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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

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Tara Flynn @taraflynnirl.bsky.social · 5h

In case you or someone you know might need it, the wonderful @irishhospice.bsky.social has a leaflet on pet loss. Can be hard for anyone who doesn't know that particular grief to understand, but everyone who's ever felt it does. hospicefoundation.ie/our-supports...

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Bereavement Support Leaflets - Irish Hospice Foundation

Our Bereavement team have written a number of bereavement support leaflets. These supports are available to download, print and order. Find out more>>

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 5h

My six monthly reminder for U.K. academic authors to make sure you’re signed up. Especially if your works are used as teaching materials.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 5h

Today is all about The Pain™️ that comes with the weather turning to cold and rain. I shall be over here feeling sorry for myself, you are welcome to feel sorry for me too.

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explore.org @explore.org · 17h

Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 6h

Tag yourself. I shall be the samplers of drugs.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 9h

This is a very good doc.

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Hel Jel @heljel.bsky.social · 11h

We picked these flying Gadwalls as our #BestoftheMonth, which is Rob’s theme for #BirdoftheDay. They were flying over #RSPB Rainham a couple of weeks ago. Close formation flying!! #Birds #Essex #Wildlife #Nature #ECK

Two birds are flying very close together. The one behind is so close that you can only see a wing and its back, no head.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 9h

I often wonder what cats and dogs think is happening when someone puts a camera in their face and takes a photo.

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Wolfie Rankin @wolfierankin.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck this.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 10h

So much of the menopause and perimenopause discourse is designed to make women feel like shit and then flog us stuff. And the net effect is that we end up presenting ourselves as ditzy "meno-brain" incompetents.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 10h

Located in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Genbi-kei Gorge—designated a Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument of Japan—stretches for two kilometers along the Iwai River.

Winding through a rugged chasm of water-sculpted stone, the turquoise waters of the Iwai River carve a dramatic path framed by a brilliant autumn canopy. On the right, fiery beech and maple leaves glow in shades of russet, copper, and vermilion, creating a vivid counterpoint to the deep green pines clinging to the dark, mossy rock faces on the left. A soft, silvery mist settles over the distant bend of the ravine, partially shrouding a narrow suspension bridge in atmospheric haze. The scene evokes a vivid sensory atmosphere: the cool, sharp autumn air of Iwate Prefecture, the roaring spray of rushing white water, the earthy scent of damp basalt and fallen leaves, and the quiet reverence of a secluded mountain gorge.
Carved out over millennia through the erosion of volcanic tuff, the ravine is celebrated for its dramatic rock formations, cascading rapids, and unusual cylindrical potholes (ketsugun) worn smooth by tumbling pebbles. Historically, the gorge was admired by Date Masamune, the legendary warlord and founder of the Sendai Domain, who praised its raw, untamed beauty as equal to the famed pine-clad islands of Matsushima. Beyond its dramatic geography, Genbi-kei is famous for its delightful local heritage, including flying dango (Kakko Dango), where teahouse orders of fresh rice dumplings and green tea are sent gliding across the canyon to visitors in a wooden basket suspended on a cable high above the water.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 9h

Did not know this ☹️

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Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social · 10h

When you choose your car because it has perfect yarn holders… 🧶 #knit

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Physgal ⚛️ @physgal.bsky.social · 14h

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 10h

The Four Latin Doctors St Ambrose, St Gregory, St Jerome and St Augustine at Fosdyke, Lincolnshire. Probably by Clayton & Bell in the 1870s as at neighbouring Algakirk. The church was rebuilt at the expense of Basil Beridge, Lord of the Manor and Rector of Algakirk. Today's the feast of St Jerome.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 22h

Paddling (canoeing) across Windermere today, into the teeth of a pretty stiff Force 3 wind - lumpy, and just this side of whitecaps - I came across a swimming squirrel, looking very stressed. Not a planned swim, I'm guessing. It was 300m to either shore, so I'm not sure s/he was going to be okay.

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 10h

Liquid Bluesky

National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease

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spooky sky ✨🌙✨ @sky-writes.bsky.social · 16h

anyway i cried on a fire escape this afternoon and someone came over and offered me an acorn

a squirrel on a fire escape with an acorn

the same squirrel with an acorn, we hung out for a few minutes she seemed cool

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 18h

Frankly I think it's ridiculous that there is a new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility when a perfectly perfect one already exists.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 22h

Hearing the word demonstrably always makes me think de-monster-ably rather than demonstrate-ably

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 29/09/2026

I really need a tea bitch. Who would like to volunteer to be my tea bitch?

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 29/09/2026

Another day, another animal on my walk in the woods beckoning me to follow them, then running off before I can catch up 😤 (the cat was today, the dog was yesterday).

A black cat on the path beside the woods

A white dog on the path beside the woods.

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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING Hungary's parliament votes 139–0 to strip PM Péter Magyar's immunity, at his OWN REQUEST!! Two Orbán ex-ministers lose theirs too and can now be prosecuted.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 29/09/2026

Now THIS might get me to actually use the self checkout instead of stubbornly forcing them to open a till for me very time.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe no one is more hated than women who resist rape. I’ve come to believe that women who have been, as I was, “public survivors” have a responsibility not to flinch in these face of this hate. I have a lot of rage about that time, but I don’t have any shame.

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Majestic Twelve (plus one for spooky szn) @majestic12.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“What the fuck is wrong with you?” has gotten me some solid results.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👇👇👇👇👇👇

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Eriko Christy @erikochristy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what a strange coincidence that every woman has friends who have been sexually assaulted (and quite possibly has been herself) and no man seems to be friends with any rapists!

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was describing to my (professional fine artist) mom this visual journal idea I have where I am quickly drawing ideas I have to look back at and develop our more later and she said "you're talking about a sketchbook, hon" in the nicest possible way and this is why you don't blow off art lessons

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 29/09/2026

Google is so borked. Can anyone tell me what time Andy is speaking at the labour conference today please? Ta.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy feast of St Michael and All Angels! May you defeat the dragons bothering you today.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Hope comes from honesty” Prime minister Andy Burnham

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Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m in this image and I don’t like it

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

appleinsider.com

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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 28/09/2026

this is the most stupid shit I have ever seen

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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?

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Big Immigrant Naturals. @shinery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI bros are just Gamergaters with extra outstanding rape charges.

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 28/09/2026

Following Miley’s advice (buying myself flowers)

A small potted rose on a supermarket conveyor belt

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re just innocent men

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 28/09/2026

Bloody hell. Amazon have a new thing where they have AI-ed what information they know and are holding about you as a shopper. You can see and remove them here www.amazon.co.uk/slc/hub?useA...

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