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Barbara Marks

@barbaramarks13.bsky.social
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Cats, small red Fiats, reading, knitting (not well), F1, orthopaedic engineering, pub quizzer, occasional hillclimb pit crew, hedgehogs #FBPE #TheArchers #Wordle No DMs

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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
#Worldle #1254 (28.06.2025) 6/6 (100%) 🔥 Current Streak: 1 days 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↘️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨↗️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬆️ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 worldle.teuteuf.fr/share
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Worldle - Guess the Country
A daily geography game where you guess the country from its shape and get clues with every attempt. Play daily or explore the archive.
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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 26/06/2025
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's termination of hundreds of #NIH grants was illegal, leading the agency to reinstate some 900 awards. The blacklisted projects covered topics from vaccine hesitancy to diversity initiatives. #AcademicSky #MedSky 🧪
science.org
NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The UK PM is set to announce the largest ever sanctions package on Russia, targeting the shadow fleet & will increase the economic pressure on Russia and prevent damage to subsea infrastructure. The announcement will be made as the PM visits Norway for the Joint Expeditionary Force summit.
gov.uk
Prime Minister to announce largest ever sanctions package targeting shadow fleet as UK ramps up pressure on Russia
Russia’s shadow fleet will be hit with the largest ever sanctions package today, ramping up pressure on Putin and protecting UK and European critical national infrastructure.
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Wordle 1,421 3/6 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1421
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
WATCH: Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
open.substack.com
When a government is out of control it’s time to say so
Chris Murphy gives a masterclass in how to dismantle the cosplay queen, AKA Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Wordle 1,417 X/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 Oh no 😟 #Wordle1417
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Immigration is not the problem it’s now widely believed to be. Brexit is much more of a problem than it’s reported to be. So how can govt achieve growth, fix public svcs and deal with the cost of living if fear of Reform means it won’t be honest with us about these 2 elephants in the room? It can’t.
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Wordle 1,416 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Still in the game … just #Wordle1416
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wordle 1,406 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1406
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Wordle 1,404 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1404
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
😂 Far Side
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Wordle 1,401 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1401
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Wordle 1,400 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1400
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
With Harvard, U Mass faculty, Princeton, Wesleyan, Rutgers faculty and others leading the way, academics are standing up to this lawless administration. Here is a pack of academics, former academics, and organizations worth following on Bluesky who are in this opposition go.bsky.app/5hEmcTw
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
washingtonpost.com
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Wordle 1,399 3/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1399
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Wordle 1,398 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1398
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wordle 1,396 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1396
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Wordle 1,395 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1395
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Wordle 1,392 2/6 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 #Wordle1392
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Wordle 1,391 5/6 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not helped by a mistake in row three #Wordle1391
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Wordle 1,390 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 First three in a while 🙂 #Wordle1390
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Wordle 1,388 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1388
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...
Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
All my slipper socks got ruined by the fragrance disaster that sent me to hospital earlier this week. I had them for years, and the company I bought them from is out of business. I’m looking for men’s large socks like the photo below… can anyone make a recommendation?
Photo of red and black buffalo plaid slipper socks over blue jeans. The top is white fluffy lining
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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
OK, let’s see the best signs that you saw today.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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Seanfhear míshásta 🇵🇸 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦📎 @seaghano.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!
theguardian.com
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Ravi, who is 10, looking rather kitten-like #TeamBengal
Bengal cat with a red collar photographed against a Cotswold stone wall and next to a brown plastic flower pot.  He has green eyes and is looking up to the left with his whiskers (which are white) forward
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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 02/04/2025
Hurrah it is Wednesday and the weasels are dancing. Today they are dancing to B52s and Rock Lobster. 🦞 Dance like a weasel you know you want to! #weaselwednesday
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excellent visit with @laurencemarks.bsky.social to the Oxford Literary Festival this morning to listen to @richardcoles.bsky.social talking to Triona Adams which inevitably led to more book purchases ... breakfast at The Ivy was pretty good too 🙂📚
Richard Coles books. 'Fathomless Riches Or how I went from Pop to Pulpit' (white background with a blue stripe to the right with quotes from Caitlin Moran 'The best vicar ever' and the Sunday Times 'Immensely readable' and a picture of the author on the front.  The second one is 'Murder at the Monastery' with an orange cover.  Both books are No. 1 Sunday Times Bestsellers
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wordle 1,386 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1386
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wordle 1,383 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1383
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Jasper Fforde @jasperfforde.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Flat Stanley books banned from libraries Stanley Lambchop, openly Flat since 1964, enrages Thingumbob School Board by promoting a flat lifestyle 'inherently dangerous to children'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
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Flat Stanley books banned from libraries
Stanley Lambchop, openly Flat since 1964, enrages Thingumbob School Board by promoting a flat lifestyle 'inherently dangerous to children'.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
DWP figures show two in five single parents are living in poverty. Children in single parent families face a 43% poverty rate. Disability benefit cuts will plunge 50,000 more children into poverty. Govt won't end the two child benefit cap. Poverty is a political choice.
bigissue.com
DWP figures show two in five single parents are living in poverty
Benefits policies sever the link between a family's needs and their support.
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wordle 1,382 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle1382
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David Hiller @bodhihodi.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Very much enjoyed ‘Live A Little’ although I didn’t find it as funny as the cover blurb quotes suggested
Cover of Live A Little by Howard Jacobson showing an elderly couple kissing.  The lady is wearing a red blouse, red earrings and bright red lipstick.  The rest of the cover is in black and white with white text.  There is a quotation from The Times about two thirds of the way down that says ‘A surprisingly tender love story … This book is alive.  It pulses with warmth and intelligence’
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/03/2025
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.
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Ross Mackenzie @rossmackenzie.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Bright sunny Saturday morning at Sumburgh Head #Shetland
Foghorn & lighthouse under blue skies White water in the West Voe of Sumburgh Bare rocks at Sumburgh HeadWaves in West Voe
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Being self-employed is hard graft at the best of times, and @gailmyerscough.bsky.social is (like many of us) feeling the pinch at the minute. If you like her amazingly brilliant designs please spread the word on here with a RePost, thank you xx 👍👍
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Suffolk Lavender Loft 🇪🇺♥️🎨🐾🐾🧵 @thelavenderloft.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Let’s do another #GIVEAWAY! If you’d like to win a #coffeelovers necklace, just type YES below and I’ll pick a winner c. 9pm on Sunday. ♥️☕️♥️
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is a beautiful little detail on the door of Glasgow University's Graham Kerr Building. Designed by J.J.Burnet and built in the 1920s, it was originally constructed as the Zoology Building. #glasgow #zoology #architecture #doorfurniture #snake #doorhandle #glasgowuniversity
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Tidying up my side of the desk has just unearthed a measuring tape that I was convinced someone else had misplaced/stolen #whoops
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Barbara Marks @barbaramarks13.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Just put a hand wash only jumper in the wash on a cold setting with no spin. Hoping that 16 minutes in the machine will not cause a complete disaster 🤞
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an illustration of a washing machine with the name miguelgarosl written below it
ALT: an illustration of a washing machine with the name miguelgarosl written below it
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I had legit completely forgotten this.
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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
No child should have to grow up in a world without libraries. Attack libraries, and you attack children themselves. #SaveLibraries (Cartoon by Charles M Schulz)
Peanuts cartoon by Charles M Schulz, showing Lucy and Linus looking at a library, talking about the incredible things that libraries do for us all
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