Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 7hI know it’s my own fault for opening LinkedIn but I like the “Queens” puzzle game. I did not like this. I am amused someone asked AI for a poster about coaching so the woman appears to be walking up some steps in the aisle of an open top tour bus. 010
Reposted by Mags L HallidayTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 8hYou know what, maybe we were all too mean about the Ed Stone 514719
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I know four people who are retired and drawing pension. One does music stuff. One works at a fall alert call line. One teaches yoga. One both works and volunteers at a community garden. The third age proves that people want to do productive things they enjoy and ideally get paid too. 2160
Reposted by Mags L HallidayTom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'd guess in the next year or so we'll either find out that all previous designers, marketers, editors etc have been wrong all along about too much information diluting the message or making it harder to take in or remember.... or the people making AI flyers will dial it back a bit 3172
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh, gods, yes this. I have started a tally of how often someone presents obviously AI design work in a meeting and I see people saying “oh, that’s great!”. No! 161
Reposted by Mags L HallidayDr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago 20099442446
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Your reminder why many women, when asked what they’d do if there were no men for a day, said they’d go for a walk at night and look at the stars. Also, why we’d choose the bear. 18221
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026OUTLIER · Day 133 · 794 · 🦅 EAGLE EYES 🎯 4 words nobody else found Can you find rarer? playoutlier.com/s/LNDR8Tplayoutlier.comOUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on RarityThe daily global word game where rare words win. Same grid worldwide. Can you find what everyone else misses? 000
Reposted by Mags L HallidayMike @mikebirty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We have seen it all before but in memory of Dame Esther Rantzen, here's one of the greatest pieces of television you'll ever see youtu.be/OqqbM1B-mPY?...youtu.beHolocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton (That's Life - 1988)Share your videos with friends, family and the world 1218
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My poor teen looks at me and @markclapham.bsky.social askance as nearly every time one of us says “sausages” the other says “sausages” like that dog did. 2150
Reposted by Mags L HallidayHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There’s a Ladybird book for every occasion. “In 1850 there were quite a number of Football Clubs. Each club drew up its own rules at a special meeting. The rules were not the same for every club” From ‘The Story of Football’ Artist: Jack Matthew (Man City) 822539
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Saw a van for a business with the marvellous name “Fatboy Skim” and that’s who will be doing any plastering at our house now. I don’t make the rules. 080
Reposted by Mags L HallidayJoel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026BBC reveals preferred bidders for the Doctor Who franchise tender. 57115
Reposted by Mags L HallidayAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...humanists.ukReform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymnsReform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave... 3011854562
Reposted by Mags L HallidayRachel Pinnelas 💭 @racheaissance.com · 28/09/2026For every guy that excused a colleague's inappropriate comments to me with "oh, that's just how he is" I wish they'd say "that's not cool, man" to him 19521
Reposted by Mags L HallidayRobert Ramsay @robertramsay.org · 28/09/2026I don't see how this is news. 215922
Reposted by Mags L HallidayGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...theguardian.comNorthern Ireland live: controversial Orange Order march in Portadown delayed amid huge protestLarge crowd blocking route march was due to take in Catholic enclave of largely Protestant town 082
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This, and the original post about not using asterisks or cutesy ways to use a name without just using it. If someone has muted a name, it’ll be for a good reason. Also, what we see is “post muted” so we can opt in to read it if we want to, so you should respect how this place allows boundaries. 040
Reposted by Mags L HallidayKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 26/09/2026What earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slept in the lap of social labor?centralbylines.co.ukM&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed foodOne jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint 611326
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh boy. I really hope they will try to be down wiv the kids by talking about Harry Potter. Because my teen fits the “would love Camden market” demographic and their entire class hates it because of the terfery. 181
Reposted by Mags L HallidayoptiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation. 361510278
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Reading this, the 1983 US belief that the USSR was playing the Cold War game and not meaning what they said feels alarmingly relevant to now. 020
Reposted by Mags L HallidayEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252108933
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Went for an afternoon at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Look at this lil fella just chilling. (Photo by teen) 1110
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There’s good reason that Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell (and all Clarke’s related Faerie stories) use York as a key locus point, you know. The King in the North was very much a thing and it was *not* a Manchester mayor. 1133
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Oh, this is shaping up to be a great day for all #DoctorWho readers. 060
Reposted by Mags L HallidayDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Thanks to the "legitimate concerns" paradigm, we have a national consensus that migrants (you know which specific ones) are a problem. More migrants = bad, fewer migrants = good. In that context, "anti-migrant protestor" isn't even neutral language to describe this fascist thug. It is *positive*. 822276
Reposted by Mags L HallidayJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention. 211134388
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I was booking theatre tickets yesterday and was tempted by their bar’s pre-show meal offer. Until I realised it was all pizzas and there were no descriptions, just cutesy names. No menu anywhere on the site so we’ll eat somewhere else. Two sales of cutesy pizza lost. 040
Reposted by Mags L HallidayDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis. 71069178
Reposted by Mags L Hallidaysarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny 263740148
Reposted by Mags L HallidayRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano 11767611626
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Probably the time some kids in my year had done something deeply daft and we had a special year assembly in which the head demanded to know who the organiser was. And the entire year stonewalled him. He resorted to “no one leaves until you own up”. So we were there for an hour. 141
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Am I going to have to repost this every time some tinpot Spode has a pop at the RNLI? Anyway, here’s how to donate. rnli.org/support-us/g... 194
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ooh. FAO @oldenoughtosay.com and others who were chatting about big clocks. 020
Reposted by Mags L HallidayAdult Human Chicken @markclapham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026God we were shit hot and incredibly self satisfied with it back then, good times. 1152
Reposted by Mags L HallidayBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026SIGNED BOOK NEWS. "The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City" by Susanna Clarke is published next month. Delighted to say, we'll be getting some SIGNED copies. Order one HERE! www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie... 54418
Reposted by Mags L Hallidaya30yoyo.bsky.social @a30yoyo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Panoramic view of Mousehole Harbour Christmas lights in 2014 021
Reposted by Mags L Hallidaya30yoyo.bsky.social @a30yoyo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026These were taken the year I moved to Penzance during the demonstration rescue the Penlee Lifeboat and Navy helicopter did off the promenade every summer. Wessex helicopter and Solomon Browne as on the Union Star callout 2 years later 031
Reposted by Mags L HallidaySteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 160191203861
Reposted by Mags L HallidayJames Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork. 1933093
Reposted by Mags L HallidayLaura Clemens @lauraclemens.bsky.social · 20/09/2026In 2020 when I was in St Paul Cornwall during lockdown I tried the door of the church. It was locked. The vicar saw me and opened up and there is a memorial there to these unbelievably courageous people. I was told a lot about them and their families, the heartbreak and loss the whole community felt 003