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@felixthefemale.bsky.social
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nobody you know. chronic pain, acute whinging. panstitchual. she/her.

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 16h
I saw the light (or lack thereof) yesterday, and grabbed my camera and stepped outside, pretty sure I'd see the mother of all rainbows. But there was none. There was however, the darkest and brightest 'at the same time' moment I think I've ever seen. Extraordinary.
Brightly lit trees and a dark sky.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 9h
Tremendous selection of pots currently still available on my website at the moment www.roseschmits.com I’m so proud of the sheer variety of shapes and colours I’ve been able to achieve in this series of work, I truly never tire of it Free UK shipping, worldwide shipping available
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h
this is gonna be the first November where the poppyshaggers have full, unrestricted access to Gen AI. It's going to be horrific.
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Viriconia @viriconia.bsky.social · 4h
Me looking at the menu board in the chipper
A truly terrible looking hedgehog cake with malteser eyes and chocolate fingers as spikes. The worst part is the gums and teeth.
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 3h
Got my precious back from mum, who was looking after it while we packed and moved and failed to unpack and then unpacked a bit and so on and so forth and where was I going with this? moving is hell
A creeper pot by @roseschmits.bsky.social on a dresser. She's a small vase with octopoid legs, one of which is stuck out in front at a very 'look at my fabulous shoes' angle. Her vase has done paintbrushes in, and behind her are a chunk of marble with 'arse' carved into it, and various bits of crockery
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 8h
It comes after years of cover-ups & denials not least from Boris Johnson who was in charge of MI6 as foreign minister at the time & whose first act as PM was to ennoble the Baron of Siberia. But it also went beyond Johnson & Starmer continued it too. We now finally need some sunlight. 2/
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 11h
The Monolith and the Apes from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h
This is an infuriating narrative. Appalling in every sense but one: This young woman at the center was and is relentlessly heroic.
motherjones.com
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 7h
Might be that the easing of the other pain brings a neck-based headache to the fore? Heat and stretching?
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 8h
Even better plan
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 8h
Spray and go away. Rinse, repeat, *then* scrub
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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 9h
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Graphic designer: clear space on a document is important to rest the eye
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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 9h
'Don't Look Now' is on BBC2 at 22.45, tonight, which means I can swerve another day of making a fresh Hallowmeme.
This alt-text contains a +++SPOILER+++ for the movie, so if you haven't seen it, now is the time to stop reading. It's the 4 panel Drake meme, but Drake has been swapped for Donald Sutherland in "Don't Look Now". The top left panel shows a smiling Donald pointing at the image of his daughter, wearing her red jacket and holding a pretty mad looking toy, in the top right panel. The bottom left panel shows a distraught Donald holding his hands up to avoid getting slashed by the diminutive serial killer wearing a hooded red duffel coat and holding onto a vicious looking knife in the bottom right panel.
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 8h
Hope it helps x
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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 11h
2026 Charity Auction Update A surprising addition has been donated! The wonderful @poorfrankraw.co.uk has donated his Sinner carved stone to the auction! (I will be very jealous of whoever get this!!) Please go see the great donations here: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 9h
Oof. Common side effect - but I would hope that means it does wear off, otherwise very few people would persist with it. Paracetamol is good for bone pain, do you take baths as well?
Side effects from the BNF website
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 9h
He looks like he has a riddle for you to solve
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 9h
Two things here: 1. It's not centrism, it's literal censorship when a state broadcaster (w/ Royal Charter) digitally alters and disseminates an image/message it doesn't like
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 19h
There's a lot of tools in AI...
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 19h
Ah, hadn't heard of him. Doesn't seem like a very logical person though
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 23h
That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.
A plastic dolls house sitting on a wall, taken from an angle which makes it look as if it might be one of the houses on the street.
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 19h
Who was that?!
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Oop
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Nanight Hookland, sleep tight x
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Thank you! I'm so relieved it worked!
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Turns out even I've outsold Braverman and we didn't even have marketing @typejunky.bsky.social
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Are you disturbed by a Welsh lady and her noble steed? Are your ancestors crying out for shame?
