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sleepywillowgirl

@mandieos.bsky.social
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Wife, Mum, Gran, Pagan, Reader, Genealogy, Music… Nottingham born… usually found at a protest, on a picket line or handing out leaflets 💕

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 13h
Very pleased to be back in the excellent @hauntedukfiction.bsky.social podcast. This is one of our most loved stories and a particularly good entry point to the village if you've never visited us before.
Screenshot of text from the linked story.
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape
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sleepywillowgirl @mandieos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The public consultation ends on Oct 7th www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/...
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Help us change fireworks laws to protect animals - RSPCA - rspca.org.uk
Support our campaign to protect animals from fireworks harm. Email your MP and help us push for changes to UK fireworks laws.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important to recognise that the £900m+ represents only the disguised expenditure and cash injections. Because it will have bought unearned success, which will have translated into higher winnings and sponsorship deals, the true amount of illicit spending could easily be hundreds of millions higher.
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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 28/09/2026
PSA: Don't forget to buy your Halloween candy early so you have time to buy more after you eat it all.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With Michael Gove cosplaying the PM, and Jim Murphy in the wings, we know we're doomed. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social on why Sky’s ‘The War Game’ is arms industry propaganda
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In the terrifying world of Dr StrangeGove
Sky’s The War Game put ex-politicians in a simulation where nuclear conflict was inevitable. It was arms industry propaganda pretending to be something serious.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026
Goodnight. "A Japanese belief says that if you can’t sleep at night, it’s because you’re awake in the dream of someone else." www.dreams.co.uk/sleep-matter...
 a traditional Japanese Buddhist monk walking down a misty stone path while holding an orange wagasa (traditional paper umbrella) c1900.
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you need a quick briefing on what's happening in Northern Ireland today, this thread is a good place to start.
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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reader comment that says the story is gorgeous and terrifying.
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Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
West Kennet Avenue stone and Moon #StandingStoneSunday
West Kennet Avenue stone and Moon
#StandingStoneSunday
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#WyrdWednesday The Old Man of Corn West Country Rhyme 'He stands in the mist of the Devon rain A ghost made of straw & a rusted chain He watches the seasons turn & go With a coat of rags & a crown of crow No boots on his feet No pipe to smoke Just an old grey coat & a 🖤 of oak' art Ronald Lampitt
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bambi and Thumper in real life! A deer and a little bunny sharing a super tender moment that seems straight out of a Disney movie... impossible not to melt with love! 🦌🐰✨ National Geographic
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Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the constellation Orion over the Avebury stones, Wiltshire. #StandingStoneSunday
the constellation Orion over the Avebury stones, Wiltshire. #StandingStoneSunday
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Humanities disciplynes are beautiful & useful by cause thei amplifye our humanitye. Undir the care offerid by focused & specialized researche & studye, workes of the present are given more momentum, and thryve. Artefacts of the past blossom ynto newe ydeas. The Humanityes care for the worlde.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that when the crops fail a human sacrifice is required
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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And we're out! The new issue: archaeology in Wigan, Nottinghamshire, Malta; an odd folk find in Oxon; 3rd Stone remembered; fairy doors; religious sects, a new artist feature… and more! Including nods to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & @helleborezine.bsky.social 🙂https://northernearth.co.uk/subscribe
Northern Earth #185, Autumn 2026
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
First clear morning for quite a few days and I forgot that Orion would be nicely aligned with St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. I didn't think about bringing a tripod for my camera so a hand held blurry phone pic instead. 😂
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢 Every member makes a difference. Join the NEU. The NEU supports members to come together, take action and achieve real improvements. Winning together brings us closer to the respect and conditions we deserve. 🔗 bit.ly/3TOYcOT #MakeADifference #JoinTheNEU
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sunrise over the Faroe Islands.
A distant band of light in the dark signifies a coming sunrise.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...
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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You
The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 08/09/2026
Always choose punk
A floral picture thing with the words:

In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck.
Be punk as
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They spontaneously turned up all dressed in black, wearing masks at the same time.
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A nascent fascist militia obstructing critical infrastructure and the police arrested nobody.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Has there ever been a more iconic entrance? Rest in peace, Tim Curry.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Beautiful video released by the family of Dolly Parton
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Colourful dawn. Photo taken this morning from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.
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SarahAndCo @sarahandco.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When jobs pay so low that decent workers can't afford bills, I don't blame them for playing the system. Stop tax payers subsidising payroll with in-work benefits by making employers pay a decent wage! Can't afford that? Then their business isn't viable so THEY are the welfare queens!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so swyvinge evil.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Artist Linda Timmons's stained glass bike wheel #womensart
Sculpture with bike wheel on grass with spokes with stained glass inlay
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse photo from Glastonbury Tor. It was amazing to experience but extremely difficult to photograph (for me at least 😂)
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SillySillyGirl @sillysillygirl.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Can’t see the solar eclipse, but clearly Gotham is in trouble #SolarEclipse
A picture of the sun behind a bat shaped cloud
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'Farage fatigue' continues as Reform drop to lowest YouGov polling since 2024 election
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'Farage fatigue' continues as Reform drop to lowest YouGov polling since 2024 election
With polls in recent days having Reform down in third place, the party are now slumping with the biggest pollster of them all, YouGov.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Be safe today folks
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
RIP Gary Dwyer (pictured with Paul Simpson in Liverpool, 1978). The Teardrops were a huge band for me, coming from punk and new wave but with a positive pop sensibility and, especially on 'Wilder', hinting at other influences that nagged at you to be explored.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One of the defining features of the populist right is self-pity and victimhood. Always has been.
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Wigan Museum @wiganmuseum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Looking for a quiet place to read, research, or study? Wigan Local Studies is located on the first floor of Wigan Museum and is fully accessible by either stairs or lift. It is full of local history and genealogy resources available for free, and no need to book! Tue-Fri: 10am-4pm Sat: 10am-2pm
Photograph of Wigan Local Studies library. It is a period Victorian library, with three tables down the centre and bays of resources.
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Wigan Museum @wiganmuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
While sorting through some of our local studies stock, we came across a little book titled 'Look At Wigan' and it includes a fun little puzzle section. It lists four place names in the borough that have been scrambled up, can you solve the puzzle?
Photograph of a map of Wigan with the words Wigan Word Scramble in the middle. Photograph has the scrambled letters of four places in Wigan, let's see if you can work the out. 

1. EEBRNPMTO
2. IDLHNYE
3. LRLOER
4. ADPORLB
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LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sad to see the news of iconic Notts company Raleigh going into administration.  Originally founded in Nottingham in 1885, many generations of cyclists grew up riding Raleigh models including the Chopper, Grifter and Burner. #nottingham #notts #raleigh #bicycle #bikes
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 03/08/2026
1/14 A brief break from #TheHormuzCrisis. I've never really explained why the phrase "put the Navy in the Channel" to stop #SmallBoat crossings isn't, in itself, a serious maritime strategy. It sounds decisive. From a maritime perspective though, it raises far more questions than it answers.
A screenshot of a headline from the second of august 2026 which says, Reform UK unveils plan for largest military operations since world war 2 to stop small boats. Reform UK's spokesman claimed the move would render the border impenetrable, ensuring nobody could reach UK shores via small boat. By Helen Corbett.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.
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