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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'What do these experiments involve, exactly? “Basically,” @stewmh.bsky.social explains in the manner of a man who is trying not to forget he’s got an English literature grad on his hands, “throwing stuff at other stuff and seeing what flies off.”' My big day out at the particle accelerator.
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I’ve been to see a particle accelerator
They didn’t let me have a go, the spoilsports.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Headington News @headingtonnews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For the first time for 3½ years, the 400 Park & Ride bus passes under the Botley Road railway bridge on its way to Headington. (If you want to travel to the railway station, remember to get out at the bus stop in Frideswide Square.)
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An extract of my new book Out Now in The Guardian. It is the most astonishing story of how a same sex kiss was broadcast on the BBC back in 1990, without BBC executives knowing at the time. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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‘That was all secret’: the ‘gay mole’ who fought the BBC to show the first queer kiss on kids’ TV
Everyone thinks Byker Grove broke the taboo in 1994, but another teen drama got there first. Here’s the astonishing story of Two of Us, which put a gay relationship on UK screens – and was the origina...
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 14/08/2026
If I were designing that I'd make the message persistent after people have dismissed the horrible noise. Willing to bet most people didn't read it because they were too busy going FUCK FUCK FUCK SHUT UP
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 13/08/2026
This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Emily @emily-405.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
☀️🌑🌍 #eclipse
Solar eclipse at about 93% Solar eclipse part way through
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
DOCTOR: "So what seems to be the problem?" PATIENT: "Mmhbbhhggr hhruuh engghhuu." DOCTOR: "I'm sorry I can't understand, but don't worry. Great singer Bob Dylan is in town. Go see his show and no matter what ails you, you'll feel better!" PATIENT (sadly): "Ehg ddnghh m'm Bddnnn."
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Keiran Pedley @keiranpedley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided
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Dr. Christine Beavers @xtalgrrl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Lemme get this straight: STFC is going to neuter its world class user facilities while UKRI pours over a billion pounds into AI?? Really?? This is madness.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.
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Shaun 🍂🎑🍁🍎🎶 @shauninmpls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I really need people to understand that being shitty to women is not separate from a person's politics. Contempt for those seen as weaker, resentment towards people who get something you think you're entitled to, using power to dominate or intimidate—these are the foundations of someone's"politics."
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
this is the closest thing to an age verification law i would ever consider supporting
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Emily @emily-405.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Update: I'd been a bit annoyed that the keyboard has a useless Copilot button, but now... it opens Clippy! As demonstrated by the person who wrote the code: www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5MxND...
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Emmeline May @emmelinemay.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
British democracy in one photograph
Andy Burnham, a white man with glasses wearing a black t shirt and suit jacket. On his left, a person in a fox costume holding a "protect British wildlife" sign. On his right is Count Binface, who is wearing a giant bin on his head.
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here: a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth w/ @spun.earth 💚
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A hidden infrastructure
Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot
Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player biting an apple. The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.Soccer player wearing fedora and with a green apple floating in front of his face, mimicking the Magritte painting "The Son of Man." The soccer player is wearing a jersey with a pattern of pink and blue stripes with half-visible spheres.
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Emily @emily-405.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My garden says happy pride 🏳️‍🌈
Photos of flowers making a rainbow flagPhotos of flowers making a trans flagPhotos of flowers making a bi flag
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
literally the only "public toilets issue" that should exist in political discourse is that there fucking aren't any any more.
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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Britain, 2335: The budget ceremony begins with the traditional Announcement of the Fuel Duty Rise. Two months later, there will be the traditional Postponement of the Fuel Duty Rise, continuing a ritual begun centuries earlier by Chancellors in the Fossil Fuel era
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward
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Emily @emily-405.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The meme of a cartoon guy with a stick poking, in this case, the door of Number 10 Downing Street
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“Effed it, lads”
Daily Telegraph: Pothole repair lorry
swallowed by pothole it was sent to fix
Stranded vehicle has become an attraction for bemused villagers in Somerset


Image shows a big red truck leaning over at 45 degrees, with its driver’s side wheel down a sinkhole.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The final scores on Oxford City Council, combining tonight’s 24 elections with the 24 from 2024, are: 🌹 Labour 20 💚 Green 13 🔶 LibDem 9 🟪 IOA 4 ◻️ Ind 2 This gives the Greens and LibDems a chance to run the council in coalition if they choose. Here’s tonight on a map. Thanks for following along!
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 07/05/2026
Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/05/2026
help this is so bad but so funny guesstheparty.co.uk
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Guess the Party
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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 28/03/2026
Signed.
Petition

Stop stuff just happening all of the fucking time

Prohibit events continually happening all of the fucking time, one thing after another with no break to catch our collective breath. Make it a criminal offence for another thing to just fucking happen before we've digested the last thing that fucking happened.

THIS IS NOT REAL. I MADE THIS UP. UNCLENCH.
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Emily @emily-405.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May Morning
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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
made you a crossword
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/04/2026
this is cool because it's a very obvious concept but it's neat to see it laid out in data!
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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The flavor is dark energy (espresso dark chocolate).
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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
DESI finished its originally planned survey last night!! ..and will keep going :) I made a cake to celebrate. 🌌🔭 @desisurvey.bsky.social
A black, single-layer cake. The top is decorated with a pastel-rainbow telescope and galaxy map behind it.A different view of the cake, showing the galaxy map spilling over the side.
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If you were wondering what those bright flames were seen in this infrared view - those are RCS puffs to bring the capsule in an optimal landing orientation to reduce impact loading during splashdown #Artemis
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/04/2026
Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis
The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A poignant moment #Artemis 🔭🧪
The Orion Integrity spacecraft, Moon and Earth.The Orion Integrity spacecraft, Moon and Earth.The Orion Integrity spacecraft, Moon and Earth.A blue screen.
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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The moon. And the earth behind.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Beautiful crescent view of Earth from the Artemis II crew on April 3rd. flic.kr/p/2s5E44L
Crescent view of Earth.

NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 02/04/2026
The best current “view from a height”…. (10:54 UT) #ArtemisII
View from Orion in high Earth orbit, April 2, 2026, 10:54 UT
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 02/04/2026
#Artemis II update: Orion has separated from the rocket's upper stage 🚀 Our European Service Module is in the driving seat!
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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026
ok fine, one more ;-)
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CatherineQ @catherineq.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
MECO confirmed. Oh my. So good. And… holy stage separation! #ArtemisII
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Jon Ostrower @jonostrower.com · 01/04/2026
"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman
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