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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

New Harmonies cards aw yiss :blobcatmeltheart: #BoardGames

A hand holding up a rectangular paper packet with Harmonies Pulse expansion cards inside, illustrated with a parent and baby panda

Array of ten Harmonies Pulse cards featuring illustrations of various animals, and patterns the player needs to make with the game's colourful round wooden tokens to get points from each card

Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

[Pet death] My friends' beautiful cat Dinah has crossed the rainbow bridge 😢 It feels like so many pets I know IRL/parasocially have died this year. Most of them were advanced in years, but damn 💔

A hand petting a tabby and white cat who's dangling on the arm of a tartan armchair in a living room

The same cat sitting on a carpet, looking back towards the camera

The same cat reclining on a tartan footstool

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Being passive aggressive in meetings by starting every comment with “You’re absolutely right”

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Big old case of the don't wannas today *sigh*

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

TZAG, fedi! Today, I'm reviewing A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories by Mehdi M. Kashani. Read my thoughts on this entertaining, contemplative, and stirring collection: www.draliceviolett.com/a-tehran-so-… #BookMastodon #bookstodon

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

The cutoff of a BMI of 25 as defining the difference between “normal weight” and “overweight” and thus magically conferring health risks is not valid for the entire population, and it ignores a number of key contributions to overall health, such access to healthcare and financial resources.

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Just finished As You Wake, Break The Shell. Oh, my heart :blobcatmeltheart:

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Caption: The DNA and fossil evidence proved they were close relatives, but Daisy still found family gatherings rather hard going.

Image: A brown and white cow paddles a dinghy on the swelling sea amongst a pod of huge whales.

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Chris J. Karr @chris.omgwars.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@sliderulesyou.bsky.social - When I was in the fifth grade and the first Gulf War was breaking out, our teacher explained what was happening overseas with the most annoying hanging sentences: "The Iraqis invaded Kuwait on the orders of their president Saddam Who's Sayin..." I never learned […]

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Still umming and ahhing about just putting my magical cat short story on my website. Maybe for Halloween...

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Staying in all weekend was probably a mistake, I feel quite flat and hopeless today. Got a four-day week, then a three-day week, then another four-day week after that, though, mostly so I can see a bunch of fringe shows and play a load of board games IRL without keeling over, though.

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

#MondayRandom10 VLC, 8,155 tracks. Not much variety, again. 1. Radiohead - All I Need 2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - So In Love (Remastered 2025) 3. Alkaline Trio - This Addiction 4. Twin Tribes - Meadow 5. Thursday - Arc-Lamps, Signal Flares, a A Shower of Light (The Night) 6. The […]

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Now I can post today's review! It's of Decoy by @Firlefanz and I found it a compelling and well-written taster for a series I'm looking forward to reading the rest of 😁 www.draliceviolett.com/decoy-by-joa… #bookstodon #BookMastodon (Getting a 500 when I try to add a picture […]

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Cool like the ocean Burned like a summer home

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Slow Magic (40) Creeper (36) AFI (35) Actors (30) Destroy Boys (26). #myweekcounted 572 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

Collage of photos of the bands Slow Magic, Creeper, AFI, Actors, Destroy Boys

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Where's the button for 'I think they might make it look like I have six tits, and I got a sore red mark on my sternum, but I've worn them and they were cheap so it feels like too much faff to send them back'?

Email from Mark's and Spencer:

Hi Alice Violett,

We hope you're loving your recent purchase of 3 Pack Cotton Rich Wired Full Cup Bras A-E. Your feedback means a lot to us, so simply click the stars below to share your thoughts.

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Not got my usual pub game time today as my friend is busy. Considering how much it's raining at the exact time I would normally be waiting for the bus, I'm not too bummed about this.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I make fun of #PicaTheCat often, but she has taught me things. For example. If someone loves you don't wonder "why? why would they love me?" No, think "Of course. Obviously they love me. They are, to put it simply, correct."

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

"m th ghst f bd spllng" The mysterious ghost spoke to me by making bloody letters appear on the wall. It took me a moment to work out what it was saying... "The ghost of bad spelling? My God, what happened to you?" "ws dsnvwld!" The letters said... and true, she had been disenvoweled!

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Any car can be a flying car if you drive it badly enough.

