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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 9h

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Henry VIII: "Pope, would please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand. You're not a marriage influencer. How many wives do you have?"

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ion today* i got congratulated for successfully** spelling my own surname***😂 *this is not the first time this has happened **because i did so using the phonetic alphabet ***pretty sure it’s always men doing the congratulating; chaps, it’s not that hard

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

absolutely tickled by how many of you associated this with me and yes, of course i’m getting one 😂 (might also get one for many of my kiddo besties 😂)

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

back on my first patch ice session since APRIL and i’m working through it but gotta say, i feel stupid doing such basic things on said patch ice 😂

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

was recently musing on teenage fandom and the guy who watched julie and julia every day for a year 😂 (i watched evita every day for two months when i was 13 and have probably watched it at least annually since, i think i could do this no problem - god knows what the result would be though 😂)

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spectacular Roman octopus mosaic from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a monochrome Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. This octopus detail comes from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures which include the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish. From the floor of the women's changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m reading Emily Wilson’s “Crossing the wine-dark sea” and seized with a desire to read a direct translation of Homer into modern Greek - I only read retellings/adaptations as a kid

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got seized by the urge to make my DW feel a bit more lived in but am now completely paralyzed by HOW THE FUCK DO ICONS WORK 😂

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my british passport just arrived and i’m feeling thrilled but suddenly discombobulated

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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 09/09/2026

me when I'm trying to choose a healthy breakfast

A screenshot of Prime Minister's Questions with the subtitle 'Mr Bacon, I don't need advice from you.'

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Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Klingons know that transphobes are without honor and will not see Sto’Vo’Kor

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

today i feel small, tired, overwhelmed and ignorant. also insufficiently motivated to do anything to change the situation.

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

honestly good for them, i hope this works cuz the AIN thing is just such a stupid, insulting copout

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ooo, fun! I decided to try and remember all the artists I’ve seen +1 times and I think this is the lot? Introduce yourself with 5 artists you’ve seen at least twice: Dar Williams Grace Petrie Vienna Teng Camille O’Sullivan Taylor Swift Placebo Indigo Girls Thea Gilmore Kate Rusby Dessa Muse

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Third time lucky on priory of the orange tree and I’m having the best time and I just want someone to yell about it with! 😂📚🐉🌳🍊

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

meanwhile i’m back on my bullshit (aka the ice) for the first time in nearly a *month* and focusing on the modest wins of a) showing up and b) not having lost too much ground time to get back on that horse 😂

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

having a front row seat to this creative journey is sincerely a constant joy lately🤩🥰😍💞🫶🏼

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 28/08/2026

hey just making sure everyone knows tom hardy put out a rap album where he does the “"now is the winter of our discontent” monologue from richard III in the bane voice on one of the tracks. okay have a good weekend

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rb @mostlyinane.quest · 26/08/2026

man, i'm so happy we get to mourn queer icons who died at 80 and lived long lives being themselves. i'm so grateful for the world they helped create and live and thrive in for as long as they did

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.

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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She didn’t just read it and say “okay, if that’s what it says that’s what it says, that’s the rule, period.” She thought, “I don’t get that. I’m going to think about it.” That’s the intersection of your religious tradition with your independent soul.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I mean just within this story, you get not only the substance of this observation from her, which is beautiful, but the very fact that when she read scripture, she wanted to truly understand it, to see how it made sense to her and was consistent with what she knew was right and sensible.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#food B. Dylan Hollis celebrated Dolly today with one of her signature recipes, and he was so sweet about it, it really soothed a part of me that's been sad all day.

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Dolly's Banana Pudding (1989)

YouTube video by B. Dylan Hollis

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i understand this is the joke but boy is this patron in luck 😂

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Boo lettuce @lettuce.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

[library] hi do you have any books about when a guy is really mad at one specific whale

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

dunno about best tribute but it is certainly hilarious 😂

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i’m tired and listless and unmotivated and while i have good reasons to be so and no reason to believe it’s not temporary the fear that it’s an indication of depression or dinosaur bones or adhd treatments no longer working as they should is still very much alive and well

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walkthegale @walkthegale.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is such a warm and lovely fic full of friendship and people who care about each other very much.

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I’ve been directing professional actors for over a third of a century. What I want from them - and what AI will never be able to supply - is something that can’t be predicted or programmed: a quirky but valid line-reading which I wouldn’t have thought of myself. It’s the delivery, never the voice.

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Me when my alarm went off.

A drawing of a fat orange, brown, and white bird next to "no" in large letters and the @effinbirds tag.

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That’s fine I don’t like sitting outside anyway

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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 24/08/2026

Baby Shark.

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Name your fave Disney princess. (Wrong answers only.)

a screencap of Queen Cleopatra VII from the Asterix and Cleopatra cartoon (or comic, unsure)

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

my citizenship ceremony is tomorrow - what do i WEAR?!

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

in happier news i had the absolute best birthday yesterday, i paddleboarded & swam, received 3 gorgeous homemade cards, was made delicious cake & a sausage/bacon sandwich, and had fish & chips & pizza for tea, all in the company of 16 of my closest friends in one of my favourite places in the world

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

100%. You are directly assisting malignant, malicious, actively harmful bigotry any time you buy anything Harry Potter related and I for one am working on my scripts to have that conversation more widely.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.

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Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.

Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

So yesterday I drove from London to the Lake District with a minor 7 hour delay at Oxford services cuz I got rear ended at speed trying to enter a roundabout. All occupants of the car fine but poor darling car was a write-off due to being nearly twenty years old.

A photo of the back of my sadly former car, a blue honda jazz. The rear windshield is completely shattered and the boot/trunk is caved in. The boot/trunk is piled high with colourful bags, ready to take on holiday.

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Always the Ocean 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊 @alwaystheocean.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m SO excited to go on holiday to the lake district for a week with 16 of my closest friends (3 of whom are children like many of my closest friends 😂) but I’m also ALREADY pining for ice skating and I don’t have time to go today 😂

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

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Hieronymous Borscht @secretlentil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

*reluctantly climbs into boat, sits there, confused*

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