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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm clearly far too tired today because I was actually partway through googling "Goebbels wizard book" before light dawned. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is just to say I have eaten the sailors that were in the ship and which you were probably saving for Ithaca Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so Greek

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

‘Sandcastles’ (Play With Us, 1964) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Two children in swimming costumes are playing on a sandy beach. The boy waves towards the viewer and the girl too look straight on and smiles.
They are Peter and Jane from the ladybird reading scheme and this picture is from the first book in the series.

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I think the National Trust could sell a lot of merch with this on it (text and logo). Aging introvert heaven.

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Funny how talk of social contagion is always about restricting the identities and behaviours of young people, never about, say, once-respectable academics collecting reactionary ideas like an 8 year old collects interestingly-shaped rocks

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just want to remind folks that this keeps happening. Burials of assumed-important ancients discovered to be women via genetic testing, after decades of them simply being assumed to be male. The patriarchy is incompatible with reality.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Whereas there's definitely a "gender critical" ideology, which is that trans people shouldn't exist. And apparently, now, that young women with disabilities shouldn't exist either. 🤨 #TransRightsAreHumanRights

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

But most of all, Robin Ince quit due to moral and ethical objections way bigger than him or this show. By taking this job, Adam Rutherford announces he's happy to be quiet on the issues Ince's career was endangered for being loud about. Take that into account for all of his output from now on.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour. Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses. Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

A very simple diagram showing radar, a chaff cloud, a confused missile and an airplane. The confused missile is aiking for the chaff cloud and not the airplane.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The thing about this is trans people have de facto been using spaces of our transitioned gender since the 1950s, and de jure never been banned from doing so. We aren’t banned in any other liberal democracy in the world. So those who advocate it SHOULD have to outline why 2026 UK must be different

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cynthesizer.bsky.social @cynthesizer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Every time I encounter this framing, I mentally flip it and try to do so in my own communication. "Michelle Yeoh was the first Asian woman to win a Best Actress Oscar." No. Michelle Yeoh's 2023 Best Actress win marked the first time the Academy gave the award to an Asian woman.

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Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is what the future looks like...

A sign, next to a road and on a grass verge. In black on a white background it says 24 hour cheese vending machine. An arrow point off to the right.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I realize that pub crawls are quite popular, but I truly believe that the concept of a library crawl is long overdue.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I recently read her book The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, and it was spectacular. I couldn't put it down. I even ended up reading some of it while at a jousting tournament because I needed to know what happened next! 😂 #BookSky

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've always thought it weird that the general public seems to think there's a register of disabled people. 🤨

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen (You know the rule) youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q

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Tom Holland's "Umbrella" | Lip Sync Battle

YouTube video by Comedy Central Asia

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My phone isn't just Android, it's a Google Pixel. And I'm locked into the contract with it for another year. 😭

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I spoke to a lovely group of uni students this week and their main concern was “how can I afford housing when I grow up”. That’s just not a thing you would have heard from the equivalent group in the 90s.

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Rosie - Artist | Author @rosinarhapsody.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026

5/ The UK is now considered 'trans-hostile' on the ilga-eu rainbow map: "In Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Monaco, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, and the UNITED KINGDOM there is no functioning legal or administrative process for legal gender recognition."

ilga rainbow map of europe, showing the UK as trans hostile.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just saw this is over 60k this morning! He needs 75k so can you help push it up up up if you have anything to spare? And if you don't, please do share! #Booksky

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My son has been significantly happier & so full of joy since he started taking testosterone. Unfortunately the only way he can obtain it is by me buying it from doctors in Europe, at a cost of about £1500 a year (including blood tests etc for monitoring). So the credit card company's happy too. 😒

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Jade Fortunato @jadedfortunato.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

1. Temporary psychological distress 2. Reduced height These are the harms puberty blockers are considered safe to prevent in cisgender kids. 1. Permanent psychological distress This is the harm puberty blockers are considered too dangerous to use to prevent in trans kids.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If someone asks you “What is your sex?” In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you “What sex were you assigned at birth?” They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fortunately, through cross-party and international cooperation between and within governments, we have been able to ensure this will never happen again.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/08/2026

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

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Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew

It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 30/11/2023

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Absolutely this. Being a physically disabled carer for a partner who has a mental illness is unbelievably stressful. On days when I'm physically unable to move (though these are thankfully rare atm), most of the burden of caring falls to the kids. Which isn't fair on them.

