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Pragmatic idealist, mystic, former churchwarden, at sea. Hybrid vigour in all things, not least faith. She/her
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Laptop and phone plugged in ✅ Show on telly I can half watch (House in the Sun) ✅ Leftovers I can microwave for dinner ✅ I'm ready.

This is also the lesson Keir Starmer needs to learn. Farage's party will eat himself. Cruel people won't vote for you. Keep your base and pick up the undecided. (Though HOW they're undecided, heaven only knows)

Elon and Trump are this year’s Kendrick and Drake, but both are Drakes.

Eid ul Adha mubarak, not least to my newly Hajji cousins! #EidUlAdha #Hajj

I'm inclined to say decades at a minimum, if ever.

Every word of this from @tajali1.bsky.social. Stop aligning with white supremacy: you'll be the first under the bus every time. Be like Zohran Mamdani, not Zia Yusuf.

Oh, sweet Lord, do you NEVER learn, @democrats.org. And you only do this because you have no backbone of your own.

Yes, but you, YOU, Democrats, don't be stupid enough to 'eye a villain to ally' arc for EM. He's a raging narcissist and will destroy everything around him. I'm sick and tired of you rehabilitating villains - to quote the story, you knew what they were when you picked them up. Grow up.

On episode 5, so I have no clue yet, but from episode 1, I've thought the shooter was a woman. #DeptQ

Elon should explain to us exactly how he won the election for Trump.

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

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Hint: it's too few experienced air traffic controllers and dismantling the FAA.

My eyes just rolled across the Atlantic.

Where Matt Goodwin doesn't realise that minority does not = under 50%, but the fact that your group is smaller than another group. If you win an election by 47% to 43% to 10%, you have the majority of the votes. In addition, by defining white British as 'does not have an immigrant parent', 1/

Big fan of this definition of "white British" that excludes the King

Pachinko is a fantastic book and this clap black is delicious.

Let's not lie - the pettiness, nastiness, cruelty, and unkindness that both of them have in spades and that inform their politics undid their marriage. It's not 'politics' that destroys marriages, it's the underlying values and ensuing personality characteristics that underpin them.

Sage words from @colmpm.bsky.social on how social democrats should respond to the post-liberal and post-neoliberal moment.

I hate that this administration & I converge in this once in an eon moment: both holding Columbia University in absolute contempt for being so weak they folded to fascists in the first instance. The difference being I wouldn't punish Columbia; I'd just turn my back on them and walk away.

I didn't need the English translation - and I cannot tell you how bloody proud I am to see a fellow desi step up & serve. *Hamara* time aagayeh. Bring it, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social This advert may be about India in 2007, but it's time is now for NYC & the USA. Chalo. youtu.be/pFs5vWxW-vc

I wasn't able be in the statement on Gaza today due to my committee, but here is what I would have said: With roads to aid declared 'combat zones' by the IDF, and 100% of the population at risk of starvation, the govt must go further. This must include recognition of Palestine as soon as possible.

Just be honest and admit you're at McDonald's picking up a McMuffin, Andrew. Good grief.

Well, you're at McDonald's, not a bodega, aren't you? Just drive away from the pick up window.

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

By this definition even the King of Britain isn't counted as British Clown show stuff from Matt Goodwin

Pollokshields/Kenmure 2021 vibes in the nation of 'I got mine, don't care about you'. Gotta love it.

Oh, would this be the Denmark that doesn't let refugees settle & sends them back after years, when they feel at home & have contributed to society? THAT Denmark? What, you try to suppress discussion of the humanity of brown people? Quelle surprise. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Still kind of amused that someone thought we actually cared about why academics were switching to Bluesky from X & thought that 'they do what the people they follow do, not what their followers' do was an 'interesting' finding. It's not. Of course they'll do what the people they look up to do.

Wes Anderson cast *Bill Murray* as God? After we had Morgan Freeman, Alanis, Whoopi, Richard Pryor, & symbolically, Maya Rudolph, he lazily goes back to what's most likely to reinscribe white supremacist patriarchy, because ofc it's 2025 and everything regresses? So LAZY, so Trump era, so boring

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents