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Miss AbOoOoOpriated

@distantduck.bsky.social
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Kiwi in the UK. Sweary leftie into travel, books, geeky wee moments, coffee, gigs. Ex-fundie. Cis ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. Curious about the green slimy thing looking over your shoulder as you read.

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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know there are some Welsh speakers on here, and I’d love a bit of help checking the accuracy and pronunciation of a phrase. A family member died this week (diaspora Welsh, from when speaking was forbidden), and I’m giving a short eulogy. I’d like to send them home with their family’s language…
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The patronage system is back? 2026 is really delivering on spooky medieval time travel vibes.
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Rachel Burdin @rsburdin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am very pleased to report someone made a picture book about the Ever Given.
A picture from a children's book, showing a very sad looking Ever Given, run aground in the Suez Canal, with two diggers trying to dig it out, and a dredger boat laughing at it.

"Still suck," sighed the cargo ship.

"Say," asked the dredger, "have you ever considered becoming a bridge? Bridges don't float."
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got my first Smith-Waite tarot deck today and becuase I usually use a more stylistic cartoon deck, it’s intriguing to see the level of detail and the esoteric card descriptions. My fave is the King of Wands, who is “dark, ardent and lithe”. That is a VIBE. It’s such a snapshot of its time.
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Koh The Nutt Stealer @gregathus88.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel like someone needs a hug, so here’s a hug for anyone that needs it. Get in here and get you a big ass hug.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching The Big Sleep (old movies are way more spoonie friendly) and some of the quotes are great. “A half-smart guy. That’s what I always draw. Never once a guy who’s smart all around the course. Never once!” - the henchwoman when the henchman gets ruffled by Marlowe.
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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026
talent is a lie
a cartoon picture of a frog throwing a crooked looking clay vase with the words “talent is a lie, just do it anyway”
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The British Opinion Columnists make sense when you realise they're a clique of Year 10 girls who've all decided to call Kelly From Maths a bitch and a crybaby and a virgin and a slag until she leaves school (one way or the other), except they're 55.
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Victoria Maderna @victoriamaderna.com · 05/05/2026
The Connoisseur. Gouache and watercolor on paper. Dreaming of autumn... Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/vmad...
Painting of a boar in a sweater with a mushroom basket, holding and smelling a mushroom.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’d forgotten how nice it is to snuggle into fresh sheets and duvet, with the last of the summer’a evening breeze coming through the window and the new Rivers of London audiobook playing so my brain doesn’t need to do anything.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!
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GreenLeft Network 🍉 @nzgreenleft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There's 1 month left until Voter Enrolments close. Landlords, lobbyists, bot farmers, anti-vaxxers, real estate agents, and CEOs have enrolled to vote. But have your family, whānau, friends, colleagues, flatmates, or peers enrolled to vote? It's easy to enroll at vote.nz/enrolling #nzpol
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yesterday’s highlight (having had a Very Bad Fatigue Day) was voting in the first round of Fat Bear Week. Not gonna lie, I may have been swayed by a bear called Marshmellow cos great name. If you also need some joy and an election free of fash, behold! explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY
cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke pony girl Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keep on daunsinge, Down yn West Hollywoode' [WICKED LUTE SOLO] 🎶
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy equinox! If you’re one of my northern hemisphere buddies and you haven’t already *gets on tiny platform, switches to PSA voice*, now’s a good time to start taking daily vitamin D and figure out where the heck you stashed the SAD lamp last spring *steps down off platform, fades into the crowd*
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
happy birthday to SAD lamps
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Jackie Lee Morrison @jaxies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It has come to my attention that FAT BEAR WEEK has begun in Alaska. Vote for which bear has put on the most weight here: explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t often overlap with Kiwi Bluesky timewise but the buzz for Nicky Hagar’s book, Dirty Politics, (dropped just before the election) is making me homesick in the best way. This is so necessary.
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
- Rufous-Backed Kingfisher (Ceyx rufidorsa) in Malaysia - Photo courtesy of Chong Lip Mun.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Managed a bath today and because movement’s difficult, when I stood on the bathmat I heard myself say “The leviathan lives!!!” triumphantly and wave my hands in the air like an old timey mayor whose secret battle monster has destroyed the evil creature that’s been plaguing the town for years.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026
FAT BEAR WEEK
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes. 

