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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ni ght night sweet dreamies Never allow anyone to make you feel less than you are. You deserve kindness, respect and understanding, not just from others, but from yourself too Remember, the way you speak to yourself matters just as much as the way others speak to you.
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 11/10/2026
Thread (about thread)
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Peter Ahrens @peterahrens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Die Guten in Sachsen-Anhalt stützen. Die werden jede Hilfe brauchen.
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Udo Stiehl @udostiehl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ich muss das mal loswerden: Kein Account hat hat eine so feinsinnige lorioteske Qualität mit hochkomplexer Wissenschaft verknüpft, wie @dlr-next.bsky.social. Es ist einfach wunderbar! ❤️
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️
The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.
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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He visited Dresden’s Zwinger Gallery nine times and during a day spent in the Alte Akademie was entranced by Caspar David Friedrich’s nocturnal landscape, Two Men Observing the Moon. Thus was planted the idea for a play that, years later, would make his name: Waiting for Godot.”
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Postcards from the Edge – Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett’s newly published German Diaries
Travelling around Nazi Germany, he wrote presciently about war and found inspiration for Waiting for Godot
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 03/10/2026
Sounds reasonable
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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Going to bed
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku
A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Author Simulator 

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto  a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
 Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Got to share some of my favourite poetry as examples with my poor unsuspecting students today. 'My dreams, my works, must wait till after hell' by Gwendolyn Brooks has stayed with me since the first time I read it and it remains heart-breakingly beautiful.
my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell

By Gwendolyn Brooks
I hold my honey and I store my bread
In little jars and cabinets of my will.
I label clearly, and each latch and lid
I bid, Be firm till I return from hell.
I am very hungry. I am incomplete.
And none can tell when I may dine again.
No man can give me any word but Wait,
The puny light. I keep eyes pointed in;
Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt
Drag out to their last dregs and I resume
On such legs as are left me, in such heart
As I can manage, remember to go home,
My taste will not have turned insensitive
To honey and bread old purity could love.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Kratzbürste @kratzdiebuerste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Darf ich bei dem ganzen Rechts-Links-Aber-Antisemitismus-Gebrüll von allen Seiten mal was loswerden bitte? Der Ausgang der LTW in SN-A ist eine wegweisende Katastrophe für die ganze Republik. Die Linke (nicht nur) in Berlin hat ein gewaltiges Antisemitismusproblem, das sie nicht mit ein paar ⬇️
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Want
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Improving your Monday morning with this Bearded Tit. You are welcome. 📷️ @ronpon22.bsky.social
A Bearded Tit stands on a mossy branch, its feathers puffed up into a perfectly round ball. Its warm buff-coloured plumage, pale face and tiny orange bill give it an irresistibly fluffy appearance, while one foot is lifted mid-step as though it's waddling along.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The work of Marianne Seiman, contemporary crochet artist (via Instagram) #Womensart
Photo of a circular group of three dimensional realistic shell shapes in different colours and sizes against a black background
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
‘Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge Suspender Cables.’ #Photography by Eugene de Salignac (October 7, 1914).
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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Asclepiades Menches, a scribe from ancient Egypt, is only known to history because some of his business correspondence was used to mummify a crocodile. There's an important lesson in that.
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. There are fops and parsons and any number of young Miss Bennetts cluttering the sidewalks.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This time tomorrow I’ll start trying to run 3 marathons in 24 hours. It’s all to build a hospital for street dogs. If you would like to support me you can sponsor me here… www.happydoggo.com/tinas-hospit...
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here to report, once again, that reading on an actual paper page before bed versus doomscrolling significantly helps sleep.
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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hello, clever music historians Can I legitimately call this a guitar, or is there a more proper name for this 18th-century instrument? Portrait is French, d. 1785 (I know nothing about guitars)
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Gloria Steinem (1934-2026)...
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 08/09/2026
Silent movies often featured chase scenes, which were often the most exciting/interesting scenes. So, ‘cut to the chase’ came to mean “get to the important part.”
