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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 9h
I have more amazing #buyastrangerabook day magic. @lacrapule.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of a book by Sarah Moss. Here are three books that come highly recommended. If you'd like one of these (or any others of Sarah's), let us know! UK only
Three Sarah Moss titles. 

Ripeness
Ghost Wall
The Tidal Zone
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 12h
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
Many products aimed at women over 45 lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, consumer watchdog Which? found
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 11h
TBPS ™️ stilin'
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Katherine Trill @kittytrill.bsky.social · 9h
Gorgeous
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 11h
Office in a Cassette Case. Japan, 1980s www.presentandcorrect.com/products/cas...
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 11h
Found out this week that schools have a stupid way of doing maths that means that part-time teachers get ripped off. This means mostly women. Somehow teachers and unions have accepted it for ever. Apparently this might change soon but I’m astonished this situation exists at all
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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 12h
This is my favourite Cambridge story: Four and a half years into World War II, a German Dornier Do 217 M-1 bomber made a perfect wheels-up landing in allotments in central Cambridge. The aircraft was fully laden with 860 bombs and a full tank of fuel ...
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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 10h
Back in the studio getting inky with folkloric cryptozoology.
An angry mammal linocut illustration in light blue and dark brown inks.
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 10h
North Wales Police detective pleads guilty to 'upskirting'
bbc.co.uk
North Wales Police detective pleads guilty to 'upskirting'
He was a lead investigator in the case of two-year-old Ethan Ives-Griffiths who was murdered.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE! "Claws Out", the new wickedly entertaining thriller from Bella Mackie @bellamackie.bsky.social 'Such wicked fun. A darkly delicious mystery and sharply observed satire in one wildly entertaining package' Order one HERE! Or two. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Front cover of Bella's new book. Bella's signature inside the book.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 29/09/2026
If the triple lock on pensions will be scrapped. The 1st priority is to fix Pension Credit - the top up for the lowest earning pensioners to give them a basic minimum income. Shamefully many 100,000s of the poorest pensions still miss out on what they're entitled to.
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 19h
Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic
Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Owl. Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430. Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4, fol. 447r. #medieval #MedievalArt
Owl. Breviary of Mary of Savoy, Lombardy ca. 1430. Chambéry, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 4, fol. 447r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/
4-panel comic. (1) April 2023: [JUICE space probe flying away from Earth] FROM EARTH: *JUICE* is en route to explore the icy moons of Jupiter! JUICE: *Wheee!* (2) August 2024: [JUICE flying past Earth] JUICE: ...So which planet was I visiting again? I got distracted. FROM EARTH: Jupiter! JUICE: Right, OK. (3) September 2026: [JUICE flies past Earth again] JUICE: Is Jupiter the one with all the rings? Or... FROM EARTH: No, the big one near it. JUICE: Got it! (4) January 2029: [JUICE returning to fly past Earth again] JUICE: And *which* moons am I looking at? FROM EARTH: Oh my *god*. FROM EARTH: Now I get why we budgeted for so many Earth flybys.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don Wallis
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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lads… #speirgorm
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 29/09/2026
Bought or leased a NEW car or van 2006 to 2015? You may be due a share of £56m! Millions due small payouts of £25+ just agreed in a legal case. It's about vehicles shipped to the UK, which is many of em. See www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/car-... NB Its separate from missold Car finance
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blimey! www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
nytimes.com
Manchester City guilty of ‘sham payments’ and inflating revenues by £900m, says independent commission (Gift Article)
City said the club are "innocent of the accusations" in a statement released shortly after the Premier League's announcement.
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watched “Rental Family” which is a nice slice of cheesy goodness for those of you who like that sort of thing (as I often do).
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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When everyone gets together for a group photo but one person insists on wearing a hat. ✨
A group of mushrooms huddled together and one wears a curled leaf.
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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Premier League v Manchester City decision ruling details how club misstated finances in a nine-year period from 2009-18 by £920.7million Revenue overstated by £854.5m Expenditure understated by £66.2m
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham pledges pension triple lock changes to fund care reforms
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham pledges pension triple lock changes to fund care reforms
The PM was at times emotional during his conference speech in which he outlined his long-term plan for the UK.
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some of the books we'll be reading over the next few months in our Bluesky Book Club. If you'd like to join in let me know. Info here (I need to update, but you get the idea). www.biggreenbookshop.com/bluesky-book...
biggreenbookshop.com
Bluesky Book Club - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RAF Fairford: 'Quantity of petrol' but no explosives found in three vehicles
bbc.co.uk
RAF Fairford: 'Quantity of petrol' but no explosives found in three vehicles
Police say the decision to release five men on bail is one "grounded in experience and strategy".
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 29/09/2026
If you do one thing today, check out this glorious hall carpet!
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary
bbc.co.uk
Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Any excuse …
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i wish they weren’t called “settlers”. Makes them sound quite cosy. How about “invaders”?
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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is Michaelmas Day which marks the day in the calendar after which you shouldn’t pick or eat blackberries. Depending on your regional bent, folklore tells that on this day the devil fell out of heaven and landed in a blackberry bush, cursing them in fury…
A linocut illustration of some blackberries in the foreground, the devil running away in the middle distance and the moon behind.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hello we're about to record a new episode of our podcast. and the category is: listener questions. send us something in the next 45 minutes and we'll try our best to answer!
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Katherine Trill @kittytrill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just had to put on sunscreen. That's not right for end of September sutely?
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FORTY-TWO BILLION. Anthropic lost FORTY-TWO BILLION dollars in one year. The inevitable world-changing, ultimately efficient technology that everyone wants apparently.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having one of those days today.
In the Park
 
