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Brenda Dayne

@brendadayne.bsky.social
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Host of Cast On, a podcast for knitters.🧶Lover of books, art, birds, wildflowers, heritage textiles, women and Wales. Insufferable and correct.

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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is why I watch it every year. Not for the political voting. Not the songs. I mean, obviously. It’s the moments where the entire continent decides to be ridiculous together, led by someone in a costume that costs more than most people’s cars. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The halftime voting show. Lordi. Singing Save all your kisses for me. LORDI. Worth the price of admission. And Finland still. needs. therapy. Verka singing Volare. God. I love this stupid contest so much. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ya ya. Bangalanga. Moldova. The Eurovision songwriting room this year is just a man with a whiteboard writing down sounds and going home early. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Italy sending a well-greased man in a white suit singing Volare and the woman on the sofa in Wales saying I’d fuck him with a glass of fizz in her hand. That’s the honest Eurovision commentary Graham Norton wishes he could give. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Italy sending Volare energy is Italy reminding everyone that they invented this and the rest of you are guests. One guy in a white suit who doesn’t need pyrotechnics. Just the song and the suit and the confidence of a country that has San Remo and doesn’t need #Eurovision but shows up anyway.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Middle eastern vibe with bronzer. Cyprus doing what Cyprus does — splitting the difference between Europe and somewhere more interesting, and accessorising heavily. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sweden always sends something competent and polished and slightly soulless. Like a well-designed IKEA shelf unit that can carry a tune. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sponsored tears. The Swarovski heiress watching a silver Lithuanian man cry her product on international television. That’s a brand activation disguised as feelings. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A Polish gospel Valkyrie. The Venn diagram of those three things is just this woman, alone, in the centre, belting hymns in armour. Poland looked at the Eurovision entry form and thought: what if Aretha Franklin stormed Valhalla? #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Finland sent the only real musician in the building and dressed her like a fire hazard. That’s the most Finnish thing I’ve ever seen. The commitment to craft wrapped in the commitment to chaos. Finland needs therapy. I have always said this. #Eurovsion
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Moldova and aloha. Rhyming by sheer force of will and Eastern European vowel flexibility. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The crowd giving it up for the UK. To be fair, the crowd would love a man reading his gas bill if he did it with enough pyrotechnics. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Bulgaria committing to a single nonsense word on repeat is actually brave. Most countries hide the empty behind a key change. Bulgaria just said: no. Bangalanga. Again. And again. Until you surrender. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Serbia. A man processing genuine loss on an international stage. The girlfriend deleted the Minecraft account and he took it to Eurovision. Hundreds of hours of builds. Gone. Of course he’s screaming. #eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Kate Bush is clearly Ukraine’s spirit animal. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Greece is this year’s Verka. In a knitted hat. #Eurovision
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Albania understood the assignment. No notes. #eurovision.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I've been psychotic! So that's the main thing. You? www.patreon.com/posts/brief-...
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Nate, thank you! This was such a nice surprise to wake up to. Nagori, it is. Thank, Steve, and everyone else for helping get my weird request for info where it needs to go. Sometimes, the Internet is a really nice place.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I have need of someone with Japanese scholarship. Maybe someone knows someone? I’ve written a piece in the style of Sei Shonagon. Working title: nagori. Q: Is there a 10th c equivalent for this word? Something that holds both anticipation and aftermath, or lingering? I know. Pass it on anyway?
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It was 20 years ago today... Cast On began to play. It's the anniversary of the very first episode of my podcast! Twenty. Years. In Internet years that's practically Neolithic.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Fuck. Claude.ai is down. I was in the middle of a project. Whyyyyyyy?
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Claude
Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I am deeply, deeply in love with the driver of this car.
Vanity license plate from Washington state that reads: TOBLAVE.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
@Anthropic.com should give me a free enterprise account because I’m doing important feminist infrastructure work, and at the vanguard of building creative praxis and collaboration with AI. And because I’m pretty.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Thank you for mentioning this theatre! I live close, and it’s one of those things I pass frequently, and always remark,”We should check them out,” but then forget about.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is one of my favourite quick lunches. Makes enough for two, and can be eaten cold, straight from the fridge in a pinch.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Cuuuuute! Love me a curved waistband.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The last flowers of the season. Cosmos, calendula, sweet peas and cornflower, all grown from @higgledygarden.bsky.social seed.
A bouquet of cut garden flowers.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Annie was born for this job.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Well, I didn‘t get raptured last night. You?
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If all of my outfits this winter do not come with matching mittens then what is even the point? This #1930s skating ensemble was created by Schiaparelli for her sporting line, an innovative addition to her fashion brand #palaisgalliera #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A mannequin wearing a pale blue knitted ice skating dress with white collar, cuffs and hem. It has narrow bands of white around the bottom of the skirt. There is a white belt and matching mittens
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The muppet show is returning. I repeat THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING. Kermit was my first crush this is momentous. If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
No, I definitely did play Saffire. I do remember that one.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I did get permission to play some artists that weren’t podsafe just by emailing them and asking. Dar Williams comes to mind.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Huh. I don’t remember playing any Ani de Franco in the podcast. Unless the track was on the podsafe music network back in the day. Damn, I really do miss that resource.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Wondering whether the Torment Nexus will remain open source, or move to a commercial model.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Everyone knows it’s Flarke, with an E.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Woodstove weather has arrived. Rejoice with me.
A merry fire crackles in the woodstove, with books and a glass of white wine on an oak table in the foreground. Woodstove weather has arrived!
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🤔Not for everybody, but if you ❤️ history, architecture and heritage like here at Beverley Minster, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free: digest.andymarshall.co
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I am torn between really wanting it to be warm enough for my tomatoes to ripen, and really wanting it to be chilly enough to fire up the wood stove.
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Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We'd save half a billion a year. We'd be able to hold our head of state accountable. Sounds like a better future for Britain, right? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
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Stacey Shepherd @stacey-shepherd.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I absolutely adore Leo’s optomism.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The thing nobody tells you about moving house is how long it takes to hunt for that thing you unpacked and put away in very safe spot two years ago. I can guarantee you will not be able to find that thing when you want it.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Gorgeous writing. Thanks for sharing.
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I gleaned (okay, scrumped) some of these from outside the local Temperance Hall last weekend. They smelled very appley in the car on the way home, but actually tasted rather bland. Pretty though. I’ve been told they’re Redlove variety.
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
As Americans, we ask tough questions and demand real answers. When those in power attack journalism and silence scientists, is that patriotism or manipulation? Real patriotism is protecting dissent and demanding facts. #TruthBrigade
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Brenda Dayne @brendadayne.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Very helpful! I’m getting ready to make my first quilt. I’ve chosen disappearing nine patch. Can a 16 patch be cut to make interesting shapes as well?
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