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Teacher of English Language & Literature, Media and Film Studies; Stage Manager for Brownsea Open Air Theatre; Beach Wanderer collecting shells to make pocket oceans.
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It appears to be cockle day on #BournemouthBeach ! This little guy was waving its orange foot, but I wasn’t quite quick enough to catch it. I put it back into the sea. There were loads of empty ones, too. #MarineLife 🦑

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It is time to end the special relationship with Trump Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/it-i...

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

I hear the nagging question you ask inside your head a few hundred times a day: "Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?" It isn't you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...

submitted 7 days ago • 356 comments

Kendrick Lamar showed more courage in the face of rising American tyranny than we’ve seen from ANY former American leader. If you swore an oath to protect this nation, where are you now? youtube.com/shorts/keNw6...

submitted 11 days ago • 505 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

submitted 12 days ago • 1071 comments

Hello new community! I love how fast this place is growing. FYI we released a new Indivisible guide with practical steps that folks in red, blue, & purple states can take to fight back. Don't ask for permission - take it, copy it, make it your own, & start organizing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 93 days ago • 152 comments

☎️ Call your reps daily, don’t stop calling until musk is held accountable You can call after hours & leave a message- fill up those voicemails NO excuse why we can’t call our reps daily We must outnumber maga, who calls their reps 10x more than us Specific scripts below ⬇️ 5calls.org

submitted 17 days ago • 59 comments

I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.

submitted 17 days ago • 1080 comments

Fair warning—the report on the Musk Insurrection I'm writing will be about the length of a book, and is something PROOF-readers will want to consume over a period of days. It's long-form metajournalism with countless chapters and citations. I hope to get it out soon; details on when as I have them.

submitted 17 days ago • 46 comments

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

submitted 20 days ago • 195 comments

Interesting essay on what it's like to come back to the US after spending some time in the Netherlands. We're so rich, and yet we put up with so much day-to-day ugliness and misery.

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

submitted 21 days ago • 126 comments

Unusual happenings on Bournemouth Beach: lots of (I think) King scallops turned up! I know they’re around, but it’s rare to find one. Most were alive, but some weren’t, and the gulls were having a feast. #marinelife #Shells 🦑 🐚

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Sea lions coming out to say Hi and to check if we brought any fish. #YorkshireWildlifePark #marinelife

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This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

submitted 24 days ago • 608 comments

For comparison, this is last year when Rocco the rhino was a few weeks old. #rhinos

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Visiting Yorkshire for my dad’s funeral, I stayed at the hotel at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. Last year I stayed here when I visited my dad and I saw this rhino as a little baby, gambolling around like a puppy. This time they were indoors when I arrived but as I left I got to see them in person! 😊🦏🦏

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Europe has a message for Elmo.

submitted 29 days ago • 677 comments

Velázquez: Donald Trump did not care a bit about safer communities when he released those who were convicted of beating the shit out of police officers. So, don’t come to us and talk about security and safer communities when you do that

submitted 30 days ago • 317 comments

Today marks the beginning of a dark four years for our country, but we refuse to surrender. You shouldn't either.

submitted 33 days ago • 484 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 35 days ago • 691 comments