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Carol Bell ๐Ÿ“Ž

@carolofthebells

Very short, limpy, leftie geordie who thinks Brexit is madness, loves coffee, art of all kinds, bikes, Newcastle, London and Italy. Alternative national treasure. Unsolicited DMs will be blocked.

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I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

28.02.2026 09:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3929 ๐Ÿ” 1953 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

Disgraceful.

04.03.2026 08:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Free Trade is my favourite pub ever. We're Geordies who live in Dorset and have to visit the Free Trade every time we go back, great beer, lovely staff & a fantastic view of the Tyne.

03.03.2026 11:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.โ€ - P G Wodehouse

03.03.2026 09:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 272 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I really like her.

25.02.2026 08:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So sorry for your loss.

23.02.2026 10:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a joyless eejit that man is. I'm on team dancing woman.

14.02.2026 14:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services arenโ€™t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services arenโ€™t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

13.02.2026 11:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And a cycling team.

12.02.2026 09:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Britainโ€™s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper Residents of the UKโ€™s most expensive flats have won a court case over defective pipework. If their homes are shoddily built, what hope do the rest of us have, asks writer and curator Phineas Harper

Britainโ€™s building standards are now so bad, even the super-rich are facing housing misery | Phineas Harper

11.02.2026 10:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 70 ๐Ÿ” 30 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Fantastic

11.02.2026 11:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
above replacement. Where I do agree is that the reactionary right's idea that the answer is to put women back into the kitchen and nursery is wicked and stupid.
Only the Taliban thinks it is clever to deprive women of education. Moreover, if even the Chinese Communist Party cannot force women to have children they do not want, nobody can. What is more, only an imbecile would suppose you would get more children by arguing that women treat their husbands as their
masters, yet again. We would get still fewer marriages and fewer children.

above replacement. Where I do agree is that the reactionary right's idea that the answer is to put women back into the kitchen and nursery is wicked and stupid. Only the Taliban thinks it is clever to deprive women of education. Moreover, if even the Chinese Communist Party cannot force women to have children they do not want, nobody can. What is more, only an imbecile would suppose you would get more children by arguing that women treat their husbands as their masters, yet again. We would get still fewer marriages and fewer children.

Martin Wolf is very clear on trad wives:

11.02.2026 06:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 214 ๐Ÿ” 56 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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09.02.2026 11:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We did indeed.

04.02.2026 13:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This๐Ÿ‘‡

03.02.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A picture of the Orc Lieutenant Gothmog amidst his ranks of orc troops at the Battle of Gondor.

A picture of the Orc Lieutenant Gothmog amidst his ranks of orc troops at the Battle of Gondor.

As public opinion turns, reports from within Mount Doom suggest Orc Lieutenant Gothmog is to be relieved of command and withdrawn from Gondor back to Minas Morgul where he is expected to soon retire.

Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles.

27.01.2026 09:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 739 ๐Ÿ” 179 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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One of the best things Iโ€™ve read in a while:

25.01.2026 22:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 28793 ๐Ÿ” 10724 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42 ๐Ÿ“Œ 981
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It appears the shooter saw another agent remove the gun from Alexโ€™s waistband, waited for that agent to clear, then shot Alex in the back. I don't see a defense for this.

25.01.2026 04:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 561 ๐Ÿ” 274 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45 ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

Isn't he one of Brand's chums, who excused his appalling behaviour because he "found God"?

24.01.2026 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Utter madness

22.01.2026 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ก
THIS!

Time some ethics wonk in Parlt grew a spine!

#farage

21.01.2026 16:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 398 ๐Ÿ” 179 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

22.01.2026 02:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 25611 ๐Ÿ” 12102 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1419 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1212

Campari spritz surely?

18.01.2026 21:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hurrah!

16.01.2026 18:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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16.01.2026 09:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1149 ๐Ÿ” 174 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 241 ๐Ÿ“Œ 78
[Cartoon strip pastiche of the Highway Code, with illustrations describing the text]

[Title panel]:

The Highway Code
Rule number 112b:
LED headlights

In recent years, many
new cars have been fitted with extra-bright LED headlights.

LED headlights increase safety by illuminating every detail of the road ahead

Including the face of the person driving a metal box towards you at a combined speed of 80mph

Whom you have just blinded with your LED headlights.

LED headlights must be fitted at eye-level on a great big murderous wall of car.

[Show a car crumpling into the front of a high-fronted SUV, bathed in light from the blinding headlamps]

They must be permanently on full beam, because you are insane.

And they should be bright enough to make other drivers think they are ascending into a blinding vortex of alien light

Like them old people in the classic Ron Howard film, Cocoon (1985). 
[Show illustration of the final scene where the older people on the boat are being yoinked up into the blindingly-illuminated cloaca of the big spaceship]

So remember: you must use LED headlights

To prevent everyone from not crashing into you. 
[Image shows this happening]

[Ends]

[Cartoon strip pastiche of the Highway Code, with illustrations describing the text] [Title panel]: The Highway Code Rule number 112b: LED headlights In recent years, many new cars have been fitted with extra-bright LED headlights. LED headlights increase safety by illuminating every detail of the road ahead Including the face of the person driving a metal box towards you at a combined speed of 80mph Whom you have just blinded with your LED headlights. LED headlights must be fitted at eye-level on a great big murderous wall of car. [Show a car crumpling into the front of a high-fronted SUV, bathed in light from the blinding headlamps] They must be permanently on full beam, because you are insane. And they should be bright enough to make other drivers think they are ascending into a blinding vortex of alien light Like them old people in the classic Ron Howard film, Cocoon (1985). [Show illustration of the final scene where the older people on the boat are being yoinked up into the blindingly-illuminated cloaca of the big spaceship] So remember: you must use LED headlights To prevent everyone from not crashing into you. [Image shows this happening] [Ends]

The Highway Code rule 112b: LED headlights

12.01.2026 11:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1027 ๐Ÿ” 360 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 26

"More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise."

A rebranding exercise of the most established party masquerading as anti-establishment that shows total contempt for voters. ~AA

12.01.2026 11:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 564 ๐Ÿ” 203 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for childrenโ€™s charities and itโ€™s as beautiful as you imagined

10.01.2026 19:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 4120 ๐Ÿ” 1502 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68 ๐Ÿ“Œ 197

You get my vote

27.12.2025 14:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฎ

27.12.2025 14:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0