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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I shouldn’t have read this when hungry.

Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Unfortunately, someday is not now. I hope no hospitals are involved and that you have congenial conditions for the post-experience recovery session.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Enchanting! Thank you for making me smile.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Robin, that is an outstanding poem. Quite breathtaking.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

One possibility for Dom is that it is an indication that the priest was a Benedictine as Dom is the title used by Benedictine monks (and Dame for nuns). In other columns, Dom probably does stand for Dominus.

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Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is more the info we needed. Support Ukraine no matter what. Give them the weapons. Give them the ammo. Let's pay Uncle Vlad back for Brexit and Trump.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

For what it’s worth, I have receipts from c1930 from shops on “the Strand” & personal recollection of my grandparents using the definite article.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The original name c1000 was Strondway ie the road along the shore/beach. While the street sign says “Strand” to say “I was walking along Strand” sounds as odd to me as saying “I was walking along beach” - which is perhaps where “the” originates.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

That sounds delicious. Do the cherries need to be fresh or can it be made with eg frozen or tinned?

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Sending commiserations and hopes that the goblins find somewhere else to live with all speed.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

For reasons of age, I didn’t catch up with Earthly Powers until the 90s but yes.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Of course you do. Each dog is irreplaceable and Luath was glorious and a huge character. It is especially hard to go from one to zero dogs. I feel for you.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Transphobes seem to think that trans people do have a choice & choose to follow an “agenda” After many iterations of how trans people “pretend” so they can sneak around women & gain sexual advantage, I have concluded that transphobes have peculiar & unfortunate fantasy lives.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

POND RULES:

No swimming, jumping or gallivanting.
Do not disturb the pond witch.
No fishing with dynamite.
Sacrifices to water gods on alternate Wednesdays only - NO EXCEPTIONS!
Taunt the crows at your own risk.
If a hand comes out of the water to beckon you, turn and walk away.
Do not feed the weretrout.
Is the water burning with cold unholy fire? Report it to the ranger!
They’re not ducks. Run.
Have fun!

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Wishing @annelouiseavery.bsky.social the happiest of birthdays with love from me and her namesake Anne.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am so very sorry. That is a hard way for a life to end. His poor grandson! My condolences.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I am so very sorry. Such a lovely girl.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My favourite childhood hymn and so beloved that we chose it for our wedding.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I know little about human lactation but this happens in goats. My goatling Elvira has been a ‘maiden milker’ all year. I’ve milked about 1.4 litres from her daily. Then she got mastitis. No pus but her udder turned into hard lumps. We are on week 7 of treatment with intramammary tubes…

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Good grief! That really is the pits.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I think so. It looks good, you clearly feel good in it. This is rare enough to make a second one a good investment.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Congratulations for your knitting success. Yesterday’s march was a horror. As a not white British person, seeing 150,000 at that march makes me afraid as well as heartbroken.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I am so very sorry for your loss. Such people as he clearly was light up life.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

It’s the first official day of autumn and right on cue Delphine asked for her duvet for the first time in weeks. #sighthound

Sofa with a green patterned duvet (left) and a large brown teddy (right). In between, the golden and white head of a sleeping greyhound.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A busy and successful weekend for a glorious and elegant sighthound.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

How very kind of you to ask! Yes, I am okay, just so busy that I am checking social media less and have less bandwidth to write posts. How are you?

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

As a sighthound, she has doubtless delegated such activities to her staff.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

London is likely but Glasgow is also possible. They have offices and distribution in both.

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Chernobyldaytripper @kitzkatz2.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Share widely.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Big-eyed dragon in the margin among the psalms Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.371v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 07/06/2025

Clive Lewis Labour MP speaks out in @bylinetimes.bsky.social ‘A consultation saw 88% of 28,000 respondents back public water ownership Yet, these voices have been systematically marginalised by a Govt determined to operate within narrowly enforced ideological boundaries’

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'Keir Starmer's Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift'

Starmer's administration is proving itself to be "devoid of moral compass or political courage", argues Labour MP Clive Lewis

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Farleigh Hanchet @farleigh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A few years ago, I watched a friend’s teenage son and his two friends eat four loaves of bread, an entire large pack of cheese and six packets of ham as “a snack”. Start the savings account now?

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I can see Arran from my gate but have never visited - it’s hard to leave a smallholding. Your photos are encouraging me to visit soon.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Happy gotcha day, Dave. You have had a year full of new things since Saffy approved you as her companion. I hope the next year is even better for you.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

That is a beautiful piece, Electra. You capture the small, casual intimacies and dailyness that are the bedrock of closeness and which are so sorely missed.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 12/05/2025

Something to emphasize--as muddled and contradictory as the Supreme Court decision is, it does not actually mandate that institutions must ban trans people from single-sex spaces. Public figures who have been alleging this are spreading misinformation in order to further a climate of hostility.

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

1. "I left as fast as I could. I didn’t wait for pain control. Is this the future for trans people in hospitals now?" My incredible friend Jamie Hale - writer, director, head of @cripticarts.bsky.social - was in hospital today, and this was their experience. They've given me permission to share.

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Cowboy Tcherno Bill @rudigeerts.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

80 years ago, 30 April 1945…

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Emhoff has great dignity, unlike the current administration.

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Seattle Times: Satellite photos show the Port of Seattle empty, with just one Chinese ship headed its way. After that, no more. The Port says that in years past, it annually supported over 121,000 jobs and generated $38 Billion in business revenue. Trump’s tariffs destroyed all that in 6 weeks.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Cascade is bad. Last week I excised the verb “to surface” and eight instances of “procurement landscape” from a document.

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Sophie Agrell @chalcedonyvark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Management speak/ word salad arrived in the civil service in the early 1990s. I remember my father, who retired in 1995, complaining about it in his last few years & ruthlessly refusing to accept any of it from his juniors.

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