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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'The Reluctant Vampire' is a thing of many laughs and deep joy, with an amazing cast putting their deepest respect on the name of Eric Morecambe. It's great! And the running gag with the invisible woman is *chef's kiss*.

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Happy birthday to Henry the vacuum cleaner x

screen grab of Henry the vacuum cleaner's wikipedia page

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hearing aid update: I did not get new ears on Monday because my mum come out of hospital and I had to let her back into her house and get her settled, stocked up, etc. But Friday? It's scheduled for then, but we'll see what else can happen, shall we?

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Izzi Ward @ TBCAF Redshirt Hall B17a @izziward.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A silly little thing that's been in my head since I rewatched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Be Excellent to Each Other!

an illustration of the characters Bill and Ted from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure holding pride flags - one trans, one progress pride flag - and doing their signature hand on heart gesture. Above and below them text reads: "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER MEANS EVERYONE." the background is dark blue, with a smattering of white stars. Both boys are wearing small pride pins - Bill is wearing a trans pin and a queerplatonic pin, and Ted is wearing a bisexual pin and a queerplatonic pin.

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is the latter half of September and we've got the fan on in the bedroom again, jfc

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Big Thing has been going on in my life in the last week. (Aside from the ongoing bad parental health things, which we shall just take as standard to my life now.) I've been wearing hearing aids. I popped in to see a relatively new local audiology place a week ago, and I was demo ones to try.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The one good thing is that we know it wasn't a stroke. From the first A&E that she was taken to.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's gone midnight in London. I'm in A&E with my mum, who passed out visiting my dad at his new xare home.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flippin' heck. Strange New Worlds just did the TV equivalent of that issue of 'Giant Days' with the cricket match.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

@maryepworth.bsky.social Random question, sorry, but I'm with a friend who's just got new orthotics and none of her shoes fit any more. What's the name of that shoe company that you really like?

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just looked out at the lawn behind our flats to see if there were any creatures of the night about. Saw a large cat in full loaf on the lawn while a fox rather nervously skittering around it. The cat moved not one inch from its spot. The fox got within a couple of feet of it and then backed off.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

People going to SPX, you get to buy this first, you lucky sods. [looks at cost of imports to UK, is sad]

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In tonight's Great British Sewing Bee the final task was making a non-copyrighted superhero outfit for a kid, and the winner was 'Treblemaker' who has the superpower of making people sing and dance, and tbh that right there is supervillain shit.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.” people are wonderful!

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Something that brings home how fast the climate and thus the environment is changing is owning an insect guide that is only 14 years old. We've been seeing some absolutely gorgeous big moths around here lately. I looked them up in my insect guide...

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There is not much new wisdom to offer in the event of heatwaves, but I offer you this - If you're going to have ice cream, put the bowls in the fridge for *at least* 15 minutes before you put the ice-cream in them.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am not really one for football, but nonetheless, the zeitgeist and the fact that my beloved does care about it a bit means that I have some awareness of it. Which leads me in to saying: the closer in to Erling Haarland the cameras zoom, the more his face looks like it was drawn by Tove Jansson.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Anyone else enjoying the sensation of loafing about in their undercrackers and NOT sweating cobs?

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In a pleasing turn of events, I actually got to spend some time planning my next TTRPG project this morning. So, apropos of nothing at all... Who amongst you likes to write UK-flavoured stuff in the vein of Forteana, folklore, strange horrors, etc., and might be open to a small future commission?

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm kind of posting "guess who's back in hospital with her dad" but you don't really need to guess. Severe anaemia. Blood transfusion needed. Here we are.

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Dylan Wilbanks is not a Halloween person @dylanw.social · 01/06/2026

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

DS9 scene: Kor, a Klingon, greets Dax as Curzon. Dax corrects him as the host is now in Jadzia, a Trill female. Cor immediately responds, "Jadzia, my beloved old friend" without missing a beat.

Right: Two tweets from 2019: "This Pride Month, never forget that Klingons had trans rights"; "No hostility, no confusion, no clumsy excuse-filled justification, just a quick self-correction and the exact same amount of love and respect before and after. Cis allies: Be like Kor."

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Heya, can anyone see the alt-text I put on that video? Please let me know either way.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Yes, I promised a picture, but how about... a silly little VIDEO?

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

And now I am in a Very Instagram Japanese café drinking a fancy iced coffee and eating a chocolate jelly in the shape of a chubby capybara. (Don't worry, I took pictures. Will post later.)

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I have a week off work. For ME. Of course, this has not held: I'm taking mum to the hairdresser on Tuesday and other parent management will be happening after that, no doubt. But! I have just left my first ever assisted stretching session and I feel *great*.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So addled by this heatwave that, while starting to do something for lunch, I got two teabags out of the caddy and nearly put them into the toaster. Did I want to make tea? I did not.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Margaret Calvert, designer with Jock Kinneir of the UK’s road signage, with a huge round birthday cake in the shape of a 90 mph speed limit sign.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Second hail shower of the day! Truly, London is packing all the weather into the current 24 hours.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

OH GOD they brought Paddington into it! DON'T DO THAT. #AttenboroughAt100

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I have not met the new niece yet, because her mum spent two and a half hours having a cesarean (and her dad was there through the surgery) and the whole fam needs some recuperation.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm a great aunt! I have a very new niece! She's also great!

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I have not seen the film or read the book and I thought that last letter was a question mark anyway it's 2am and I should sleep.

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Several Onions @amusitr0n.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

a good name for a horse would be Kris Klipclopperston

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In the office today! Valued colleagues have made me a cup of tea in a Sports Direct mug and I feel as though I have shrunk. Seven-year-old me (already a tea fiend) is having a *moment*. Pls send an Arabic tile pattern colouring book. (Or Lego. Though grown-up me also likes Lego.)

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 20/04/2026

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

Bus typo: Help us score the gift of life, DONATE BLOOB

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Thank god it was the tortoise and not Hitler.

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"If you only read one book this year..." I'll be honest. If you only read one book per year I don't see us becoming friends.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 10/04/2026

Coffee machines turned into tiny cafés by Wes Anderson’s model-maker Simon Weisse.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Parental update: the phone line to my parents' house has been restored! Mum can communicate with the outside world once more!

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

FYI Wordleing friends: 'mardy' is an acceptable word. No, it is not today's solution, just part of my working out. (But it did help me, so do with that what you will.)

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Wordle 1,755 2/6 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ☺

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How am I doing today? I dated something for today to 2024, is how I'm doing today.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There really are a lot of things in an A&E ward that sound like phones. Hi, pals! I'm in an A&E ward with my dad.

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

There was a Middle-East security specialist being interviewed on Channel 4 news right now who had a copy of Guy Delisle's 'Jerusalem' on prominent display. #comics

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Andrea Burgess @echtburge.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

In case anyone's been wondering where I've been (i.e. why I've not been posting, the short answer is: both caring for and trying to sort out future care for my parents. It's still ongoing but no longer full-time. Even shorter answer: life imploding, very stressed

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