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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I've just cut open a passion fruit and realised why it's called that. Oh.

Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

One of the joys of early Twitter was the haiku discipline of the character limit. Who's in to keep it short and sweet and snappy on here? #lessismore

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thank you Bluesky for educating me - I didn't know until today that Amazon had bought Goodreads in 2013. all the more reason to keep supporting our wonderful independent bookshops and take advice about what to read next from the people who work in them.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

Is there a word in Japanese that means both 'parent' and 'all phone chargers and cables stolen'?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2024

Donald Trump repeated a false claim about immigrants and dead cats that has deep roots in racist stereotypes during Tuesday's presidential debate. Here's what to know about his campaign's embrace of the bogus internet theory.

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How False Claims About Dead Cats Became Trump Campaign Fodder

Falsehoods claiming migrants in Ohio are killing cats and decapitating ducks went viral this week. The Trump campaign embraced them.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Wide awake since 2.55am because Debate.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Optimist: Cup half full. Interiors stylist: Move the cup 10mm to the left. No... move it back, it was better before.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Can anyone give me tips how to make this algorithm show me something I am actually interesting in?

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Original Twitter was the best cocktail party I've ever been to. Can we recreate that here? (In brief posts)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 23/08/2024

Today I have been going through old photos. As in, boxes and boxes of them. LABEL YOUR RELATIVES, PEOPLE

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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Never knew this until today - RESPECT

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Why does any company use Evri to send out orders? I'm almost at the stage where I won't order things from companies that use them. They must be cheap, but it's a false economy.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Please don't take your shoes off in the gym. Thank you. The end.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

I squealed out loud when I saw these shoes in the paper (and immediately ordered them. They combine five great shoe tropes in one. Read more on my Substack here maggiealderson.substack.com/p/its-outrag...

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

I miss the haiku discipline of the limited characters. I loved that challenge.

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Maggie Alderson @maggiealderson.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Hello (small voice). Feeling my way on here, trawling through the Follow lists of people I Follow to find people to Follow. Thrilled to have found @maryhopkin.bsky.social who I loved chatting to in the early glory days of The Other Place (Artist Formerly Known As Twitter).

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £7.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £16.99 for a completely blank notebook?

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