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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 9h

There are just 6 spaces left on my bird illustration & mental health zoom w'shop this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶to draw birds using my simple formula 🧠creative activity incl. drawing alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Open to anyone anywhere: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...

My illustrations of 5 British birds: long tailed tit, coal tit, wren, redwing and blackcap

My illustration of a redwing on a hawthorn branch from my book Making Winter

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

Holy shit.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When in Prague, visit one of the few surviving medieval bollards, made to protect buildings from careening market wagons. This guy is around 600 years old...

Stone bollard on a street corner carved with a man's face with his tongue sticking out.

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Vicky Foxcroft MP @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sammy has some strong views on fireworks... 🐶🎆 The Gov is consulting on proposed changes to fireworks and pyrotechnics regulations. Have your say before the consultation closes at 11:59pm on 7 October 2026. ⬇️ www.gov.uk/government/consultations…

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…

The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I see lots of people have apparently got "a cold" at the moment in the UK. We're in a covid wave.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Wet Owl @levisatyrane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This cannot be a coincidence

Headline: I’m an avid fan of moons – but you can have too much of a good thing - Adrian Chiles
Byline: My jaw has become moon rock crushing machine and now it’s moon for breakfast, lunch and supper

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/09/2026

Instead of keeping hate and misinformation off our airwaves, Ofcom is allowing TalkTV to serve as a megaphone for dangerous, far-right rhetoric. We can’t let this stand, so we’re suing Ofcom. But we can only do it with your help: goodlaw.social/a9im

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Force Ofcom to stop TalkTV broadcasting misinformation and hate | Good Law Project

Ofcom is letting Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV poison public discourse with transphobic lies and fake climate news, so we're taking the regulator to court

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Matt Andrews @mattandrews.info · 25/09/2026

I know I shouldn't be taking the bait here but I cannot believe that reactionary Christians are apparently offended that Aslan will be voiced by a woman in the new Narnia films. HE'S ALREADY BEING REPRESENTED AS A FUCKING LION, DON'T YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND ALLEGORY

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Jaf @jaffne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The security camera showed me there was someone at the front door. I was not prepared for the experience.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Don’t worry, we’re punishing people for being lazy and unlucky and poor while refusing to even acknowledge the existence of people who are lazy and lucky and rich. All is well in this, the best of all possible worlds.” — All politicians, all the time, FFS

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Attempted murder. Fuck this.

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had a great aunt with dementia and she was so stirred up by sensationalist newspaper headlines. It feeds into people's paranoia in such a big way. I wish there was a way to stop it.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

September garden & hedgerow palette: today's botanical dopamine for your brain. If you're feeling anxious or low, research shows that my photo will shift your brain biochemistry for the better - help you recover from stress & lift motivation & mood a little, so maybe pause for a few seconds 🌿🧠

Garden and hedgerow botanical finds in September, arranged in a rainbow on a white watercolour paper background and with a handwritten label

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You don't have to be an activist or an expert on trans issues to know that exclusion doesn't speak for you. More than 110,000 women have already signed our letter because they want another voice to be heard: one of fairness, compassion and solidarity with the trans+ community. notinourname.org.uk

Two middle-aged women hug and smile. The quote says

“We need to join together to show that 'gender critical' anti-trans lobbyists do not speak for the majority."

#WhyWeSigned

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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So Reform have launched an app that tracks small boats arriving in the UK in real time, and already their supporters are complaining that it's boring because there are hardly any boats. They are SO close to getting it.

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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hope this isn't a total "find and replace" on all official NHS documents - if I'm asked if I have "a warm hand over" in my pants next time I have thrush, I'm going to be very confused.

Story about NHS replacing "discharge" with "a warm handover"

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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

a real advert on UK TV currently: Oi! Grown ups! Save some water for us kids! ADULTS! stop having such long showers! GARDENERS! stop using so much water for your plants! WATER COMPANIES WHO HAVE DRIVEN RESERVOIR INFRASTRUCTURE INTO THE GROUND: Keep up the good work! PENSIONERS: stop drinking tea!

