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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 2h

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Often when people write pieces like this I think what they are saying but not saying is that men would read more if women read less. If the bare act of reading was coded masculine. As you say, there are plenty of macho books for men, but that isn’t getting men to read.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 6h

Sleepy Hollow High School (in the very real town of Sleepy Hollow, NY) has the best mascot I have ever seen at any level.

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 7h

A dispatch from The Treats War

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA

A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 7h

An occasional reminder that when scientists put a frog in a pot of water and started nudging the temperature up, the frog left the water. Hopped out. No Boil I. You see, kids, real frogs aren't stupid enough to describe what we're in. They had to make up special *dumbass* frogs or it wouldn't work.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 8h

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

livescience.com

Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus

This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 14h

This is definitely the name of an English "It Girl" actor who suddenly turns up in everything and when you look into it her father owns Shropshire.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 16h

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Yes!! This is how we win.

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Melissa @yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 19h

Goal state

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 8h

The big Alice Neel exhibit I saw in NY 5 years ago was so good

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 8h

Frank O'Hara - Alice Neel, 1960

A painting of the poet sitting in a chair in a blue shirt and grey sweater. He has pale blue eyes and a big hooked nose.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10h

Oh aye, wildlife on British coinage "is a denial of history", is it now?

A heap of farthings from 1941, all of them showing a rather evil looking wren. For clarity, that's the bird, not the Royal Navy's feminine side. Of course in 1941 the sort of person now trying to turn this into a culture war would be happier trying to change British coinage into something more... Reichsmark shaped.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

'The closure of three specialist programmes at the Edinburgh College of Art will have a disproportionate impact on women, the head of Craft Scotland has warned.' Tip of an unacknowledged, unexamined iceberg. Arts & Humanities losses likely disproportionately affect women, students w/ disabilities.

heraldscotland.com

University's arts closures will disproportionately affect women, warns craft body

Ms Kernan questioned whether Edinburgh University management had carried out an equality impact assessment prior to making the decision to close the programmes.

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 11h

Today's work includes writing a short piece on Norwegian folk-belief concerning the magpie. One such belief is that around Saint Olaf's feast-day (July 29), the magpies all visit Saint Olaf in order to be weighed. Those that weigh less than a quarter of a kilo are given to the Devil.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 16h

As I’ve often said, my first fear, on learning that the UK had voted for Brexit, was that it might even be possible for Trump to be elected.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 23h

And I think we are in for a VERY rough two years at least, in ways that are extremely difficult to predict with specificity. We will have a destructive president who may shift in the post-midterms to simply working to exact revenge on what he sees as an ungrateful electorate.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

George Eliot, the staunchest and most consistent critic of marriage in the nineteenth century, spinning like Simone Biles in her grave

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dads taking their daughters into women's restrooms are considering that their daughters don't need to see peckers at urinals. These are dads who care. Women throwing fits about this are saying children seeing peckers is okay if they personally aren't uncomfortable. Those women suck.

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dana Skully got a new yard sign but Indiana Bones thinks we should wait til after the next bout of wind & rain to install it.

A 12 foot skeleton stands in front of a house with a porch, behind an iron fence. On the fence, a sign with the opening of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House in the style of a progressive “in this house” sign.

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN REMAIN SANE UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY EVEN LARKS AND KATYDIDS ARE SUPPOSED BY SOME TO DREAM THIS HOUSE HAS STOOD FOR 80 YEARS AND MIGHT STAND FOR 80 MORE WALLS UPRIGHT DOORS SENSIBLY SHUT

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

• Source Network: AS13238 YANDEX – Yandex LLC (Russian Federation)
• Traffic Breakdown: Prior to the drop, bot traffic accounted for roughly 99.6% of requests compared to 0.4% human traffic.
• Event Cause: The sudden plunge to zero on October 11, 2026, corresponds to a reported military/drone attack on Yandex's data center facility in Vladimir, Russia—marking the third reported attack on Yandex data infrastructure since October 8.

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’d love to go back and dish out lab grown emeralds and rubies in golden age fiction. Look! There’s enough pretty shinies for everyone!

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We need to accept (ahead of the next attempt) that this is their standard playbook, and behave accordingly. Not our governments: us.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Everybody knew Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum - the evidence was there - but people were too afraid of Farage’s mob to say it. So it’s good to see Burnham finally speaking the truth.

observer.co.uk

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Crazy that it’s taken a decade to officially confirm that Russia interfered with our Brexit referendum. archive.is/zyNbm

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 10/10/2026

They're exposing their actual business model here. Magazines don't make money and don't really have a platform in terms of access to a large audience—negligible eyeballs compared to yr average social media influencer—so why buy them? Because the asset isn't the readers, it's the writers.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There is a cacophony of noises out there. Russians planning to assassinate European officials, the US president riding to Vladimir Putin's aid, the Russians increasingly targeting Ukrainian civilians to break their will. The one constant tune? Russia is getting desperate.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just had a delicious lunch (Silvia’s toast) in Springfield park in Hackney and enjoyed sitting out watching a flock of glossy crows enjoying themselves #birdsky

A big glossy crow in a fir tree in London

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On a positive note, judging by how furious these fucks are and how they've brought out the real big guns to force Ukraine to stop, the strikes against Russia's oil industry are clearly having a very serious impact.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the least surprising news of the century, vast majority of racist flag shaggers who go about brandishing crosses and saying that we're a Christian country... don't pray, or go to church or read the Bible www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

theguardian.com

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report

Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sounds like a cult recruitment tactic!

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've always had a bit of a problem with being slightly too honest and commenting on things I shouldn't. When I was 23 I told my upstairs neighbour that he consistently came before his wife, which might be why she was pissed off at him. He put in underfloor insulation.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Obviously, the best thing to do with leftover chip shop chips is to fry them up with onion, chilli, and garlic. But that seemed like too much effort this morning.

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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Anna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russian bot activity may quieten down after this!

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I had a fess published a few years ago about how I couldn't connect with my lifelong pals cos all they wanted to do was booze and take coke. I told them how I felt, turned out they thought the same and now we climb Munro's on Sundays. Lads, talk to your pals.

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Kills me how Ukraine and US both elected guys from the teevee and they got Winston Churchill without the baggage and we got Prince Andrew without the class.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Imagine being the kind of antisemite who thinks that Jews don’t have a problem with GI food intolerance

Switched to Kosher bread a few weeks ago.
Used to get mild headaches, gut issues with bread. Completely gone with Kosher bread.
The Goyslop is real

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For years I've worn tummy tuck shorts under my shirt to hide my huge beer gut whilst I'm at work. Thought it was working until I recently overheard one staff member say to the other, here comes Corset. So yes I am now actively searching for a new job.

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Ghost Puritan Gräfin Freudenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Christopher Lee saw the last public guillotining in France (who goes "What would be a fun thing to do with a high-strung teenager on a visit to Paris? Never mind the Louvre or Notre-Dame; I'll take him to see someone die") & it gave him nightmares for the rest of his life. It wasn't a Cool Fact.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

'The Pond' by Dee Nickerson contemporary English painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #Womensart

Painting featuring a woman and her cat standing next to a pond surrounded by trees as birds fly overhead

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