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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile “The Other Bennet Sister” is a mainstream smash hit, that batshit febrile Emerald Fennel fapfest Wuthering Heights crackfic was the toast of the town, “Sherlock” catapulted Cucumberpatch and Freeman to Hollywood and Tom Stoppard is hailed as a Serious Intellectual Dramatist. And yet. 🤦‍♀️

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online

The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This beautiful box dates from 18th century China. It resembles a six-petaled flower, and features a phoenix and eight symbols of Taoist immortals inlaid with turquoise. The Eight Immortals (Ba Xian) are a group of ancient heroes in Chinese mythology who fight for justice and vanquish evil.

A gold box with turquoise phoenix and emblems of eight Taoist Immortals

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Michael Kotlikoff, President Ryan Lombardi, VP Student and Campus Life Brian White, VP Robert Harrington, Dean of Medicine And Chi Phi Fraternity.

Four white men who made rapists write essays.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like. I have said it before and I'll say it again: when your industry's founding pitch is "what if there was a tool with human-level intelligence that didn't have human rights," then regardless of whether the tech is actually sentient (which it isn't), nothing downstream of that will be ethical.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm really going to enjoy re-watching this movie to find the small things. I'll give you one small, completely non-spoiler example. When Bugs shows up? They're standing near a pole with direction signs. "Bathroom this way," etc. And one pointing at Bugs says "Rabbit: 7 feet >"

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Antisemitic” here apparently meaning “believes ALL children are precious, including Palestinians.” Idk how anyone can see “protects ALL children” as “hates me (because I support my demographic getting to murder some specific children)” without understanding that *they’re the bad guy*.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TIL: I knew about Iambe, a mortal woman, cheering up a very sad Demeter by telling her jokes until she laughed. What I didn't know was that Iambe was the personification of the iambic pentameter, "which reflects a ritual discourse that provokes laughter *and thereby promotes fertility.*

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay, yes, this would make sense. Jfc

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So…this film “Other Mommy” is basically Coraline as a straight up horror film pitched at adults, yes?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026

‘My kid coulda been Caitlin Clark but a trans person existed’ was tested in a lab called ‘I can’t go to the school I deserved to go to because a Black person has my spot’

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some of the new-to-me boots I treated myself to for my birthday last month

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is an excellent summary.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Spaghetti Al’Assassina recipe according to ChatGPT…

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections

My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s been a bit of a week, so time to roll this one out again.

British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows.

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70's Superhero Billy Jack @billyjackliberal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm not sure people heard what our crazy president said HE SAID "CHEAT LIKE HELL" The president of the United States of America just told his supporters to cheat and offered a $5,000 bribe. THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"boxer who was never knocked down in 93 fights" sounds like something they made up for a movie, like the whole Khabib has never bled in a fight thing, a factoid that literally has no business existing. RIP, legend.

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Dr. Catherine Strickson @brigitteempire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eye-wateringly stupid defence from Rowling’s team here - ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’ - Really? So that £70,000 towards the bathroom ban was by accident? The JKR Women’s Fund was made by an impersonator? At least have the spine to admit you want us dead

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J.K. Rowling’s rep responds to Lilly Wachowski’s accusation of ‘funding trans genocide’ (exclusive)

J.K. Rowling’s representative responded to Lilly Wachowski accusing the author of ‘funding trans genocide’: ‘She does not support legal actions aimed at harming transgender people.’

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Is it fair that the school on a shoestring budget has to play the one in the affluent suburb that has a budget for brand new equipment and groundskeeping for a shot at state finals? Fuck off lol

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026

"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/09/2026

It's all feeling very doomy, which makes it pretty hard to talk about books and promo and romance novels and stuff. And we can't ignore the doomy stuff in favour of nice things because we have to vote and turn up and push back.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/09/2026

Honestly, "big-name studios can't agree on the premise of the Muppet Show" sounds like the premise of the Muppet Show

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have an uncle who lives here who was asked extremely seriously by his employer if wearing his turban as per the sikh faith was really worth hurting the feelings of America over and he should stop it because bin laden wore a different turban

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026

If you put ten children in a room with a single large red button that launches all nukes, it would be a genuine threat to humanity. But it doesn't mean children are a human extinction risk. It means the person who puts them near the nuke button is a human extinction risk.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Maybe it will happen today 🙏

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's publication day for The Green Man's Debt. You can find a wide roster of purchase links, UK and international, on the Wizard's Tower Press website. Happy reading 😁 wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book...

Cover art by Ben Baldwin for The Green Man's Debt by Juliet E McKenna. A grey wolf with pale eyes stands in the shadows of a derelict building with a black and white tiled floor. The wolf is looking straight at you. Its snarl reveals blood on its teeth and jaw.

Cover copy reads: Dan Mackmain’s mum is a dryad, so he knows asking someone from the supernatural world for a favour means there’ll be a price to pay, sooner or later. He’s been waiting for the Hunter, the antler-crowned guardian of predators and prey, to call in his debt.

He wasn’t expecting this to happen when he and his girlfriend Fin were planning to visit her sister Iris and her new husband Conn. Dan has prepared for this unknown challenge, reading up on Irish folklore. So far, he’s learned how different those who live in that unseen realm will be from anyone he’s encountered before – and that crossing them could be very dangerous.

A modern fantasy rooted in ancient myths and folklore.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?” “Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.

Toad questions Frog about the veracity of his ghost story, an animated look on his face.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think I noted during the recent Belfast riots that a certain kind of man is not really interested in protecting women & girls; he's interested in protecting the exclusive right of his kind of man to abuse and control women and girls.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Relistening to Martha Wells’ Network Effect for the gazillionth time and the Three POV stuff just slays me every time. It is TOO PRECIOUS 😭😭😭

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

how many woodpeckers does it take to run GTA 6

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Listening to the new audiobook of Martha Wells’ new Murderbotverse ficlet “Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy”, &, man, she REALLY ships the ship ship, eh? ART ❤️ Murderbot 5Eva. (Seeing ART with its human sibling & their dads really reframes Network Effect. ART is so baby!)

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Once, a newcomer jokingly asked if there were any straight people in the church and I was like "yes" and looked around, but most of them had already left, so I was staring around panicked until I spotted one and started pointing and going "There! There's one behind that pillar!" like I was on safari

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Flashback to the time an American lad in my Art History tutorial group launched into a presentation on Botticelli in which it swiftly became clear that he did not know that The Holy Roman Empire and The Roman Empire are more than 1000 years apart. The second hand embarrassment was excruciating.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not knowing about the impending loan, I went to see it in Bayeux last year. I wasn't expecting the penises and they did make me curious about the lives of cloistered 11th century nuns.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 02/09/2026

For many years I have been posting little observations online. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings because they should be seen 🧵

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just Asking Questions, such as: “should human bodies primarily be seen through reproductive function for the glory of the state?” And “are those who reject their reproductive role traitors to the master race?”

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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 01/09/2026

More appalling behaviour from the BBC. ⬇️ A trans person interviewed about their horrific experience having their surgery cancelled whilst in the hospital described as 'biologically female'. And then half the article devoted to praising the work of an unemployed transphobe. 🗣️ DEFUND THE BBC 🗣️

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Welsh Gender Service: Transgender patients told surgery cancelled in hospital

One patient said they were "heartbroken" after being told their surgery was called off 24 hours before.

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