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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Supplies for a party! I'm not a drinker of sparkling soft drinks. They got nothing on me

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mine includes the absolute banger "One-time sparkling beverage exploration" which on a dating profile would sound very iykyk

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've ... never seen anywhere that big

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This guy got people from around the world to teach him their favourite dance moves. 📹Ed People

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, an AI pope is surely the answer

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, so now you can't be a seagull and British?

News headline "Britons lose £171 million worth of food a year to seagulls"

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh god the cat's copying famous pictures again

Andrew Wyeth, 'Christina's World' (1948)

Merrill the cat lying in an odd position

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PLEASE GATHER ALL OF MY EVIDENCE

Guardian headline: "No. 10 gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... A brilliant piece. "The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship."

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wyatt promises that he will find the person who has been chewing the shower tube, no matter who it is

A thoughtful dark brown cat is sitting a little awkwardly under the tube for a shower head

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Clearly anyone armed with a corkscrew is prepared for an immediate, urgent and possibly violent glass of wine

Made the error of opening the fridge

An athletic and glossy dark brown cat is poised on the bottom shelf of the fridge, examining the contents

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Feeling a bit annoyed with the airport security guy who confiscated my folding corkscrew. I mean I suppose you could stab someone with it, but only if they were willing to hold still while you turned it several times

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reading a Reacher set in Texas, and as a little European I simply cannot get my head round exchanges like "Is there somewhere to get coffee around here?", "Yes, I know a place about an hour away"

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The folk protest music scene is back

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yep it is deeply creepy. Especially the way it's all been gilded with fake "I'm a person with opinions writing this"

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEVER I SHALL NEVER SURRENDER TO COMPETENCE

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Zero. But that is unusual; away travelling

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank gods it's not the other way round

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think you were supposed to walk barefoot I'm afraid

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Chances that this dusty bric-a-brac shop window in Toledo contains a magical figurine that will swap souls between bodies: approx 30%

Dusty shop window, unlit, showing a series of weird bits and pieces. If you zoom in, some are genuinely creepy little animal sculptures

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This for me is the epitome of holiday photo. We ditched the suitcases and within ten minutes were mainlinng beer+papal palace ftw

The papal palace in Avignon, viewed over a table holding two frothy pints of lager

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Warm-blooded not the same as empathic, confirm scientists

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Could anything be more satisfying than hole-punching cardboard boxes with your canines?

Brown cat in a box caught in the act of biting through the lid. He looks a bit feral. There are perforations all along

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Ed Sheeran Tour latest

Partridge: I might as well say this now, Sue Cook has pulled out.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I am so profoundly sorry to hear of the death of Julia Boffey. A wonderful person; a brilliant scholar; she was unendingly kind and good and large-hearted.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just did three hours straight of filming talking head to camera and when I got up they looked a bit worried and asked if I needed biscuits (I needed a beer)

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Exactly the right amount of muesli

Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The cats tipped the sodding muesli all over the floor and now ... they're eating it

Muesli scattered everywhere with two cats tucking in

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New series of #InOurTime starts 17 September with a discussion of More's "Utopia" Fantastic panel- @lauraashe.bsky.social @drjoannepaul.bsky.social and Cathy Shrank BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia share.google/Y0vqfquGZEgH...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Thomas More's Utopia

How the description of a fictional island has fascinated readers for centuries.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

So I'm going to bed and I've got into bed and am halfway down but applying moisturiser and taking tablets and whatnot and then the cats just come and curl up on me exactly where I am and now I can't move until they have a fight at 5am

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

NEVER. I'm so scared you see