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Madame Duck

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Perpetual lurker. Expert procrastinator. Mainly replies to cat posts.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h
Time for this classic again.
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me too, bunny, me too.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026
The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wanted to believe in Colin the wandering cat but when I checked the account this image came from it is all AI this makes me sad pretty soon no-one will know what is real, and judging by the comments, especially to people pointing it out in the replies, nobody will care.
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[Image of a black and white cat with a curious expression sitting in a shop window next to a hand-drawn map of a small town]

PLACES COLIN HAS BEEN FOUND THIS MONTH

church roof
bus shelter
vicar's car
inside the post van (twice)
chip shopfreezer

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daily_mini_stories The map in my village shop window this week

Church roof. Vicar's car. Inside the post van twice. Chip shop freezer.

He's sitting right next to it looking like he's planning next month's route.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 24/09/2026
"the campaign"
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
John Taylor
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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ok - it’s really crunch time on getting the car fixed before bad weather. At the same time as upcoming rent. Ugh! Here’s a thread of pieces that are name-your-own-price. Happy to frame! Details on each piece alt text.
Bison. Walnut & India ink. 6x8 on handmade, recycled paper. Resting Fox. Walnut & India ink. 6x8 on handmade, recycled paper.Bear Silhouette. Walnut & India ink. 7.5x11.5 on handmade, recycled paper.
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Speccy Twat @speccytwat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“It was good and it was fun but also it was scary. The room was big. We had orange squash, and…” 🫠
A BBC News item, entitled: ‘Chris Mason: In the room with the president and the prime minister’, and the title alone gives many clues as to Mason’s expansive, rich vocabulary, and individual style of reporting. 
He’s pretty shit.
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just watched 70 Up. I don't know these people so why am I bawling my eyes out?
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1199 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟩🟪 🟪🟪🟩🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Strands #932 “It's back!” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵 This made me irrationally angry because some of it is plain wrong.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Someone from Exeter was buried on Friday and one of their wishes was to have dinosaurs and the Grim Reaper present. Legend. Photo source: Exeter & Devon Crematorium and Memorial Gardens
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I used to work with someone who was bald to the tops of his ears, but had thick hair below that and a full beard. It looked like his hair had slipped down his head
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FFS, even the cute baby goat leaping in the snow is AI slop. Why can't we have nice things?
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe
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Soviet Ekranoplan Water Test
Alt: Soviet Ekranoplan Water Test
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Raw pastry. And as a special treat, I got the corners off an Oxo cube.
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm watching The Giant Claw, one of the best bad films ever made
The giant claw, a hideous giant bird monster. Or the worst puppet you've ever seen.
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rosemary Harris is 99. Alfred Molina: ‘During Spider-Man 2, Rosemary & I were suspended in harnesses 40ft above the soundstage floor. We were left hanging there for ages & ran out of small talk. At one point, Rosemary said quietly ‘I’m classically trained, you know.’
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wish that someone had warned me that it was rich wankers whingeing day
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man on the metro train holding a sign that just says no in large black letters
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Store security would like a word with you.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Louise Brooks (1906 – 1985), American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s, regarded today as a Jazz Age style icon #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting white woman with black bob hairstyle holding a large fan against her upper half, looking upwards
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh my god, I'm am so bloody angry today.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Please don't let your sister play with the colouring pens."
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I bet they never have this issue on Police Interceptors
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Leask @leask.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes sir, got that garden carrot picture. Nice and Akira-esque, just like you wanted
A giant garden carrot with a bunch of ends gnarling and twisting out of it.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026
I think we should have one day a week when no-one is allowed to talk about AI, so we can have a rest
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Eldest child went to uni at the weekend so now the dog is sulking ☹️
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've just dropped eldest child at uni. Very proud, but I didn't realise how hard this would be 😭
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mushrooms
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1189 🟦🟨🟪🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nominative determination in action
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Unless the airports have taken a rather radical and violent approach to dealing with lots of passengers cluttering up the place, it's not really carnage, is it?
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m doing a podcast called The Rest is the Rest where I talk about every subject not covered by all The Rest Is podcasts. So please subscribe if you want a weekly podcast about shoes, clouds, Tuesdays and otters.
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
OP knows that this is fake but doesn't care.
A BlueSky post showing a photoshopped image of Alice Weidel with an added shadow resembling a Hitler moustache. She's an appalling person, but stooping to deliberate misinformation is a stupid tactic.
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gosh. Trying to thread a needle and hand sew anything with peripheral neuropathy is such fun*. *Not fun
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Delighted to report that the whole of Scotland has united in fury against American Dog Lady and that is a #NiceThing.
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Island cafe at heart of legal row with US woman over dog ban raises £177k
THE organisation that runs a community cafe in the Outer Hebrides that is at the heart of a fierce legal row with an American woman after her dog…
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
All very Monty Python
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Madame Duck @duckface.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love PTerry, but I'm not sure I can ever read Lords and Ladies again because the elves are so incredibly nasty and made me feel really uncomfortable. That's skilful writing.
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