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have no idea who this is but they sound like a privileged berk. The whole point of the (very accurate) Boots Theory is that if you can only afford cheap shitty stuff, that's what you buy. If you can afford expensive quality stuff, that's what you buy & IT WILL LAST LONGER. 🤦🏻‍♀️ #GNUTerryPratchett

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We've survived the entirety of human history without data centres. We can't survive more than a few days without clean drinking water.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

People who behave like this in a hospital should still be treated, but they shld have to wait however long it takes until a doctor/nurse fitting their preferences goes on shift, and they should have to sit out that wait in a public waiting room wearing a gown with "racist" printed all over it.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Have you heard the new episode of the Knepp Wilding Podcast? There is something utterfly wonderful about watching a creature return to a landscape that was once its home.

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COINTREAUPRO @strings.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So… they’re working

Atlanta says these bike barriers are protecting cyclists. Drivers keep crashing into them.
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

For this #MosaicMonday, the ever-gorgeous Bignor Venus. Her semicircular diadem resembles the shape of a pelta. Some see this as deliberate but is it just the shape - albeit immediately recognisable - formed by the two curls of hair in front? Thoughts welcome! 1/3 #AncientBlueSky 🏺

Extract from a hand-coloured engraving of a mosaic showing the bust of a naked female figure in a circular frame. She is wearing a pendant (which has led some to argue that the pendant is the neck of a diaphanous robe). Her hair is arranged in neat coils, perhaps gathered in a pony tail because no hair is visible on either side of the neck, with the ends draped on her shoulders. On her head is a semicircular diadem held in place by a tiara decorated with small white crosses.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Remember to be kind to yourself today. You can be evil to yourself tomorrow. On Wednesday you should be kind to ducks. On Thursday the ducks will be evil to you, so watch out for that

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

See my shocked face --> 😐 🙄

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 02/08/2026

"People say it must be great to be so strong and free," said the werewolf, "but they don't trust you." "And wolves have their own packs," the witch said, "and you smell weird to them." "How did you know?" "We are many, us living in the between. All we can do is be ourselves, as well we can."

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a mosaic fragment from the floor of a Roman villa in Spain, dated AD 100-200s. It depicts a stylised octopus using red, yellow, white, and black limestone tesserae, against an off-white background. The front-facing octopus appears almost cartoon-like, with a large red and white head and body outlined in black. Its yellow circular eyes are outlined in black with a central black dot which stare out at the viewer. Below the head and body are eight writhing arms.

This octopus and other fragmentary animal mosaics were discovered in the 19th century at the Hermitage of Santa Colomba, Villaquejida, León, which had been built on the site of a Roman villa.

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Chindilani Filifilidh Andekalithan @chindilani.substack.com · 03/08/2026

This week’s episode: Annika from The Voices of Our Mother, a film I didn’t like, then did, then didn’t, then really liked, then wasn’t sure again. It tells the story of a family beset by demons and dementia, and asks whether love can triumph over evil. www.patreon.com/collection/2...

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That Final Girl Life Podcast | Collection from That Final Girl Life | 6 posts | Patreon

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Psst.. anyone wanna buy a book? Anything you like. Hardbacks, paperbacks. I can even get hold of some of that spiral bound stuff, if that's what you're into. No questions asked. Discreet delivery. Nobody will know. Email biggreenbooks@gmail.com for some hot book buying action.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x

A crappy photoshop paint image with a red star on blue, in comic sans is the message 'some people on the internet aren't American'

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Ducky @duckedydoodah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm working in the front garden and all I can hear are the bees, the grasshoppers, and the birds. #Sussex #peace #gardening

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows:

Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles. Each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines.

Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet!

Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins

Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines.

Bottom right: A central band delineated with white lines contains white 's'-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background.

This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.

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