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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

TV COMMERCIAL: Your next breakdown could be right around the corner! ME: Yes, I KNOW, but it’s very rude of you to—oh. Oh, you’re talking about CARS.

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is wonderful. I've never actually seen the other end of the Giant's Causeway. No wonder Finn disguised himself as a baby. Anyone coming out of that hellmouth is too scary to fight.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lord Reith would have gutted Dave with a spoon.

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Frock Flicks @frockflicks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On this day in 1728, French soldier & spy Chevalier d’Éon was born! Let's take a look at how the Chevalier appears in historical costume movies & TV shows on FrockFlicks.com at buff.ly/0QQhVJJ #18thCenturyCostume #HistoricalCostume #HistoricalMovie #LGBTQHistory

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)

A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye. It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Brilliant thread on romance novels here.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The gossamer muslin used to create early c19th gowns was sometimes described as ‘woven wind’, an amazing description for the lightweight fabric. Here it has been embroidered with wool and I can only imagine the challenges that came with such stitching. C1815 #NGVMelbourne #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a fine white muslin empire line evening dress with a high gathered section centre back and floral wool embroidery at the hem

Front view of the c1815 empire line white muslin evening dress with small embroidered sprigs across the front and a deeper band of wool embroidery around the hem

Fabric detail of the white muslin dress showing the small sprigs of coloured wool embroidery

Fabric detail from the c1815 white muslin dress showing a larger wool embroidered motif from the hem

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of Course its the Methods of Rationality people. Can we rename them MoreWrong?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Highly recommending this one.

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If they Can fuck you over, they Will fuck you over.

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a face that has just seen heaven.

A small honey-coloured smooth-haired dog looking at a proffered peanut butter container bigger than her head. Her eyes are so open you can see the whites. There is about to be an orgy of licking.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder to by MUPPETS TAKE THE MARVEL UNIVERSE because 1) It is the best comic I've read in ages and B) A lot of stores are reported selling out. Not kidding, you will LOVE IT.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Frock Flicks @frockflicks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On this day in 1987, The Princess Bride premiered, with costumes by Phyllis Dalton! Check out our review on FrockFlicks.com at buff.ly/gQBmMGV #MedievalCostume #HistoricalCostume #Fairytale

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

First trial of the kitchen stool was a roaring success. Was able to make a nice sandwich And have enough energy left to eat it. Yay disability aides!

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh I wish I was in London. That sounds great fun!

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds

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. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24/09/2026

“The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing… The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest” #FolkloreThursday

From Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Collected Entirely from Oral Sources, by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)

The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach).—In harvest, there was a struggle to escape being the last done with the shearing, and when tillage in common existed, instances were known of a ridge being left unshorn (no person would claim it) because of it being behind the rest. The fear entertained was that of having the ‘famine of the farm’ (gort a bhaile), in the shape of an imaginary old woman (cailleach), to feed till next harvest. Much emulation and amusement arose from the fear of this old woman; and from it arose the expression, “Better is a mercy-leap in harvest than a sheaf additional” (’As fearr leum-iochd a’s t’ fhogaradh na sguab a bharrachd). The cum-iochd, or mercy-leap, is where a rocky mound or a soft spot, where no corn grows, occurs in a ridge. Its occurrence was a great help to the shearing being done.

The first done made a doll of some blades of corn, which was called the ‘old wife,’ and sent it to his nearest neighbour. He in turn, when ready, passed it to another still less expeditious, and the person it last remained with had the ‘old woman’ to keep for that year. The old wife was known in Skye as the Cripple Goat (a Ghobhar Bhacach).

The fear of the Cailleach in harvest made a man in Saor-bheinn, in the Ross of Mull, who farmed his land in common with another, rise and shear his corn by moonlight. In the morning he found it was his neighbour’s corn he had cut.

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I need to up my breakfast game.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love to occasionally post stills of Fritz Leiber in silent films because it always delights fans of his lookalike author son, also Fritz Leiber. Fritz père with Theda Bara in CLEOPATRA

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just picked up a copy of Regency Spies. This looks fun!

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Remember when they didn't spend 5 mins before and after each ad-break telling us what we had missed? Before we had pause buttons and you just had to pay attention? I miss Timewatch. If the bbc put those on iplayer i would wallow for weeks.

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026

hey idk who needs to hear this but if someone in the UK dies and you're their executor, you have to file their tax return within a year of their death, not by the normal january deadline. they will not tell you this anywhere and the solicitor may tell you the wrong thing and then shrug at you

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

been thinking about this meme all day

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Perfect for talk like a pirate day

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Lee @leelantry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have just discovered that Tubi has some of Norma Shearer's pre code movies. Off to watch 1930s awesomeness.

A lobby photocard. A tinted photo of Norma Shearer looking glam in a rose satin gown. She's holding a coupé glass and seems to be flirting with the viewer. Text reads Norma Shearer in The Divorcee an mgm all talking picture with Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking for a free way to support your favorite authors?

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 18/09/2026

This could be modern craft rush-work basketry. Quite astounding. Reminds me of the ancient Egyptian linen blanket in Kelvingrove.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/09/2026

Alright 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice here we go.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/09/2026

What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James_AL_Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.

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An Archive of Solidarity

What does the archive of a former activist reveal about solidarity practices in the 1970s? James Downs explores the networks and activities of the Solidarity Committees supporting liberation movements in the Gulf.

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