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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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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

My favourite book by a long way, it continues to intrigue on so many levels! I remain in awe and reverence of its ending, the enlightened Gulliver finally home and finally truly wise, and... living in the stables with his horses, munching on hay... er... wait a minute...

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Going along and being obnoxious that way might be the best thing you could do for everyone involved, but I don't think I'd have the energy myself.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I don't entirely follow but I've looked up the movie and it gets a GAHHH from me

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Now for not knowing that, i am truly ashamed

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Hey I just accidentally kill my best mate in multiple lifetimes, I don't know anything about this stuff. And if it's a literary reference I totally knew that and I was being dry.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

First of all, they were all ACCIDENTS. Secondly, the youngest of your deaths was aged 32 during the Sack of Delhi when I ACCIDENTALLY parked my elephant on your hammock.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Yeah sorry about that. And sorry about the other 4,233 times too, while I'm at it. The trebuchet accident in the 14th century was particularly unfortunate, though it was pretty spectacular.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In my former life he was the only fucker I couldn't hit. The bullets seemed to go into orbit around his vast cranium.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Wartime. Thin bloke. Big head. Sniper's dream.

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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 · 23/04/2025

It's bleak but it's not THAT bleak

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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 · 19/04/2025

No idea dude. Not my area. Potatoes are... bread?

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Oh I see. Oh. I'm sorry. I flew off the handle a bit.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Next you'll be telling us cauliflower isn't traditional.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

We're not exactly healthy eating but we really can't run away very effectively

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

You look like you're about to stick it to the older generation, and rightly so.

The closing letter from The Breakfast Club (1985) which reads "DEAR MR. VERNON,

WE ACCEPT THE FACT THAT WE HAD TO SACRIFICE A WHOLE SATURDAY IN DETENTION FOR WHATEVER IT IS WE DID WRONG, BUT WE THINK YOU'RE CRAZY FOR MAKING US WRITE AN ESSAY TELLING YOU WHO WE THINK WE ARE. YOU SEE US AS YOU WANT TO SEE US, IN THE SIMPLEST TERMS, IN THE MOST CONVENIENT DEFINITIONS. BUT WHAT WE FOUND OUT, IS THAT EACH ONE OF US IS A BRAIN, AND AN ATHLETE, AND A BASKET CASE, A PRINCESS, AND A CRIMINAL. DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?

SINCERELY YOURS,

THE BREAKFAST CLUB."

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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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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The inner arsehole sounds like a legend surgical staff tell one another over campfires. It's in there somewhere and if you find it you're doomed.

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Ross @rossmcgovern.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The main thing with tablets is that the first time you bring them down the mountain everybody will be fannying about worshipping a golden calf. Idk I assume it's some meme or something.

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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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