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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

New bookshelves! My IKEA Billy were getting very tired so ordered these from Shelfstore and installed them today (totally recommend, the quality seems excellent). Next job is to carry all the books back in🥵

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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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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

data visualization is my passion.

fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Updating our PPE training to include stillsuits

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Haul from my day trip to Oxford, found on the shelves of "Last Bookshop". Never seen this one for sale as a paperback before, not even in Waterstones Piccadily. @danacea.bsky.social

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FuzzWolf 🏳️‍🌈 @fuzzwolf.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Centered text reads “The sky above
the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”

Below are 3 versions of the same cityscape labeled 1985, 2005, 2025 with the background changing from grey static, to solid blue, to streaming service logos.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

So I might end up DMing Curse of Strahd when our current campaign ends, doing the death house as a mini lead-in to it to see if I can remember how to be the DM after not doing it since school during my A levels, back when there was just AD&D, no editions. PANIC 😱

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Print I bought at the Eastercon art show depicting Voyager, with a photo I took of my rescue cat Gizmo maybe 20 years ago and three taken of me when I used to compete in motorsport events (cars are a Hillman Imp and a Davrian, both of which I still have even if they never move!)

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Next panel "everything you want to know about LARP but were afraid to ask". Given three people in my D&D group also LARP, I probably have a bit of a head start on this one :)

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Good number of people in for the "Considering Anne McCaffrey" panel given it's 9 a.m.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Made up a schedule of talks I want to attend at Eastercon which includes a few clashes I'm going to have to make decsions about, what I haven't done yet is pack 🤦‍♂️

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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

First blog post in months is up! Contains news, my schedule for @easterconuk.bsky.social and some previews of the art that I'll be exhibiting in the art show. enewman.co.uk/the-roots-ar... Boosts would be gratefully received x

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The roots are down there

Hello my lovelies, How the devil are you? It’s been a while, hasn’t it? As I am typing this, the neighbours across the way from me are having the huge Leylandii trees in their back garden trimmed b...

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Leaving it late but got a membership for Iridesence (Eastercon 2026) which will be my first, never even been to the local convention to me that runs each year in Bristol. Loads of panels I want to go to and hoping I can sign up for table talk with @emmanewman.bsky.social on Sunday morning.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

48 hours to open the Straits, which Trump also says US don’t need to have opened, in a war he has already said US has won, and in a situation where he demands help from countries which he also insists US does not need.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Two #totp in a row from 1999 on BBC4 and Sixpence none the richer on both, with what looks like the same tv studio performance of 'Kiss me'. They could have shown the video for one of them (the "Jules et Jim" homage, not the other)

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This is on, so I'll be in front of the telly* for a couple of hours. Must be up to a dozen views, it's so good. *projector screen

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Current read. Just finished " I who have never known men" by Jacqueline Harpman.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Park Royal station, think it must be nearly 50 years since I was here, stood outside with my late gran waiting (a long time it felt like) for a bus back to Perivale.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

In a break from everything that's happening today, at Firenze airport you can buy Lego from a vending machine.

A vending machine full of lego kits next to an airport departure board.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 15/01/2026

See that larger white blob at lower left, and the smaller blob to its right? That's Earth and the Moon. Photographed from the orbit of Mercury.

A starfield. At lower left, a bright star, and a smaller companion. Home.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Views from the plane, then views of the city, plus an obligatory gelato even though it's gennaio.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Covid jab jabbed 💉 (my new disease modifying therapy makes me eligible).

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

So I got this thing (a Seestar S30) that makes photographing galaxies and nebulae really straightforward compared to setting up all the components yourself (and importantly taking it all down when you want to go to bed). Here's a couple from tonight, Bode's galaxy (M81, with M82) and NGC 281

Photo of M81 and M82 created by stacking multiple 10s exposures

Photo of NGC 271 created by stacking multiple exposures.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

James Dyson has said he may not be able to pass his business down to his children because
of Rachel Reeves's inheritance tax changes..See more

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Sir James Dyson: Rachel
Reeves has put my family
business at risk

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Very cool present I received for Christmas, who wouldn't want a dragon on their gift card? Currently enjoying cappuccino and chocolate fudge cake in the mezzanine cafe at Piccadily before heading upstairs to spend it!

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️🎄

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

In our weekly management meeting at work tomorrow I am going to be able to say "It was DNS. It is always DNS" in my report. Life goal complete ✔️

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 05/11/2025

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

A picture of a red moon with a tower and the steps leading to it, in black and white
The caption says "The keep and keeper"

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Today's haul from Max Minerva's Marvellous Books near work in Bristol. Nice to find The Vengance by @emmanewman.bsky.social in an indie bookshop. I bought Notes on Infinity based on seeing it in the window so who knows what it will be like!

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Successful visit to my favorite shop this morning, I escaped having only bought one book 🤣

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

TW: This is about abortion -but more than that it’s about how debate when shock tactics are on rise. If they are getting to our young people, we can’t pretend abortion access isn’t under attack but shouting back isn’t the way forward either. This will get worse until we stand up for light not heat.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Bluesky, a little help? Any experts in #peppercorn / #leasehold law please? I'm trying to find the answer to a legal question, and am being given the kind of runaround you'd associate with a Wile E Coyote cartoon. Reskeets appreciated, thank you! 🙏

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Three watercolours painted by JMW Turner during a stay in Bristol age 16. From the "Prince of the rocks" exhibition at Bristol Museum, showcasing these, prints of other Turner works and geology, flora and fauna collected from the Avon Gorge.

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Just finished this and loved it, it's so beautifully written. Given the subject - life after a global pandemic that wipes out well over 99% of the population - I'm kind of glad I didn't read it pre-COVID.

Shows the cover of Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Received an email today to my personal address fom a trade association that was cc-ed to about 50 people that I don't know. It was an email I was expecting and I imagine all the other people were expecting it too, I just wasn't expecting to learn all of their names and email addresses.

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...

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Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Robert Buckland epitomises the branch of conservatism that pays attention to the Union (and the legal commitments underpinning it), values personal liberty and instinctively distrusts silver bullet solutions to multi-faceted issues. Feeling for him today: conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r...

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Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“…detailed legal review led by shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson of Tredegar concluded that the ECHR placed "significant constraints" on the government.” >>> Well, duh, what do they think a human rights instrument is meant to do? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men

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Mark Chater🎲🖳📚 @markchater.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is an important first step and I hope it passes. Bring disabled I have a vested interest as while I am not significantly limited by my disability now, I may be in future and unable to travel to Switzerland where their laws are more humane. We treat our pets with more kindness than people.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 12/09/2025

A sunny morning outside Parliament right now, and people are starting to gather for the #AssistedDyingBill rally. The House of Lords debate is due to start at 10:00. Our message: Support assisted dying for the terminally ill, freedom of choice, and stop exporting compassion!

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