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Food, music, politics. Views are mine: don't threaten to email my boss. (She/her). Mini blog: http://snigskitchen.tumblr.com Main blog: https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com
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Absolutely spot on paragraph: if an empire subjugates large parts of the globe, it is a core part of its very claim of sovereignty over these lands that anyone born there is de facto (not necessarily de jure) citizens of the empire, they just don’t live in the imperial core!

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

We have a winner on Bluesky today!

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

They’re the Cybertruck of glasses

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

If you want to become a barrister, mini-pupillage is essential work experience. Here's my guide on what to do on mini-pupillage. Please share with the law students in your life. #LawSky #LegalBluesky snigsclassroom.blogspot.com/2025/06/what...

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Lol, David Goodhart. As if you've taken the bus in London! Your jokes would land like a lead balloon, because no one wants to chit chat to complete strangers on public transport in London. You're the one who failed to integrate.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The man on the Clapham omnibus that everyone edges away from

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Was going through an old file and found an amazing letter from around a decade ago. "Herewith enclosed papers for an application for hideous corpse" It was meant to be "habeas corpus". Hideous corpse is presumably what happens when habeas corpus fails. What was your worst typo?

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

Loocation, Loocation, Loocation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 26 comments

Elizabeth Nourse (American, 1860-1938), Self-portrait, 1892 Oil on canvas

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Some of the arguments being made this week in the Telegraph and London Standard about the authors' preferred ethnic makeup of Britain/London would have been considered dubious, antiquarian, and extremist in the 1990s.

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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God yes they are enormous and very cat like aren't they

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How Negative Media Headlines About Small Boat Crossings Are Turning Brits Against All Migrants New research finds that disproportionate coverage of the relatively low numbers crossing the English channel is turning British people against all incomers bylinetimes.com/2025/06/19/h...

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Weird hivemind request: can anyone with experience of artist management contracts spare me a second or two?/

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

She’s laundering her own unevidenced and bigoted opinions about migrants through ‘many working-class voters’; she (deliberately) neglects the influence of politicians and media on the working class, because we know as they ramp up anti-immigrant propaganda, anti-immigrant views go up;

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Even MC Hammer is envious of Wilhelm's trousers.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

What I don't understand about this lady is that, as a school chaplain I've worked alongside quite a few head teachers, none of whom had time to also pursue a media career

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments