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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Lee @my-liquid-head.bsky.social · 8h

Hawthorn after sunset, earlier this evening. #photography #nature #trees

A hawthorn tree seen in silhouette against sunset. A few pink clouds are in the blue sky.

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 9h

Actually prefer the landscape version thinking about it.

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Phil @philstrachan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

More holiday snapshots from the trackside. Camera: Pentax K2 + SMC Pentax M 135mm f3,5 Film: Ilford HP5+ Dev: Ilfosol 3, 1+9, 6min30 at 20C #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Black and white photo looking towards a steam locomotive next to a platform with lots of enthusiasts and sightseers waiting on their steam-hauled-trip.

Black and white photo looking towards an steam locomotive next to a platform. In the shot is a pedestrian bridge over the track with an ornate lamp in the middle.

Black and white photo looking towards a steam locomotive as it sets off from a platform. There are clouds of steam in front of the loco.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 12h

What's with all the fruit flies everywhere at the moment?!

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Kyle Orland @kyleor.land · 14h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never played World of Warcraft? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you farming gold in Eversong Woods! [SMITH]: That is Elden Ring, sir.

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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 13h

Look what arrived at last, @navalairhistory.com! Email inbound soon. I mean, it's too big to fit with the other Willises to start with... 🤔

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 13h

There has been a lot of talking about AI on here today, and if you're as fed up of it as I am, I'd like to recommend the Doodl app. Daily prompts, no pressure, art générated by real humans in all their messy glory. Much better than doomscrolling while we wait for IT to happen.

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Áine @actuallyannalise.bsky.social · 14h

Bike and rider. Taken at Dreamroll 2026. 📷: Yashica 44 🎞️: Rollei Crossbird 🧪: Kodak E6 chems, home rotary processing #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #SlideFilm

Photo of an older modified Harley-Davison Dyna with ape hanger handlebars and a wrought iron sissy bar.

Photo of the rider of the motorcycle in the other photo attached to this post. The rider is a short and skinny dyke with short brown hair and glasses wearing dark riding pants, a white T-shirt shirt, and a vest bearing the Dykes on Bikes motorcycle club. The use of "dyke" in this context is how the rider self-identifies and is therefore not a slur when used here.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14h

I had the same thought this weekend when browsing in the gorgeous Leakey’s bookshop in Inverness. Two whole shelves of Dornford Yates bestsellers which I suspect no one has opened for 50 years. Nice editions, mind you, if anyone wants to give him a whirl

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 14h

Getting emails that are putting me very much in the 'why do I bother working myself into the ground for an audience that will only ever look for the shortcomings?' mood

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James Latimer has read Breath and Bone, awaiting Wolf2 @jameslatimer.bsky.social · 21h

A big problem is that people aren't going to be able to take public transport if it's late, early, unreliable, slow, expensive, etc. and currently that's most local bus services. They treat them like a last resort or luxury not a service, but you can't be late to work, or spend hours to be on time.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 17h

Genuine AI q: do we have any good practice gudelines and/or methodologies for accuracy testing humanities projects? E.g I get gen AI to scan a load of wills & make a database of bequests/value/gender/location etc - obvs I have no idea what it made up. So how many instances “should” I manually check?

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 17h

BBC attempting to report on the Fly Dubai incident with virtually no information is interesting and not terribly enlightening

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 20h

It’s real! I just received my copy of Anglo-Norman Studies vol 48 which includes my article on the contribution of the abbey of Fécamp to the Norman invasion in 1066. Elisabeth van Houts’ article in vol 10 really inspired me, and I’m so pleased to have built on her work on the Ship List #MedievalSky

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 19h

With alt text. I know someone who actually did this

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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 19h

Art, literature and music are ways we express our human experience. Generative AI has nothing to say. Its remixed slop can only ever be, to quote Shakespeare, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

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Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 19h

Will also accept all reposts of any art I post - and just the odd person telling me why carrying on it worth it, or that you like what I do. Or anything like that… I’m not needy, you’re needy

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A County Cork #painting, "Bandon I". The first time I painted the west Cork town, well it was a long time ago and I can't honestly remember what I was thinking. Which probably explains why I can't simply repeat it. I like it though. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format, very loosely painted in acrylics on canvas. Looking down a street of mostly three-story retail buildings, from left in the foreground to right in the distance. Right-hand side buildings are all in very dark blue shadow and throws a darker triangle of very dark purple, almost black, shadow onto the street which on the rest of the street is sunlit in lilac. Buildings on the left are shops, with many having awnings creating shadows of very dark purple windows and doors. Upper stories are mostly mid-purples with some yellow and pale pink. Several cars are parked on the left side (a double yellow line is on the right side), starting with a red car, then a blue before they become indistinguishable from the dark purple shadows they cast. Power lines arc across the street. All over there are flecked details of pale blue and deep red. Loose broken dark lines are painted as partial outlines around details. The sky is a painterly canary yellow. I took this photo of the painting before I added my signature

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21h

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 20h

Still coming to terms a little bit with Nikolai's racing career being over. It was only ever for fun and we always said we'd stop the moment he didn't seem to be enjoying it, but with circumstances as they are... Here he is tackling the bend at Harvel, and the slo-mo shows he was built for this...

