Reposted by Liz AshdowneYeah_Thatbloke @yeahthatbloke.bsky.social · 13hWhat 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." 720613
Reposted by Liz AshdowneAdam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 7hSorta 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/...parliamentlive.tvParliamentlive.tvPublic Accounts Committee 410036
Reposted by Liz AshdowneRose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Tremendous 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 434675
Reposted by Liz Ashdownecpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 3hI 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! 132
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Oh, it's been years since I went to that. Good luck with the session and have a great day. 120
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We 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. 1161
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Maybe you could attend a workshop. Perhaps at the Oxford Story Museum? 120
Reposted by Liz AshdowneNeill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Do 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... 35625
Reposted by Liz Ashdowne👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/10/2026that'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 823320
Reposted by Liz Ashdownederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'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. 49128592
Reposted by Liz AshdowneDan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 06/10/2026Never 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. 0178
Reposted by Liz Ashdownetoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found 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 193115093131
Reposted by Liz AshdowneU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 06/10/2026It's Knife Ghost season. 11434101
Reposted by Liz AshdowneMargot 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 patrolsSeven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement 8399228
Reposted by Liz AshdowneM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So 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 09029
Reposted by Liz AshdowneMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My 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 1269743
Reposted by Liz AshdowneJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If 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. 211128
Reposted by Liz AshdowneMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just 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 214104651655
Reposted by Liz AshdowneOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Archer 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.ukJeffrey Archer obituaryPolitician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace. 29451141
Reposted by Liz AshdowneDewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OMG 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 😳 2503554648
Reposted by Liz AshdowneIt's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The 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 1125694
Reposted by Liz AshdowneAlom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Re-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 2174
Reposted by Liz AshdowneTeaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So 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? 142
Reposted by Liz AshdowneRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People 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. 1492
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Took less than 2 minutes to vote, using the link in my emails. 010
Reposted by Liz AshdowneBethan M Jenkins @gwenynen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Solved!! Right inuff by Tom Leonard. Well done everybody! 083
Reposted by Liz AshdowneMark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026Please, 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. 425094
Reposted by Liz AshdowneLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17990417
Reposted by Liz AshdowneGef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026God this shit was cool as fuck 4659871144
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We had a lovely time. I think I can interest her in the new (by which I mean 2005) Pride and Prejudice next. 030
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Space. Specializing in super massive black holes. 041
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Great article. But were you the indie brother or the pop brother? 151
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is great. Chipping Norton extension when, please? 200
Reposted by Liz AshdowneLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It'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? 384316
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The 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. 1121
Reposted by Liz AshdowneJamie 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! 5345
Reposted by Liz AshdownePaul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look 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 53917
Liz Ashdowne @lizashdowne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ordering a drink by asking, "Can I have a T, please, Bob?" 010
Reposted by Liz AshdowneScottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It'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-... 064
Reposted by Liz AshdowneAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I'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 dislikedbylinetimes.comKemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist BanThe 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 861525617
Reposted by Liz AshdowneDaniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 30/09/2026Yet another example of why search and chatbottery are, and should be, two completely different things.sancho.bearblog.devWhen 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... 1114
Reposted by Liz AshdowneMiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026static.klipy.comRaindrops Keep Fallin' On My HeadAlt: The 10th Doctor (played by David Tennant), standing in the rain, looking sad 2203
Reposted by Liz AshdowneRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’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”. 241360486