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Sonja Raymond

@sraymond.bsky.social
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Photography and design are my thing. Satire and jazz keep me sane. I stand firmly against injustice and fascism. Views & opinions are my own. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” Charles Dickens

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A stunning mural in Paris celebrating the 100th anniversary of HAROLD LLOYD’s classic comedy - ‘Safety Last!’
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bb @bbpics.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
todays redwoods appreciation
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
60 Candles 🎂 today for the extraordinarily talented, EGOT winner - VIOLA DAVIS
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Alligator Alcatraz closing? Detainees are disappearing and being moved and we need help
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Shelley McNicholl @shell3070.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Maybe that’s why you only have 6 and a half members of parliament. #Auspol
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism" Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.
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This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism
Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Concentration camps... but please don't call Trump a fascist.
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
When there is no consequence for lying, it becomes a very valuable tool in your arsenal. #TrumpLies
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A drawing of fireflies in a forest graveyard. The caption reads, "You don't have to get it all perfect in order to make a good life."
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
look it's an almost smile only because the writing's going well the rest of it sucks i don't have many fucks left to give as i burn trapped in the hell of a country i no longer recognize without a hand to hold in the darkness ~ RC deWinter
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ~ Nelson Mandela
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Nature By Michelle @nature-by-michelle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
In the forest after she's fed. 🌧 #photography #nature #petrichor #forest Is there anything like a morning walk in the woods after an overnight rain? A sensory delight! 🌿
Mid-July forest after rain. Lush greenery. Sunlight from left side filtering in through the trees.

Hammel Woods, Illinois
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DrJulieAH @drjah.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Something for journalists and the opposition to digest:
Excerpt from analysis by Bang Xiao on abc website regarding Australian PMs visit to meet with Premier of China.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“Segal hasn’t condemned donation or Advance. Australia’s arbiter of hate speech seems to have given her own family business a free pass. Yet Segal assumes right to dictate what is acceptable conduct in all Australian public spaces, cultural institutions, universities and media.” #auspol
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Jami Boettcher @jamiboettch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Never get olds. Complete with noisy Oklahoma summer bugs. No, I don’t want to know which ones are making the racket 🤣🤣
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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UN’s Albanese hails 30-nation meeting aimed at ending Israeli occupation of Palestine
The Hague Group aims to agree political, economic and legal actions in ‘existential hour’ for Israel and Palestine
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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The northern lights in Alaska
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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Thank you Literary Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social for running a little extract from my book 👇 ‘In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story’ lithub.com/in-from-the-...
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In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story
From a very young age I was drawn to the world of fiction. Every day my grandfather would walk me home from nursery and tell me a story as we walked along the lifeless streets. I wish I could remem…
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Mosie @mosiefar-27.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I got a shot of the Big Dipper last night, right outside the bedroom window.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/07/2025
The thing about being rich is that it allows you to buy convenience at the expense of others. The thing about becoming ungovernable is that we have an obligation to make that convenience as inconvenient, shameful, expensive, and embarrassing as possible, in every way.
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Carson Cooper @cooperwheels.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Morning good folks. 🥱🎶🐝☕🌞🐝 May your #ThickTrunkDay be better than the one before. 🌲🐿️👣🐾🌲🦋 #WestCoastKin 🌊🌲🌊 #TreatYourself 🍰 #BatheInAForest 🌿 #Nature 🐬🦋🪻
Unique redwood tree, inner trunk essentially gone, with only a few exterior portions remaining. Defying logic of how it still lives.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Imagine having so much money that you look down at the people who contributed to you being able to acquire such wealth and thinking screw you. I’m not paying to make your lives or your kids lives better. I just can’t imagine being that unpatriotic.
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welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
#booksky
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
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Andrew Stafford @andrewstafford.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Imagine being so stupidly wealthy that your hubby could make a $50K political donation and you could just roll your eyes and say "oh that's nice dear" (big props to @anthonyklan.bsky.social for breaking this story) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Antisemitism envoy denies involvement in major donation by husband’s company to rightwing group Advance
Records show company co-directed by Jillian Segal’s husband donated $50,000 in 2024 to lobby group which campaigned against Albanese and pro-Palestine protests
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956. Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, photographed by David Parks for Life magazine in 1956.
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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
no matter how vicious the wind the frail but persistent flame of hope living somewhere so deep i can’t touch it refuses to die my tears quench the spark and now when i'm not sure what's left to hope for it still flickers reminding me the story is not yet finished ~ RC deWinter
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Lisa F. Moore @femlfm.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
85 Candles 🎂 today for the wonderful PATRICK STEWART
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Markwayne Carney ☭ @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Really interesting thread. Pay farm workers more. Stop abducting them m, then pay them more, and give them a path to citizenship.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
"Questioning is the way of learning," Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
HARRISON FORD - 83 Candles 🎂 today - and his absolutely beautiful 1955 Jaguar XK140
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
ICE GOONS hanging out in the lobby of Glendale Memorial Hospital
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Jane Smith @janehappywife.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The fact that the French government has recognised the incredible strength and courage of Gisèle Pelicot with its highest award gives me hope. She really is a heroine.
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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Douglas Balentine (American, born in South Carolina, date unknown) "Lower Church," 1999 Oil on linen 25 x 21 in Private collection #Art
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Fascinating! Ice cleaving and a 200 ft tower rises from the water.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. There is no more "center" anymore. youtu.be/EQzG_TrhyrY?si=J8mHha-bFmg…
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The Failures of “Centrism”
By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
🧵 In a 2024 paper, researchers led by Ralf Konietzka reported they determined that the Radcliffe Wave is indeed moving like a traveling wave. ➡️ cfa.harvard.edu/news/radclif... What is the Radcliffe Wave? It is a colossal, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds stretching... 🔭 🧪 #cosmology #science
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
God it is pathetic how much of Australia's media think the govt needs to do the USA's bidding
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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms once a year at night.
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