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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 03/09/2026

The brief panic when I get out of the shower and I had put my glasses in their 'going to bed' spot and not their 'getting in the shower' spot...

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 18/08/2026

I've been writing on AO3 since 2010 and maybe this number is normal for some fic writers but for me this is just madness, my first fic to hit 4 figures of kudos?

Cropped screenshot of the 'stats' page on AO3, showing a fic with 46k hits and 1004 kudos. The 1004 is circled because it is insane.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you’re ever wondering whether person (x) is reasonable or whether they’re just a hooting wingnut crackpot, then I have always found “do they have serious, very aggro beef with Amnesty International” is one of the best indicators.

The National •
@scotnational.bsky.so... • 1d
NEW: JK Rowling and other gender-critical campaigners have reacted furiously after a report from Amnesty International called them 'anti-rights' organisations
The author has accused human rights group Amnesty of believing women don't deserve rights in response

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 10/07/2026

Do I normally come into the office on a Friday? No. Does my office have aircon? Yes. Guess where I am today...

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 05/07/2026

When you suddenly remember duxford air show is this weekend because fighter jets fly over your house...

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 03/07/2026

Me most of the last decade: writing fanfic? Yeah I think that part of my life may be in the past... Me the last 4 months: writing over 70k of heated rivalry fanfic with several chapters to go (and plot bunnies waiting in the wings) 🤷‍♀️

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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

“Don’t piss off every section of the coalition that elected you” is advice that most political scientists would give you for free

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Gwen @finalgwen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Credit to @penny-anna.bsky.social for the best take on Who's cancellation.

A Tumblr post from penny-anna:

"Have we considered that Ianto's shrine may have been load bearing?"

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 08/06/2026

Finished typing up chapter 19 of my fanfic hours ago, opened new page in notebook to start chapter 20. So far in several hours I have written the word 'ilya'. (it's not even that I don't know what happens in the start of this chapter, I do. Just need to actually write... something)

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 11/05/2026

Maybe it's just that it's been a decade since I posted new fic, maybe it's that the Heated Rivalry fandom is bonkers, but my WIP that I posted *4 weeks ago* is already the fic with the 2nd most hits of the entire 106 fics I have on AO3 across various fandoms and 15 years. #1 was posted in 2010...

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 28/04/2026

Being a Brit writing fanfic in a Canada-based fandom means my search history is currently full of things like 'Canada tap vs faucet'

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 19/04/2026

...having 90 AO3 subscriptions after posting 2 chapters of my WIP (a week apart) is pretty good motivation to keep going and actually finish it. (given the fandom it's probably relatively low but it's a way higher number than I've had on there before!)

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🖇🌊AntiIgnoramiAnya🌊 @aungard.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Seriously Guardian? The pope relating Jesus's teachings to the current situation is what a pope should do. Saying that the pope is feuding, quarreling, etc., with the Drumpfster fire is ludicrous. If anyone is being argumentative it is the regime because they want to make this a [unholy!] holy war.

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Jesus: omg im lost in the desert wearing nothing but this flimsy robe I sure hope no-one tries to seduce me in the next, idk, forty days or so

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 16/04/2026

I'm not saying that the reason this place falls over fucking constantly now is vibe coding and AI brain rot. No. Wait. I am saying that.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands

Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h
• JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO:
"When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory."

"In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology."

"And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

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Sean McIndoe @downgoesbrown.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

He did it. Morgan Geekie breaks Auston Matthews' record for most goals by a player exactly matching his own jersey number. Rest easy, Duane. You too, 2020 me. (But not you, Glen Murray. Screw Glen Murray. He knows what he did.)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/04/2026

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

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Kade Peregrine @kadeperegrine.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I love that German hits the nail on the head by using the term "hobbyless behaviour" to describe those effects. Painting flags on roundabouts? Hobbyless behaviour. Harassing immigrants? Hobbyless behaviour. Picketing drag brunches? Hobbyless behaviour.