In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.
 
I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.


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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very reassuring that the Diocese of Leicester has hired a new 'Director of Vocations' who is a trustee of a group which creates and promotes a course that requires participants to sit in a group and confess to "homosexuality", among a collection of "perverted sins".
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do the stats for women! It’s 5.
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strange growth on this thin tree on the left. Some kind of burr (or burl in American English)? #ThickTrunkTuesday #TreeClub
Path through a wood. Large trees on the right. A thin one on the left with big growth on it.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hello, VERY exciting news!!! -- We are doing a You're Dead To Me... Live special about Beethoven, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, on Nov 13th at London's Southbank Centre!!! Tickets (£26) go on sale to the public on Thursday, but tomorrow for members www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bbc...
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BBC's You're Dead To Me Live: Ludwig van Beethoven | Southbank Centre
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for child sexual abuse
bbc.co.uk
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for child sexual abuse
The 49-year-old was found guilty of two charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy between 1993 and 2010.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thinking of the people of Ukraine, who've suffered so much. It's important attention remains on the impacts of Russian aggression www.ft.com/content/e423...
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Russian drones hit Kyiv science academy and hospital
One person killed and six injured in attack on capital, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges countries to do more to protect Ukraine
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BRAND NEW EPISODE 💥 The brilliant @DominicFrisby returns to ask… - Will Burnham do anything *this* Parliament? - Is obesity really a ‘disease’? - Is Satan left wing? Apple: bit.ly/GeoffNorcott... Spotify: bit.ly/GeoffNorcott... YouTube: tinyurl.com/ymkvsxrz
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham to unveil public body to invest in electricity grid
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham to unveil public body to invest in electricity grid
The prime minister will say he wants to reduce energy costs in his first conference speech as Labour leader.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Archaeologists excavating near Naousa in northern Greece recently uncovered a roughly 2,400-year-old school complex, or gymnasium. The site which stood in the ancient Macedonian town of Mieza, may have been where Aristotle taught in the 4th century B.C.E.” 🚨 allthatsinteresting.com/greece-ancie...
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Archaeologists In Greece Found An Ancient School Complete With Intact Benches Where Students Like Alexander The Great Listened To Lectures More Than 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists excavating near Naousa uncovered a 2,400-year-old school that's believed to be where Aristotle taught a young Alexander the Great.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
English person: did you hear about the irishman who... Irish person: yeah, you were literally tricked by a bus
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israeli fans, after losing at football, chanting about how bad-ass their military is, conveniently overlooking the fact that their sugar daddy, the US, has been propping them up with billions upon billions of dollars in weapons and funding for the entire existence of their state.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"WIth each new species studied, we have gained a greater understanding of our medicinal past." And, hopefully, #Unlearn hubris about human's not-unique capabilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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Japan CamBot @japan-cambot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hale Surf Enoshima Island, Japan #Japan #Nippon
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
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SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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