
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chris @chrismartinez.latinsky.app · 25/12/2024
To all dads out there - my box full o’ random cables just came in clutch to power an old Wii U remote we got for our on for Christmas. Knew it!! 💪
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Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
@hankgreen.bsky.social Is this legit? Dark Energy is fake and the universe isn't accelerating?! x.com/Andercot/sta...
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🍑 @sweetpeachgames.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I think anyone who watches a game trailer and judges the entire thing based on how attractive the female characters are desperately need a new hobby. At this stage you have zero interest in video games themselves but just want something to jack off to.
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Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Here’s an idea: talk to the local primary school kids and get them interested in Christianity.” “Great - I’ll tell them to grow up, Santa doesn’t exist and their parents eat the stuff they put out on Christmas Eve. Job done.”
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Vicar’s Santa sermon ‘ruins Christmas’ for sobbing school pupils — The Times and The Sunday Times
When teachers at a primary school in Hampshire invited the local vicar to give a talk about the birth of Jesus, they did not expect it to end with irate parents, sobbing children and a “ruined” Christ...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/12/2024
late in the year but top contender for most insane headline of 2024 so far. just absurd nonsense lol
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
ME: and make mine a double WAITER: your..your tater tots? ME: you heard me
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Carl Schreck @carlschreck.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Baller move by Evan Gershkovich to drop, as his first byline since being freed from Russian captivity on bogus charges, a deep dive into the secretive Putin spy unit behind his kidnapping - and its boss. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Just a reminder that there were people claiming Syrian refugees were 'economic migrants' and it was perfectly safe for them to go back... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Saydnaya Prison: Mapping the Assads' 'human slaughterhouse'
Thousands of people have been executed and tortured in the secretive prison since the 1980s.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I recently started trying to keep plants alive and I didn't realize that eventually I'd have to punish the plants by hacking off the parts that were growing too well. What kind of sick hobby is this
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Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I understand the human instinct. I’d want to do the same. But that’s why no individual should be given the power to pardon members of their family.
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Merrick 🦂 @merrickdeville.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Just learned Ronald Reagan had a dude who worked for him called Donald Regan, what kind of goofy shit is that
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Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So I bought some giant oreos for my partner who had flu. Opened the packet and saw this. And yet if I were to have them killed I'd be the one who went to jail.
5 oreos in a massive packet. Each has its own little spaced out slot in the plastic tray.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.
Word Crunching


I 
wrote 
a poem 
on a page 
but then each line grew 
to the word sum of the previous two 
until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency 
because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency 


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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/11/2024
D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015
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Purple Gharial @purplegharial.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Just heard about how Musk's dad said @keirstarmer778.bsky.social had set the UK back 400 years. So I googled 1624 UK events. Its literally a year famous for having a fantastic parliament that passed loads of great laws called the Happy Parliament.
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Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire @mayorofwy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
There is no room for transphobia, or any type of discrimination, in West Yorkshire. On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour lives lost to transphobic violence. I stand with our trans community and will do all I can to build a region where everyone feels safe to be themselves.
The trans pride flag.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/11/2024
it’s infinitely weirder to care about where someone pees compared to someone simply using the bathroom
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Martin @martinavatar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Won’t someone think of the millionaire land owners and their inheritance tax exemption loophole!
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Labour couldn't have picked better spokespeople themselves for this IHT row - pay-Diddly Squat-tax Clarkson, and UK HQ-ditcher James Dyson
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion. The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ. Exempt from all.
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I do find the Rachel Reeves CV Truther stuff a bit baffling. I was starting to think that there had to be *something* to it but no, it's literally just a story in search of a smoking gun.
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Andy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It's not a repost if it's a new platform, right? right?? Lattice light sheet movie of actin in mitosis. Blebby.
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Jack Holcombe @jackholcombe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Actin dynamics during wound closure. Another one of my favourite movies from my PhD #drosophila (not sure if bluesky will crush the quality?)
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
📢Today the Global Carbon Project releases its 2024 edition of the Global Carbon Budget, a comprehensive assessment of our perturbation of the carbon cycle and the balance of sources and sinks of CO₂. 1/🧵
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Coelacanths are pregnant for five years, the longest gestation of any known animal, and do not reach maturity until they are around 55 years old.
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