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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Persian tiles! Beautiful job, looks gorgeous.

Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think 'being in less pain' is the absolute opposite of profligacy, and one of the most justifiable uses of money (not that you need to justify it, to donors or otherwise)

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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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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 · 16/09/2026

This is absolute bullshit, I'm so sorry

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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

Ah, but we're decadent southerners!

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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 · 29/08/2026

I would absolutely listen to the tide times pod, though

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm so sorry, Moose. She was the very best of girls.

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh god! No! Sorry!!!! You'd be able to hear my wail from here 😅

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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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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's Bramble's time to shine!

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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 · 21/07/2026

I refer you to @sarabn.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sara...

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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

Oh, I bet it is! Sadly I can't do floats. The way the ice cream starts to melt into the pop 🤢🤢🤢

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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 £4

Me 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

Oh blimey, just thinking about that has made me feel sticky

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