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A book titled “GENOCIDE BAD” by “Sim Kern”

@simkern.bsky.social yay, it’s arrived!

Just when you think the political situation in the UK couldn't get any more bizarre...

What exactly does Suella need to do to get fired? Beyond a fucking joke now.

Black and white cat, asleep in an aqua blue sofa.

It’s so quite I can hear this fur baby breathing

Elon Musk answers to the Foundation Drive "Wikipedia is not for sale" asking "Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? [...] So, what's the money for?"

Hi, I'm Jaime and I've been working for 8 years for the Wikimedia Foundation. The following are personal views and do not represent in any way the position of the Foundation (I don't and cannot speak on behalf of it). However, you may have seen this question by Mr. Musk and I wanted to respond A 🧵:

As of two hours ago, the Death toll in Gaza is 5156 including 2009 children and 15740 injured.

Hawkwind, Moorcock and LSD, the holy trinity of my teenage years.

Table with lots of vegan food on it.

Had an amazing vegan birthday lunch today at Mallow in Canary Wharf. Big fan of Mildred's, so this place has been on our list to try for a while. Didn't disappoint. I had a vegan burger and fries, my partner had a thalli, daughter had French toast, and we shared dumplings, kimchi and home fries.

5 litre demi John filled with freshly made olive leaf extract

Today was all about making olive leaf extract. This should last a while, although a fair bit of it will be given away.

Black cat watching Strictly Come Dancing the Results

Rio got into the catnip again and is now really interested in Strictly the Results.

Petition: Call an immediate general election The Prime Minister should call an immediate general election to allow the British public to have their say on how we are governed, we should not be made to wait until January 2025

I've been watching this surge ahead all afternoon, and it's been most satisfying. Sometimes it's not about achieving some end result, it's about sending a message. I really hope this goes on to break some records.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...

Trans hate crime rises 11% in past year in England and Wales However, the total number of hate crimes has fallen in the past 12 months in England and Wales.

Is anyone really surprised? When a government leads with hate, then this is inevitable.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they fired all their speech writers and policy advisors, and just when with a couple of interns and a ChatGPT account.

Petition: Call an immediate general election The Prime Minister should call an immediate general election to allow the British public to have their say on how we are governed, we should not be made to wait until January 2025

Sunak has claimed that a #GeneralElectionN0W is "not what the country wants", despite insisting he is unafraid of going to the polls

Via this petition, let's tell Sunak and the #ToryLiars that he's wrong...

We absolutely DO want a #GeneralElectionN0W!!!

A boat/ship that automobiles can drive on and off of, abbreviated form of "roll-on roll-off" apparently.

I have "Ro-Ro" in my list (1969) 😁

That stage in a father-daughter relationship.

Daughter just about to leave for school.

Me: I like your socks & tights choice.
Daughter: I'm going to change my socks and tights. If you like it, it must be bad.

I feel like the single best practical example of the failure of markets is that we don't develop new antibiotics because their best use is very limited, which means they won't be profitable. So everybody loses. By choice.

Gov pledges to extend tram line to Manchester Airport - where it already exists "This will come as a shock to those who’ve been using the Metrolink line to Manchester airport since [checks notes].... November 2014"

You couldn't make it up.

(The Metrolink's airport line opened nine years ago.)

The burials that could challenge historians' ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.

More archeological evidence that trans people have existed for thousands of years, this time from Anglo-Saxon burial sites in England.

Screenshot of twitter Suella Braverman MP @SuellaBraverman Andrew Boff's heckles were silly but I think he should be forgiven and let back into conference Andrew Boff @AndrewBoff I don't want to be "forgiven" thank you. 11:09 PM • Oct 3, 2023

I missed this one. That’s Braverman told.

This is even better today, and there’s enough for us all again tomorrow as well.

Moderation and Custom Feeds Moderation   What does muting do? Muting prevents you from seeing any notifications or top-level posts from an account. If they reply to a thread, you’ll see a section that says “Post from an acc...

Here's the link to the docs for blocks and mutes (there's a help link in the menu in app, and at the bottom of website, that you can search and browse the faqs)

blueskyweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/art...

When 100,00+ little people stand up and say 'Nah'. Then 'nah' it is.

It's still not ideal, as you can see their interactions, and they can see yours in a thread, though not the actual content.

87 years ago today, the people of the East End of London fought the Met Police, protecting Mosley's fascists in what became known as The Battle of Cable Street.

And here we are today, in Tory Britain.

They won't see your posts, but they may see bits of threads you're on or start, they just won't see any of your posts on that thread (eg if someone they follow replies to you, they'll see that post, but not your original one).

Well, that Rishi Sunak Conservative Conference speech is over 😳

Condensing my many enraged tweets, it was beyond pathetic, but entirely in keeping with the wee gaslighting twerp.

He concluded with, "It is time for a change and we are it."

After 13 years of Tory? Roll on the GE ffs #GTTO