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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My cat hissed at me for the very first time. My crime? I asked her to get out of the potato bed because she was crushing the shoots. She really wants to be in that potato bed!

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I don’t think Dolly would have approved of me working 7 to 7 today.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton supported so many important causes, among them donating a million dollars to COVID vaccine research early in the pandemic, which saved millions of lives. She will always be remembered as a champion of the people.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This Bobby sure seems like some guy.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Me: hanging on to the idea of listening to Lost Weekend at the end of Friday to keep me hanging on in one of the most challenging days of my professional life Also me: finally turning down the lights and pouring a cold glass of wine, popping in my earbuds, and… (1/2)

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This grotesque headline is from the Telegraph. 3,000 people in Britain have been killed in heatwaves this year so far. 20,000 in Europe. Even if Britain did get to “embrace Mediterranean life”, what about the actual Mediterranean, what do they get to embrace? What about India?

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It rained for 2-3 minutes here, and I tell you: the rejoicing was disproportionate.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really quite excited to undertake my annual Booker longlist reading (in which I try and typically fail to read all the listees before the winner is announced). The past couple of years, my heart hasn’t been in it. But this year’s list has me ready to hit the bookshop.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

How hot is it in our house? Our cat, despite being furnished with ice cube stations, has pioneered a new approach to moving about the hall: dragging her prone body along the carpet, for a considerable distance, using one claw.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

At the theatre last night, I saw a teenaged kid wearing a tee shirt that read, in block capital letters, ‘ask me anything about Wolf Hall.’ Excellent quality of kid.

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’m thinking of entering #Eurovision next year doing a 3-minute abridged version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight read in Middle English, accompanied by a lute-playing John Cooper Clarke (who’ll hopefully agree to be paid on results). Surely an inexpensive way to 0 points or even 1. Any takers?

Picture showing a copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Michael Smith laid on top of a full colour linocut by him showing Sir Gawain riding his white horse.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Voted in my first local election after having become a citizen. Not too proud to say it made me a bit emotional, standing there in the church hall, voting for some really mediocre options.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Past me booked her hair appointment for the day after her vaccination, and now present me is lying here, barely sentient, quaking, deciding just how badly I need my grown out cut remediated.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I have just received my first polling card! So between now and May would be a terrific time for an actually progressive party to emerge on the scene.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Do drivers who stop in traffic and try to wave pedestrians across the road genuinely not understand that they are creating a really dangerous situation for everyone? This message brought to you by a lady who just screamed at me for not walking out into traffic at her insistence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I hope one of the things we will take away from this moment is that if we want survivors to be able to come forward immediately, then we need to be willing to protect them no matter how much we like, respect, or fear their perpetrator.

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kc kc kc (ichabod era) @katecrane.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

every year when I see all the AWP photos I mostly see all the disabled people who aren’t in the photos

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/02/2026

The King is mad

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Werewolven Daughter @wolvendaughter.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/02/2026

Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Extremely romantic valentine date at the opticians: husband needed varifocal lenses and I needed my eye pressure checked. We know how to keep romance alive.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Celebrated International Day of Women and Girls in Science by having a discussion with my husband about CHO cells over pizza. 🍕

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The absolute state of *gestures broadly at everything*

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

it's evil, just evil. all of it.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I’ve reached the most important part of my holiday process: dressing in incomprehensible outfits, reading three books at once, and making a heroic quantity of tamales.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The DVSA theory test kit is surreal. Study portion: ‘remember to check blind spots.’ Me: okay, got it. Test portion: ‘what should you do when approached by someone herding sheep on a dual carriageway?’

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I had a supreme lapse of judgment and popped to the shops on the Sunday before Christmas. I think I need to sit in total silence for the next several days to recover.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I went to an art exhibit today that was very prescriptive about how the audience must interact with it. We were told we had to verbalise responses to certain pieces, and gallery staff came round to tell us where to stand, what to do. It’s been bothering me all day.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My OOO is on until 5 January, and I just want to thank former me for organising my leave in this truly excellent way.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Today I challenged a man’s opinion, so he both 1) made fun of my accent and 2) explained how we do things in This Country. So I think I must have made a fairly irrefutable point.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 02/12/2025

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Saved by Stoppard
Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival.
Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.
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Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The Covid enquiry has concluded that the reality we all witnessed *was* the actual reality, and the version which Johnson, Cummings et al insisted was happening was a total fabrication. It’s incredible that we have to have lengthy enquiries after the event to establish consensus reality now.

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Happy On the Calculation of Volume Day to all who celebrate.

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 16/11/2025

I thank you, Alice Wong—author, activist, daughter, sister, friend, and innovator—for being with us here for as long as you were. I thank you for blessing our larger community with your courage, your love, your indignation, and your fierce advocacy through #DisabilityVisibility.

Alice Wong, with partially black and blonde hair, serving face and giving the camera one wicked side-eye. She is wearing a multicolored shirt with bright red lipstick to boot.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

One of the great heartbreaks of being in the disability community is how often we lose people and how many of our most powerful voices have gone silent. We must live our lives loudly and joyously in their honor and remember that our very existence is resistance.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

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