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1/3 The Secret Life of Bees is a beautifully written novel, which explores the themes of family, community, female empowerment, spirituality and loss.  Set in a world of racial hate, with the Civil Rights Act as an important background to the story. #BookSky

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How strange Reform UK whose leaders supported Brexit and British people 'taking back control' is happy to get most of its funding from millionaires living abroad (ps who never give something for nothing, 'donations' are the British way of corruption buying policies like tax cuts for millionaires)

Nigel Farage says Brexit gave us our "country back" But is OK with "71% of shares in England's nine privatised water companies are owned by organisations from overseas" He lied "Share with those who voted Brexit, did you get your country back or has it gone missing again?" via Love not Hate

Ditch dairy #EndAnimalAbuse

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Part of Simon Heffer’s review of Liz Truss’s book. 🤣🤣🤣

This is objectively very very funny

Sliding polls, zero by-election wins, empty events. Money can’t buy you love, Nigel.

The magic of Donckers has graced Marquette for over 130 years! Let's ensure small businesses like this one can last another 130 by passing Medicare for All. 🍬🍭🍫

A casserole with crowd appeal that's also incredibly nourishing! This potato broccoli bake has it all 🌱 A side dish, yes. But I could live on it 🥦 🥔 maximalistvegan.com/savory/potat... #veganfood #veganrecipes #wholefoodplantbased #plantbaseddiet #easyveganfood #glutenfreevegan #dairyfreecooking

Defend our state elections from federal interference. Trump & Republicans are trying to cheat to win, so join Indivisible's Hands Off Our Vote movement to fight back. Stand up for your democratic freedoms and VOTE!

Well they might well make their finances worse… but this is definitely not what they thought Brexit sunlit uplands were… surely?!! I just can’t get over how crushingly tedious and pointlessly bureaucratic their ideas are… Christ. It’s all so feeble.

Jenrick has set out how Reform would maximise our “Brexit freedoms”. And this is their list. This is the very best they can come up with. “Re-legalise imperial units” It’s truly pathetic that this is the pinnacle of their Brexit fever dream. And that anyone would still back this ruinous idiocy…

I suspect many new Reform UK Councillors saw it as a way to get rich quick - but baulk at the prospect of actually having to do some work to benefit not just themselves "Oldham's first Reform leader says he is leaving politics after shock resignation" www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

#OnOneLeg is today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; a bird balancing on one leg. A black-crowned night heron. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Donald Trump saying Barack Obama isn't a smart guy will be in heavy contention for 2026's Least Self-Aware Remark.

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

Easy Gochujang Cabbage Fried Rice

Imagine a world where we are no longer dependent on oil and nuclear energy. It's coming and it's better and that's why the vested interests are doing everything in their power to stop it

How ironic that the Brexit campaign for British people to "take back control" was in part funded and orchestrated from Moscow using Russian social media bots which tech billionaires say they are unable to control meme via Steve Benson

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Biscuits and gravy, topped with a lentil bacon. The gravy is cannellini beans and garlic. With collard greens. #vegan #veganfood #plantbased #whatveganseat #whatveganscook #veganinspiration

One of those moments I'll never forget.

🚨 Reform UK Sunderland Councillor David Wales declared “None” on his Register of Interests. Yet Companies House shows Santaff Consultancy Ltd. Why isn’t it declared? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1520...

Once more for those in the back 📢 STANDARD ANIMAL AGRICULTURE PRACTICES ARE CRUEL The vast majority of legal animal ag practices would be deemed illegal if not for the inhumane #LIVESTOCK designation that turns living, feeling beings into the cruelest of commodities #AnimalLovers #WakeUp #GoVegan

Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

So many interesting nuggets like this on the weeks before Russia's invasion when the UK was trying to assess their plans to defend themselves.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

“The case for Rejoin must be a case for Europe as our home: a continent…prepared to take on and defeat Russian imperialism, an economic union which can shelter countries from the storm of a global trade war” A team we want to belong to. Because it strengthens us all. www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Serious questions that need to be answered.

Cancel his government contracts ASAP.

Reform slips to third nation.cymru/news/reform-...

2 down, 3 to go 🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost 🇧🇷 Brazil — Bolsonaro lost 🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov 🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov