PhilippaB

PhilippaB

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Spoilt by Feminism. Intersectionality is context. Context is vital. She/her. If you say nothing, you can never be wrong. Go you Huskies. Check out the FFW podcast: https://soundcloud.com/frenchfootballweekly https://open.spotify.com/show/0rN6ZTcQz57T1oIB

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Starting to get a bit concerned - got a call from grocery delivery people asking if they could come round 2 hours early to get everyone off the clock by 2pm. Delivery guy apologised for being late (despite being early); he'd had to drive around rather than through town as the police get in position.

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There are helicopters overhead and sirens in the distance. Tipped driver and wished him luck (this was midday) and he said he and his van were going home, HQ's orders, also, not to go anywhere near the centre of town. Thanked him profusely. This is going to be bad.

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So far the news has one person with a sign on the Comedie after the attacks in Trappes. This will change. Courage, Océane. www.midilibre.fr/2026/10/24/a...

midilibre.fr"Arrêtons de nous diviser" : seule, avec sa pancarte en carton, Océane interpelle les passants sur la Comédie après le drame de TrappesAu pied de la fontaine des Trois-Grâces, ce samedi matin, cette éducatrice spécialisée de 28 ans est venue seule sur la place de la Comédie pour rendre hommage aux victimes des tirs de Trappes et de L...
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As expected, Montpellier is having a lockdown tomorrow. Weirdly, the curfew is for 'unaccompanied minors'. While students have been protesting, the major damage done last Saturday was *not them*, but the GJs + assorted dickheads who set fire to a bunch of cars and vandalised dozens of shops...

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Oh, and don't worry about me, bless you all. I live in the 'bad' part of town, so the shops will be open (and protected) and we never see the cops here.

PhilippaB
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As expected, Montpellier is having a lockdown tomorrow. Weirdly, the curfew is for 'unaccompanied minors'. While students have been protesting, the major damage done last Saturday was *not them*, but the GJs + assorted dickheads who set fire to a bunch of cars and vandalised dozens of shops...

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...so, the football match has been moved, 'unauthorised gatherings' are forbidden, and there will be no trams. Please God let this not continue like before covid. More people will lose their businesses, as they did before. More people who are struggling with the same issues the protests are about.

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John Bull
@garius.eurosky.social

Right. I'm on a nightbus home. So the law is i have to tell y'all a story. So let me tell you about the time i ended up drinking with Ray Harryhausen's right-hand animator. Who we were incorrectly convinced was full of so much shit

PhilippaB
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My cat has become a hobbit. She is waking me up increasingly earlier (and more violently) for breakfast, and then I go back to bed. But when I get up, she wants another breakfast. And is currently demanding lunch (a new thing), before dinner later. And then I give her a snack before I go to bed...

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...so we've gone from two meals a day (breakfast and dinner) to four - breakfast 1, breakfast 2, dinner, bedtime snack - and now she's 'negotiating' for lunch as well. I mean, she *is* French, but this is getting ridiculous. She also just butted in to my RDV with my psychiatrist.

PhilippaB
@philippab.bsky.social

Learn maths and grow the fuck up, seriously.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

PhilippaB
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When I was at boarding school we played 'Femme Fatale' at an assmebly for our housemistress who was about to get married. Not the best idea.

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Now *this* is a guy who needs some edits on his Wiki page... (I have two main threads going on at the moment, and this is a good overlap, I feel)

Cat Neilan@catneilan.bsky.social

Exclusive: Reform mayor Luke Campbell is under police investigation for allegedly cyberflashing a female member of staff Campbell, an Olympic gold boxer, is accused of having shown a a senior female officer four fully “naked and sexualised images” of himself observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

observer.co.ukReform mayor under police investigation for alleged cyber...Luke Campbell, an Olympic gold medallist boxer and rising star in Nigel Farage’s party, is accused of showing naked pictures of himself to female colleague
PhilippaB
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I had a very weird dream last night. A bit in, I worked out that I could 'narrate' to myself what was happening, and work out what the events were metaphors for IRL *as they happened*. I could also make choices, at least about my own actions. It was like playing a really surreal computer game. What?

PhilippaB
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This has never happened before. Usually, I can work out the metaphors after I wake up, but not *during* the dream. Is this 'lucid dreaming'? If so, why has it just happened now? Huh.

PhilippaB
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Also, I don't play computer games - at least, not those kind of games, just word puzzles and so on - so it wasn't like I was dreaming something I'd just been doing.

PhilippaB
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They can't name him to avoid naming his wife. Madame Pelicot waived her right to anonymity. She made a choice. Nobody else needs to make the same choice.

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More evidence that AI should be nowhere near art. So many people think this is an ABBA song. Because HUMANS wrote it. Humans who understood music. Who could tell how ABBA used harmonies, chords, ran into choruses, and worked with that. They didn't just cram it into an algorythm. dai.ly/x7uhqbe

dai.lyFrench & Saunders - C'est La Vie (ABBA parody) - video DailymotionFrench & Saunders - C'est La Vie (ABBA parody) From Season 3 Episode 1 "The Sound Of Music," first broadcast 15 March 1990 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0582904/?ref_=ttep_ep1 Lyrics: We're ba-b...
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Seems like the ludicrously bad state of French education hasn't managed to stop smart kids being smart. Dunno what's happened to the politicians...

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Alleluia!

Prince Charles Cinema@princecharlescinema.com

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

PhilippaB
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I am in awe. I never start at the beginning, just halfway through, and then tidy up after. Getting languages mixed up only helps matters, heh.

Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️@graceonfootball.com

Every teacher at school always said to do an essay plan before you write a word. I write essays for a living and I never ever do that. Writing the introduction unlocks the whole article in my head.

PhilippaB
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Always say 'people'. When you use words like poverty, disability, homosexuality, immigration, homelessness, you are always talking about people. So say that.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social

They need to start calling them people and not migrants, because too many people think migrants aren’t human.

PhilippaB
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I HAVE AN OVEN! The manual is in English (great for me, but a bit weird), has multiple diagram-labelling errors, and no mention of how to set the temperature of the damn thing, but I have managed to work it out and written guidance on a post-it note. It's lunchtime and I'm already exhausted.

PhilippaB
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Isn't one reason the US condemn 'Islamism' is because Iran, Afghanistan and IS-controlled areas publically execute people? Stone women to death for being raped, chuck gay men off buildings... Asking for a couple of million friends. Rot in hell, Hegseth.

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So, where are these 3,000 substitute teachers going to be found over the weekend? And if they're so easily available, why weren't they in place before now? And "several hundred" *new* teachers to be recruited? Will they be fully qualified? Because that take ages. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.comFrench ministers scramble to appease students after 10 days of protestsEducation minister promises 3,000 substitute teachers by Tuesday with schools still blockaded across France
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And if you think this is just about 'secondary' education, check out the 8-year-old with autism who was able to walk out of school with nobody - including her assigned f-ing assistant - noticing. SEN is also an absolute binfire - no joke - here. www.midilibre.fr/2026/10/09/m...

midilibre.fr"Ma fille est une miraculée" : à Montpellier, une élève de 8 ans atteinte d’autisme quitte l’école en pleine journée sans que personne ne la voitL’élève scolarisée en CE1 a échappé à la surveillance de son AESH dans une école de Montpellier. Elle a été retrouvée par hasard par son père.

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Robin Berjon
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I don't think people internationally measure quite how violent the French police is in its interventions against kids. It gives you a good sense of what to expect if the fash win the elections next year.

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

PhilippaB
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Civil defence siren just went off. Now, I *know* it's the scheduled test time (12.15* on first Wednesday of the month) but what with the rain and the riots, I am still feeling a bit uneasy. *used to be midday but the churches complained.

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞
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"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

PhilippaB
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I was a big fan of Roald Dahl's children's books, and at that point Dad didn't know he'd also written for adults too, so I was gifted a collection of short stories he'd found at a Church jumble sale...

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

PhilippaB
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There's a gap in the L1 list of title winners from when OM were stripped of the title (92-3?). Seems a reasonable solution, although this is obviously a much bigger set of gaps we're talking about...

Jonathan Wilson@jonawils.bsky.social

City should be stripped of titles and the roll of honour left blank. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

theguardian.comLet there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan WilsonThe spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice
PhilippaB
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Email from Dad, back from Nephrology at IGH: "Consultant bright and cheerful again, if still puzzled as to what I was doing there. Ok, kidneys may be asymmetric, but function is fine and GP who found the former ‘interesting’ could have kept his curiosity to himself..." We're all wonky, basically.