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Sarah Strong

@opiumia.bsky.social
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Bikes, old stuff, MH peer support, HRT, shoes, cats, and carbohydrates. Moving leftwards with age. UK.

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Living Dead Girl @jillblacksheep.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not all who wander are lost, but they are in my fucking way
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ooh, this is good. HT to @ewacat.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention.
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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You have to repost this when it appears on your timeline because, well, you just do.
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Jo @whatsjo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
me: Hey, I can’t sleep. Do you think it’s because of stress? hand puppet: *rolls over on my pillow to look at me* you have had a lot on your plate recently.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How to be a Writer: Look into void Become increasingly convinced that void is not only looking back at you, but that it hates your novel Tea
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.
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Dill Childs @furiousteddy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Please sign and share if you feel able. We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences.
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday has been found dead. The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief. Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations. And now he is dead.
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Happy #internationalcatday ! Here's one of many cats featured in the RA Summer Exhibition this year. Also, Bebe, my Aged P's Void.
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is it so they can stand up under the weight of constant scrutiny from people who should mind their own fucking business? x
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James Damron @runswindows95.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I hate having French pancakes for breakfast. They always give me the crepes.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Maybe we could reduce the problem of overcrowded prisons by not sending people to jail for things like throwing soup at paintings.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I saw part of London about 4 miles away getting a rain shower. Looked nice.
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.
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Mark Tait, who lives near Durham, tells the BBC the bus fare cap will make little difference to him.
"This is great if you use the bus, but no good for those who drive. Yet again, the working class person is left out," Tait says.
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Matt Denny @mattdenny.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
the phrase You wouldn't lengthen a jimothy split across two lines between wouldn't and lengthen. it's in the style of the bbfc "you wouldn't x a y" anti privacy advert - grungy white letters across a background of horizontally degraded static
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Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
people who have never played tetris should have to prove themselves before being allowed to pack anything unsupervised
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I scream, you scream, we’re all screaming my god make it stop
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Lemme open up my little handy dandy Umberto Eco book and see what he has to say about the role of masculine militarism in a state Oh Oh no OH NO
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Sarah "Spooky Halloween Name" Clarke @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 11/07/2026
When you're sending legal threats to Amnesty International to make them stop saying stuff about you, is that good?
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
‘Difficult decisions’ is almost always code for ‘punching down’. Fucking STOP IT. The arts sector in the UK is worth £8.5bn per year. That is (just numerically, quite apart from anything else) a FUCKING PRIORITY, you flailing cretins.
priority.you
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/07/2026
WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
genuinely concerned that if AI goes bankrupt I might shrug so hard I dislocate both shoulders
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The St. Louis Zoo has a dedicated penguin elevator for transporting their Formal Chickens™ to behind-the-scenes areas where they can get medical checkups, enrichment activities. Kicking myself for becoming a LAB biologist when I could have been a Penguin Elevator operator. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I've not even got a cardigan on.
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spooky kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Important news.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
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kim @kimmymonte.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
basketball’s all like gimme that pumpkin i need it and tennis is all like fuck this lemon you take it.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 15/06/2026
Banning children from social media?
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Charles Dahl's Dickens Chickens
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
SPOONS.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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Sarah Strong @opiumia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Aw. Anthony Head. 😟
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Welp there’s no unseeing this
Colorful play gym for infants featuring foxes and bunnies, two criss-crossing archs stand over a square matUFC cage being built on the White House launch, criss-crossing arches strongly resembling the baby play gym
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
AI is the Japanese Knotweed of technology.
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🟢 🚲 Lime will offer free rides across London tomorrow (Thursday) to help people get to and from polling stations during the local elections. The offer can be accessed by entering the code ‘VOTEUK2026’ in the Lime app on the day only and applies to riders in London.
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Lime offers free e-bike rides to help Londoners get to the polls | South West Londoner
Lime will offer free rides across London on Thursday to help people get to and from polling stations during the local elections.
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Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.
A summation of the situation where people are directed to focus their ire at fraudulent benefit claimants rather than at the rich who are the cause of all poverty.
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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 30/04/2026
What better way to spend 4 minutes and 45 seconds of your day/life than watching 'DUCKS'? (please do not answer this) 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8vZ... #animation #art #shortfilm #short #ducks #dfdb #quaaaack #cgi
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DUCKS | Award Winning Animated Short Film (2025)
YouTube video by AJ Jefferies
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Friends, if you’re taking sertraline, check the batch number as there is a recall out and you may have ended up with a mislabelled lower dose of citalopram. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Precautionary recall of antidepressant medication due to manufacturing error
The MHRA has advised healthcare professionals to stop supplying the affected batch of Sertraline 100mg and return all remaining stock to their suppliers.
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