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Mags L Halliday

@magslhalliday.bsky.social
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Writer. Waffler. Former redhead. Occasional public sector comms person. All views my own. Currently open to commissions about women, history, or the built environment. She/Her. www.magslhalliday.co.uk or linktr.ee/magslhalliday

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 10h
Not now mysterious omen!
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Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social · 16h
I have said it before and I will say it again: hospital wards are not “single sex spaces”. Cis men on the wards I was in: doctors, nurses, porters, volunteers doing tea rounds, cleaners, catering staff, security staff,and random visitors to see other patients at all hours of the day.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 20h
Whichever way we go, the Doctor gets steadily more Scottish
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ukraine has held off Russia for four years. When it started, people confidently predicted Russian tanks in Kyiv within days. Slava Ukraini!
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How I arrived on BlueSky.
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Dr Who Fan's Brilliant Reaction
Alt: Donna Noble mouthing “this is brilliant” at the Doctor in the episode Partners in Crime. Donna is a 30something white woman with reddish hair and a very bolshy attitude.
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
One of my favourite neighbourhood things is when someone sprayed some inspirashunal make u fink graffiti on the side of a house: "What have you ever truly loved?" And within days another graffiti artist had responded with: "Your mum."
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Love Canals @lovecanals.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Buck’s Bridge naming marks Gallows Reach milestone On 11 October the new lift bridge at Gallows Reach was officially named Buck’s Bridge by designer and former trustee Peter Buck. #LichfieldampHathertonCanals The post Buck’s Bridge naming marks Gallows Reach mileston lovecanals.uk/blogs/bucks-...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Murray went on to found Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. One of the most successful military hospitals of the war. Its motto was: "Deeds, not Words." When the war ended, she ordered the suffragette flag raised, to the sound of cheers from the male patients.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Anyone with a basic knowledge of history and a scrap of common sense could have told you that - given the inherently dehumanising nature of racism and xenophobia - the end point could only be violence. State violence and street violence.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is probably right. The Dark Is Rising is brilliant, but the Grey King is the Owl Service written by a feminist. And Greenwitch! There are images in that which still haunt my dreams.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Was watching Buffy’s Anya backstory episode. Friend asked why I sighed. “She’s not of a sufficiently high social class to have domesticated rabbits that far north in Europe in that century, but the writers couldn’t know, the paper was only presented at a conference yesterday.” Accuracy is fleeting.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
#OnThisDay, 13 Oct 1978, around 5,000 women march through Dublin protesting against rape and all forms of sexual assault. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory 🗃️
Partial scan of a photo of the march in the "news shorts" section of Spare Rib. The report outlines the march took place and what it was calling for.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I live in a city with a Buller Road, a Redvers Road, a Buller Hall and a statue of Buller on a horse. You can imagine the level of remarks I heard about him.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“No, thank *you*, driver.”
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Beatles, for being too clean at the start. “At least the Stones were honest”. She also inherited a loathing of General Redvers Buller, who had been her father’s commander in the Second Boer War, but that’s explicable.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Those are two of the sources Wikipedia accepts as credible, and from which Women In Red draws its lists of women to add. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Ask a Manager @askamanager.org · 12/10/2026
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my boss wants to give me his kidney — but I don’t want it
I’m off today, so here’s an older post from the archives. This was originally published in 2018. A reader writes: I have a question that is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the boss who (shudder) tried to force his employees to donate an organ to his brother. I have a serious chronic […] The post my boss wants to give me his kidney — but I don’t want it appeared first on Ask a Manager.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is a project set up to help create more biogs of women. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A Wikipedia women in red editor sighs and taps the sign that we hit 20% biogs are of women in Dec 2024. Admittedly, you can’t get grants and publicity for a bunch of people quietly working to make it better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Feels like not enough people are aware of how fully cooked the internal combustion engine is. My mum's old diesel Honda currently costs £120 to fill up, on which it'll do just under 300 miles. My sister's EV costs £6 for a full charge which will take her 280 miles.
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This was something that came up last night when teen picked High School Musical 3 as their film night choice. HSM is very much a tween idea of a romance. (And don’t me started on the reinforcement of stereotypes in it)
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You don’t even need to need the original poems. Tony Robinson’s Odysseus: The Greatest Hero of Them All covers the basics and was for tweens.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Also, at least at secondary school upwards “that’s so AI” is an insult. Kids hate it.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have cast the film from my memory. I do like the recent radio adaptation though.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Which is why I suggested two episodes per book making a total of ten hours for the whole cycle.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The entire Dark Is Rising sequence but it’d be two episodes per book.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
…and, in conclusion, Lenny Henry’s Doctor Who skit is set later in the Doctor’s personal timeline than Curse of Fatal Death.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I didn’t even know it was possible to make baked potatoes with soggy skin.
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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That picture of the baked potato is the culinary equivalent of that sad Oompa Loompa lady
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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The annual murder-gonk cull is upon us. I hate these things with a passion. Every year at my old job, we'd be instructed to destroy them on sight because they're a massive fire & cancer risk. I've ripped the heads off so many, I feel like some kind of elven serial killer. www.gov.uk/product-safe...
Product recall graphic for those stupid 'gonk' dolls with pointy heads and flammable beards.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@ThoughtSlime

People who become right wing because they get annoyed by leftists are weak willed, most leftists are annoyed by leftists every single day.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’ve checked and Birds of a Feather started in 1989. I was living in bedsit land and going to punk gigs.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think I was probably out.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“Protect are wimen” does not extend to protecting them from cancer, it seems.
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Ben Tedds @bentedds42.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just so you know how things are going in Patriot Land, the "legitimate concerns" of the far-right now include forcing a major cancer charity fundraising walk to postpone the event because the racists refused to get out of the way of the route. www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have been reminded @askamanager.org has a category for letters about people being jerks at work. www.askamanager.org/category/jerks
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jerks Archives
Jerks at work come in all flavors — credit-hoggers, bullies, underminers, and more. Here’s help in dealing with them.
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Anne Loves Comics @annecomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW CAPTAIN MARVEL BY @gwillow.me AND @rachaelstott.bsky.social !?!? We’re so BACK, holy SHI—! 💫💫💫
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The way he goes into captain mode on the tasks is quite something. So making everyone stop for less than a minute to allocate roles and work as a team.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am deeply admiring his commitment to outfits that are more suited to Taskmaster.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol
screenshot of PinLite, a skin of pinterest that's just taken away all the bs and only shows the images, on a grey web 1.0 background
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ooh, I think I know this one. My mother clearly picked it up from her mother and passed it to me. It ‘leaks into the food’, right?
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Instant save to phone. Her eye flick to one side and she absorbs the info is everything.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you are in Devon you really should try to get to this before the run ends on 17 October. exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/littl...
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Little Shop of Horrors - Exeter Northcott Theatre
Book tickets for Little Shop of Horrors at the Exeter Northcott Theatre today!
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
October you say?
The opening stage set for the Northcott Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
As always, a huge hat tip to @garius.bsky.social whose own thread about Abbie first drew my attention to her and her actions.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wake up sheeple!
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What I'm learning from the replies here is that a lot of you take the phrase "should accidentally fall" at face value. One, sure, but you really think *ten* green bottles are falling by accident? Like it's all some big coincidence? Naïve. The song clearly has an unreliable narrator
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