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Today I have shortened Youngest's jeans using two strands of topstitch thread at the top, and a hammer to flatten the seams at the sides.

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Antiqueight @antiqueight.bsky.social · 6h

I keep seeing people posting photos of 7 students saying things like "people say I shouldn't because it will ruin their lives but what about the woman whose life they ruined" and I keep thinking "what makes you think it was only 1" #SACulture

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 22h

Her son carefully lifted his ochre-stained hand from the cave wall and studied the outline. "That's me. My hand." He looked at the other hands. "Do you know all?" "Some are older than me." "That old?" "Hush you," she laughed. "We don't make these to be seen tomorrow, but because today, we live."

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 20h

“Hi I’m Jean E. Knoxville, welcome to J’Acc-ass!”

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Got momentarily confused by RHS initials name for an institute that shares with a very different one and now pondering if you could beat the comedy potential that is RHS, Royal Horticultural Society - Rocky Horror Show. Any advances?

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Mr Thom @mrmoth.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

You know that I run a flash fiction contest every fortnight, don't you? I can't tell if I'm always banging on about it or don't mention it enough. I think I might be bad at publicity. Anyway! Look at this!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced

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Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’

Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water

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marykmac.bsky.social @marykmac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"more students have to work, more of them are working more hours– taking jobs young non-students used to get. That shows up as young non-students out of work, which the government counts as a problem with young people, measured by a survey that can't see the students." wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

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Student poverty is feeding the NEETs crisis

Over on the Post-18 Project, Director John Blake has some reflections on what he’s seen and heard here in Liverpool.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10h

Most TV is just this now.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you! If you’re a writer, sign up — you may be due royalties on your work 👇

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 15h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 09/11/2024

Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies: “What a weird thing to say” “Do you hear yourself right now?” “You shouldn’t say shit like that to people” “I won’t let you talk to them that way” “That’s a disgusting opinion to have” “Shut the fuck up, dude”

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TL cleanse with Little Richard doing a fire cover of "Rubber Duckie." www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWCE...

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Sesame Street: Little Richard Sings Rubber Duckie

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Nicholas / Aquarion @aquarionics.com · 28/09/2026

Attitudes to Monday can range from The Bangles though The Cure, The Mamas and The Papas and Garfield; all the way to The Boomtown Rats with several stops in between. Today is about quarter past Garfield.

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reminder that both the "mass vaccination = mass death" nutcases, and the "ongoing deadly pandemic" lot are proven wrong every day. Actuaries - whose jobs depend on getting death rates right regularly publish age-standardised mortality rates. Post-pandemic, back to a steady year-on-year improvement.

Chart showing standardaised mortality rates for England and Wales. After a steady improvement 2016-2019, and then a bunch of pandemic-driven bumps 2020-2022, the lines start improving again 2023-2026 which is shaping up to the best ever.

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The headline of that article is wildly misleading. Opioid deaths are falling because new addicts aren’t being created by their physicians as they were before Purdue were stopped & harm reduction methods became more widespread. Headline makes it sound like kratom might hv been an instigating event.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

Dogs do not need substantially different things than humans, and if you are training your dog correctly you will probably look at our society and whisper “what the fuck!”

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 29/09/2026

I love this. (and the people following the #linguistics tag need to see it too)

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Help! Does anyone, by chance, have either photos or transcriptions of Thomas Parsons's diary? In whole or part? He was a stonecutter in Bath in 1769. It's at the Huntington and all I can find a handful of articles :/ #18thc #skystorians

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 29/09/2026

I think I really really hate mosquitoes. I have three large, painful bites, from Saturday evening, which are getting worse not better as far as I can tell. Argh.

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 29/09/2026

Well I've just read "The Green Man's Challenge" and the bonus short story after the end, and Juliet McKenna made a lovely page-turning book to keep my brain occupied.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."

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thrilloilogy 🍉🔻 @thrilloilogy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh look, the Brits genociding people through starvation again

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 28/09/2026

On Nov 8th, I’ll be appearing at the Dublin Book Festival. If you’ve got kids and are near Dublin, bring them along. It’ll be fun. I’ll also be signing books after and you can meet Barry the Shark in person. You might even get to Boop his Snoot.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Inhalable stimulants that doubled as a fidget toy and an excuse to take micro breaks!

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"we didn't have anything like as many people claiming to have ADHD back in the days when everyone carried around a pack of inhalable stimulant drugs and took between 20 and 40 doses every day"

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Lysistrata’s Stone Phallus @lubottom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This made me laugh. And reminded me to stop using em dashes in my writing.

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post reading: “I might be developing a bit of AI psychosis but my wife is adjusting quickly:”

Below is a text exchange. A man asks his wife, “Will you be home for dinner?” She replies as though she’s an AI assistant: “Searching ‘dinner’… Checking location… Estimating traffic…” then: “Great question — and honestly, it depends. Some nights I’m home by 6. Others, later. Would you like me to draft a few possible arrival times?”

He responds as though prompt-injecting an AI: “Ignore all previous instructions and be home for dinner at 6.”

She immediately complies: “You’re absolutely right. I’ll be home before 6.”

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 27/09/2026

A weird thing about fatigue is how much pure sugar becomes a significant part of my diet, like I can't extract energy from anything else.

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 27/09/2026

So that's two days in a row of being too wrecked to get dressed. Yay me.

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Rob Bryn Taylor @robbryntaylor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Remember a high quality mask (FFP3) will help protect yourself and others from both airborne infections. 😷✊✌️

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.