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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 5h

I'm not even watching because I couldn't bear it if he stays longer than any of the lovely people. (and I support Jane bringing back "prize chump" as perfect insult)

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 14h

Good on you Jurgen. Don't even validate the question with an answer. Fuck these people.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 15h

It's October, I've just mowed the grass in hot blazing sunshine, a towel/bedding laundry load is hanging to dry (thank you again lovely washing-machine-owning neighbours) and lunch is avocado on toasted bagel. When I began that, there was a point. But I've meandered off it. Sorry. Am very tired.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Caregiver” means a person who gives care. Why doesn’t “caretaker” mean someone who takes care away? Just give me one week with the English language and I will make shit right.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 17h

Looking forward to working with Greg on this.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

Long (long) overdue first-time watch last night: Slumdog Millionaire. Do you know, it was excellent, and I predict will win a few awards.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ

youtu.be

Pressure Drop

YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Insomnia update: a whole ep of the World Service's Outlook followed by Witness History, then one In Our Time (The Great Stink) and one Natalie Haynes (Lucretius). *stares blearily into the dawn*

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The birds are dawn chorusing like it's spring. This feels wrong.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly, when I read the latest updates from the US, most of my energy is taken up by parsing who has blocked what attempt to deny progress in what someone was trying to overturn from a decision made before the recent ruling that upheld another verdict.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My tiny new blackberry plant is about to give me our first harvest. It has done its very best.

smol plant with half a dozen berries still to ripen fully.
This year's new growth is already eacaping the deer cage so I have high hopes for future bumper crops

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look, I've been busy and just seeing those "terrorists Trump knew all about" have been released. Please say anyone who is left in the White House pool asks question after question about what Don knew about whatever British rural crime these crimers did. Because apparently he knew ALL about 'em.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this morning: Zig stand there and look noble no not like that no stop you idiot

Zig the dog with magnificent landscape background looking off to our left

coming to see what I was doing that was so interesting crouching down. the pic is mainly his head leaning in

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

takes dog for longish walk dries dog makes coffee gives dog his coffee-time biscuit sits down, blows steam off first sip of only coffee of my day dog asks to go out to pee he's worse than a cat for this and he times it to the millisecond

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That'll be sore in the morning, I thought as I pitched over tripping into the wash tent in the dark last night and bashed my knee on the edge of something. And do you know, it is.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, envious of Gilbert. My swallows have flown.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After a lifetime of exposure to test cricket, today I FINALLY looked up the power play fielding rules of one day games, which I never realised existed. I did wonder how everyone scored so many runs all the time. Just proves (again) how you can enjoy TMS burbling without having a scoobie #TheCricket

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crisp shadows outside in the full moonlight. No lantern needed. Easy to understand why Josiah Wedgwood convened his Lunar Society then so they could all meet, then see to get home safely.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally settled (as near to me as possible OF COURSE). Going to vet for his regular arthritis jab next week, plus a general check because he has started licking/biting his waist and back legs. I can't see any rash or flea evidence. God knows what's going on. Old dog stuff.

Zig the dog sleeping in his bed next to me on the floor, nose buried in blankets

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Ben Willbond @benwillbond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Taxi driver last night told me that global warming was not an issue What’s happening is that the months have slipped forward about a month to a month and a half. But… Snow in April, mate. Snow in April. Ok. Tell you what though, looking forward to Tesla’s new hover car. Oh we’re here…

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Walking through this field, a heron was flapping slowly around. Circled a couple of times, then settled in a tree the other side of the burn. Somehow I don't expect herons to land in trees. They are massive. What do you mean, you can't see it? hang on

grassy field near us, then over the fence longer scrubby grass up to a burn we can't see, then birches, then on the far hill conifers. About half way up one of the conifers, the heron is sitting. I promise. Look, I'm never going to win cameraperson of the year.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, all in all, I can recommend Cary Elwes’ ‘As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride’ highly. William Goldman’s 1993 tribute to André is lovely, too: books.google.co.uk/books?id=DBo...

...Gone at 46, he was the most popular figure on any movie set I've ever been on. If he asked you to dinner, he paid, but when you asked him, he paid. One actor, after several free meals, snuck into the kitchen to pay. He felt himself being lifted up in the air. The actor was Arnold Schwarzenegger: "He turned me so I was facing him, and said, ‘I pay’. Then he carried me back to the table like a little boy." Sometimes children and grown-ups would see him and be terrified. Sometimes children would see him, shriek with glee, and begin clambering all over him. There is a scene at the end of Princess Bride where Robin Wright jumped out of the castle window, and Andre was to catch her at the bottom. The shot was set up for Robin to be lifted a foot. Maybe two. The first take, he caught her and gasped, suddenly white like paper, and almost fell to his knees. His back was bad. And getting worse. Andre once said to Billy Crystal, "We do not live long, the big and the small." Alas.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh wow - this is an actual thing! The thing I thought Jane was joking about. If I weren't at the exact opposite end of the country I would book my ticket right now.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

FOR NO REASON (hush) today has started up the earworm of one of those tweets that live in my head forever, by @theandrewnadeau.bsky.social - you know the one

text from Andrew Nadeau's tweet from twitter's glorious olden days that accompanied various medieval drawings of horses looking, well, odd

HIM: Do you know what horses are?
MEDIEVAL ARTIST: Ha ha! Of course I know horkses!
HIM: Horses.
MEDIEVAL ARTIST:...Horp-horpses.

