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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 16h

It looks like I'm going to have a pretty bad, no good, stressful as heck week, so I will be doubling-down on posting about my silly crafts in order to feel anchored to something. I will be seeking out and praising all of your creative endeavours too, so you'd better get to posting about them.

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RevMelanieNOLA @revmelanienola.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Always reminds me how New Orleans attorney and activist Tracie Washington said after Katrina: “I hate this word resilience—it just means how much they can keep doing to you.”

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 16h

It's National Coming Out Day. It's also one hell of a time for all of us. I've struggled with what message I wanted to send today. So I'm just going with the truth: I'm glad you're here with us. 🖤🩶🤍💜

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Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social · 18h

Fellow fat people/people who wear plus sizes: what would real solidarity from your thinner friends & family look like for you? (Once again, asking thin & midsize people to sit this one out & just listen. Take notes & take action!)

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"if you could get ai to realistically perfectly mimic your own work you would absolutely do it lol. imagine the free time" sorry but I hate free time i would make it my life's effort to hunt and kill the thing that took away my joy and reason for living. and I'd have a lot of free time to do it in

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I struggled to edit this "short" down to three minutes, but obviously the feline invasion had to stay. youtube.com/shorts/t0CU4...

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Adding embroidery to my "Pumpkin Magic" table runner

YouTube video by Fibre Haptic Crafts

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

kind of fun that some dutch guy who i guess had never heard of animals got to name wildebeests

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I got nerdy about beer and they gave me a HAT.

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This week I have been making leaves.

Oak leaves made out of felt and fabric scraps, with embroidery details.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why is this so FUNNY

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

441) Ghostbot. If you're worried your house may be haunted, deploy this spooky pal to patrol the area. If it meets any ghosts, it will befriend them and keep them away from you so you can get a good night's sleep. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

…said Ford Prefect, but with air running out, Arthur Dent continued to panic.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And, as I wrote over a year ago, this kind of ethnographical skull-measuring will always lead to outright racism and - in the attempt - utter absurdity. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

When, this week, the Telegraph printed a rabidly scaremongering report that “White British people will be a minority in 40 years”, they clarified this cohort as “the white British share of the population — defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent”.

Leaving aside how garbled that formulation is — there are millions of non-white Brits who meet that definition perfectly — it carried with it a parallel consequence. I myself do not have an immigrant parent.

In fact, every single pale and freckled ancestor of mine since 1800, Irish farmers to a soul, was born and raised in something called the United Kingdom. This is true for a large number of Irish people in the North. And since the late Prince Philip was himself a Greek immigrant, it gives me great pleasure to point out that they’d settled on a definition of ‘White British’ which includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles III.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Should we do anything to help solve structural inequality & ensure workplaces are actually accessible to disabled people?” “Nah, let’s just bribe employers to hire them for a bit.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres...

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

Meanwhile that same rent reduction would save renters £2400 per year and govt £2bn per year in housing benefit spend. It's hard to think of any other policy that could deliver such meaningful relief for households most at risk in the current cost of living crisis, whilst SAVING THE GOVT MONEY!

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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

For 30 yrs these supernormal returns and eye-watering margins have fuelled a Buy to Let frenzy: landlords outbidding first-time buyers & pushing up house prices, rather than using their savings to invest in UK productive capacity. Find me an economist who'd call that healthy!

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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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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Garden centre kitty pretending to be part of the bird food display.

A very chill, fluffy tortoiseshell cat lying on its side on a stack of large tubs of dried mealworm. Its mouth is wide open in a yawn.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why is this ruinous and uncorrected tory austerity rarely discussed?

During the 2010s, councils' overall core funding per person fell by 26% in real terms, on average, with higher council tax revenues only partially offsetting a 46% fall in funding from central government. But these cuts affected areas differently: in the most deprived tenth of councils, funding per person fell by 35%, compared with 15% in the least deprived areas. Councils in the North and London were also relatively harder hit.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

infuriatingly, I just found this reference as a screenshot on my desktop and spent too long trying to find it in a library catalogue before I remembered that it's an AI hallucination

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Da Underfunded Ouroboros @trufflehog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's all fun and games until you and your loved ones are the compromise.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is beautiful writing about what happens when strangers on the internet narrativise you, based on 30 seconds of video 👇

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me? Oh, I'm just ruminating on the fact that this SHEPHERD'S PIE will be easily the most expensive meal we've cooked this month. Please ignore the molotov cocktails I'm prepping in the next room. I'm sure I'll calm down again in due course.

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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026

Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cannot express enough the speed at which I would turn the game off, put down the controller and immediately sell the console.

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not that I've had an off-kilter evening of emotional ups and downs or anything... but it's 2:30 in the A M here, I'm far from asleep, and my brain is busy composing a song titled, "Oh we're all going to party when he carps it."

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is absolutely true. Centrist politicians have essentially fetishised "tough choices" into being an end in itself. If you don't have to throw someone under the bus to achieve some broader strategic goal (even if you're not certain what that goal is), it's not grown-up politics.

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Fuck all of this shit, I'm going to live harder.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.

Close-up of a small wild cat with brown striped fur, large rounded ears, amber eyes, and a dark nose, staring directly at the camera with an intense, slightly irritated expression.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"If I just bought all my stuff from myself I could charge me a billion dollars and I'd be a trillionaire. I am very smart."

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My (35M) support acts (43M, 29M, 37M, 24M) have unionised!

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Same as UK. “we might get a Reform government” trans people already have a Reform government.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

sorry i can’t vaccinate my dog, i’m worried he’ll get autism. and that would make it so much harder for him to get a job so he can move out and get his own apartment??? i’m just worried about the economy mostly, now my whole family has rabies which we are treating with horse dewormer.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Ben Paddon 🎃 @benpaddon.net · 13/09/2026

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The inside of this is extremely Crimes Against Sewing, and I'll be shedding loose threads from here to York, but IT'S FINISHED!

Patchwork skirt in purple, pink and orange batik fabrics with occasional squares of black. It has a handkerchief hem and the bottom edge forms five points, making it hang asymmetrically.

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just passed CRISPS SCAFFOLDING SOLUTION on the bus. Sounds like a terrible idea

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Vicky Stiles @nocherubsplease.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This jigsaw is pants. (old jeans are becoming a corset belt)

Wide strips of dark fabric with over a dozen small patches of white interfacing ironed on, waiting to be cut out and stitched back together.

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

God have mercy, an old friend of mine was one of Orr’s students who had quit his PhD and can only speak about it now

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I have set up a fundraiser with RNLI, with the plans to do a fundraising stream later this month. It's not going to fix everything, but it will be a small and functionally useful "fuck you" to some of the worst pricks in town.

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Felix @ostrasyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A lot to be said about this, but one thing that stands out immediately is how the far right understands safety not as something owed to everyone but as something controlled and distributed through hierarchy. Whose safety matters, and the ways in which it matters, is contingent on their place in it.

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