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Liz Ashdowne

@lizashdowne.bsky.social
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I know my library card number off by heart. She/her

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Yeah_Thatbloke @yeahthatbloke.bsky.social · 13h
What I love is how these animals are going to be the new names for currency. "That'll cost ya - three hogs and a puffin, mate." "That place is too pricey - they charge an arm and a badger."
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 7h
Sorta bonkers hearing in which a UK farmer keeps saying solar power on farmland is not the end of the world, won't take up that much land and provides a useful diversified source of income, while MPs keep instisting to him to that solar on farmland is a nightmare parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Parliamentlive.tv
Public Accounts Committee
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tremendous selection of pots currently still available on my website at the moment www.roseschmits.com I’m so proud of the sheer variety of shapes and colours I’ve been able to achieve in this series of work, I truly never tire of it Free UK shipping, worldwide shipping available
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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 3h
I really hate the “could you explain this gap on your cv” thing. You’re an interviewer, not a parole officer. If there’s a gap on the cv well have you looked outside in the last twenty five years? Economy’s been a bit wonky!
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
meme featuring text at the top and a photograph of a pink greeting card on a retail rack.

Top text reads: "the effects of microplastics are devastating"

The pink card on display reads in metallic font: "SOME GIRLS ARE JUST BORN WITH GLITTER IN THEIR VEINS."
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh, it's been years since I went to that. Good luck with the session and have a great day.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are off to see the Bayeux Tapestry. We're on a very tight schedule, so it's not going to be a relaxing day, but I am very excited.
Harrison Ford and Alison Doody as Indy and Elsa, 'disguised' as Lord Clarence McDonald and his lovely assistant, in Last Crusade announcing "We are here to view the tapestries".
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Maybe you could attend a workshop. Perhaps at the Oxford Story Museum?
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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do you know any kids who like drawing? I mean honestly if you know any kids then YES YOU DO. Anyway, they might enjoy my new book HOW TO MAKE AWESOME COMICS, out today! Available in all good bookshops and direct from the source: thephoenixcomic.shop/products/how...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/10/2026
that's strange because i define it as "paying a fair amount of taxes so my neighbours don't go bankrupt paying for their cancer treatment". but what would i know, i only live in a country with socialised healthcare
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've been told the "freelance pie advisor" is a famous chef who wrote a book about pies. I did not know. I also learned that he models for a friend's clothing store, Anglo Italian in London.
Calum Franklin wearing a navy double-breasted overcoat with a gray single-breasted suit, a light blue shirt, and a navy spotted tie. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.Calum Franklin wearing a navy track pullover, gray hoodie, and blue washed jeans. He's with a dog. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.Calum Franklin wearing an olive waxed field coat, with charcoal flannel trousers and a brown sport coat. He's holding a bag. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.Calum Franklin wearing a gray suit, stripe blue shirt, and striped blue tie. He's holding a gray cat. The clothes are from the British clothing store Anglo Italian.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No one does. The final scene is missing.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 06/10/2026
Never forget that the newspapers fawning over “colourful” habitual convicted liar Jeffrey Archer were gleefully and relentlessly hounding a Black academic to death only a few weeks ago because they reckoned he’d exaggerated some stuff.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 06/10/2026
It's Knife Ghost season.
A pumpkin patch. In the distance, a faint image of a blue ghost surrounded by a halo of carving knives. The text reads: you're carving. The knife ghost waits. Because you're using a knife. Instead of a pumpkin carving kit. Always use a pumpkin carving kit, never a knife.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
theguardian.com
‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So yeah it would be nice if the government stopped talking about the “legitimate concerns” and the right to protest of a bunch of racist violent scum and call them what they are
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My friend and I tried to go there once, and there was this ancient, snarky Filipina nun working behind the desk who hustled us until we bought some pumpkin bread and said it was made in an oven that was “so big YOU could fit in it” and then we left and it turns out we’d gone to the wrong convent
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If we were told how much benefit our country collectively gets from people making stuff up out of their heads, a truly socially mobile option, we wouldn’t know our proper place. It’s why they’ve made the arts almost impossible to pursue for ordinary people. Get back on your trawler, prole scum.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Jeffrey Archer obituary
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK Arts & Ents industry contributes over £10bn to the UK economy a year & one of these days our politicians might even realise that instead writing it off as icky girlie flouncing bc you can't do a photoshoot in a hard hat & hi-vis gilet at the national theatre without looking like a tit
