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Oh my goodness that is a powerfully charming touch

Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 4h

I really don’t care for Formula 1 but this still sounds normal to me. A normal thing to know and be excited by! I can understand how you came to feel excited about a subject and want to express that passion by knowing many facts!

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Thankfully, @reparrishcomics.bsky.social assures us there is nothing to worry about

r. e. parrish cartoon, entitled FOUND THE LOOPHOLE. 1. A man in a hat with a monkey’s paw says “THIS ... IS THE
CURSÉD MONKEY'S PAW. IT WILL GRANT THREE WISHES...”. Another man gasps. 2. “BUT I MUST WARN YOU- THERE MAY BE UNFORESEEN C-”. 3. The man who gasped says “SHUT IT, OLD MAN!” and snatches the paw off him. The first man says “BUT!” 4. The man with the paw says “I WISH FOR THE REST OF THE MONKEY”. 5 “POOF!” The monkey appears in his arms, smiling. 6. The man’s head and the monkey’s head appear in a star shape with the words “NEW BEST FRIENDS! NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!”

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Rosie Fletcher @rosieatlarge.bsky.social · 4h

I recommended my five favourite knitting books (and a bonus one what I wrote)

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Part of the autism thing is that I am inclined to think of all of these interests as Extremely Normal And Common when they are generally not, I just happen to move in circles with a heavy autism component where people are too into their own weird interests to make disparaging remarks about yours

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That badger in particular is a work of art. I can respect the effort of the bullion knots, and the folk-art phoenixes are gorgeous, but the stripey little lad is so small and has such personality.

Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 2h

Discworld, Lord Peter Wimsey in particular and Golden Age Detective Fiction in general, Powell and Pressburger, things involving Following Rules like overly complex sudoku and light Python, knitting, embroidery but I am especially obsessed with goldwork, birds

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a hit in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia where Hannah, an academic, says “Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter.” and I think about it a lot

Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 19h

This is from Licence to Kill but I was Not Prepared

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

But the helmet has gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that work stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

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Mild Peril @perilmild.bsky.social · 19h

Mine are things like ‘lives in Brentford’ (I gave you a residential address, this is not something you inferred, Sherlock), ‘consistently chooses FireAngel for smoke detection’, ‘studies rocket propulsion technology’ (no?!), and ‘enjoys cosy mystery novels’ (GOLDEN AGE DOES NOT MEAN COSY)

Work are sending emails about Cyber Security Awareness Month, which has unfortunately been given the acronym CSAM

The Weird Kid from Spellbound is apparently a rationalist now, a concept I would not have understood six weeks ago and I resent being aware of now

there is famously a documentary about children studying for the spelling bee, it was nominated for an Oscar!

Immediately lost respect for a writer talking about how their jam didn’t set but they used strawberries which are high in pectin. For my non-jam making comrades: strawberries are very low in pectin, which is why you generally use jam sugar with pectin added.

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Tap, jazz and musical theatre! So not a lot of grand leaps but very cardio-intensive bouncing.

I think a lot of us who weren’t quite old enough for the books during the 90s peak found our way in through the games!

Thank you I made it up myself with the aid of The Flavour Thesaurus so am exceptionally pleased with it!

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Fortunately it’s only ten minutes from home and I have my partner deputised to heat it up for when I walk in the door. The aggressive jumping about makes dinner beforehand unadvisable!

Oh my goodness, what don’t you eat?

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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gnocchi! Sauce made from butternut squash, bacon, onions, lots of garlic, Parmesan, nutmeg and sage. Toasted pumpkin seeds and more Parmesan on top. Leftover chocolate chip cookies to follow, but I can’t have any of it until I get back from dance at 8:45 D:

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Got complimented on some ideas in a meeting today and replied with "Yes I used some autistic license" and that was the best thing I have ever said out loud and no one in the meeting laughed they just looked very concerned.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One rainy Saturday in Chatham, amidst the garish yellow and purple displays of PC World circa 1995, my dad picked up a box for the first Discworld point and click game and a lifetime’s obsession was born

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Obviously never, ever trust nostalgia, but seriously you'd just find a website that'd take you to an IRC channel or an email chain of people who had your weird niche obsession and no strangers every came up to and started trying to mount a reasonable-sounding defence of eugenics.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites

Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?

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ReelStreets @reelstreets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Do you recognise these buildings seen in the title sequence of 1963's 'Billy Liar'. If so, please let us know and the first to tell us will be credited with the identification. The film was mainly shot in Bradford, Leeds, London and Manchester. Thanks in advance for looking.

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The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com · 04/10/2026

Dorothy Sayers’ motorcycle is up for auction: cars.bonhams.com/auction/3204...

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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I’ve just watched Whistle Down the Wind for the first time and now I feel extraordinarily strange and melancholy, and desperate to read something about it and The Night of the Hunter together

I sharpened my knives recently and it has made them too powerful. Still, the nail did what it was meant to do, in that the finger itself was largely unscathed

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She tends to predominantly use chain stitch, I think? So not dreadfully complicated when it comes to technique. Achievable!

Oh it looks beautiful, Yumiko Higuchi’s embroidery is AMAZING

Kristin 🇨🇦🤓 @faierius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

UDON, again. But I’ve also made chocolate chip cookies, prepped garlic butter and hot chocolate mix, roasted some squash for Monday’s dinner and taken a big chunk out of a fingernail with my newly sharpened knife. Pie sounds incredible!

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I always feel bad when someone comments on my post and I just heart it instead of replying. Sometimes I just don't have the spoons for human conversation.

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Also it did that biopic thing where it would show you a character and explain what happened to them in real life, and they did it for Anthony Hopkins’ character and caption says “oh yeah we made this guy up entirely”

Chaplin’s not a good film is it? I mean, it’s all a bit KEVIN KLINE: Hey Charlie, Hitler’s moustache looks just like yours! ROBERT DOWNEY JR: *a lightbulb goes on over his head* [wipe to the filming of The Great Dictator]

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kate @katertot.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I don’t live here any more, I barely come back, I never lived in this bit, my family moved away, but still. Grey river and grey towns and the green of the north downs and the white of the chalk. Home is home.

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I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

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Trying to get back into Radio 4 and I’ve been greatly enjoying Paul Sinha’s Perfect Pub Quiz, but if some of these audience questions were asked at my regular quiz I would do a murder

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Oh my goodness, happy birthday!