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Project manager and analyst | Fellow of the RSA | painter of tiny little toy soldiers | cat dad | sci-fi nerd | intrigued by dystopia, post-apocalyptica, retro-futurism, and liminalities | politically left | he/him

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Wraithbone undercoat dry brushed with a white (Corax White doesn't quite work, I found Vallejo's Dead or Rotten White works better), wash of 1:1 Mortarion Grime and Contrast Medium (better than Lahmian Medium in this case) and finally line highlight with White Scar.

01.08.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's something very "there are four lights!" about that sun too...

01.08.2025 22:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is the end result of anti-trans bigotry: more harassment of girls and women, more policing of gender roles, more gender McCarthyism.

17.07.2025 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3847    ๐Ÿ” 1330    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59    ๐Ÿ“Œ 147
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STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

02.05.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1998    ๐Ÿ” 454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 82
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Help us challenge the Supreme Courtโ€™s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

Stand up for trans rights ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

Join me and @goodlawproject.bsky.social and help us fight the Supreme Courtโ€™s harmful decision: goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

25.04.2025 12:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Stand up for trans rights ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Courtโ€™s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

25.04.2025 12:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

25.04.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10245    ๐Ÿ” 3438    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 352    ๐Ÿ“Œ 777

Word of the day is โ€˜bugiardโ€™ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

15.04.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3121    ๐Ÿ” 1007    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 89    ๐Ÿ“Œ 86

Really triggered some thinking there about exactly when he used the phrase, definitely when I was young so in the 1980s. West Country families whether that helps at all. I'm sure I've seen in various pieces of literature over the years too, though none spring to mind immediately.

04.04.2025 00:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can recall my grandfather using the term, but as 'scolding' rather than 'scalding'. And yes, to mean rather a lot of rain i.e. oppressive amounts.

04.04.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Many referring to Trump & Vance as alpha malesโ€ฆ

You sure?

The need to appear tough/aggressive in order to feel dominant/feared is a blatant indication of a little boy who never got over his childhood trauma

We need a rethink of the term โ€˜alpha maleโ€™

โ€ฆbecause to me it means damaged & fragile AF.

01.03.2025 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1412    ๐Ÿ” 181    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 158    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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BREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename โ€˜Krasnovโ€™ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief Byline Times has crashed due to a DDOS attack and the original story blocked: a former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

๐ŸšจBREAKING CROSSPOST AFTER DDOS ATTACK

Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename โ€˜Krasnovโ€™ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief

A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-c...

21.02.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1169    ๐Ÿ” 817    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 147
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Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

Go to Google
Search "Gulf of Mexico"
Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
Choose "Send feedback"
Click "Gulf of America"
Click "Inaccurate content"
Click "Incorrect"
Tell Google the correct name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

12.02.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16886    ๐Ÿ” 5574    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2035    ๐Ÿ“Œ 735

I feel like she's now gone beyond being simply awful to just plain weird.

05.02.2025 12:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ’›WIN A BOLLARD๐Ÿ’›

The most popular competition in the history of social media is back. It's the prize you've all been waiting for.

Repost and follow to be in with a chance of winning this gorgeous Monoscape Bridgeford Smooth Grey Concrete Bollard worth ยฃ252.42.
#WorldBollardAssociation

27.01.2025 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1149    ๐Ÿ” 723    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68    ๐Ÿ“Œ 82
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Zuckerberg's 'masculine energy' got its first big win with Trump declaring there are only two genders. This is an agenda that will see laws passed to push gays back into the closet and women back into the kitchen. Our trans siblings are in the front line of this fight, so now more than ever

21.01.2025 10:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1584    ๐Ÿ” 404    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

He wasn't doing the salute of the guy who invented industrial genocide, he was just doing the salute of the guy who invented ethnic cleansing. No biggy.

20.01.2025 21:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute on Trump's inauguration day

Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute on Trump's inauguration day

Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute on Trump's inauguration day

Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute on Trump's inauguration day

I've posted this image twice because Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute twice.

20.01.2025 21:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 884    ๐Ÿ” 162    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

This feels like an opportunity for non-right wing, UK media to start making up for recent failures

It was a Nazi salute!

Call it a Nazi salute!

Ask every politician about this Nazi salute!

Do not let them avoid condemning it!

If they do not condemn, confirm the implication is they condone it!

20.01.2025 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

If @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and @vicderbyshire.bsky.social don't address and discuss the Nazi salute given by Musk twice then the BBC is an abject failure in terms of journalism and in delivering on its fifth public purpose from its Charter.

20.01.2025 21:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donald Tusk: "I am aware this is a dream: that instead of a #Brexit, we will have a #Breturn. Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. But I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics." ~AA

17.01.2025 17:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2374    ๐Ÿ” 633    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 116    ๐Ÿ“Œ 152
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There are 3.4 million girls 14 and under in England.

Elon Musk just wrote that 1 out of every 13 such girls is right now being โ€œsystematically raped by migrant gangs.โ€

The man has gone utterly insane. Heโ€™s a sociopath. His latest post isโ€”unambiguouslyโ€”neo-Nazi rhetoric intended to incite violence.

03.01.2025 02:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5751    ๐Ÿ” 1723    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 401    ๐Ÿ“Œ 149
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How to stop Musk. A playbook

04.01.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 125    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Company established by Musk in the UK 3 weeks ago on December 12th!! Why we wonder!!

Pull your finger out @uklabourparty.bsky.social, grow some balls and stop even more "corruption" destroying what's left of our democracy

Right now you have a majority the likes of which you might never see again

03.01.2025 10:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2314    ๐Ÿ” 978    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 131    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45
GBNewsโ€™ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner GBNewsโ€™ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis

New video! ๐Ÿ‘€

GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage!

His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION!

Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...

28.12.2024 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 643    ๐Ÿ” 217    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 74    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58
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Ways to give - Wikimedia Foundation

President Musk is claiming #Wikipedia is funded by the woke lefties. Support Wikipedia here...

donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to...

26.12.2024 09:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 614    ๐Ÿ” 174    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

Exact same naivety the Democrats displayed in the US election.

21.12.2024 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"

๐Ÿ”ดConservative MPs Want to Scrap Workersโ€™ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave

They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on โ€œfree speechโ€ reports @josiah.writes.news

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...

17.12.2024 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 253    ๐Ÿ” 132    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Government Tracker - Full Fact Full Fact tracks Labourโ€™s 2024 manifesto pledges

How so?

The current government seems to be doing reasonably well in terms of keeping to the pledges the Party made on which it was elected:

fullfact.org/government-t...

25.11.2024 20:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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