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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning from hotel breakfast, where I've just seen someone eating Nutella and scrambled eggs on toast
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Absolutely obsessed by how this is working up! Unfortunately the blue is a) discontinued b) impossible to frog, so if my raglan shaping doesn't work I'm going to *cry*
Two colour tunisian crochet simple stitch creating a fabric with thin pink bars over thicker sparkly blue
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thought I was unobserved on the dog walk, much to the amusement of the woman who saw me really going for the fa-fa-fa-fas of psycho killer
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trying to learn a) Tunisian b) ribbing c) in the round and I'm *so close* to getting the yarn position right for the purl but someone interrupts me every few stitches and I would just like to be left alone to make my little knots in peace please 😩
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Phone call from y8 child. Past school start time, and I thought he was crying. Braced for disaster. He was laughing. We sent him to school A DAY EARLY.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wednesday, 2nd September. 8:19 am. "Mum! My school shoes don't fit!"
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
@abbybarker.bsky.social
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A person in pantyhose, holding a lit cigarette in their hand, which has a ring on their middle finger, and the caption “My idols are dead and my enemies are in power”
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not Dolly!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Took 10yo to a machine sewing course (she loves it and wants to go back!) and the cheese shop round the corner had tartiflette Brets, massive win all round
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dog managed to balance her shit perfectly on top of some brambles, risking both my fingers and the structural integrity of the bag. Good job she's cute.
Chocolate Labrador in happier/chiller times (ie not mid danger-poop) resting her head winningly on a cushion and looking all soft and cutesy-wutesy
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
Bruno Brown, Reporter


Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair
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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They really need to make an alert that you can still read once you've made it stop screaming.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Holy shit that was unexpected!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 12/08/2026
“Warranty coverage no longer includes sleeping on hotel pillows” sent me.
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Holly Casio @hollycasio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Rain! The dog is barking in confused indignation.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh shit that means we're down to one Goodie. We're going to need an immediate defensive ring around Graeme Garden.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh man no not Bill Oddie! I'll be singing this all day in memorial youtu.be/jT4qObpOzeI?...
youtu.be
The MCC Song - ISIRTA (1970)
YouTube video by Treguard Rhyolite
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Man making an 'oof' face while next to a dial that says 'oof size'. It is turned to large.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Got a message from my GP saying that 'due to demand, the scheduled menopause information session will now take place at *Stockport County FC*' - and I know it's going to be a meeting room somewhere, but I'm finding the thought of stands full of 10k menopausal women thoroughly delightful
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Took dog to a garden centre, where we discovered that the deepest desire of her heart is to stick her head in a large bucket of mealworms
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'll tell you what, irn bru makes a banging slushy
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There would be a lot of very confused Finnish biochemists
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I'm not sure there were any wrong choices here
Sign reading: natural home made ice cream. Today's flavours: pistachio w/ sea salt, olive oil; bilberry & cream; vanilla. Buttery bun ice cream sandwich £5, portion in cone £4Me holding a cone of pistachio ice cream. You can see the olive oil drizzle.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's so hot the marmite's gone runny
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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Seen in an old cookbook, a recipe that resonates with me today.
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 09/07/2026
if I wanted weather I'd live somewhere nice
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If I was wearing a dark fur coat I simply would not be sunbathing today but she is determined ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Chocolate Labrador lying in full sunlight on a hot paved path, the crazy doggo
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I've been listening to the Rosamund Pike Wheel of Time audiobooks and they are *glorious* - but she's only done the first 4 and I really don't think I can switch to the other narrators now 😢😢😢
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Been catching up on recent series of ISIHAC and fuck me, Joe Lycett can *sing*
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
For once I am incredibly glad I fell for the marketing. Heatwave mvp for sure.
Ninja slushi machine, dispensing lovely icy watermelon lemonade slush, absolute lifesaver
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Washed my massive heavy crochet blanket and now using it as garden shade, delightful
Crochet blanket on a washing line. It's a zigzag rainbow sort of pattern.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Big news here: just before 6pm and the dog has decided it's finally shady enough in the garden to go for her morning poop.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
'open the loft hatch' they said. 'it'll cool things down,' they said. 'it's easy' they said
Loft hatch, open to slightly less than the width of a broom handle. The broom is stuck in the gap, far above my head.
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is mine (it needs the set-up, in image 1), about the courage and kindness of hard decisions
‘It’s bad,’ she whispered, as Granny looked at the moaning figure on the straw. ‘I reckon we’ll lose both of them … or maybe just one …’ There was, if you were listening for it, just the suggestion of a question in that sentence. Granny focused her mind. ‘It’s a boy,’ she said. Mrs Patternoster didn’t bother to wonder how Granny knew, but her expression indicated that a little more weight had been added to a burden. ‘I’d better go and put it to John Ivy, then,’ she said. She’d barely moved before Granny Weatherwax’s hand locked on her arm. ‘He’s no part in this,’ she said. ‘But after all, he is the—’ ‘He’s no part in this.’It was doubtful that anyone in Slice would defy Granny Weatherwax, but Granny saw the faintest grey shadow of disapproval in the midwife’s expression. ‘You still reckon I should’ve asked Mr Ivy?’ she said. ‘That’s what I would have done …’ the woman mumbled. ‘You don’t like him? You think he’s a bad man?’ said Granny, adjusting her hatpins. ‘No!’ ‘Then what’s he ever done to me, that I should hurt him so?’
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is all some kind of twisted promo for a Buffy reboot, right? Curse on the original cast, Tony and Michelle and Nicholas at the opening night, all smiles and "gotcha!". Right???
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Giles! Herc! Sexy coffee man! Damn nice bloke in general! I am *sad*
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
NOPE nuh-huh not even remotely having it, you bastards
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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I need you all to see this vinted seller who puts their duck (Noodle!) in their listing photos www.vinted.co.uk/items/903628...
4 vinted listings for accessory bundles, with a white duck carefully inspecting them
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*
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