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Getting into Spoons (the band, not the cutlery or the theory, though those are also relevant to my interests). They're good, though this song (which I do like!) keeps sending my brain down the alley of I KEEP GOING TO THE RIVER TO PRAY 🎵 Spoons - Landing Lights musiccloud.io/03ijyaZX

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Congrats to incoming White House press secretary Tilly Norwood

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Even more bizarrely, neither Catch The Sun by Doves nor Cryptik Souls Crew by Len appear anywhere in the TOTP Archives list of performances. Both artists are found, but there is no record of either of them playing those songs on #TOTP. * totparchive.co.uk/artist.php?name=d… * […]

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

This is quite strange. I definitely know the running order of the broadcast version of last night's 7pm episode of #TOTP because I used it to set up the Now Playing bot. The first two tracks were S Club 7 - Reach, and Stephen Gateley - New Beginning. And indeed that's what the TOTP Archives […]

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Pb I've said it before but this whole gen AI thing has really opened my eyes to how many people in this world don't notice/care about quality 😢

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Dreamt about Cutouts, so I have started the day listening to load of Cutouts. This is no hardship :ablobcatmusic:

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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Guess who's back Back again Beans is back Tell your friends #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl #screechowls #animals #animal #zoo #Owltober

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Nice problem to have I guess... which one do I read first? 😅 #bookstodon #BookMastodon

Four books laid out 2x2 on a blue patterned duvet: The Salt King by Natasha Pulley, As You Wake, Break The Shell by Becky Chambers, Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel, and Servants to the King by Marion Scott (aka Nina Allan)

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

“We respond to it because it was so obviously done by a human being, with human weaknesses. The street feels a human place because of it. Lettering, which is smoothly anonymous, without wit, imagination, personality or sensitivity, gives the impression of having been designed as well as made by […]

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Deb E. @debe.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Another one for the title rather than the overall vibe. The opening is pretty blissful, though… Muse "Bliss" youtu.be/eMqsWc8muj8 #JukeboxFridayNight #PeaceAndCalm

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Frank Cavil @frankcavil.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Believe it or not, this is a relevant image for my next submission to #OfDiceAndMeeples, an APA on #boardgames The ignorable theme is "Essen Spiel and other conventions", and you've got 3 whole weeks before the submission deadline if you want to share a #zine […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Photograph of a room within the Guernsey Museum at Candie, unknown photographer. Standing out from the information boards on the walls is a waxwork Bronze Age family sat atop a rock, the mother holding an infant, the father a spear and shield.

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Birthday dice update. I'm gonna need a bigger jar at this rate! #BoardGames

Three closed bags of Dice Goblin matching mystery dice in front of a pink lit-up mechanical keyboard. The goblin is wearing a witch's hat and has a cauldron for a Halloween vibe. The photo is on its side because I can't see how to rotate it in browser Mastodon

Three sets of seven matching polyhedral dice - one pink and purple ombre, one wood effect, and one marbled dark green

Top-down view of a small glass jar filled with many dice of different side numbers, colours and designs

Side view of the same dice jar. Notable are a D20 with a dragon themed design and a D12 with a pink resin duck inside it

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

"Sorry I missed your email. That day I wasn't emotionally able to face my inbox" #academicChatter

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

small clams court

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Just saw an advert for a candle that's supposed to smell like Manderley. Before or after the fire, I'm not sure.

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Lindsay 🎃 @broadwell.eu · 15/10/2026

"oh but who deserves it and who doesn't" - get the ghost of Henry Tudor out of your head and give him a damn good kicking. everyone deserves to live a good life and get the help they need when they need it.

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#ThursdayFiveList #CompassRose turns out a lot of electronic-flavoured artists have songs with 'west' in the title! OMD - The Native Daughters of the Golden West musiccloud.io/AeNaZ42H Mouth Ulcers - Western Horror Story musiccloud.io/IMPgmMXF Boy Harsher - Westerners […]

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

New Mouth Ulcers song is flipping awesome :ablobcatmusic: 🎵 Mouth Ulcers - Lady Rust musiccloud.io/AwqFcuUo

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Last day of being 37, is it. Also, 30 years exactly until my current projected retirement date 🙃

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Jessie Kirk @thejessiekirk.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I don't care if the homeless person we house or the refugee person we welcome is a "good investment". Humanity is not a business. I just want as many HUMAN BEINGS to be warm, happy, safe and healthy as possible. Wrap that up in whatever political affilliation you care too, it's how we should […]

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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Nearly-birthday blues are out in force. New Destroy Boys album in March and debut Mouth Ulcers album in April though, so there's that.

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