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@angiechaseface.bsky.social
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Human in NW England. COVID concerned, like history, data science, dancing and solidarity. In disorganised semi-loneliness since 2020. Not my real name, but otherwise it's all true. Only occasionally post bad jokes!

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
It is wildly unfair too. Those that are the “haves” are doing the mucking around. Travelling. Financing ads for unsafe activities. Forcing a “normal” look in the workplace… and those that are trying the hardest and are most vulnerable are doing the “finding out”.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Need this advice myself but for books I've bought
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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Forbes with a word today. “What is the physical, psychological & existential toll on immunocompromised people who want to co-exist safely, without condemnation & skepticism, in a mask-free world that seems indifferent to their condition?” www.forbes.com/sites/weskil...
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Unmasking The At-Risk Communities’ Last Ditch Quest To Coexist Safely
“The Last Ditch Bar controversy reveals a deeper story: what it actually costs to live immunocompromised in a world that’s moved on from masks.”
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Agreed, I am preferring him to Rosman!
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.
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Ilanin @ilanin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Movie posters that could only be put up in British railway stations, one of a series of probably one.
An ad for a ghost movie with the tagline "See it. Séance. Haunted."; a reference to the British Transport Police's long-running "See it. Say it. Sorted." ads encouraging the public to report anything vaguely suspicious.
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Dave Turner @mrdaveturner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.
A paragraph from Brian Blessed’s autobiography:

