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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 06/10/2026

Impressively acrid vape at the bus stop this evening. I've had to move away because my throat hurts after two second-hand inhalations. How is that pleasant. (I say this as someone who doesn't mind cigarettes, bar the health issues.)

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Yersinia Pestis is a bacteria that’s endemic in several spots around the world. There are around 1,500 cases around the world reported to the WHO each year. On average 7 of the those annually in the USA. It’s dangerous, but it’s hardly a novel threat as suggested by the headlines.

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Sometimes I think about it happening and I wonder what time of day it'll be, how soon I'll be able to appropriately begin drinking. Important questions like that.

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If there's (good) short, special animated/etc credits at the end, I'll see those for their own sake, and I'll see any scene after them, but I'm not sitting through the full credits, stop putting things there. Put any scenes you want me to see inside the film.

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DDDDDD: v glad it's getting fixed!

Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

kind of like the nipple line ngl, just remove "a chess child" and this is fun

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Somewhere along the way I learned I hated jump scares (still do) and just avoided horror for decades, because I thought it was either jump scares (bad) or gore (boring). In the last five years I've had a lot of fun correcting that mistake.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't think I watched horror films as a child, and don't remember any of the spookier 'standard' kids' films strongly affecting me, but I do remember a film about underwater scientists, maybe Deep Blue Sea (1999)? That must have had jump scares and I didn't like that.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

those undersea cables can't get cut soon enough

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

what we don't know yet is which cinemas the deaths will occur in 😰

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Then Toad felt very tired and he fell asleep.

Toad naps near his garden, his Stradivarius at his side.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you're considering dressing your child, self or home in Halloween tat this year, PLEASE consider charity shops first. Went on my lunchbreak, all of them had racks of stuff identical to what's on sale new elsewhere. Also, you MIGHT get a £130 De'Longhi espresso machine for £15! I know I did! ☕

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They've been trying to deliver it for over a week and this is the second time they've told me they think they've lost it. I relent! I'll go to a shop next time!

Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think retailers should be legally required to tell you when they use evri so you can remember that it's better to go outside to a real shop. How hard is it to deliver a duvet cover.

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Repostin' The Autumnal. Manifesting my seasonal mood.

A skeletal figure floats off the ground, wrapped in a cape made of autumn leaves. It wields a scythe adorned with a harvest of gourds.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Devil's Bath (2024), Slash/Back (2022), You Won't Be Alone (2022), Berberian Sound Studio (2012), The Baby of Mâcon (1993), Symptoms (1974), The Cremator (1969), Matango (1963), you might like The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, it was a nice quiet few days while it lasted.

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

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This is the same place in November 2023.

Satellite image of an intact neighborhood in eastern Rafah on 24 November 2023

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The joke about hermes was that they'd kick your package onto your roof, and I wish new-hermes would do that bc at least it'd be at my property. I can probably get onto the roof.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wonder how many times evri will email me to say I need to provide their chatbot with further information about my address before they admit they can't be arsed to deliver my package.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love how Nigella talks about food.

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kraldum: a solo fantasy mudlarking RPG is live on Gamefound! create your mudlark, descend to the foreshore, uncover treasures & ancient mysteries, & do your best to survive. here begins a megathread where i go on about this thing until all targets are obliterated 💙 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Kraldum: Solo Fantasy Mudlarking RPG by tooth & shore - Gamefound

Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tori is crowdfunding a solo ttrpg about mudlarking! It looks fantastic! It's pledging time! 🏺🐟🌊

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I will say, as someone who works quite nearby, is it's nice to not have the American planes flying overhead so far today.

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why is "bisexual" so difficult

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if the train is 29min late they should sit outside the station so you tick over into the 30min+ delay repay bar

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Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"there may be opportunistic thieves on board" on a train where we're all stood in the aisles, making navigating the train incredibly slow, if anyone gets away with someone's stuff they probably deserve it

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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at minimum there's water on the table, but this being the UK you're going to be offered tea

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am living in a beautiful level of near-ignorance that I intend to maintain. I'm sure there's real and important conversations to be had and I'm equally sure few of them are happening online. many such cases.

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Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Drinking can wine in front of a stream VOD, this is the level of Friday night activity I need this week. I did cook a proper dinner, but now it's do nothing o'clock.

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thought of you when I saw that headline earlier, what a fucking farce <33333

Da Underfunded Ouroboros @trufflehog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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I would bring a bottle of 2012 Chateau Musar to my job interview and if the panel doesnt let it breathe in the glass before tasting, I'd simply walk out

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Also going into London to see a visiting friend, so it's a spread of activities.