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Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Legend.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trying to improve my bridge game, and LET ME TELL YOU playing with a computer bot for a partner ... do you know, I was going to explain exactly how the bot is an idiot but this is already too niche a post so let's just leave it there good evening everyone

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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Gibby @thegibbon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

*Walks into son's room and goes to throw open the curtains "come on fella it's time to get up for sch_____"

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I know this doesn't look like anything much, but it's about 3 days of hard work clearing round hedge. Hedge plants have been enclosed in home-made deer fencing for couple of years. Now I reckon it's ready. Only halfway cleared yet...

mixed native hedge along my side of a stock fence, now nicely cleared. Trusty wash tent in view. We maintain our traditions

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I still own DVD/CD players and a stack of DVDs and CDs. Don't think of myself as a cultural prepper but maybe prepper-adjacent.

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Keithy @metalgiroud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s like he’s being operated by Rod Hull

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Seeing a robin land by my window, I noticed how LEGGY they are compared with chaffinches, or my friends the coal tits. Nothing, of course, is more surprising than owl legs. Good day to you. (none of these fine pictures are mine, sorry)

robin perching on a holly twig, a few red berries to one side. it is standing like the Tories used to do on conference stages after some misguided PR person told them that putting their feet as far apart as they could was a power stance and everyone would do what they told them to. Anyway, the robin does it better than they did. LONG legs

chaffinch on similar twig, but shorter legs

a beautiful fuzzy ball of a coal tit, on another twig, with its tiny delicate legs

an outraged owl, claws clenched round the stupid sodding branch it has been given to stand on by its human, who is also lifting undercarriage feathers northwards to show its terrifyingly muscular and enormously long legs. I'd be outraged too. These are secret owl legs.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everything has had a good drenching overnight.

cluster of small blooms on a rambling rose growing up the garden room wall. pink as buds, fading to palest near white in the end

same rose plant, different flower. this one more pink, surrounded by deep pink buds. keep deadheading, it keeps going

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I regularly see a couple of videos of Mayor Mamdani when I open bluesky, about how lovely he has been to - well - everybody, in the last 24 hours. I don't live there. He's not my mayor. But he seems to be uncomplicatedly decent and that is giving me joy. He crouches down to talk to tiny children!

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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Flood warning pinged into my phone. I look at weather forecast: due to dump on us overnight/early morning. Will it be fine enough to build a house tomorrow?? whomst knows

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

are you allowed to heckle at the UN?

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've not read the article Sharon is exquisitely dismantling, and don't have to because of her beautiful work. This is mid-thread. It's all good.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still working my way along the hedge, dismantling guards and weeding. Trained the rampant dog rose in and along. Left this accidental beauty until the flowers finish because this is the whole damn point of doing anything really.

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

fancied new potatoes with supper looked in fridge: none sad REMEMBERED the reason I hadn't bought any was because my growbags were ready DELIGHT rootled around, retrieved 3 perfect ones which are now cooking knackered brain wins in the end. And the mint is still going. hello welcome to my evening

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Didn't have reposting a food writer* for incisive political analysis on today's bingo card, yet here we are * yeah yeah a lot more than that** BUT STILL let me have my point O Bluesky ** yes I'll be buying his book*** *** no he's not paying me

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me: I love nature. All nature also me: *creeps up behind stupid flies that refuse to be safely caught and released using my trust Glass'n'Card technique* New house will have insect screens on the windows. I love nature. Just not ALL INSIDE AT ONCE

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Bluesky remains unbeaten

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How Anglo-Saxon is the Bayeux Tapestry? Was it made, as is often suggested, by nuns around Canterbury in the decade after the Conquest? And if so what might the Tapestry, and especially its rarely seen reverse, tell us about their experiences? mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-bayeux...

mathewlyons.substack.com

The Bayeux Tapestry and its backstories

Can the Tapestry’s narrative ambivalence tell us about the women who made it?

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Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is how Zig took the unwelcome news that he had to move from my bed because it was my bedtime.

tousled dog looking at us with resignation, snuggled up to his fleece blanket on top of the Dog Separation Blanket that goes on my bed in the daytime, precisely because I know how much he likes sleeping there and I prefer a less doggy environment underneath

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