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/09/2026
Excellent thread - liberal democracy needs unabashed defenders right now, and we are basically letting it die through social embarrassment.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/09/2026
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
Supplemento al dizionario italiano, by Bruno Munari, a white paperback with a photo of a hand giving the classic Italian finger-purse “Che vuoi” hand gesture
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 07/09/2026
17 year olds banned from ENTERING THE BOOKSTORE
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching the news from Germany. It might be of interest to people that 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' has 6 translation deals but we never managed to find a German publisher (though it's the one we tried hardest for). It is about migration & EU complicity in crimes against humanity on Europe's borders
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Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Weil der Rechtspopulismus mit einfachen Narrativen arbeitet und Emotionen bedient statt mit komplexen Argumenten und Veränderungen herauszufordern, und vor allem die anspricht, die sich nach der ‚guten alten Zeit‘ sehnen, egal ob die 1871-1914, 1933-1945 oder 1949-1989 war.
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Thorsten Faas @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 07/09/2026
"das ist Demokratie"... Man sollte eigentlich sagen: Das ist die Mehrheitskomponente der Demokratie, aber eben nicht alles, was eine liberale Demokratie ausmacht.
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Yassin Musharbash @abususu.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Das Problem mit der #AfD besteht NICHT darin, dass sie den Status Quo stört. Sondern dass sie menschenfeindliche Politik will, die Opfer produziert.
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Imre Grimm @imregrimm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ich darf kurz darauf hinweisen, dass heute exakt 0,95 Prozent aller Wahlberechtigten in Deutschland die AfD gewählt haben. Nicht einmal ein Prozent. Ja, es wurde nur in einem (speziellen) Bundesland gewählt. Aber ich darf Sven Regener zitieren: Manchmal genügt es, nicht hysterisch zu werden.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For decades the Sachsen Anhalt CDU played to the instincts of a substantially radicalised population in the Land rather than challenging it out of the assumption that its grip on power was permanent. That allowed space in discourse to remain open for the Far Right. Now here we are.
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Horror.
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Christina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Meine Gedanken sind bei all denen, die auch heute noch, morgen und übermorgen in Sachsen-Anhalt sind, die direkte Ziele des rechten Hasses sind, die sich nicht zwingend auf Polizei oder Nachbarschaften verlassen können. Passt auf Euch auf, egal wie die Wahl ausgeht und wir anderen -seid solidarisch.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A few things (international) commentatoes should remember. Only 2 million people live in Sachsen-Anhalt. Half of Berlin, a tenth of NRW. Around 400k will vote AfD. Even with this strong result, 80% of people living in S-A will not have voted for the AfD. In a state that is a far-right stronghold.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Liebe Alle, tut den Menschen in Sachsen-Anhalt heute einen ganz großen Gefallen und verbreitet diese phänomenalen Bilder aus #Magdeburg, denn das hat hier heute ganz, ganz Vielen wirklich sehr viel Hoffnung gegeben ✊🏾
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Kākāpō population tops 300 for first time in 75 years.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
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HOUmanitarian @houmanitarian.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🖼️ by Tom Gault
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In Joyce’s Ulysses, Leopold Bloom buys a bar of lemon soap from Sweny’s Chemist. A small episode in an enormous novel, not enough perhaps to stake a substantial claim for this chemist as a Dublin landmark. Modern-day Sweny’s could so easily be an attempt to cash in on this tenuous association -
A photo of the frontage of Sweny’s Chemist in Dublin. Two arched glass windows, a matching arched glazed door way, and the letters SWENY spelled out in gold letters above the door.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Matthias Quent @mquent.de · 31/08/2026
Monchi von Feine Sahne Fischfilet hat in seinem Buch "Jenseits der Brandmauer" ein paar unbequeme, deutliche und eindringliche Botschaften auf den Punkt gebracht. Im @freitag.de habe ich einige Gedanken aufgeschrieben, die mir beim Lesen gekommen sind. www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...
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Feine Sahne Fischfilet: Matthias Quent über „Jenseits der Brandmauer“ von Monchi
Ein Soziologe liest das Buch eines Punk-Musikers: Matthias Quent – so alt wie Monchi und auch in der ostdeutschen Provinz aufgewachsen – findet in „Jenseits der Brandmauer“ des Feine-Sahne-Fischfilet-...
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