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 20h

Let's be honest Esteban, your time in F1 ended a while ago

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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 21h

Sunday marks the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in East London. There are events across the weekend to mark this important milestone in opposing Fascism in Britain. #CableStreet90 togetheroncablestreet.com www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... 1/2

Image of sticker produced by Unite the Union to advertise events around the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, 4th October 1936.

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 21h

It's the incel human resources meme. Instead the handsome man is Andy Burnham saying better things are possible, and the other man is Jeremy corbyn saying better things are possible. Ian dunt is saying awful you're sweet to Burnham I'm calling human resources on Jeremy

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 20h

Proposal: the fines levied on the water companies for serious environmental failure like this should be set at a sum equal to what the company paid in dividends + any executive bonuses, in the previous year (since this is a good estimate of the ‘spare’ money sloshing about) for a first offence …

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21h

George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...

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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 23h

Morning all. I am on Radio 4 Today programme at 0750 talking about the crisis facing higher education and the action our members are taking to defend it.

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-nine: Sending Apples to Whitehall" #OldFoxCommunity (Old Fox, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Permanent Secretary) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...

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Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September. Number Twenty-nine: Sending Apples to Whitehall | Anne Louise Avery

Every Michaelmas morning, without fail, Old Fox would send a crate of precisely one hundred and one apples from his orchard up to London on

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Opponents of rent controls typically argue that rent controls would lead to landlords selling up. Of course that presents risks. But it also presents a historic opportunity. Because when a landlord sells, the home does not vanish – only the owner changes!

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see someone use their religion as an excuse to exclude trans people in some court case or other, I think about how I genuinely believe that it is my religious duty towards God to transition, and how stressed a judge would be if we ended up opposite each other in the same case.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 29/09/2026

Nikolai on his way to the fastest veteran prize, UK Silken Windhound Club annual track event, and collecting the prizes Pics: Deborah Hastie

A white and black silken windhound running towards the camera, his ruff blown back by the wind, grass and earth flying up from where his feet pushed off the ground

Me and Nikolai posing with the prizes, a purple and white rosette with ‘Best Veteran Dog’ on the ribbon, a fancy bottle opener and a packet of ‘platinum’ dog food

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026

Billionaires should pay *disproportionately more* tax than anyone else. They have disproportionately more wealth!

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is also an interesting example of how stories are told differently in different disciplines/ traditions, because I knew that Servetus was burned for heresy (he denied the Trinity), but not about his medical discoveries.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is an excellent thread

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Anthropic would like to give me $12.6 billion in order to receive $4.6 billion back, I'd like to make it known that I have a gap in my schedule that could work well for both of us.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 29/09/2026

Is The Economist now some kind of performance art project aiming to be as wrong as it can conceivably be about as many things as possible?

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WittnerCinetec.com @wittnercinetec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge thanks for the mention! An absolutely gorgeous production: beautifully directed, perfectly shot, and masterfully edited. The commitment to creating it on Super 8 and 16mm film shines through in every frame. 🎬🎞️✨ www.instagram.com/reel/DXZcGzV...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.

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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heya folks. We're on a final push to get to £10k. We're on just over £8.3k. That's less than 1/10th of what fascist Danny Tommo has recently received inndonations after slashing a dinghy with an RNLI worker on it at sea. Meanwhile our comrade faces more than 12x the jailtime for opposing fascism.

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 28/09/2026

Avebury in the heatwave @stoneclub.bsky.social 📷Voigtlander Bessa T/Seagull 35mm/F1.7 🎞️Fuji Provia 100F

A segment of Avebury stone circle receding into the distance. The ditch and bank in the background. Blue sky and wispy white cloud

A large rectangular sarsen from Avebury stone circle, with a prominent 'cut-out- at the base and root holes pocking the upper half. Other stones and people can be seen in the distance. A rich blue sky and mottled white cloud

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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 28/09/2026

Many of the JSO M25 protesters were denied bail after two or even three applications and consequently held on remand for weeks if not months. Some were not even directly involved but were on the Zoom call where the protests were organised

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 28/09/2026

If you define the centre as the far right, then there's no far right problem in Europe. The more likely conclusion is unthinkable: that centrists like Rachman have actually radicalised into the far right.

The Italian left points to Meloni’s harsher policies on immigration and asylum as indications that she retains far-right instincts. But almost all European governments are now searching for ways to limit the flow of asylum seekers. This is a response to growing voter unease — so arguably an expression of democracy rather than its negation.

Le Pen has been moderating her party’s image for many years — shedding many of its more extreme policies and associations. In the process, she has broken with her own father, the founder of the party, and ditched plans to leave the European single currency.

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Junkyard Fool @junkyardfool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@jemahl.bsky.social Fin!!

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Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The downstairs galleries will be closed from 28 September to 7 October. The Museum and Gallery 5 will be open, featuring a selection of Newlyn School works, with half-price admission. Coming soon: The Art of the Newlyn School: Paintings from The Bowerman Collection opens on 7 October 2026.

A fisherman struggles to thread a needle to mend sails, while two young women lean against the rail, laughing at his difficulty. The scene unfolds against the picturesque backdrop of Newlyn Harbour.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

if a neurotypical person had to get through a single day with my unmedicated brain they would absolutely collapse. it is a miracle I was getting so much done that whole time, tbh. just sheer stubborn grit, leading to catastrophic burnout.

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