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millyrose.bsky.social
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Why has my Oat milk gone fash?

mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

Tough luck kids, Keir Starmer needs to create a lot of value for BAE Systems shareholders

Θεσσαλονίκη!!! #Τεμπη #δεν_εχω_οξυγονο

I know there's someone out there writing the most banger journal article on gender, bald caps and Pitbull concerts and I can't wait to read it

📢 New research out today reveals that the number of low-paid jobs in the UK has seen its biggest annual rise ever, with 4.5 million jobs in the UK paying below the real Living Wage. 🔗 Get the full story: livingwage.org.uk/news/largest... #LivingWage #FairPay

Please remind me to go for a run tomorrow lads

Remembering Loukanikos, the Greek riot dog who participated in almost every Greek anti-austerity protests from 2008-2012. Loukanikos died aged 10 in 2014, likely due to complications of ingesting tear gas.

El Negro Matapacos was a riot dog that participated in the 2011–2013 Chilean student protests in Santiago, Chile. He later became a symbol in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests as a sort of resistance to police brutality and to represent the fight for dignity.

According to the Mail, "five photos of former Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell" have been taken off the walls in parliament.

Children who died because the policy is to expose them to the risk of dying, as a warning to others

Just intervened in police using traffic stop powers (Section 163 and 165) to illegally seize drivers licences off delivery drivers and give them to immigration enforcement officers. As soon as I filmed them do it they packed up and fucked off. It's that easy to stop these pricks harassing people.

Why does my bin goblin of a cat smell so weirdly clean?

One of the funniest posts ever made and a balm to the soul

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Nah can’t be dealing with the Pope dying

Just want to give a quick shout out to all women suffering from domestic violence. It's beyond horrific, you don't deserve it and you can and will escape it when you're ready. Solidarity 0808 2000 249

Britain’s carnival of reaction nationalist theme park is going to be built by French businessmen with links to the far right and Putin. It’s entirely fitting with the bombastic but surface level understanding of history that informs the resurgent British far right.

Poverty kills. Cancer death rates are 60% higher for people living in deprived UK areas compared with those in more affluent areas. 28,400 extra deaths due to deprivation, people seek comfort in smoking. Poor healthcare, late diagnosis, 'must work pressure' punishes the poor.

Lobbying by the Association of University Chief Security Officers led British universities to adopt US-style security during Gaza protests, emails reveal (includes comment from Netpol) www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It's estimated that $150 billion would eradicate world hunger by 2030

Farmers had paintings of their animals commissioned centuries ago and always wanted them painted real chunky. I like the idea of some farmer having people round, pointing at a painting and saying "yeah I had that done, that's my actual pig, he's the fattest guy".

We're really going to need protest movements to reckon with the reality that the "vehicles as weapons" cat is well and truly out of the bag, because this keeps happening and its only by luck no one has been killed yet.

Jesus fucking Christ, please just give people the material means to live and I can grantee you the antidepressant prescription rate will significantly drop.

Listening to Wormrot and once again thinking about Biquette the Grindcore Goat. RIP.

Having a flare up of Costochondritis and reading the times and dates wrong for meetings/sessions might be indicating that I’m teetering on the edge of burn out.

just remembered george monbiot did a tweet thread a couple of years ago seemingly having just discovered rent in this country is extortionate and claiming ‘no one on the left is talking about it!!’ so i’m not going to defer to him on any matter of objective reality lol

It's always so interesting meeting therapists who trained at certain schools. I used to be so jealous and felt awful I couldn't get into those training places but my gosh some of the therapists they produce have such cold personalities.

What painfully cringe and middle class nonsense. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i was out at a bar awhile back and the bartender asked if i grew up catholic, and i did. i asked him how he knew and he said “only people that grew up catholic lean forward at a bar, you carry too much trauma” and that’s lived in my head rent free ever since lmfao

I don’t mean Zoe in particular, but having spent most of a decade saying what it was while our media class gargled in raw terror at the imminent tyranny of a bunch of students, nurses and social workers, I would say: it’s not that you were frozen with fear. You *had more important priorities*.

Can’t sleep club

This sounds awfully like the definition of a coup.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.