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@thebookrest.bsky.social
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aka Carole-Ann - just learning how to work this :) 💙 runs & owns a second-hand bookshop; tweets on Books; History; Space, & Oddities. RL pic but more grey hair

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Yikes… this is how they’re trying to fix the algae problem… the birds don’t stand a chance…😕
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/03/2026
Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
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Israel kills 12 medics in attack in southern Lebanon as war ravages nation
Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Every month, a little bit of money comes out of my account to support @ledbydonkeys.org We need people like them to give us a true picture of society, government & the people who run it. We also need them to call out the raging hypocrisy of people like Nigel Mirage and Stephen Yaxley Lennon.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Hard agree. Bang for buck, money well spent on @ledbydonkeys.org £5 pcm isn’t a lot .. But it is £60 a year…and if LOTS of people do it - say 1000- that’s £60,000 pa. Surely 5000 supporters is possible? £300,000 a year. Etc etc.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Pete Hegseth is banishing photographers from the Pentagon over “unflattering” photos of him? Would be a shame if this picture kept circulating.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
semafor.com
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
nytimes.com
Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 27/02/2025
I've been MIA on social media lately. My husband needs a shoulder replacement, so I've been taking on all his responsibilities around the house (shopping, animals, yard work, etc.) around my full-time job. Tl;dr: Pls buy my books: www.tfrohock.com/fiction2
I've been MIA on social media lately. My husband needs a shoulder replacement, so I've been taking on all his responsibilities around the house (shopping, animals, yard work, etc.) around my full-time job. Tl;dr: Pls buy my books: https://www.tfrohock.com/fiction2
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Sandy @imgine.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Tomorrow February 28h is no buy nothing day! Boycotts work; it's a start. When it starts effecting retailers they will make noise. Target notice a decalin this month. I like to make a suggestion, cut down or do not Buy Eggs as long as you can. Big ask, might work! 😏💙💙✌️ www.axios.com/2025/02/25/e...
axios.com
What to know about the Feb. 28 "economic blackout"
The grassroots group behind the blackout says it is about "sending a clear message: we have the power."
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Really happy with how the guys at @prospect have framed my post. @arusbridger.bsky.social and others at Prospect's support for this Weekly Constitutional series of posts is well received.
Screen grab of the faked pic of Trump wearing a crown put out by the White House, above the headline for my piece in the post above.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/02/2025
Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.
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They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Bundesservice Telekommunikation @gregorxxxsamsa.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“I wanted to make that very clear to the council that in a normal city council meeting this shouldn’t be happening,”
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Ex-NFL player Chris Kluwe explains why he got arrested protesting Huntington Beach MAGA library sign
'You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,' he told the council during Tuesday's meeting. The chambers erupted in applause.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.
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The Book Rest @thebookrest.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
He's 4 mths older than me & I (fortunately) still have ALL my marbles - enough to say he's already declined into stupidity 😟
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Fred Allen @thisisfredallen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage. Be there if you can to support them 🙏
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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This is significant. Farage is meeting Musk’s preconditions for bankrolling Reform UK.
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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
And here you have it ladies and gentlemen The truth
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
As I keep saying - Musk will do to the US state what he did to twitter. Only this time it's people's lives he's playing with not just blue ticks, disinformation and impressions.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities" The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The media are crying out for a serving politician to decry Trump, so here goes: he’s a lying, corrupt, incompetent criminal who is a useful idiot to Putin. Together they are literally destroying the fabric of western democracy and European security. Is any MP prepared to agree?
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Sound on 🐾🐾🤍
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion; Data Show Much Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
This Byline Times story on Farage pictured with far-right activists has not been picked up by any established media outlet - including liberal/democratic/left publications. Why? Because people like being comfortable in their own power and status. The newspaper I edit will keep sounding the alarm.
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Nigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist Rants
EXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 19/02/2025
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks – Byline Times
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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MikeG @memike1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Next Tuesday Jamie is playing his final gig with the GT Big Band in Saltaire. He's been with them for 3 years, playing most Tuesdays, and he's had a ball. His sight reading is now second nature after all the practice he's had. I've seen him with the band, and they are great, maybe your last chance.
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Most of the UK farmland sold last year went to tax-dodgers, not real farmers. They exploit inheritance tax breaks, pricing farmers out while barely using the land. They “farm” just enough to meet loopholes, cashing in on rising land values. It’s not about food, it’s a scam for the wealthy.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Right, social media site. Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial. So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid. If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below. bio.to/7zNmPU Eek.
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Satan @social-hell.uk · 13/02/2025
Wilp. Written by Satan & Lee Wilson. Think you know the world? Think again. satan-speaks.com/wilp leewilson.uk/wilp/ #BookSky #WritingCommunity
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Well, who'da thunk it?
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Girlyswot Spider 🕷💙🇪🇺🌎🌱 @gsspider.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Spot on Stella. “And so it begins” indeed. Vance and his thug mates are so dangerous to women in the USA. And the UK.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/02/2025
Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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We need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.
This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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Fantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it | Letters
Letters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"The UK is a nation of animal lovers and so its people need a national animal to love; it's been my privilege to fill that furry brief for 14 years and counting." #Larryversary
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025
ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...
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ATTN: HHS EMPLOYEES
If you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/02/2025
Donold now has a framed picture of his mugshot hung up inside the White House.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
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Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · 15/02/2025
Guess who’s going to be interviewing @lordgrimdark.bsky.social about #TheDevils in Edinburgh on the 10th of May? (Me. It’s me.)
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Joe Abercrombie for The Devils at Broughton St Mary's
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