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Mandalee

@mandalee.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, freelance Roman pottery specialist, serial immigrant, lover of dogs and coffee. Obstreperous AND unruly. Black is my happy colour.

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Mandalee @mandalee.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, this. Because absolutely no one wants to have to sell their house (or their parents' house) just to pony up insane amounts for below-average care. He's spot-on that right now, care in the UK is basically a US model - and it does. not. work.
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Mandalee @mandalee.bsky.social · 6h
I think he's right. At least make a start! No one has managed that in years.
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Mandalee @mandalee.bsky.social · 6h
Interesting. This is much broader approval than I would have expected.
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 29/09/2026
Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
A screenshot of the ProPublica Habeas tracker showing a big 83,328 — the number of cases filed since Jan. 2025.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thousands of us are urging IKEA to pull their ads from toxic Talk Radio. Add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Petition comment reading: "Creating warm, welcoming homes extends to people, not just sofas.

IKEA please withdraw your support from toxic broadcasting." - Gillian
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Mandalee @mandalee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bloody hell, #strangenewworlds episode 2 pulled no punches 😮😮😮 Perfect for Halloween! 💀👻🔪
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is really good work. The level of detail they’ve managed to uncover about who invested and how they benefited is extraordinary
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Finding Britain’s Slave Traders with David Olusoga
An uncomfortable history, but part of Britain's story. David Olusoga reveals the fullest picture yet of the British traders who trafficked millions of Africans into slavery.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's not surprising that the AI tech bros who built their entire industry on stolen work hate the idea of consent.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo
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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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Mandalee @mandalee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jesus, this is grim. Those poor babies.
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Very much worth reading if you don’t known about Petrov. This is the day we celebrate and honour him, and properly feel gratitude, and other things. Relying on tech in wartime can be deeply perilous. sammatey.substack.com/p/happy-stan...
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I take a totally hardline political stance which is that anyone who makes a phone call in the quiet coach of the train should be fined £500 on the spot for the first offence. And for the second offence? Death.
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Kat the Lore Mistress @loremistress93.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is exactly the news I’ve been hoping to hear about UKGE, kinda wish they’d announced it on their comms, but this just proves that change CAN happen if you shout loudly and proudly about something. 💛
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mama.melancholia @mama-melancholia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I am a mosaic of everyone I’ve ever loved…” 🥰
smokeinsilence:
have you ever noticed you pick up little habits and phrases from the people you love? it's no wonder our hearts are so easily broken when people leave. we become a reflection of the people that we care about and those personality traits stick with us even if the people don't
viridianmasquerade:
I make my ramen the way a friend taught me in eleventh grade.
Every fall, I listen to a playlist made for me by a boy I drove across a border to hook up with. I eat sushi because a girl who won't talk to me anymore made me try it, and Indian food because my best friend's parents ordered for me before I knew what I liked. There are movies I love because someone I loved loved them first. I am a mosaic of everyone l've ever loved, even for a heartbeat.
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Rob Husberg @artofrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Bullseye” Autumn is coming. Beware the rogue leaf! Available as a giclée art print in my Etsy shop. Find it here: theartofrobhusberg.etsy.com/listing/8763...
“Bullseye”
giclée art print 

We’re in the middle of autumnal woods and the leaves are falling. Our cat friend has been enjoying a solitary, undisturbed meander amongst the trees, savoring the sights, sounds, and smells, when a rather bold leaf has the temerity to land on and stick to the middle of his face. Such undignified effrontery! He is clearly quite consternated. A rather bemused little bird looks on from a safe distance in the branches above. 

Rendered in black ballpoint pen & coloured pencil on toned paper. The leaf is the only thing in the drawing that’s in colour.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations


...within hours of journalists on either the *Guardian* or *Sunday Times* contacting Reform for comment on the same stories ahead of them publishing their own investigations. Reform deputy leader Richard Tice and his fiancée, supposed journalist Isabel Oakeshott, even crowed online about their spoiler tactics.

