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frilinikus.bsky.social @frilinikus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need goodlawproject.org/s/ec0359
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Trans people have a right to the same healthcare we all need
Across the country, trans people are being denied vital healthcare that has nothing to do with their gender identity – simply because they are trans.
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swedemason @swedemason.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
FT exclusive: Global Counsel, the advisory firm founded by Lord Peter Mandelson, is set to go into administration as soon as Friday in the wake of revelations about the former peer and Jeffrey Epstein, its staff have been told. www.ft.com/content/ad5d...
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor. Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time. A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
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frilinikus.bsky.social @frilinikus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social I'm stuck at home, feeling rough, recovering from cancer. Just got a photo of your good self Mr Rosen and an ex pupil of mine! She is very shy and it took guts for her to speak to you. I am now bouncing. Thank you for your kindness x
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"In Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender's income. In 2002, a Nokia director received a $103,600 fine for breaking the speed limit in Finland. He was driving at 75 km/h (47 mph) in a 50 km/h (31 mph) zone."
In Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender's income. In 2002, a Nokia director received a $103,600 fine for breaking the speed limit in Finland. He was driving at 75 km/h (47 mph) in a 50 km/h (31 mph) zone. History Photographed @historyphotographed
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We’re excited to present the launch event for the Century of Sounds project, taking over @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social after hours for a very special evening of live music, conversation and sound. Join us on 27 February: citiesandmemory.com/2026/01/cent... @ocmevents.bsky.social
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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Councils across Oxfordshire are looking to collaborate on recycling in a new Oxfordshire Waste and Environmental Services Programme, with forecast savings of over £100m in 10 years. West Oxfordshire District Council today gave it their backing. #whatcouncilsdo news.westoxon.gov.uk/news/west-ox...
Classic meme from A Christmas Carol, appropriated for bins use. 
Man stares out of window, caption says 'You there! Huge bins news!'
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
msmagazine.com
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenterIn a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Tidings of great joy today: the 45th anniversary of the (UK) premiere of that divinely understated social-realism masterwork FLASH GORDON, which I could tell you about at length, but I’m not sure there’s a better summary of it than this
empireonline.com
Gordon’s alive! The untold story of Flash Gordon
As J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens sweeps all before it, Empire tells the fantastic tale behind, Flash Gordon, one of its key inspirations.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Amazon is proposing to build a data centre in Didcot, on the edge of the decomissioned power station site. The company is the largest cloud computing provider globally with a 30% market share, ahead of Google and Microsoft.
Artists' impression of the data centre and some Teslas or somethingArtists' impression of the data centre from above
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 28/11/2025
🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published. Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs. Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible. The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party. Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
bylinetimes.com
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Imagine if 2000 children had gone missing from boarding schools. How much outrage there would be. Imagine how quickly there would be demands for inquiries and actions. Instead because these are unaccompanied asylum seeking children they will either be ignored or blamed for being trafficked.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry. Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market” 72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
theguardian.com
Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry
TV personality wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Early signs suggest an outbreak of bird flu (H5N1) in Oxfordshire. Following a dead swan in Witney which was subsequently confirmed by testing to have avian influenza, cases were confirmed yesterday in Blenheim and on Port Meadow.
Stock imagery of a swan (Erik van Dijk at unsplash.com)
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Once more for the weekend long read crowd 👇
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Oh, and www.ko-fi.com/soozuk coz I worked out that if 2000 of you send me a fiver I can book the surgery and have all the rehab starting, like, next week. Worth a shot imho.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Are Oxford‘s poorest areas sharing in its prosperity? As billionaires pour more money into the city’s AI and biotech industries, we take a deep dive into gentrification in Oxford and the city’s housing crisis. (With maps and data!) oxfordclarion.uk/gentrifying-...
oxfordclarion.uk
Gentrifying Oxford vs the left-behinds
Oxford’s poorest areas are not sharing equally in the city’s increased prosperity, new figures suggest. Parts of Minchery Farm, Rose Hill, and Wood Farm are now suffering more deprivation compared to...
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I just donated. Oxford people, join if you can.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/11/2025
somebody at the Clarion wrote an explainer of how to beat the Oxford congestion charge and i'm crying, help oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy-...
oxfordclarion.uk
Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge
Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our ha...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink. Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If you haven’t already: ✒️ Sign our open letter supporting trans+ people’s dignity and rights at notinourname.org.uk 📣 Share it with friends, colleagues, and networks 💖 Help us reach 100,000 signatures by Christmas Together, we can show that women’s solidarity includes ALL women. 5/5
notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
THIS IS SO GOOD
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 06/11/2025
A new European survey on attitudes to nudity shows that Danes are the most accepting of being in the buff in public, with 54% saying they have been naked in at least 1 of 7 scenarios we asked about DEN 54% GER 45% SPA 44% FRA 31% UK 25% ITA 22% yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It’s 6 November, and you know what that means, don’t you? YES, THAT’S RIGHT. It’s the 156th anniversary of the death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombat
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pen and ink drawing of himself mourning his wombat, showing a man kneeling over the corpse of a rotund wombat, its toes turned up. They are in front of tomb bearing the date 6th November 1869, and a palm tree
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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: 
Using Generative AI?
You’re prompting with Hitler!
GenAI is a Fascist Project!
Try using your brain instead
Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/11/2025
Applying for benefits is anxiety-inducing - and the weird language makes it much worse | Zoe Williams
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Applying for benefits is anxiety-inducing - and the weird language makes it much worse | Zoe Williams
The staff are really helpful, but stark warnings, unnecessary cliffhangers and demonising language in the application forms all add up to unnecessary stress, writes Zoe Williams
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A baby rhino, Markus, has been born at Cotswold Wildlife Park just outside Burford – the only white rhino birth in the UK this year. Head keeper Mark Goodwin said “He’s one of the most confident calves I’ve seen… if he grows into his features, he will be a big lad.”
Markus in the Rhino House with Head Keeper Mark (photo by Philip Joyce via Cotswold Wildlife Park)Markus soon after his birth (photo by Rory Carnegie via Cotswold Wildlife Park)
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in the Serbian city of Novi Sad right now. Hundreds of thousands of students have marched for days across Serbia. A huge protest against Vučić’s government as they commemorate the anniversary of the Novi Sad rail station disaster, a year ago today. (🎥 Lazar Stojakovic)
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
History cannot be remixed. The Hits Just Keep on Comin’ by PUBLIC ENEMY.
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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Thank God for the word ‘Cinema’.
A headline, which reads ‘Almost one million Euros has been granted to revitalise Cillian Murphy’s Dingle cinema.’
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
open.substack.com
On the edge
My week in the NHS
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frilinikus.bsky.social @frilinikus.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Louvre? Dahling, I wasn't anywhere near
David Niven, a.k.a The Pink Panther, gentlemen thief. Black tie and a martini
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/10/2025
👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.
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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Do you like archaeology? Do you like horror? Do you like archaeological horror?* I have the book for you. Ten stories, £5.99 for the paperback or £1.49 for the ebook. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows-37/ *different from horror archaeology like a winter watching brief in the snow, finding nowt.
The cover of Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase, featuring a black background and a circle with a pattern made up of brown trowels in the centre
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The Ellison Institute of Technology, American billionaire Larry Ellison’s initiative to build a science campus in Oxford, has announced that its “growing ambitions” now encompass a 180,000 square metres area of Littlemore and Oxford Science Park – six times the original footprint.
Visualisation of the EIT campus
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Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London. Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.
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