So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these student gatherings.
I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Miranda suspicion incarnate #traitors #celebritytraitors
Miranda Hart side eyeing Hannah Fry into next week
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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Assume we would happy and fulfilled as disembodied consciousnesses in space...is not where I a living breathing carbon based life form that enjoys sunsets and strawberries and cool looking beetles would start.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My folks had this among their CDs we'd rifle through when we were little. One breakfast time my brother launched into "Inflammation of the foreskin reminds me of your smile", with no idea what it meant. Quickly shut down by the parents with the reasoning "not for kids" as the only explanation.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Seriously underrated post
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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been hoping studies like this would happen since 2020. This is just the very beginning, but it is the beginning. Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatigue | ScienceDaily share.google/7NxfWS1IJtm2...
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Scientists may have found a “unifying theory” of chronic fatigue
Scientists found that five seemingly unrelated conditions, including long Covid, ME/CFS, and PTSD, may disrupt many of the same biological networks involved in immunity, metabolism, and cellular energ...
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Decomposing Dame (Diandra Mae) @diandramae.com · 02/10/2026
Could be applied to so many situations…😆
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“If we weren’t so ill, those of us with this awful disease would be shouting it from the rooftops.” Eleanor Dent describes being largely housebound with #MECFS, from difficulties getting benefits to harmful advice, and still no treatment after 24 years.
Letter
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the only map of england everybody else needs (best selling music by territory, Actually Helpful for understanding some things; also Suck It Morrissey.)
map of england where every county is lableled by their best selling band
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those in England & Wales who don’t get them on the NHS: private flu & covid jabs are available from today. I’ve just had both at my local pharmacy. £115 for the pair. Yes, that’s expensive, but if you’re a freelancer & don’t get sick pay it’s probably a lot cheaper than taking time off.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026
Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie: 
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LBC: 'Chronic illness cases surge post-covid, leaving young patients searching for answers' 'Diagnoses of a chronic condition..have risen five-fold since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to experts...Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)...' www.lbc.co.uk/article/chro...
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Chronic illness cases surge post-covid, leaving young patients searching for answers | LBC
Experts are reporting a five-fold surge in diagnoses of a rare chronic condition since the COVID-19 pandemic began
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She's from Texas, I can tell by the way He's two steppin' 'round the room And judgin' by the smile that's written on his face I only went with her cause she looks like you, My god
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026
this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“We’re just having a laugh!” At who. At who. Is it at fucking sick people begging to keep up a venue where they can maybe socialize safely for a bit without risking getting sicker?? Is that the fun morning drama in your life right now? Jesus Christ.
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Decomposing Dame (Diandra Mae) @diandramae.com · 23/09/2026
What a lovely short film. 🩶🩷
youtu.be
Seth Boyden - An Object at Rest
YouTube video by bobDigga
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Unite the union @unitetheunion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌭 Workers making some of the UK’s biggest food brands are still on the picket line in a fight for fair pay and decent conditions This week they are in crucial negotiations. Please share and tell Pilgrims and their clients like Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's to pay up! 📣
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
wear a mask, don't wear a mask, whatever, I could care less, but if I do catch you sneering at anyone who does choose to wear one, I am not going to be polite, nice or kind about it. Signed, someone whose mother died LAST YEAR of COVID complications. (Partly) because she saw no need to mask.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences." Julia Doubleday takes down an ableist Telegraph column that denies the reality of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2026/09/21/c...
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COVID-19 — not TikTok — is disabling young women - The Sick Times
The Telegraph published an article titled, “How having a disability became cool." This article shores up the government narrative that rising rates of disability are being driven, not by the ongoing a...
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Hilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks! 😊 All the mucosal vaxes aim to reduce infection/transmission:, they'll vary in how much they can. Where they are at depends on where you live (some countries already have one or two). For US/Europe etc, several close to phase 3. My backgrounder: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/w...
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“When Will We Get a Sterilizing Covid Vaccine?”
I get this question a lot. It’s hard to answer in a few words. I know there has been at least one prediction that it could happen this year. I think the question is too complicated for an eas…
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is great to see, but also how did Young Simon Amstel travel back to the early 80s
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh, that’s just Stephen Speilberg in a respirator at the Lucas Museum opening during a Covid surge, like a BOSS.
Photo of a reporter talking to Stephen Speilberg, who is in a dark suit and black respirator mask on
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When people are busy conceding to a reality constructed from the top down they really, really, really do not like running into people who are saying hell no to that bs.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just seen it too, absolutely bizarre choice
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Sarah @no1sarah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Disability status is indeed a social identity akin to sexuality, gender, or race, because it describes the way we must move through the world in relation to others, and how others discriminate against us." open.substack.com/pub/thegaunt...
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COVID is disabling young women, not Tiktok
“Sickfluencers” are merely symptoms of a mass disabling event
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The 80s is dying, and the 90s struggles to be born; Now is the time of monsters
Jim'll Paint It's disturbing/brilliant rework of The Prodigy's Music for the Jilted Generation album cover.
The band is Brucie's and the title is Music for the Jilted Generation Game and it's Brucie's rictus showbiz grin morphing up out of grey goo/through a grey sheet.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 18/09/2026
Breaking News: HarperCollins has dropped the backlist of children's author David Walliams, The Bookseller understands. 👇
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David Walliams' backlist dropped by HarperCollins
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A wildlife photographer in Iceland captured a massive herd of reindeer coming within meters of him while he hid among the rocks: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A decade or more ago I stopped engaging with entertainment (books, tv, film, even music) where the central premise is a woman gets killed or tortured. It cuts down stuff to a manageable choice and has done wonders for my feelings of wellbeing and trust. Because, fuck that for funsies.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This chart is wild
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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You and me both, Anthropic, you and me both.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"All I can think of is the fact that there was a time every year starting in 2020 that we had entire months of 'a 9/11 a day' in Covid deaths, and even still no one wants to acknowledge that, and it will happen again in this 13th U.S. Covid wave, and I can only hope someone notices."
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Publisher: "So what's the cover vibe?" Hugh: "Umm the threatening menace of a confrontation with excess?" Publisher:
The front cover of a River Cottage book called MEAT by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. 

Hugh is outside the door of a cottage in a butcher's apron, holding a huge rack of ribs under one arm, with the other hand on the door handle, and giving a menacing look straight at the camera.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This article almost made me cry it's so spot on
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...
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Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Apparently the account keeps getting removed/made private/reset because follower numbers are increasing so fast. No idea how true that is, I just want to stop knowing so much about it, but my blithering idiot attention won't be told
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have become mildly and unwillingly obsessed with his recent escalating messianic-tinged posts about his new channel
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of people have said to me “but why would the government lie about the risks from Covid?” And I’m sorry but the answer is always because capital is valued over lives and they want you to go back to work, it was true in the mines, true on the railroads, true post-9/11, and true now.
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bit harsh, looks quite nice actually
A tourist brochure entitled This Is Mid Wales
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fourlights @angiechaseface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is great to see, linking previously unlinked similarities between conditions that cause people so much suffering
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