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Re-reading ”Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race“ by the brilliant @renieddolodge.bsky.social and sad to say the book is still relevant and needs to be read even more
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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So here’s my challenge for you: Look at the environments you can influence. What can you change to make it more inclusive? Can a parent in a wheelchair visit easily? Can the lights be improved for everyone especially those with sensory processing issues? Is your floor free of trip risks?
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People who describe Parkrun as a "fun run" have never seen my six-year-old when he sees a boy from his class just ahead of him.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Took less than 2 minutes to vote, using the link in my emails.
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Bethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Solved!! Right inuff by Tom Leonard. Well done everybody!
right inuff
ma language is disgraceful ma maw tellt mi ma teacher tellt mi thi doactir tellt mi thi priest tellt mi
ma boss tellt mi
ma landlady in carrington street tellt mi thi lassie ah tried tay get aff way in 1969 tellt mi sum wee smout thit thoat ah hudny read chomsky tellt mi a calvinist communist thit thoat ah wuz revisionist tellt mi po-faced literati grimly kerryin thi burden a thi past tellt mi po-faced literati grimly kerryin thi burden a thi future tellt mi ma wife tellt mi jist-tay-get-inty-this-poem tellt mi ma wainz came hame fray school an tellt mi jist aboot ivry book ah oapnd tellt mi
even thi introduction tay thi Scottish National Dictionary tellt mi
ach well
all livin language is sacred fuck thi lohta thim.
—Tom
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Please, if you have a vote on Thursday, vote for Zack. Whatever progress ‘Labour’ has shown, ditching Starmer included, has happened not because people have suddenly found their inner conscience , but because of pressure from the left: from the Greens, PC, SNP: all of us. Don’t give up now.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
God this shit was cool as fuck
Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We had a lovely time. I think I can interest her in the new (by which I mean 2005) Pride and Prejudice next.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tbh I was thinking more of cycling for fun.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*flips coin* I guess pop!
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Space. Specializing in super massive black holes.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great article. But were you the indie brother or the pop brother?
I have two older brothers, and one liked indie music like Suzanne Vega while the other listened to pop like Tiffany and The Bangles.
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is great. Chipping Norton extension when, please?
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's friday! Time for the weekly good news thread! What's made you smile this week? What's brought some light into your life? ME? Someone sent me a video of their kid reading Loki and talking about their favourite bits! Makes all the deadline madness feel worth it. What's YOUR news?
Randomly selected illustration from Loki book five, which wasn't the book the kid was reading but I happened to have it handy. It shows Vinir the elf (in vaguely mortal form but with elf ears) blasting Loki into the air with his magic wand. Loki looks shocked. Vinir is yelling, "I TOLD YOU TO TAKE MY FATHER'S NAME OUT OF YOUR FILTHY MOUTH"
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 11yo has an inset day, so I've taken a day off, and we're going to the cinema to watch Sense and Sensibility together.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/10/2026
Ground Effect xkcd.com/3305/
Comic. [Two people flailing high in the air. Three people on the ground running ahead of them. Arrows and a dotted line indicate that this second group is within roughly one body length of the surface.] [caption] The “ground effect” explains why sprinters can run most efficiently if they stay within roughly one body length of the surface.
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
✨A WILD HERO SLAM EXPANSION PACK APPEARS!✨ HERO SLAM: CURSE OF THE CAT DEMON is out TODAY! Includes LOADS of new heroes, new sidequests, a brand new imp, and the most TERRIBLE VILLAIN EVER FACED! ⚔️Mix your heroes together with the original game (required) and send them off on brand new adventures!
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Look peasants, just because you spent hours + £££ getting tickets doesn't mean you can see the Bayeux Tapestry. Some people FAR richer and more important are having a look. What? No, of COURSE they didn't have to queue up or buy a ticket or pay for a hotel + train fare, only oiks like you do that
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ordering a drink by asking, "Can I have a T, please, Bob?"
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Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's the start of October so that means we've launched our new Book of the Month giveaways! We have some great titles this month, so enter now for a chance to win. www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-of-the-...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Also argh, and same!
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 30/09/2026
Yet another example of why search and chatbottery are, and should be, two completely different things.
sancho.bearblog.dev
When did Google get so f-ing weird?
I recently had an experience while doing a simple Google search that was so profoundly weird that it stopped me in my tracks. Understanding this Google se...
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Alt: The 10th Doctor (played by David Tennant), standing in the rain, looking sad
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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