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Richard Cooper

@richardhcooper.bsky.social

Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 41. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I have an MA. I’m on the Spectrum. Socialism or barbarism.

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Please help if you can

06.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Another night in Gaza
My children sleep on the ground, no electricity, no mattresses, no safety.
This is what "bedtime" looks like in war.💔💔
We just asking for a chance to live ;we still belive in hope..any help can make a huge difference to us ♥️
tinyurl.com/FarhatKidsGaza

27.07.2025 01:18 — 👍 694    🔁 1537    💬 14    📌 122

@richardhcooper.bsky.social They are taken down our accounts, 😢
And we in a need to send our story, as its only way for us to survive.. 💔
You can help us by donation or share our story.
✅Link in bio

05.08.2025 17:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Help my family, organized by Shymaa almasrii Hello, I am Shaima from Gaza. Throughout my life, I have never asked for help from anyone, despite goin… Shymaa almasrii needs your support for Help my family

We can help people, it is unfair, it is not enough, it should not be on us, but we CAN. It's true in Gaza and it's true wherever you find yourself. And it's the thing you can do to fight back despair, to protect yourself and your well being more powerful than any other

05.08.2025 15:06 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Gaza Emergency Appeal - Help My Family, organized by Marina Reilly Dear Comrade, In a world full of challenges, there are moments when assistanc… Marina Reilly needs your support for Gaza Emergency Appeal - Help My Family

And I will never NEVER forget what bluesky did, taking away the accounts of so many of the funds I'm sharing here. But I will still try to use the tools I have while I can to help. And I will hold that dissonance, the pain and frustration I feel, I hold it as a form of care for my siblings in Gaza

05.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 2

Please support Alaa! Please help her and her twins. She is so close to her goal. Think about people who saved civilians from the Shoah, from Rwanda or Armenian Ottoman regions: these people are heroes. You admire them and know their names, you think they're incredible: you could be one.

05.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 46    🔁 41    💬 1    📌 0

As well as signing, please write to your MPs.

04.08.2025 09:40 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
02.08.2025 18:26 — 👍 88    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 1
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Also: this point about Magnum Force (original post alexonfilm.com/2016/10/02/m... )

02.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love the gag about the henchman they keep putting in the cupboard!

02.08.2025 15:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@richardhcooper.bsky.social We need your support. We need food and water. Everything is expensive, and families are sharing one loaf of bread for days, or worse. My brother is sick and needs medicine and treatment.

02.08.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Playgroup Supervisor: “now Baby Callahan, did you hit Peter?“
Baby Callahan: “anyone can tell I didn’t do that to him.”
Playgroup supervisor: “why?”
Baby Callahan: “Cause he looks too damn good, that’s why.”

31.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please please help Sahar, please I know it's the end of the month and things are tight but whatever you can do is so huge

28.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 15    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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My Children Are Dying Slowly in The War💔!

*Yasmine is Sick With No Treatment🥺

*Ali is Sick With No Medicine Due to the Closure of the Crossings😭

*Adam is Crying From Hunger & No Food 🍞

And I am a Helpless mother.😭

Your donation now is their life 🙏💸💰👇
gofund.me/520ac6bd

18.07.2025 15:50 — 👍 153    🔁 325    💬 2    📌 45

I'm afraid that's correct. If it was Biden or Kamala in the white house, I think it would be business as usual.

28.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

27.07.2025 17:49 — 👍 9227    🔁 1898    💬 123    📌 164
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Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Please sign if you can (i.e. UK citizens), share & boost. As well as being incredibly restrictive & a huge invasion of personal privacy, many small hobbyist websites, communities & forums have already shut down because of this act, because they simply don't have the time and/or resource to comply.

11.07.2025 21:40 — 👍 37    🔁 40    💬 1    📌 9
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In Gaza, water kills too Providing water, searching for water, drinking water, swimming in water can all get you killed.

"Even before the ban, the Israeli army was attacking Palestinians who would try to get into the sea to fish and alleviate their families’ hunger. As of December 2024, some 200 fishermen had been killed, according to the UN; many more have died since then."

27.07.2025 12:32 — 👍 25    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
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In Gaza, water kills too Providing water, searching for water, drinking water, swimming in water can all get you killed.

"In recent weeks, the Israeli military has declared Gaza’s entire coastline a prohibited zone, effectively banning Palestinians from swimming, fishing, or even approaching the water. Anyone who gets near the sea is shot at."

27.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 27    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

I looked this up a few years ago, and the numbers suggested (I'm not an expert!) that we grow *almost* enough food for the entire world, and very easily could make up the rest if we made use of private land and/or stopped making quite so much non-essential stuff.

27.07.2025 12:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"Hira: They didn’t read you any rights?

Badar: Nothing, nothing, nothing. No arrest warrant. To this day they haven’t been able to provide an arrest warrant in court, because it doesn’t exist.

They were playing from a playbook which has no rights."

27.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 381    🔁 142    💬 1    📌 2

Here is another, let’s help them stay alive. bsky.app/profile/help...

27.07.2025 13:21 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Every Gazan who has survived this far is a miracle, please help if you can.

27.07.2025 12:50 — 👍 70    🔁 32    💬 3    📌 0

Please donate if you can. Genocidal starvation must stop NOW

26.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Rewatching Red Riding. The second one is, as ever, much the weakest one.

26.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Everyone please tell @bsky.app to stop deleting Palestinian accounts in the middle of a genocide and level 5 famine thank you for your help

26.07.2025 07:40 — 👍 200    🔁 144    💬 7    📌 9

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