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Heh
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
Creepy? All that joi de vivre creepy? Well.
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 21h
My submission for the @skullsandsheets.bsky.social charity auction ready for the post. Heh.
It's a postcard of a woman in traditional Welsh dress riding a horse sidesaddle, except a Mari Lwyd has been superimposed over the horse. She has rosettes on her forehead and plaited streamers coming down from her embroidered skull, a red jewel for an eye, and her sheet is escaping the frame the postcard is mounted in. Heh.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Britain is a country perpetually furious at what it's *actually* good and throwing its toys out the pram because it's not the big muscly men hitting things with hammers country. Cultural exports, universities, Warhammer and weed, that's all we should be focusing our economy on.
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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Lots of people misunderstand Those Who Walk Away From Omelas anyway, but we're probably a couple of weeks away from AI boosters declaring that their emotional support stochastic parrots *are* the forsaken child (only not fictional) at the heart of progress that we're being mean to, aren't we?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Another data centre ruining a rather beautiful bit of historically anc environmentally significant piece of marshland on the outskirts of Norwich. c.org/Hj8ZfZWXkb
c.org
Sign the Petition
Stop the South Norwich data centre construction
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Saskiarghhhhh Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 10/10/2026
You know, some of the people bemoaning the use of phones at breakfast table would do well to a) remember when parents disappeared behind newspapers and b) consider that they are sociopaths for wanting conversation at breakfast time.
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Apropos the day we're having... Read queer indie books. Read queer horror. Read everything a tech oligarch's proprietary algorithm would deem likely to offend white cishet conservatives.
Collage of 6 of Nefarious Bat's book covers: Anna Orridge's Phengaris, Drew Huff's The Exodontists, Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, Shauna Mc Eleney's Awake In The Night, Disco Barrington's This Is How The World Ends, and Tradwife (by me)

Text reads: Support Queer Indie Books
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Jo the Hat @jothehat.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026
With alt text
Sexy Jamie McKe... @ada... Aug 23, 2024
I knew a theatre technician who did a show with Blessed and they were in the pub afterwards along with his wife only to hear someone criticising said show.
Blessed: YOU SIR ARE A CUNT, YOUR WERE BORN A CUNT AND YOU'LL DIE A CUNT.
Wife: Brian..
Blessed: Not now dear I'm calling this man a cunt.
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8bitnorthxstitch @8bitnorthxstitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When Blessed was rehearsing Peter Pan in Manchester, my mate had to deliver a big rubber crocodile to the company. He was told to deliver the prop to the room. When he walked in, Blessed roared, ‘here comes the fucking crocodile!’ grabbed it, and wrestled it to the floor. What a legend.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's a glorious pocket watch with all the complications and a see through back of a thing isn't it?
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nice
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nanight Hookland x
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely gloriously batshit idea with unbelievable execution
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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just seen Operation Mincemeat. Was braced to be enthusiastic with the friends who arranged it and have seen it a few times before but oh my word it is actually that good. And now I must see it again, to catch what I missed when I blinked. Only it's sold out, of course.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Flydubai pilot was deep into manosphere content, routinely used derogatory sexual slurs about women, and wanted a tradwife Misogyny is a gateway drug www.ft.com/content/a92b...
ft.com
The online life of the Flydubai attacker
[FREE TO READ] Co-pilot of flight 1073 gravitated towards the ‘manosphere’ and expressed misogynistic views
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why can’t we be more like the French? In France, young people are punching up at those in power demanding better education not decline and more cuts In Britain, middle-aged masked men with criminal records for domestic abuse punch down an at anyone who isn’t white In @heraldscotland.bsky.social
heraldscotland.com
What French student protests reveal about Britain's broken political system
In France, even children can see that the political system needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. In Britain, we seem incapable of understanding that truth, Neil Mackay says.
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Felt a similar way when Helen Joyce’s ‘Trans’ was sent to Rob post the war over at The Bad Place. Was a bit warm for a fire so we settled for the skip.
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Getting hammered with the other Anne Carson bros, we've been up all night watching the pre Nobel pundits, Big Keith has taken his shirt off and is chanting excerpts from Autobiography Of Red
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die
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