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Acerbic Otter, but SPOOOOOOOOOKY @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

NASA: "Hey Artemis astronauts, you're back early Reid Wiseman: "Outlook's haunted" NASA: "What?" Wiseman: (loading a shotgun) "Outlook's haunted"

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go loud @stillicides.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"? no. you are safe now. Forever Immunity Dog has got you covered.

photo of fluffy white dog with pink blossoming trees behind them. text below reads: You have found Forever Immunity Dog. Immunity dog protects you from all cursed posts for the rest of your life. Do not comment, like, or share those cursed posts. You are safe now. Immunity dog protects you.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Unimprovable opening to Private Eye’s review of Matt Goodwin’s ‘book’

Photo of the opening paragraph of a book review: White trash
Suicide of a nation
Matt Goodwin (Northstar, £12.99)
Matt Goodwin bills Suicide of a Nation as “the book they don't want you to read". Well, it's certainly a book I didn't want me to read. Goodwin, a former centrist academic turned Reform's in-house intellectual (who recently lost the Gordon and Denton by-election), has cultivated a social media presence somewhere between Kevin the Teenager and Roderick Spode. It felt unlikely he'd be more bearable at greater length.

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 02/04/2026

#AO3 is exiting open beta! Learn more about how far we've come since launching open beta, our future plans for improvement, and what you can do to contribute at otw-news.org/4w2dn3tc

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

a good thread but I want to add: literally all of every sport favors people with genetic advantages but no one complains when cis men have them Michael Phelps’ muscles produce HALF the lactic acid as an average cis man, meaning he can go twice as long before tiring is that unfair? nobody cared

biography.com

Why Michael Phelps Has the Perfect Body for Swimming

With his extra-long torso and flipper-like feet, it’s no wonder the Olympian is nicknamed the “Flying Fish.”

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/03/2026

“The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.” LOUDER

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 26/03/2026

Timeline/planning doc for the fic I'm working on: around 550 words. Words written of the fic so far: approx 14k Words of the planning doc that are covered by what is written... maybe 80? Definitely blowing waaaay past the ~20k I originally thought this fic would take

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/03/2026

you don’t have to feel like a bad person if once upon a time you enjoyed harry potter you can be sad if it is something that was meaningful to you but we know who she is now, her main goal in life is to destroy trans people, and she directs all of her money toward that end

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The Film Canary @thefilmcanary.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

One more time, nice and loud for those at the back.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/03/2026

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

user abbiistabbii:
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 16/03/2026

Well, I am around 10.5k words into this fic (estimating handwritten pages based on the average of the ones I've typed up) and the pen I have been using (which came with the old diary I've been writing in so was unused) just ran out. Also I am 3/15+ chapters in and I've reached July in the diary...

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 16/03/2026

Stirling Castle and Bannockburn in primary school the year we studied the Scottish Wars of Independence (every school in the area did some combo of those and the Wallace Monument).

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Al-oy-z 🌺 Amaryllis @alois359.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

THIS IS NOT A DRILL. NEW CHECK PLEASE INCOMING!!

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 13/03/2026

somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps

"a debt of gratitude" was owed to the anonymous late collector, whose films - largely focused on his love of trains and canals, including hundreds of home videos - were donated to FIF after he died.

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 11/03/2026

Around 8400 words into this fic and I have checked off 3 of the 15 bullet points on my timeline... Somewhere in my long writing hiatus the ability to write something short apparently disappeared.

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 09/03/2026

One of these days I am going to stop believing bags of supermarket citrus fruit labelled as 'easy peelers' *Picking at pith 5 mins later...*

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

the way she thought she ate with that retort and not one person clapped 💀

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Nobody expected this to last SEVENTEEN YEARS so fair enough, really. Although part of me did imagine that it might still be around in the far distant future, the subject of myths and speculation as to who or what was being commemorated here. This IS a place of honour, after all.

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Erin @etmuse.uk · 02/03/2026

I like writing draft 0 of fic by hand because 1. my brain flows better that way sometimes and 2. it builds in the first round of edits automatically when I type up. But my handwriting is getting messier and messier as the pages go on (17 a5 notebook pages so far)

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