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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Suddenly Howard stopped "Idon't even LIKE carrots, he thought. The rabbits eyed him warily. Their game was over.

a hefty adult chimpanzee carefully carries many carrots in its fists, one between its toes and another between its teeth

Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Me doing audio description: "He's going up the stairs. The killer's probably there. No I bet it's all a dream. Or he's a ghost or something. He's going in the bedroom OH I CAN'T WATCH - no, I have to, it's my job - AH killer under the bed, called it! I bet he's still a ghost though..."

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 30/04/2025

The Women* in Classics** list is open to all women. Trans women. Gender fluid or non-binary folk who ID as women or femmes in any way. Anyone socialised as a woman. You get to decide if you’re eligible. This will always be the case.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Fuck it. Let AI have everything. Honestly, how can it do any worse?

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

When my kid is having a party and I phone just to check everything's fine.

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Everything's Fine - The News

YouTube video by Giop Saus

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thirty years ago I began writing a book of advice for the next generation. Now that I'm nearly fifty, it's just four hundred pages of this.

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That's A Paddlin' (The Simpsons)

YouTube video by ThingsICantFindOtherwise

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I do NOT crack my knuckles.

A tweet by @shiraisinspired which reads "All people with ADHD do is take everything personally, hyperfixate on crushes, try to start using a planner, get anxious in drive thrus, forget important appointments, get stuck in Scrolling Paralysis, interrupt people, have absolutely no patience, crack their knuckles and cry."

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm having a difficult time so I'm aggressively unsubscribing from emails and it's unnervingly satisfying. Hopefully it won't spiral into killing people for a psychological release. Is that a thing? I hope that's not a thing.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

We-ell, God said to Abraham, kill me a son Abe said man, you must be puttin' me on God said no, Abe said wh-what? God said you do what you want Abe, but NEXT TIME THAT YOU SEE ME COMIN' YOU BETTER RUN Abe said where you want this killin' done? God said out on that Highway 61

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PJ Harvey - Highway 61 Revisited (live Metro Chicago 1993)

YouTube video by Fuzzy Legends Archives

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Maximus @maximustm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Fox demonizing kids who get SS benefits due to the heartbreaking circumstances of losing one or both parents is shockingly evil.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 07/04/2025

spotted in the toronto star

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Barack Obama asks how would people react if he did what Donald Trump is doing Asking, "Who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for"

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tales-typoz @tales-typoz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is one of the most touching kindest messages I’ve ever heard at a time where Americans are really hurting. The person in this video is on Bluesky @whumpitup.bsky.social and give him a follow. Thank you so much for your beautiful message. If you haven’t seen this video it’s a must watch 👇👇👇👇👇

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like. And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

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Wobbledance aka “Tony” @wobbledance.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Jasmine Pt 2 from Wednesday (Must see TV)

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Brotha Tiptoe @thesuburbanthug.blacksky.app · 04/04/2025

Burkina Faso just announced that they paid off all their international Debt so their economy is 100% their own. I know that’s the fuck right.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

You know where you are with geography.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

if you're having a bad day, at least you haven't tried to tariff a penguin

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DariusB @dariusbat.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The right time of year for the satisfyingly cynical 'Spring' by Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950). I discovered it thanks to the wonderful @kukukadoo.bsky.social who posted it on X (but sadly doesn't seem to post on here).

To what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer quiet me with the redness
Of little leaves opening stickily.
I know what I know.
The sun is hot on my neck as I observe
The spikes of the crocus.
The smell of the earth is good.
It is apparent that there is no death.
But what does that signify?
Not only under ground are the brains of men
Eaten by maggots.
Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

1. Cape 2. Top hat 3. Bread 4. Milk 5. Evil twirly moustache

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Now up to here with my slow return to physical artwork post-ABI. Even the parts I’ve done so far need more detailed layers added on. Can’t work long before pain and fatigue get too much & I’m scared of having a seizure whilst working on it

Coloured pencil painting of Danny DeVito as The Penguin from Batman Returns. So far, I’ve done his top hat, face, hand and I’m starting on his clothing. All of it will need extra layers for detail at the end though.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Magnificent. More of this always everywhere please.

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Thanks so much to those who’ve donated. If I do get the backpayment they owe me (& they’ve screwed me for 15 months, so they better), I swear & will provide evidence, that any money raised will be repaid into mutualist organisations so it can be paid forward.

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I didn’t want to do this but I can’t survive until the DWP screw up leaving me, a severely disabled person, on £34.50pw to survive. That doesn’t cover the increased electrical costs, never mind food (I’m underweight) & v ill. Need a special diet- so no food banks www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This might be the closest I'll ever get to writing jokes for a Canadian late night show (because they don't exist), and it just felt so, so right.

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Not just mimicking it, but going further. If this is Labour, I’m a duck.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.

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allsee @allsees.online · 10/03/2025

ur telling me u jack off all trades?

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is the Crossens Canoe, which is 1500 years old. It was found in a field near here in 1899 and is now on permanent display in Southport and it's RUBBISH. Look at it. Call that a canoe? No wonder they left in a field for 1500 years.

A roughly-carved canoe from the Early Middle Ages which is in pretty good condition considering it's been in a marsh for 1500 years. But I'll be very surprised if anyone actually shows up to claim it.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I'd complain that you couldn't PAY me to be an insomniac but as I appear to be doing it for free there's no point.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"No, I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do anything about your ear infection. This is a very silly joke. Please go away."

An "Ent" from Lord of the Rings. ENT, you see. Like an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. That's the joke. It's definitely funny, trust me.

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 09/03/2025

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human" Hot damn William Gibson you got the sauce

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