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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.eurosky.social · 14/07/2026
That there are people surprised by this speaks to how ridiculous prequel revisionism has got
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Alex McKinstry @alexmckinstry.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
BREAKING - BCP Council's unlawful planning committee meeting tomorrow CANCELLED, following intervention by residents who knew the law!!!
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Utterly deranged.
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 24/05/2026
I'm reading Louis Sachar's new book and it's a cute little story but one of the main characters has heterochromia and he keeps writing lines like "her brown eye was a mysterious cavern" and my god someone needed to tell him
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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 24/05/2026
Rewatched My Cousin Vinny last night because I needed something light and fun and one thing I really love about it is that it’s one of the few stories about a city boy going to a rural town that isn’t about how he learns to appreciate the simple life, but rather how small towns are fucking obnoxious
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tanglewoodsteve.bsky.social @tanglewoodsteve.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Shocking news at so many levels ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced
Too much bacteria linked to faeces found at almost all England's designated river bathing sites
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Have not one but TWO bonus chuckwallas. Hadn't ever seen one wild before this trip, they're one of the biggest lizards out here, these might be juveniles. (Didn't get a great photo of the second one but see the iguana striped tail?)
A large lizard with a blunt head, round body, and a mottled pattern wedged underneath a rock. Rocky terrain with a striped lizard tail poking out front underneath a rugged boulder.
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Little bonus off tanner trail. I passed by this spot three weeks ago, but the lighting was bad and my friend wasn't trying to stick around so I was glad to have a second chance here.
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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
And one from the rim
A painting of the grand canyon depicting Shoshone Point, a white limestone ledge dotted with trees and sagebrush.
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Doomscroll Zine @doomscroll.uk · 30/03/2026
All 101 copies of #5 have come back from the printers with huge misprints so we'll have to miss our April 1st deadline and delay it until they send us corrected copies. Sorry everyone ☹️
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/03/2026
Anglers, walkers & wild swimmers are often the first to notice changes in rivers & waterways. Now a new Environment Agency tool invites folk to become a citizen scientist & monitor pollution. No training needed – just a watchful eye and a phone.
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Citizen scientists inspire new national river monitoring tool
A new Environment Agency tool aims to harness citizen scientists’ observations to help monitor England’s rivers and waterways
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tanglewoodsteve.bsky.social @tanglewoodsteve.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My own MP here in #Poole #Dorset @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social sky.social is fully behind the #CleanWaterNow campaign .... but is yours!?
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Doomscroll Zine @doomscroll.uk · 23/02/2026
Doomscroll #4 now in stock at Rose Red Records in the Royal Arcade in #Boscombe! #zine #bournemouth #dorset
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I’m so excited for you guys to read my new book
a diagram showing the overlap between the five busiest port cities in England, 1400-1580 AD vs the fifteen local authorities in England containing the largest number of people with the surname Shipp in 2014
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Doomscroll Zine @doomscroll.uk · 14/02/2026
Protest and counter protest at the RNLI building in Poole this morning. The fascists were outnumbered by the counter-protesters about 2:1, find out more in the next issue of Doomscroll on the first of April.
Fascists accusing the RNLI of running a taxi service for illegal immigrants with a large banner reading "Bournemouth Patriots | Stop the Taxi Service"Fascists accusing the RNLI of running a taxi service for illegal immigrants waving British and English flags in front of a banner reading "Poole Patriots" with the RNLI HQ in the background.Counter protesters with a banner reading "[Bournemouth, Christchuch, and Poole] is anti-racist. STAND UP TO RACISM. Stop pretending your racism is patriotism."
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
For those who don't know, the minister for the environment is Emma Reynolds. She lost her seat in 2019 then worked as managing director of public affairs, policy and research at TheCityUK, a firm of financial lobbyists. Hands up all those who think she will bring water back into public ownership?
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Neocities @neocities.org · 28/01/2026
Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index. We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere. Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing. Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
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Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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eightmegs.bsky.social @eightmegs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Fixed the shitbox today, the front right brake wouldn't release but it was just a bit of dirt in the caliper and all was well once I gave it a decent clean.
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eightmegs.bsky.social @eightmegs.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Meanwhile, RTÉ in Ireland, which is also a license fee funded state-owned broadcaster, led with an actually impartial view of what happened. The BBC hide behind a veneer of impartiality while they continue a decades-long pattern of downplaying atrocities committed by countries aligned with the UK.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is a huge crisis that we must do our part on by rejecting generative AI. The more it infiltrates our systems, the more fucked we are over time.
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eightmegs.bsky.social @eightmegs.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I was messing around with graphical tweaks in the Quake engine with a view to making a walking simulator, but I accidentally overwrote the palette file with a compressed image and I practically tie dyed the game.
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Washington friends: Do you want your state to spend $2 billion building a dam on the Chehalis that won't even generate electricity when there are cheaper solutions that won't drown an important salmon-bearing river? Learn more: wildsalmoncenter.org/projects/che...
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Chehalis River - Wild Salmon Center
A proposed dam threatens Washington's Chehalis River. But a more comprehensive approach to restoration would solve salmon habitat and flood problems.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Here's my take on Left Hand of Darkness, btw. orionmagazine.org/article/left...
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Landscape, Change, and the Long Road Ahead - Orion Magazine
Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness is a classic for its portrayal of gender, but is it also sometimes, for the modern reader, a climate change parable?
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
They speak of justice while ruling through fear.
They speak of sovereignty while stealing the vote.
They speak of dignity while condemning their own people.
I learned that those who insist the most on calling themselves "the good ones" are often the ones most afraid to face themselves. The Maduro regime wraps itself in flags, in anti-imperialist rhetoric, in a false epic where any criticism is labeled as betrayal. They claim to defend Venezuela, yet they stole the people's voice when they refused to respect the elections. That act alone strips away any moral authority.
But do not be mistaken. The fact that a tyrant is real does not automatically turn an external aggressor into a savior.
The United States does not act out of love for democracy. It acts out of interest. It always has.
The language changes, the enemy changes, but the method remains the same: pressure, punishment, displays of power. And as always, the blow is not absorbed by those in power, but by ordinary people.The Venezuelan people are trapped between two narratives that do not represent them. One that oppresses them from within, and another that exploits them from outside. One that claims legitimacy without real elections. Another that claims justice without taking responsibility for the human consequences of its actions.
I do not defend Maduro. I point at him.
But I also refuse to accept that a global power can appoint itself as a moral judge while its history is written in interventions, sanctions, and broken countries.
Pain does not need propaganda. Hunger does not understand geopolitics. Dignity is not imposed with missiles, nor with dictatorships.
While some sell themselves as the good ones to justify repression, and others sell themselves as the good ones to justify aggression, the result is always the same: more suffering, more rage, more generations learning that force replaces justice.
And once again, pain is inherited.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
we've all been there
On my way to cry near a lighthouse bumper sticker
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