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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.' - I don't know a single severely disabled person - all of whom have reams of medical evidence of impairment and illness - who hasn't had their conditions deliberately downplayed by benefit assessors
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
don't bother addressing a congregation unless you're in the baroque creature pulpit
Baroque pulpit ca. 1750, rebuilt 1856, Parish church in Dobroszów.

a fanciful scaled sculpture where the serpents open mouth serves as the pulpit
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Katy @katyha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Labour falls into this same trap on immigration. "We have our own solution to the immigration problem", rather than rejecting the assertion that it's a problem in the first place.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as an artist I'd love this but I also think everyone else should also get it. I think UBI should just be default. But I think that would transform the economy into TRULY being the free marketplace of ideas, the car capitalists chase and hope they never catch lol #politics
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georgia-lux @georgialux.bsky.social · 17/08/2023
Young man-- there's no need to feel down I said young man-- Pagliacci's in town You can go there-- see the world's greatest clown Now why do- you- wince- so sadly?
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Kevin Bacon is six degrees away Five degrees now, sir *alarm sirens blare* Four degrees Sir he’s breached the perimeter Three degrees Sir Two degrees One *kevin bacon crashes through the ceiling*
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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I would make it mandatory for call centres to provide an option to say "Look, I have already tried doing it online *and* in the app, and it's not working. I want this to be a phone call even less than you do so please shut up about how convenient it is to do it digitally".
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Only one way to fix this: All Drag series of Taskmaster.
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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think these are unspeakably beautiful.
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hello. I have now added these recent ink and watercolour drawings/paintings to my ink and watercolour shop. Three feature pylons, one is a tree. If you could share this it would help me because I’m just a one person type of deal, art wise. www.chloecumming.com/inkwater
A nice bendy tree with a squishy head and squidged sunTwo pylons with unabashed pinkness and round cloud Bent wrong mashed up pylon with blue sky and green hill Rusty leaning tilted diagonal pylon with brown
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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · 05/09/2026
The idea that we just have to accept the idea that "small boats" are a problem that must be dealt with is absurd and that Labour have bought in to this racist bullshit only provides support to the right-wing parties who proposed the policies to start with.
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
One thing Albert Camus says in The Rebel (which is excellent, if somewhat dense) is that because fascism is an ideology of grievance it constantly needs new enemies, and that means that eventually a fascist coalition is bound to turn on each other, too. Anyway just thinking about that for no reason.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The world is bereft to have lost Dolly Parton
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Andrew Ducker @andrewducker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Making things easier for people who need it makes them easier for everyone
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Explain it to me like I’m ten
In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/08/2026
White House Doctor Claims President Has Always Been Face Drawn Onto Cantaloupe theonion.com/white-house-doctor-cla…
White House Doctor Claims President Has Always Been Face Drawn Onto Cantaloupe
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/08/2026
“Would he be able to battle with the Trainline app to buy a ticket to Cambridge from Liverpool Street station? Would he manage to get through the ticket gates with his big bag without getting stuck? Methinks he would not”
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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 14/08/2026
sorry I can't come to work today there's a credible threat
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly
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Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I think we need some #CripJoy so I'm encouraging people to share a photo of themselves being happy with their mobility aid to counteract stigma from grotty grifters. This photo was me with my then-new rainbow stick at @bicon.bsky.social 2018 probably just going off-duty as an organiser.
A photo of me Natalya in 2018 at BiCon the UK's longest running bi event convention, conference (we can't decide so we go con to have it all). I am a white woman in my late 30s dressed in a black lizard skeleton teeshirt and dark blue jeans. I am standing in the bar area where the registration desk was, holding my rainbow stick in one hand and Latimer the BiCon mascot (a small toy reindeer "the buck" for the passing of between event organising teams). I am also wearing dark blue lensed glasses cos the lighting in that area was EVIL and I have a garmin vivosmart watch on one wrist.
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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think toilets should be segregated, but segregated into "People Who Clean Up After Themselves" and "Other".
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's like the government claiming that legislation passed 16 years ago means it's been illegal to let blue cars into car parks this whole time, and their only comment is, "We expect owners of blue cars to comply."
