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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sex is great but have you ever read Bram Stoker's Dracula whilst enjoying dark chocolate tiramisu and a vintage bottle of Pinot Noir in front of a crackling fire in a secluded cottage on the Scottish coast during a raging thunderstorm?

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well, this was a rather bloody nice autumnal wander along the South Downs this morning with my giant dog.

Looking through the ears of a Clydesdale horse on a concrete bridle path through autumn country lanes

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit, standing on top of a van with loudspeakers on it, flinches as projectiles are hurled at him

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Royal Institution @rigb.org · 10/10/2026

Don't miss the 2026 CHRISTMAS LECTURES, supported by CGI—Jim Al-Khalili will lead us on a journey through the science of time and timekeeping. Find out more: rigb.org/christmas-le...

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili will tackle the awe-inspiring science of time in the 2026 CHRISTMAS LECTURES® from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My first Samaritans shift back today, on World Mental Health Day. There’s room for the really difficult stuff, but also for a good chat about cats. Sometimes you need to say things out loud. Sometimes you just need a bit of company. There’s always someone to listen. Glad to be back 💚

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s Friday and for the first time in ages I actually feel bloody well excited and cheerful. Place bets now on how long this will last…

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Missing my sunset swims & hot tub at my family home already. A few days of tiny island life & excellent food to reset my brain a little, breathe, have a think & make a few mental lists of things I want to do. Quite a nice place to get your shit together, really.

Sunset and clouds over a blue swimming pool on the island of Jersey

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last day of holiday and of course I’m only just starting to relax.

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Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely convinced this man sole purpose is to dismember the BBC so that the tech bros can pick over the remains and he must be stopped.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My uber driver is playing Jazz FM and suddenly I’m mentally in Café Nervosa, waiting for Niles to complain about the foam on his cappuccino.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ooh Slipknot…more than a bit short sighted there on the otherwise fucking great support slots. Shame.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Safe to say papa has had a bit of a shit basho…

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For fuck’s sake. Bake Off opens with Nigella’s chocolate Guinness cake, I used to make this a lot. I now want to invoke my inner Nigella and be all sultry and indulgent about it only I live alone and cannot reasonably eat an entire cake. This is a deeply inconvenient development. Who fancies cake?

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Opened the news: people treating migrants in boats as targets, more games studios closing, more grim telly news. Closed it again. Looking away won’t fix any of it, but I can’t take it all in tonight. Going to watch something fluffy and wish people would be fucking better than this.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of two short haired cats on a bench. A tabby looks disapprovingly at the camera while a black and white cat looks disinterestedly off to the right.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Had my second neurodivergent coaching session today and, alongside psychotherapy, it’s proving genuinely fascinating. Therapy helps me understand the life shit; coaching helps me understand the particular brain trying to deal with the life shit. (1/3)

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So vintage I appear to have had Covid. Still fucking knackered. My body hates me. I was aiming for mysterious Victorian woman taking the sea air, but mostly I’m just annoyed and horizontal.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Black Sheep one of my favourite gloriously stupid horrors is getting a sequel, set 20 years after the original, with more practical sfx, mutant sheep-people and flocks of murderous livestock. I cannot adequately express how pleased I am that cinema is once again addressing the issues that matter.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dragged from my sick bed to see the brilliant and hilarious Daniel Kitson, whose idea that everything emits a feeling managed to be funny, profound and irritatingly true. Alongside his prolific use of cunt of course. I was mostly emitting mucus, but I felt things too.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fuck Ted Lasso making me cry again.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A loop pedal can replace a band, Ed. It can’t replace a spine.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sometimes being extremely fucking good at certain elements of my job is considerably more curse than blessing.

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sumosoul.bsky.social @sumosoul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Day1 M9 Ura (L) M9 Shishi (R) Stumbly yet effective Shishi does a good job keeping up with wiley Ura. Shishi was in contention for yūshō until dropping his last three bouts last basho #akibasho2026

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

300 jobs is the headline. The real story is the decades of production and specialist knowledge walking out the door. TV keeps treating experience as a cost rather than one of its biggest assets, while demanding ever more for ever less. You can’t spreadsheet your way back once it’s gone.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Tried Surströmming this evening, despite part of my dna being Scandinavian I have clearly not inherited the palate. I can honestly say it was a hard, hard no. Even prepared correctly it was the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Psychology background or not, I cannot overstate how fucking brilliant a good good psychotherapist can be, they’re worth their weight in gold. Supportive, challenging, occasionally annoyingly perceptive, and genuinely life-changing. This shit should be mandatory.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Happy new Mastodon album day to all who celebrate…oh it’s gooood.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This one hurt. Tim Curry was so much more than Rocky Horror, although Frank-N-Furter will always have a filthy little corner of my heart. Clue, Legend, IT, Muppet Treasure Island a gloriously weird lifetime of roles, with that unmistakable voice, wit and presence. Don’t dream it. Be it. ❤️

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Karen Shipway @karenshipway.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

for anyone who wants to donate for Dolly.... if you are in the UK there is a good chance there is a local partner in your area. donate.imaginationlibrary.com

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Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.

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Caroline Hooton @carolinehooton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The fundamental problem is that these people have too much money. If they had less money then they would understand the value of social security and state pensions.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I’m not a country music fan, but I’ve always bloody loved Dolly Parton. Unapologetically herself, funny, smart and genuinely kind. From incredibly humble beginnings to an extraordinary life, while quietly giving so much back through philanthropy that often went overlooked. What a woman. What a life.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For some reason my Instagram algorithm is currently very childish humour, gig reviews and repeated videos of a grandpa being yeeted by a bison. Frankly it’s exactly what I needed on a Tuesday morning whilst dealing with panicking production teams.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Can’t believe I’m considering doing another Masters degree…

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Watching #TheGreatADHDMyth? as both a neurodiverse person & a TV production lawyer, I found the lack of balance really uncomfortable… #adhd

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tonight’s niche listening. Absolutely obsessed with this. Atmospheric black metal concept album about Bill the Pony from LOTR, because apparently somebody found the exact intersection of things I didn’t know I needed. And it’s genuinely fantastic. 🖤🐴 lammothofficial.bandcamp.com/album/onward

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Onward, by Lammoth

9 track album

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Grief changes you in ways I don’t think you can really understand until you’ve been through it. It rearranges what matters. Things that once felt important suddenly seem utterly trivial, while people, places and small moments of familiarity become everything.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Brighton sunsets driving across the South Downs hit differently.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tasting Gillian Anderson’s g spot

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I ordered myself a cameo pep talk from Miriam Margoyles and it’s bloody beautiful. Sweary of course, but sentimental and so lovely. Didn’t expect it to make me cry at 1am… love her.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today my sisters and I finalised Mum’s headstone in time for her birthday next week. There’s something so painfully full circle about it. One final act of love, wrapped up in the permanence of grief. It’s an incredibly strange, deeply melancholy feeling.

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Just heard the Flaming Lips performing ‘do you realise’ from my patio and it was fucking glorious. Thos morning i could hear Nick Cave sound checking. Now I want to organise a metal festival in the park… I do love living in Brighton

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Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m watching the new Spider-Man later and honestly I’m excited like the little kid I truly am. Mmmmm escapism.

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Creators' Rights Alliance @creatorsrights.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

We're calling on Government to protect creators' rights in the age of AI. Fairness and transparency must be at the heart of the UK's approach to AI. Help our mission by signing our new petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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