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CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 19:34:57 JST CJ Bellwether

many saying that right now that King Charles holds the power and leadership of the country with Sunak gone. But the reality is that if the King is always just a figurehead and the unwritten acknowledgement is that if he were to overstep his line at this moment and try to enact any exhibition of power, Larry the Cat would bite him on the ankle.

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  CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 19:37:21 JST CJ Bellwether
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  BREAKING: British Secret Service on high alert as rumours of King Charles seen buying large bag of Dreamies™
  
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  geekylou :transgender_flag: (geekylou@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 19:37:27 JST geekylou :transgender_flag:
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  @siege The cats are the real power. That why the country is secretly run from the Carreras Cigarette Factor building in Camden.
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    The Carreras Cigarette Factory is a large art deco building in Camden, London, England. It is noted as a striking example of early 20th Century Egyptian Revival architecture. The building was erected in 1926–28 by the Carreras Tobacco Company owned by the Russian-Jewish inventor and philanthropist Bernhard Baron on the communal garden area of Mornington Crescent, to a design by architects M. E. and O. H. Collins and A. G. Porri. It is 550 feet (168 metres) long, and is mainly white. The building's distinctive Egyptian-style ornamentation originally included a solar disc to the Sun-god Ra, two gigantic effigies of black cats flanking the entrance and colourful painted details. When the factory was converted into offices in 1961 the Egyptian detailing was lost, but it was restored during a renovation in the late 1990s, and replicas of the cats were placed outside the entrance. The building is located at the northern end of Hampstead Road and faces out over Harrington Square. History As demand for cigarettes increased during the First World War, the Carreras Tobacco Company expanded its...
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  CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 19:39:43 JST CJ Bellwether
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  @WhyNotZoidberg british aristocracy and land ownership continues to be the underlying lynchpin to legal opposition to trans rights
  
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  :blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 (whynotzoidberg@topspicy.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 19:39:44 JST :blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
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  @siege I must say that the British monarchy seems to hold juuuust enough power to make things a tad uncomfortable.
  
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