Eleanor Baker
Risk, games, fitness, cooking, teen and cat parent. Also rage and despair (but trying to keep a lid on those).
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- Reposted by Eleanor BakerOMG the past tense of cast is cast, NOT casted, as in the past tense of put is not putted, what the fuck just stop it
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThe UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerDiscworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerSo important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
- Reposted by Eleanor Bakermaking me genuinely feel insane that there is a secret police that has been arresting people regardless of their citizenship status, has killed several people in their custody and has already held Democratic politicians and some Democrats are considering giving them more money
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerGoldfinger is on. This guy, Richard Vernon, is 39 YEARS OLD HERE. 39! HE'S THIRTY NINE.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThe US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Eleanor BakerInstead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerNobody admits it but the real reason most people get cats is because they make a really good noise if you prod them while they're asleep.
- Reposted by Eleanor Bakerthis is how every outlet should refer to X
- This is like an old fashioned Gawker blog but somehow British and high-brow. I'll take it. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThis poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerSeems to me if voting didn’t matter the people who benefit most from the destruction of democracy wouldn’t be trying so hard to demolish democracy
- Lovely, life-affirming thread
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerWatching THE GREEN KNIGHT again
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThe story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerDavid Walliams
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerAbsolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerBerry Bars
- Reposted by Eleanor Bakermy mum once came back from Waitrose looking for something specific she wanted and apparently the manager told her "you're the third person i've told today, there simply isn't enough demand for it" and my dad LOVES retelling this on the slightest whim
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerNever forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerJust so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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- Reposted by Eleanor BakerMost distant image of Earth, taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft on 14 February 1990. How about remembering that we are all on this dot together?
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- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThis has popped up on my feed again so your occasional reminder that, if your business cannot turn a profit when acting within the law, you don’t have a legitimate business
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerI wil never take ozempic, because what if the time finally comes to eat the rich and I have no appetite?
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerTheir father has died in prison, they've lost their home, food is scarce, they are refugees. The artist's children in 1919: House of Cards. By Zinaida Serebriakova, born on this day in 1884.
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- Reposted by Eleanor BakerAbsolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerPeople don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis". Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerA floppy eared rabbit ponders its place in the vast universe ✨
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerI really want to thank billionaires for making fiction so much easier by expanding the range of explanations for evil behavior that are believable. "His brain was cooked because he had too much money" is the easiest sell.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerI hate the new trend to send emails because you were on someone's website. If I wanted to be perceived I would shop in person.
- Reposted by Eleanor Baker🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThis rules people.com/halle-berry-...
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerA book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerMisleading write-up - it's true that there is a crisis in A&E, but this is not because of "soaring demand". The RCN report itself shows that A&E attendances are only 3% higher than in 2019, while 12+ hour waits are 8,033% higher. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Eleanor Baker“I was just following otters.”
- Reposted by Eleanor Bakerjust incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
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- Reposted by Eleanor BakerGreat! Do that instead, and maybe stop stealing copyrighted ideas to fuel your energy-guzzling sycophancy engine that hallucinates fake facts and endangers vulnerable users? Just a thought…
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerEvery ad now
- Reposted by Eleanor Bakerever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerIn the latest Guardian Blind Date: they go out on a Saturday night, and you know what that means. Plus lots of Jonathan Bailey gifs in my review.
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerMy favorite comment on the FT story
- Reposted by Eleanor BakerThis is why Repubs are the lowest form of life on Earth