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I wish there was a single politician willing to say we need more immigrants here in the UK, immigration is a fundamental freedom and good in-itself, and we should accept all migrants as new neighbours and fellow children of god, as the nominal official religion of this country supposedly preaches
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Wait hang on: "It's costs nothing to share this #autistic led independent audio sitcom! By boosting this post you can spread the voices of autistic writers and performers far and wide! Please repost!" #autism #adhd #audhd #comedy #supportindiecreators
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/07/2026
lol I first read The Master and Margarita when I was what, 9, because it had a cool cover. My sister's bestie had read Les Miserables about 20 times by the age of 12. Let us not even speak of Flowers in the Attic and Clan of the Cave Bear. Kids can happily read stuff of which they understand 40%.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/07/2026
If Graham's last words in public include "I can't die now" then we've already maxed out on irony for the month and will have to deficit borrow from August to get by
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 10/07/2026
when beebee is meowing at me a lot, sometimes i scoop him up and gently throw him onto the sofa, and he immediately starts purring, perhaps that's what we all want in life, to suddenly have the ground disappear from beneath our feet and to be flung towards a soft unknown
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Not now, toxic pufferfish lurking in the Med!
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Owl's Eyes Ty @jtsdmpk.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One of the quotes I keep thinking about from Dan Savage: "During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."
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emily s. @emily.news · 28/06/2026
Mel Brooks is 100 years old. The U.S. is 250 years old. Mel Brooks has been around for 40% of the time the U.S. has existed.
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 25/06/2026
RORSCHACH'S JOURNAL.
OCTOBER 12TH, 1985.:
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Katy @katyha.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Two musical theatre versions of the afterlife last night and tonight - both excellent. (Beetlejuice and Ride the Cyclone) #LondonTheatre
The Beetlejuice stage 
The Ride the Cyclone stage
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We're* now at the "swabbing genetic material from kids' cheeks in the playground" stage of frothing transphobia *Sex Matters, currently, but I assume it's only a matter of time before Labour and the UK legacy media throw their weight behind this
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Such good news. Human beings are capable of magical and wonderful things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Katy @katyha.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And I miss it.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Banning children from social media will disempower teenagers, according to a governance expert at the Oxford Internet Institute. Dr Victoria Nash warns that children will be denied positive social interactions online and cut off from online news and learning. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-06...
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Expert Comment: Is banning under-16s from social media protection or exclusion?
Dr Victoria Nash, Associate Professor & Senior Policy Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, warns that a social media ban risks leaving teenagers 'protected' but disempowered, cut off from news, learning...
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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Literally NO cervical cancer in the vaccinated cohort! The HPV vaccine is so brilliant. A world without cervical cancer is within grasp - if we can get the vaccination rate back up to where it needs to be.
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Katy @katyha.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Slaughterhouse-5 at the Southwark Playhouse Borough was really good and very clever. Great staging. #SoItGoes #LondonTheatre @swkplay.bsky.social
Pieces of paper with So It Goes written on them.
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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. If you've looked upon my works and despaired please consider leaving a review on one of the major online retail sites.
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Jasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
this might be the best headline i’ve ever read
Enemy lesbian nuns quit convent and marry each other
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is great news for Los Angeles, a city that no one in the world has never heard of.
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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Access to Work scheme is supposed to help disabled people in work, but demand exceeds supply and its delay-riddled administration has “significant failings” with “a clear human cost”, says today’s Commons Public Accounts Committee report. committees.parliament.uk/work/9516/th...
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The Access to Work scheme - Committees - UK Parliament
The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) funds and administers the Access to Work scheme. Introduced in 1994, it is designed to help disabled people and those with health conditions. Support can t...
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Doug Clow @dougclow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Pokémon Go data used for training military drone navigation systems with Saudi Arabian links? As I was saying, not enjoying the dark cyberpunk dystopian fiction of my youth turning up. bsky.app/profile/sche...
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Katy @katyha.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trans children are being denied gender affirming healthcare, so we’re stepping in to support them. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/37c8ea
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Help fund healthcare for trans kids | Good Law Project
This week, the families of trans kids receiving gender-affirming care at a Brighton medical practice were notified that their children’s treatment would be withdrawn in a matter of weeks.
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