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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out these guys are real

A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026

Summer xkcd.com/3299/

4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK transit nerds are next level.

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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026

29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Deep down Colin always knew that the tree line was just a myth🌲

A conifer called Colin on a steep rocky cliff

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"A culture is no better than its woods." - WH Auden

A photograph I took of a bridleway in Gloucestershire on a beautiful day in early November, 2017, with the crunchiest leaves imaginable underfoot and the last bit of gold and green showing in the corridor of trees overhead.

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Andy Bruce (Reuters) @bruceandy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Former Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry press to the steps of Downing Street." bulk-distributor.com/2026/07/form...

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Former BD journalist set to become UK PM - Bulk Distributor

Former Bulk Distributor assistant editor Andy Burnham is set to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, marking an extraordinary journey from the pages of the tank container industry pre...

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Bat Krown 🦇🎃 @katbrownwrites.com · 26/06/2026

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

The Café and The Coffee Shop in Tesco will be offering one free Kids Hot Meal Deal, Kids Breakfast or Kids Pick ‘n’ Mix deal with any full price adult purchase when they scan their Tesco Clubcard. **The adult purchase could be something as small as an apple costing just 65 pence.** And with no limit to the number of Kid’s meals you can redeem, families of all sizes can benefit too.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When you see a tree in the middle of a road, please be patient as it takes time for them to cross

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is great. "If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" is spot on.

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Aaron King @9000lives.org · 12/05/2026

Happy Birthday to Margaret Calvert today. 90 years old and what an impact! Her work is in every local town. A Margaret thread 🧵1/11

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 09/05/2026

England’s local election results made the case for electoral reform in the most brutal way possible: winners on barely 20% of the vote. The path of least resistance to PR is obvious: just use MMP. I’ve written up why, with an interactive model of 2024 under MMP jack-bailey.co.uk/writing/just...

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

How long does it take to shoot an apple off someone’s head with a crossbow? Time will tell.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The average amount of time taken to earn a pint on minimum wage has fallen from 32 minutes in 1999 to 25 minutes in 2024

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Rachel Kemp @rkemp1974.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Someone has documented the entire source code for Elite and explained how every line works, plus included deep dives into various functionality. Covers all main versions like BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and NES. You can also play online in browser. elite.bbcelite.com

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Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES)

Fully documented source code for Elite on the 6502 (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, Commodore 64, Apple II, NES), with more than 100 deep dive articles explaining how every aspect of this iconic game works...

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 25/03/2026

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

One of my favourite facts is that the spiky tail of a stegosaurus didn't used to have a specific name, until Gary Larson published this Far Side cartoon, at which point "thagomizer" was adopted by paleontologists.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/03/2026

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Comic. Planets and Bright Stars Identification Chart. [Bright glowing dots over black background with labels underneath: Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Sirius, Procyon, Antares, Altair, Betelgeuse, Vega, Polaris]

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I doubt I will ever witness a better description of pheasants than the time I heard a ten-year-old call them "fashion chickens".

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox. For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role

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Casework Crisis: Increase In Constituency Caseload Takes Its Toll

The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 19/01/2026

I think it would be quite nice for me to be able to wake up in the morning and think about my plans for the day, and more broadly about my own little life, instead of immediately having to ponder the overnight actions of The Guy Over There

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 17/01/2026

1/ Something which I don't think gets articulated clearly often enough is that a system where countries generally respect international sovereignty and territorial integrity is not pure charity or morality by the United States, but in its direct interests. Despite it being the strongest bear.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is nice but I feel they’ve missed a trick by not including a cord in her back that you can pull to make her say “Twisted flax please, Victoria”

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daisystu @daisystu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“I am not doing this for the likes. I’m doing it because I think the internet should have fun, purposeless, engaging things and they shouldn’t always be asking you for something in return.” Wonderful.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/01/2026

"We are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" is the sort of line that gets edited out of an anime villain's evil monologue for being a bit much.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I like the implication in these pictures that on the other 364 days of the year, the zoo has only the vaguest sense of how many lions it should have

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Feliz Navidad? Yeah, we’d love to bring the boy here, just trying to get the deal sealed before midnight

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Rivers www.worldofmoose.com/products/par...

Cartoon of two men standing in water up to their calves by a river bank. One is saying to the other: People who say they've swum in the rivers in Paris and Cairo are either insane or in denial.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 03/11/2025

Libraries matter. Access matters. After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember. @arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

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