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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 06/10/2026

A little view that you can no longer see. This glimpse of a medieval window from inside a quadruple Tudor chimney stack was only visible 10 years ago whilst we undertook some flood recovery work. This space is now a much needed cupboard!

We are looking at a corridor made of brick, it leads to a dead end of a limewashed wall and glazed stone mullion window.

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 06/10/2026

CMS should be the biggest, most powerful department in the government because it's where we are truly world-beating. The fact that it's given to an invisible non-entity like Nandy, while government wangs on about fishing and oil drilling is so shortsighted, stupid and frustrating

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uncivil-s.bsky.social @uncivil-s.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well. Blimey.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hence some people in the article have active social lives but still feel lonely. If lack of *connection* has grown then that’s a whole other set of possible causes. Maybe people are less stuck with each other socially than they were 40 years ago, so fewer relationships get to the connecting point?

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This article seems to conflate two things. There is making friends which can be hard for young people for a lot of the reasons mentioned (academic/work pressure, time, cost of living, lack of third spaces etc) and there is *connecting* with people, which is an overlapping but different task.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can only offer that I went to “non-ference” when LD Conf was cancelled because of the Queen and everyone who couldn’t cancel their hotel went and sat in spoons for two days. This was the graphic I made:

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This hub and spokes of a chariot wheel is over 3,000 years old! Horse-drawn chariots came to symbolise the might of the pharaoh. Actual chariots were placed in the tombs of kings and high-ranking courtiers.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Environment Agency has the actual, you know, *flood risk map*. The one I check every time I or a family member moves house. So flood risk would just be vibes after this presumably?

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gaaah a heavy bottle of olive oil (not the Croatian bottle curiously) has dropped on the corner of the hob 😖 Ceramic versus induction, go!

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“And long story short an audience of 5000 children discharging their trauma is how Croatia won every major men’s tournament between 2042 and 2056”

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love this little stadium, the football bounces off the little stand back onto the pitch and I bet it sells ćevapčići inna bun

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cursed, cursed to sit through an experience every single tournament where I have to deal with either Sad Jude or Sad Luka

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Q for #skystorians War is brutalising, and longer=worse. 1792-1815 was a long war. How brutally violent was it? Away from the battlefield. Not: people shot guns. But: comparative to 17C/20C more-brutality. And comparative to 18C/19C peacetime less-brutality (at least in Europe itself).

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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Greetings and good morning it’s the Saturday farm rush hour with Nutmeg & Willow the cat

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Picture of a Thames wooden fish trap(7th to 8th century AD) at Isleworth in the London Borough of Hounslow faces downstream; Chelsea is facing upstream. Structurally, the traps appear to be part of a headwear and an ebb catch fish going up and down with the tides. #coastalhistory #muSEAum #fishtrap

Chelsea (Fish trap 1 – dated to AD 730-900) and Isleworth (dated to AD 650-890).
Source : Thames Discover

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026

Going mask off is a risky move in Britain. Historically and in the present day, we'll trade off some *incredibly* dubious things – we're the capital of the global offshore trade for a reason – but we take the pretence of manners and respectability *very* seriously.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In 1066 it would have taken William the Conqueror's army about 2 hours to march the 6.3 miles from Hastings to Battle, but today I managed to cover the same distance in almost half that time thanks to Southeastern trains.

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bplane @bplane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Somehow, Britain breturned.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have now put this joke in my newsletter at work, I should be stopped tbh

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I guess it was only a matter of time with repeat exposures at round tables and mutant variants such as Parliamentary Thematic Fellowships

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bad news, journal article title-itis has jumped from academia to government

Fare play? Government's role in ticketing and pricing
Inquiry
The Transport Committee is exploring Government interventions in public transport fares, pricing and ticketing.
The inquiry will explore:

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Was interviewed by a US journalist today who asked if we were all panicking about terrorists at Fairford, which ended with me trying to explain dogging.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Petition for a bug fix that prevents that psycho iPhone alarm noise being set as a ring tone, or at least prevents people from setting it and then leaving their phone lying on an open plan desk.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I don’t think it is mistakeable for a person in the same way, though there is a blurry line here because one might have a sense of an “intelligence” working through the cards. But at any rate they are not going to tell vulnerable people to harm themselves in actual words.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tarot in therapy, working take is good because these things are just mirrors, you could almost pick 78 different abstract nouns out of a thesaurus and have just as good a system for shifting your perspective, but we use this because it has historicity.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI in therapy, my working take is it’s almost uniformly terrible because therapy is about being contained by another human who you form a relationship with, that’s the value rather than the actual content of the sessions, although this is not widely known. AI can only do content of the sessions.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ohh I have developing views on tarot in therapy and views on AI in therapy, which sort of ties into risk in that personal safety is affected, but maybe it’s not quite in the right space as explicitly not about prediction. And too far from Bristol (generally; I like Bristol). But I like this work!

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recently a long time tenant moaned to me that “they” should just buy us a lawnmower and he doesn’t mind running it round the garden every so often. Tbf to him that might even be true but I’ve no idea which wizards he thinks are in charge of the building or how they could enforce a volunteer rota.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m in a building of 16 flats where we have share of freehold and it wouldn’t work. We have cleaners, gardeners, sometimes expensive emergency repairs to lights or drains. It’s a mix of landlords and owner occupiers, no way you’d get any rota or ad hoc financing to stick. Source: I am the Treasurer.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But it's never, ever put to the public that these things are in fact a trade off and that, frankly, fascists don't make the trains run on time. You have to pay for the fascism.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean I don't especially like the frame of "we need these workers to raise our gdp" in the context of rising climate crisis, because I don't want to be in a situation where we concede that if taking in refugees *does* require the rest of us to give things up that we should say no.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guys the SIZE of the spider I just had to put outside 😫🍂🎃🕷️

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Tweeets of Dogs Automated @tweeetsofdogsauto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A little nervous on his first day at work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police! 😍 Original post

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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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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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

See! Surprising number of naked people bsky.app/profile/heta...

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This but south east/Heathrow. Any hub airport in London won’t even serve the majority of Londoners.

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You mean someone who is attracted to all kinds of sandwiches?

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Alix Mortimer @alixmortimer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This brand is woefully unprepared for the sophistication of both our food scene and our double entendres

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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