Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 9m*creates new column called THERAPEUTIC INSIGHTS I’D RATHER NOT HAVE HAD and underlines it three times with red biro and great fury* 010
Reposted by Frightful PorpentinePip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 11hYour new favourite GIF has landed #CelebrityTraitors 429368
Reposted by Frightful PorpentineZamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 19hYesssss www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/b...nytimes.comAnne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan. 1399
Reposted by Frightful PorpentinePaul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 22hOn World Octopus Day remember that an octopus feels pain. Its heart can be broken. All three of them. When an octopus is attacked, and squirts out ink, it writes a poem in the water, and escapes while its attacker is enraptured by the poem’s poignant cry of yearning for lost love. 0367
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 21hHedgehog victory.bbc.co.ukBank of England reveals the four animals to feature on banknotesThe decision comes after nearly half a million people voted on a shortlist of 18 creatures. 2161
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’ve bought some beads. Absolutely no idea what I’m going to do with them, but I like them. 090
Reposted by Frightful PorpentineMicah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived 2955931109
Reposted by Frightful PorpentineRose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 07/10/2026An exquisite autumnal Puffin Post cover by Jill McDonald. Always love the way her illustrations feel like encountering an animation paused mid-frame & how the delightful madcap motion & sublime screwball astmosphere is always pleasingly spiced with the surreal, edged with something a little darker 411616
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have no memory of that whatsoever but I stand by it. 110
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Oh hell’s bells, I’d not even thought about that… 120
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Likewise. I’m amazed I didn’t burst into tears; it must be the drugs I’m pumped to the eyeballs with. 130
Reposted by Frightful Porpentinechinontherest.bsky.social @chinontherest.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 193
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I have just walked past the house I grew up in. I think we can all agree it was nicer when we lived there. 14380
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes, that is the correct greeting when one has just seen three otters. I hope she congratulated you. 🦦 🦦 🦦 010
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Let us not forget that Eva Marie Saint also played Maddie’s mother in Moonlighting. 1130
Reposted by Frightful PorpentineTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history 341861329
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Farewell, Eva Marie Saint.youtu.beLloyd Cole and the Commotions - RattlesnakesYouTube video by LloydColeVEVO 090
Reposted by Frightful PorpentineAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026John Ruskin had a lifelong interest in architecture. Some of his first articles were published in The Architectural Magazine, 1837–8, and his book The Stones of Venice (1851–3) was arguably his most influential work. 15410
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Congrats! And what a gorgeous pic. Your beautiful wife looks like a pixie. 150
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026DOUBLE BUTTER. What a tantalising notion! This is the first I’m hearing about it. 110
Reposted by Frightful PorpentinePaula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Super proud of Martyn whose solo exhibition of collages ‘A Fragile Earth’ opened on Saturday. “The pleasure of meaningless struggle” @martynlucas.bsky.social 1413426
Reposted by Frightful PorpentineSal Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026at last, recognition of our agoniestheguardian.comWomen suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study findsResearchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55 2157
Reposted by Frightful Porpentinemidgieeeek! @midgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026flail away flail away flail away 0315
Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’m so glad you got an anaesthetic and the procedure was fine. Hope the results are, too 🤞🏻 010