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.
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Suw @suw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is absolute perfection.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Police Academy is quite an enjoyable watch given how much DEI is being attacked right now. Plus I had totally forgotten carparks used to have attendants instead of those stupid machines that never work. Very much enjoying Rick Moranis’ “One in the oven” tshirt, crop tops on guys are great
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Wile E. Coyote Finally Kills Road Runner Then Immediately Wishes He Hadn’t
4 panel comic

Panel 1: Wile E. Coyote has finally murdered Road Runner by crushing him under a massive boulder

Panel 2: Wile celebrates his long sought after victory

Panel 3: Wile steps out from behind the boulder and is immediately confronted by Columbo who says “Mr. Coyote” in his typically annoying but persistent manner

Panel 4: Columbo calls his name again. Panicked, Wile retreats quickly behind the boulder, but in his heart of hearts, he knows it will do no good. In about two hours he’ll be going to prison. And not cartoon prison. Human prison.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“Gentlemen, please”, said the Patrician. “Let’s have no fighting please. This is, after all, a council of war” - Jingo How have I only just spotted that this is a Dr Strangelove reference?
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep seeing ads on Insty for North of North and oh man I cannot WAIT for season 2 to drop. Hard out one of my fave shows of the last few years.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed
Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve
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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tiny little way to add some reo into your life that I have adopted. Instead of saying "Mississippi" or "potato" when counting out seconds, use the 4 syllable Māori place name of your choice. I have landed on "Whakatane" for some reason but the options are many, "Ōtepoti", "Rangiora", "Papanui" etc.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This has been a rough week, symptoms-wise, and I’ve been mostly bedbound and sad about it. Today these beauts arrived from @oldenoughtosay.com and massively cheered me up. Thanks so much!
A white woman in a blue top is grinning delightedly and holding two books, Jeeves in the Offing and Joy in the Morning, which both have vintage covers.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yay! I love this place, they’re such lovely peeps and they’re getting a revamp.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He’s the Keir Starmer of the music industry
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Morris Mitchener @willstonsil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine an Englishman not seeing the Irish rising against him.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seeing some tradwife discourse and remembered that despite being raised to be one, I had to memorise Proverbs 31 in my evangelical primary school. In it the ideal wife is a real estate agent, craftsperson, people manager, salesperson and financial manager, among other skills. The disconnect is wild.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really important campaign by the @societyofauthors.bsky.social, speaking up against the theft of our work by Big Tech to feed AI that will then be used against us. www.wearebetterthanthis.co.uk Please also sign the Gov e-petition here (Deadline 29 Oct 2026). petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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We Are Better Than This
We’re standing up for creativity against AI - watch the video!
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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
vote, you little shits. vote because - your landlord will vote - your boss will vote - every nasty little greedy bitcoin bro who thinks women should be assigned to men for sex will vote - anti abortionists will vote - evangelist christians will vote - your racist uncle will vote FUCKING VOTE
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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Petition still open to sign 43,000! Thank you Aotearoa NZ! Keep signing and spreading. It gets delivered tomorrow by Ngati Kahunganu horsemen #nzpol
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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The sound I make since age 35 when I get up from the couch
Supermarket aisle sign that says “HOOAEG”. (Apparently it means season in Estonian).
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11/09/2026
Ooh! Well how giant could it possibly be, haha I'll just wait WAIT NO *thuds* *distant screaming* *sounds of buildings being demolished*
a sandwich board outside reading "home of the giant croissant"
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 10/09/2026
Thank you, Saddle Lake Cree Nation.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Scientists think we might be as much as six generations away from self-awareness in tech bros
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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every time we think this is as bad, as unrelentingly stupid as things can get ... fate says "hold my beer." We gotta slip some horse tranquilizers into the keg, my friends.
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Miss AbOoOoOpriated @distantduck.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Reading a Cat Sebastian novel and it turns out that reading about hot bitchy gays thrown together in a Situation that can only lead to enemies-to-lovers Hijinks is *exactly* the right medicine for an attack of the morbs.
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