Not that the *Telegraph* doesn't do its own leg work when reporting on Reform. After James Orr, the party's head of policy, had to resign after a sting by *Channel 4 News* (see "*Right Orr Wrong*, p14"), *Telegraph* chief reporter Rob Mendick texted Orr: "I was hoping to talk to you entirely on background," he schmoozed. "You must be feeling very bruised and I totally Appreciate [sic] the sensitivities. I suspect you deserve better and I wanted to see how I can put the record straight in some way." Alas, instead of the Reformer and Cambridge theologian, Mendick messaged someone else, who shared it with the *Eye*!
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 24/09/2026
A tumbleweed is rolling through my online shop today. I create colourful prints, cards, homewares and T-shirts inspired by architecture, music and mid-century design. Please have a look at my shop and repost to help spread the word. Thanks! gailmyerscough.co.uk
A pile of colourful prints featuring illustrations inspired by music, mid-century design and architecture.
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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is horrifyingly and ironically familiar for anyone who has studied the Shoah: > …overall there was a noticeable detachment across the subjects. A just-following-orders mentality. “I understand how a man can blow up a place and go home to his degree in clinical psychology,” one subject said.
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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unfortunately due to budgetary cutbacks, hurricane Polo is currently being tracked by a small group of scientists shouting “Marco!”
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol
A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If they deserve to be impeached — and so many of them do — then the House should impeach them. Maybe the Senate won‘t convict but it’s still worth the effort to remind people that laws still exist and that Democrats still defend it. Also, as noted here, make ‘em sweat.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Beside the Seaside" — nostalgia for those leaving summer, anticipation for those entering it. Mermaids, available on various things: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/7926...
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Beside the Seaside by tanaudel | Redbubble
A frolic of summer mermaids and startled fish.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it was, perhaps unsurprisingly, the French who first sent cats into space.
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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For @shapelessink.bsky.social, a block print version of his most viral piece 💜
A print of a transfem sheep woman, Amelia, pointing a gun at the viewer. In a speech bubble she says “GET WRITING, BITCH. INFINITE WORLDS CRY OUT TO BE BORN, AND YOU ARE TO BE A GOD.”
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Binfire Era @binfire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gonna start calling more people soup forks
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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More lovely #buyastrangerabook day action. @stuarthedges.eurosky.social has send me £10 to buy someone a book with! So, if there's a paperback that you've got your eye on, get in touch and let us know what it is. UK only
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Mandalee @mandalee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my 😻😻😻
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii 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
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/09/2026
When the health department published Palantir’s contract with most of its pages completely blanked out, our legal action forced ministers to reveal key sections about the protection of personal data. And now we’re doing it again. Support our challenge for transparency: goodlaw.social/xcsv
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Make the government come clean about Palantir | Good Law Project
Together with Democracy for Sale, we’re challenging the information commissioner’s decision to keep ministerial briefings about Palantir’s platform hidden
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Jussie Northside @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How did I not know the RNLI sells some excellent swag? Ooh, this jumper. I’m imagining it under a pea coat as I scan to the far horizon. shop.rnli.org/products/rnl...
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RNLI Unisex Stripe Jumper
Stay warm in RNLI’s cream and black stripe jumper, made in the UK from 100% British wool. A cosy, nautical layer that supports RNLI lifesavers.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve written to my MP, the Home Secretary and the PM this morning demanding that the government take action to defend the RNLI and clamp down on these far-right “activists”, who need to be arrested and charged for the criminal offences in this thread alone, as well as others in recent weeks.
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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 22/09/2026
it’s been said a ton already but I really do appreciate mamdani so throughly dismantling the core democrat ideology of “we actually can’t ever do anything helpful or good because of. circumstances”
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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The autumn equinox takes place at 1.04am tonight / tomorrow morning. Meaning the UK enters its dark phase. Come forth all thee witches, now is our time. (Thank you to the Pilgrimage Trust for the reminder)
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Genuinely: this is pointless unless you're a constituent and his team should, rightly, hit delete immediately or simply tell you to email your MP. Do email your MP tho - particularly if theyre Labour
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Leaf ombré my daughter made 🍁🌼🌿
Breach leaves in autumn arranged on a tree stump so their colour shifts gently round a circle
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow! If you've ever used the phrase "I'm racking my brains" - well, you might be onto something there: news.stanford.edu/stories/2026... (h/t Sophia.44 on Threads)
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The human brain is two separate organs, study finds
Scientists have viewed the brain as one organ for centuries. A Stanford Medicine-led discovery challenging that view could advance research into ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, and other neurological di...
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Of course "transing your kids" is not a real thing. But "sex trafficking your kids" is a real thing that Matt Gaetz got caught doing.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Imagine accepting these first two sentences from the NYT piece as a normal feature of American life: "What can a laid-off worker over 50 do to get health insurance? Besides staying healthy until Medicare kicks in at age 65, the answer is: Not a lot."
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone would like to see a short video of a deer fawn asking you to follow it to Narnia, this is your lucky day.
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