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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 2h

And in case anyone thinks I over egg the pudding by saying much more likely, a human editor compiling a reference book 📖 f historically appropriate language wouldn't be using Mills and Boon bodice rippers as reliable source material. AI? Less so...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 3h

A library based quilt sandwiching party sounds like a lot of fun, even if you have to save the sweet and sticky comestibles until the work is done and safely bagged up 😊

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

via Dave Wright

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 3h

34% of Republican voters - 1 in 3 - are happy with the idea of a firing squad execution being available to watch in the comfort of your family sitting room. 1 in 10 Democrats. Around 1 in 8 independents. Barbarism has more than a toehold 😕

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

Long time since, bit of a jaw dropping moment but it worked out well in the end 😊

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

AI routinely hallucinates, so not only a sham and a fraud but much more likely to be introducing anachronisms

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 5h

These paleolithic bison are 15,000 years old, but look as fresh, vibrant & as realistic as if they were modelled yesterday. They were crafted in clay in a cave in Tuc d’Audoubert 🇫🇷 with some form of spatula (probably wooden) and hands and fingers. Remarkable things.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

Er, excuse me. Bingo is full of things we didn't have on our bingo card Viz - Two fat ladies - eighty duck

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

You need to go back to the original thread to understand, but this post is a thing of beauty. Treat yourself

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 8h

If anything, it'll likely end up costing the state more. PIP is not an out of work benefit. In many cases, particularly with neurodivergent individuals who already face significant barriers to employment, it helps people to work. Without it they can't work at all. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Stopping Pip for ADHD or autism would not make big savings, says thinktank

Resolution Foundation says ‘crude changes’ to benefits system would probably make it harder for people to work

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

Just getting into their ordinary daily routine when the alarm goes and they're off. Choosing to have their lives randomly disrupted because strangers need help to stay safe and alive. Good folk, doing good folk stuff.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

File under "What could possibly go wrong?" Maybe, in a surprise variant of mad salmon disease, we'll have giant salmon wearing dead orcas on their heads...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

I think I've turned the corner ❤️

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

I had a surprise nosebeed (first in 50ish years) the day the infection took hold. Lovely eh?

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 4h

I haven't bothered testing but wouldn't be surprised. I can't taste anything right now, fingers xed that doesn't persist 😕

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 5h

🎶Not much has changed but we live under water🎶 In the running for funniest lyric ever

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 5h

...get her cleaner for Christmas. I replied that I didn't know how I was going to pay my mortgage in January, so maybe find someone else to ask...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 5h

I was made redundant from a research job, in part because they spent the money hypothecated for my future employment on employing an extra research scientist in the expectation of securing another grant. Economy crashed, no grant. Oops. At my leaving-do my boss asked what I thought she should...

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 7h

Highly politicised actions, 2026 UK edition: donating to the RNLI and buying Sally Rooney books.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 7h

Bear in mind it is perfectly legal to buy and sell Mein Kampf in the UK.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 7h

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @cam.ac.uk I do like a tourist postcard map like this! If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost – it helps to spread the word!

An old colour picture postcard showing a hand drawn map of central Cambridge with little drawings of some of the colleges and other university buildings

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 5h

Pleased to report my cough is a bit better this morning. But then I've been practicing for three days ...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 6h

There's a sort of Festival of Britain positivity in the colour scheme. Just lovely ❤️

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 6h

...to the housing office. I sat down and said "My neighbour just threatened to have me evicted" Before I could get any further the woman behind the desk said "Let me guess, you live at.... We wondered how long it would be. Don't worry." So yes, council staff will have their "well known faces"

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 6h

Three weeks after we moved into our previous (council) home our upstairs neighbour knocked on the door to tell me she would have us evicted for making noise. She was nocturnal and I had a small baby and was redecorating a flat that hadn't been done since the 50s. I was terrified and headed off...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 6h

Why did I think there were saucers 😂 The picture was too small for me to see, but I 'remembered' saucers

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 6h

Or maybe she's just been stood up by her boyfriend, but give it two days and she'll be out dancing with her pals at the Barrowlands. Teenagers have always done moody. There's poverty in that house, but also pride - made bed, tied back curtains, cups and saucers. I hope she had a good life.

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Helena 🏝️ HELULV Ullmark @helenaullmark.bsky.social · 18h

I do understand the exotic touch with umlauts (the two dots above vowels) but please do a simple internet search. Böld means boil, abscess. Associated with the bubonic plague 🤢

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 6h

An old duck, holding her old duck. Lovely ❤️

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 17h

I miss the Surgical Pause. In theatre, before procedure starts. Everyone introduces themselves, states their role and their expectation as to the procedure - what, which body part and why. Even with Emergency Caesarian Sections. It's not like M*A*S*H. Also, theatre nurses are fierce if need be

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 18h

Dark ✔️ Cold ✔️ Wet ✔️ Hazardous ✔️ Voluntary ✔️ Heroic ✔️ What can I say, I'm full of admiration

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 20h

Under the current UK legislation the works of Sally Rooney now can't be published in the United Kingdom but those of Adolf Hitler can be. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action

Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 18h

I thought it indicated that she knew how to iron her clothes...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 19h

We did however focus hard on the one in ten, to ensure that nine in ten members of the studio audience were Reformers

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 20h

Frankenstein afficinados, my dad is thinking about getting rid of his full head Frankenstein mask (big green thing in pic). If anyone would like it let me know (not sure on price)

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yd @inertyd.bsky.social · 19h

land and houses in the west bank are been sold at events in UK pro-genocide books and articles appear daily dual Israeli Brit citizens go and commit war crimes, then come back and move freely amongst us

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 20h

britmap · 14 OCTOBER 2026 ● 85 ◐ 72 ● 90 ○ 23 ◐ 67 Total: 607/1000 · www.britm.app · Day 17 crikey!

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britmap

The daily British history map puzzle.

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 22h

This will be in my shop tomorrow. I've been a bit unlucky today so I don't want to touch anything incase it explodes.

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 21h

Why is there still food on the back of that spoon and the front of the other one? The ones I put in together, spooning as it were...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 23h

bsky.app/profile/tapa.... There are no words

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 23h

There are worse frauds than holding down too many jobs at once

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 23h

Mostly I console myself about not having gone into archaeology by reflecting on the negative impact ordinary life has had on my musculoskeletal well-being. Occasionally other factors emerge to help me manage my disappointment...

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craftyprimrose.bsky.social @craftyprimrose.bsky.social · 23h

The Cat Lucky Dip, is it gifts for cats or an actual cat to take home?

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