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Rory

@rorythegeordie.bsky.social
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Male pale stale. Loves music & comics. Hates bigots. Proudly unfashionable for over 50 years.

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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
For sale in the Grainger Market in Newcastle upon Tyne. Absolutely shouldn't be.
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Oh joy, my government has fucked my access to this site. Demands age verification. Age verification method refused, no alternative. Daft thing is I shouldn't be able to see my own posts going by this totalitarian nonsense.
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/11/2025
The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.
Vaccines.gov
CDC
The functionality of this website may be impacted while it is being updated.
Find a pharmacy near you.
Enter 5-digit ZIP code
10001
Search
Please enter a valid 5-digit ZIP Code
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I hate having to wait a whole year for China Miéville’s new book, but I think it will be worth it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
thebookseller.com
Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
What a song. What an LP. chatpile.bandcamp.com/track/the-ma...
chatpile.bandcamp.com
The Magic of the World, by Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
from the album In The Earth Again
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Immigrant Boo👻 @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 02/11/2025
I often say that Westerns do not and cannot really understand the Soviet Union or Russia. Prime example right here. This was literally the norm and it trickled all the way down to every member of the proletariat. I literally owe my life to блат.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/11/2025
“Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the cage – And sings the taunting songs – That never stop – Yet, tonight, tonight – When you sleep – I will eat it.
buff.ly
Eight Famous Poems Rewritten by Your Asshole Cat
“This is Just to Say” I have eaten the eggs that were on the counter which you were probably saving for breakfast. They weren’t moist or savory lik...
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Been away from here for a while but intend to remedy that. I forget how much less exhausting this site is compared to the bigger ones. Still, here's a song for our times youtu.be/eRoO5foGegk?...
youtu.be
Hateful Abandon - The Way it Ends
YouTube video by All Hail Dissonance
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Alberta: "Hold my beer."
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Went to the cinema for the first time in years yesterday with my son. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Dave Lung @davelung.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sometimes, the headlines just write themselves!
Image of the planet Uranus, shared in a humorous science post by IFLScience. The caption reads: "Uranus May Be Filled With A Lot More Methane Than We Thought.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/06/2025
Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.
motherjones.com
Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs
They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.
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Average Joe Miller @averagejoemiller.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The UN Charter and international law are both meaningless Certain countries can break as many ‘laws’ as they want and continue to do so without any punishment so why pretend we live by these rules 🤔
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Quinn @quinn-essential.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Do you fck with communism?
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Don’t join GSUS thinking that’s the end of it. Our organizing requires you to be in your COMMUNITIES. Regional chapters provide support and solidarity, but they only work with YOU. A national movement succeeds at the local level. Listen to this video, then listen again. He knows what’s up.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
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ReGen Magazine @regenmag.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
News: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry announces final studio album, to be released via COP International regenmag.com/news/news-re...
regenmag.com
News: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry announce final studio album, to be released via COP International
COP International has announced the release of Strange Kind of Paradise from U.K. post-punk band Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. With all 10 tracks written by vocalist/guitarist Chris Reed and guitarist David...
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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 02/05/2025
Happy Giant Phallus Shaped Iceberg Floating In Conception Bay of Dildo, Canada Day to all who celebrate.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/05/2025
they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...
apnews.com
The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall
The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“Eugenics isn’t just about eradicating the lesser people like myself, like people with disabilities, it’s about attaching disability to marginalized communities in order to slate them for eradication.” Fantastic crash course in eugenics, ableism & anti-blackness from @imanibarbarin.bsky.social
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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Chris Sotomayor 🇵🇷 @sotocolor.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Now is a great time to be supportive of trans people you know, or those you don't. Actually, always is a great time to speak out against the goddamn lying ghouls trying to pretend trans people are some mysterious threat to anyone, and not just people trying to live their lives.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Simon "Si Spurrier" Spurrier @sispurrier.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Aaaaand here's the @imagecomics.com press release: imagecomics.com/press-releas...
imagecomics.com
EXPERIENCE THE FEVER DREAM OF SWEATY SWAMP-THRILLER THE VOICE SAID KILL BY STAR CREATORS SI SPURRIER AND VANESA DEL REY…
Fargo meets Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou in this spicy Cajun crime miniseries with four extra-juicy issues full of vivid characters and psychedelic nightmares
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024. This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”
A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Here's someone I'm really looking forward to more from. Stellar, pun intended. youtu.be/rtnJwQYEO3Q?...
youtu.be
Stella Bridie - He Didn't Mean It (Official Video)
YouTube video by Stella Bridie
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Can't wait for the LP to arrive, the lineup of this band is like a wishlist for me. Check it out, can't recommend highly enough.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11/04/2025
Why is it so difficult to organize a general strike again? We must be way past 3.5% buy-in by now. I am ready to donate to a strike fund and paint a sign
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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Good morning Bluesky !
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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Me: please don’t use ChatGPT, even tasks that you’d never pay a creative for in the first place, and so are not depriving humans of work, are massively resource-intensive and killing the planet. Half Of Facebook, Apparently: this is what I’d look like as a Barbie!
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Victim complex
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So we can’t guarantee our own citizens health care but we can pay everyone in Greenland $10,000/year? How is this “America First”, exactly? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The system isn't broken. It was built this way... Stop putting rich white men in positions of power!!! For fuck sake.🤦‍♀️
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 11/04/2025
Michael Gove used to ban teachers from their profession for life for drug use. He got caught taking cocaine and a few years later he's getting a peerage? It's as clear as day that drug laws are just there to punish the working class.
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Gonna take this opportunity to say that I can personally deliver no script for as little as 7 million, and I know some other writers who can do it for as little as five million.
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Rory @rorythegeordie.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In true fascist style www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
theguardian.com
Head of US base in Greenland fired after JD Vance visit – Europe live
Susannah Meyers was removed from, her position amid reports she distanced herself and the base from Vance’s criticism of Denmark
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It feels like a significant amount of quality news outlets are behind paywalls while absolutely none of the inflammatory right-wing ones are and in an age of overwhelming misinformation combined with increasingly poor media literacy I just have… no idea what we’re supposed to do about that.
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