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Belgium built a bike path that sinks below a lake's surface, so cyclists ride with water right at eye level, like crossing without getting wet.

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Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 12/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=n7d-...

Daily Comparison
The high temperature today is lower than yesterday.
Today
11° 22°
Yesterday
12° 20°

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Absolutely fascinating to think that every single one of us is descended from either Fred & Wilma Flinstone or Barney & Betty Rubble.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Yeah, thanks BT 😬. What do you want me to do, make an appointment in my diary?! How about just let me know when it’s ready?! #NotificationsFromTheFuture #ThanksIHateIt

Text message from BT informing me that my latest bill will be ready to view “in a few hours”.

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John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My sister in law found a book by the Irish patron saint of the arts, Don Conroy, and he unironically did the meme.

Cover of the book, "Wildlife Fun with Don Conroy." On it, we see a photo of the artist, surrounded by drawings of plants and a fox

Interior, showing tutorials on how to draw a deer and a hedgehog. You know the ancient meme, "draw the rest of the fucking owl?" Basically, that.

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Kerry @kerryyellow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Back to work after 14 months off and every other email in our shared inbox appears to be written by AI. They’re long, indirect and full of air, and will take longer to reply to. I’d much prefer a direct email full of errors and without the fluff.

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Edith S @wiilassie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is good for practicing gratitude. I often think how lucky I am to live in an age with spectacles and a place with clean hot and cold water on tap

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Kerry @kerryyellow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The newsletter I write for my coworking space (read: side project that no one gets paid for) goes out tomorrow at 7am. Nice quick read for South Brummie folks. theoldpostoffice.beehiiv.com bit like Created in Birmingham - which I edited - if you can remember that far back.

theoldpostoffice.beehiiv.com

Home | TOPO Newsletter

A weekly dose of creative, cultural and community news from Stirchley/Birmingham. (Plus coworking space updates.)

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Stranger: Are you ok? Me: [slowly rotating in a circle] One of my Heelys is broken

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thanks, but I'm satisfied with the amount of skin that I currently have

Shop sign: Tej&Co SKIN AND HAIR REMOVAL CLINIC

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Jamie Wareham @jamiewareham.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Fascinating - the old one "was rooted in Western stereotypes" and called an example of "cartographic colonialism" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Been told to stick with the Bayeux Tapestry, as it gets good about four yards in.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan

screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

[The Mamas and The Papas, But They're Dogs] 🎵All the leavs are grey 🎵(All the leaves are grey) 🎵And the sky is grey 🎵(And the sky is grey) 🎵I've been for a walk *entire band loses their fucking minds*

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

this is gonna upset so many of y’all

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

#Earworm The kiddie grime song off the Cheestrings TV advert. youtu.be/80zKinZRqgo

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Michael @mikeyh71.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you want to make your community better, mySociety has brilliant tools to help: FixMyStreet for reporting problems, TheyWorkForYou to track your MP, WhatDoTheyKnow for FOI requests. Simple apps that give citizens real power to improve where they live. www.mysociety.org?utm_source=f...

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mySociety

mySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

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Karen Tanenbaum @drtanenbaumii.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ever wondered what part of a starfish is the head? It's all the head! We don't know what the rest of the body would look like; those genes have been turned off.

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I really wonder a lot about some people's wiring, that they automatically apply fault to other people when something bad happens to them.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 28/08/2026

Interesting fact: NION Women have nearly as many signatories (~111k) as the anti-rights group - as defined by UN Women - followers on Twitter. Let's push that number above that of the group that aligns with known hate groups (as defined by the SPLC). ✍️Sign, and 🔁share

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Joanne could have done something similar if she wasn't spending her money on being a twot x

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Erika is still using women's toilets 🖕(she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @erristarling.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Literally all the same language used against trans people is now being used against disabled people Its the same playbook, the same language, the same ideas pushed onto another group. Today its people with ADHD, I guarantee autism is next

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