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Emma Bates

@emmabates.bsky.social
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Fundraiser, cat owner. She/her.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It was a nurse rather than a doctor, when I was getting the contraceptive pill: "I'm not sure that works, you know." Well, if it didn't, I think there would be some pretty clear signs.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Every time I hear the 1812 Overture, I think it sounds like the French won, because the bit with La Marseillaise just sounds so good.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
American comedies pause for laughs for slightly longer than British ones, and I find it intolerable.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Wordle today has a real 'running out of 5-letter words' vibe.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Do it as an anthology series with different writers and directors each episode, no story arcs, no knowing what you might get week to week.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 21/05/2026
I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.
13.147 A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own sex might be to prevent discomfort or distress for other service users.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Fascinating, and makes me wonder if there's a gap in the market now for *actual* social media where you interact with people you know.
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 22/04/2026
it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I'm a bit disappointed that they were so equivocal even about the lowest-ranked play, but the bonkersness of the order (Titus Andronicus above Much Ado About Nothing??) really makes up for it.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran. I would confess to anything by about the third repetition.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Someone in the 00s: "I wish teenage girls could have the same confidence in their bodies as teenage boys!" *monkey's paw curls*
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries.
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Greg Pryjmachuk @minskworks.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?” Me (indie dev in this economy): “Best I can do is sentient tofu.”
Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion. A large block of sentient tofu
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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
One of the things I find frustrating about sci-fi is that because of the American influence of it, all of the planets are called things like Zexion 5 and Danshassia 7. I’d call them things like ‘Nether Roundthorpe’ and ‘Spheresbury’. Gravity Bywell. Chalfont St Globeby. Bishop’s Goitre.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I know it's like the 279th most important way this can fuck right off, but anyone who describes themselves as pro-natal without even *glancing* at the housing shortage should be buried up to their neck with their face smeared in raspberry jam
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Bhutan is an incredible example of the effectiveness of propaganda.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Gladiator 2. Bad *and* offensive. My husband persuaded me not to walk out halfway through, and we both regretted staying put.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Employment rates for non-EU born are now *above* those for the UK born. Gap used be nearly 10 percentage points. A tribute to the success of UK immigration/immigrants and labour market integration, especially in recent years. Something government should celebrate..
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm finding it very frustrating that so many people discussing the dangers of social media for kids and teens are being coy about what those dangers actually are. Is it algorithms that point them towards extremism? Bullying by peers? Harassment by strangers? Grooming by adults?
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Jack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is the kind of thing that typically prompts me to find the application and write enthusiastically in favour.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 08/02/2026
I wish we had France’s problem of too much abundant clean energy.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I'm looking forward to the Wikipedia edit war already.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Yes this. The harms of social media are real! So are the harms of blanket bans.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
That this person is not in prison facing attempted murder charges shows how we just don't take vehicle violence seriously
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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
ME: I knew Pagliacci was a stage name, but the joke didn't work unless I pretended it was his real name. CHOTINER: So you misrepresented the doctor. M: Well, I didn't know it would be popular. It was just for our followers. C: Right. It's okay to lie when it's only close friends. M: Hold on
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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21/01/2026
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 01/01/2026
Set out six months ago to investigative some dubious evictions. Ended up writing a sprawling story spread over 450 years about London property deals, the ethics of money lending, Tommy Robinson, Barbary pirates, Jacobean earls, and wealth in the capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...
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A Tale Of One City And Two Henry Smiths
These two London landlords are separated by four centuries — but joined by a common name and business interests.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025
Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.
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padmé amygdala @ali1m.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com
a flight track of a plane drawing a christmas tree
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
*gasps and clutches laptop screen* GIVE IT ME
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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Just had a dentist's appointment at 2.30 and I didn't even think to make the joke. Devastating.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
God: behold the horse, my finest creation. fast. strong. powerful. mankind shall ride them into battle for thousands of years. angel: wow, they must be nearly indestructible God: lol no if they lay down weird one time it's pretty much over
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The similarity between the challenges for dentists and for anyone trying to book a driving tests makes me wonder just how many other things are broken in this specific way.
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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 09/12/2025
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
If we're starting "what is a Christmas movie" discourse early this year, I will tap the sign
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them
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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Orkney made me feel more welcome as a tourist than anywhere else I've ever been. I really hope the Scottish government let them have their levy.
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
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Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
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Emma Bates @emmabates.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
As I never tire of pointing out, "Sapiens" also includes a whole section about the origins of the patriarchy without ever acknowledging the impacts of pregnancy or childcare.
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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 02/10/2025
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right) 
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy? 
What the hammer that hath hewn it 
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee, 
Or an external franchisee?
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