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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bluesky, does anyone remember an alphabet book that for ‘i’ had “industrious ants eating indigo ice cream”? It’s got to be at least 45 years old and probably more. Should it ring any bells I would be delighted to find a copy 🐜💙🍦

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A very sad farewell to Stephanie Cole, queen of British comedy in every form. May an inexpensive charter jet fly her swiftly to her rest on gilded wings.

A cartoon version of Stephanie Cole as Carolyn in the BBC radio series Cabin Pressure

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s Owain Glyndwr Day in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 — if you don’t know about medieval Wales’ great independence leader, here’s a very funny podcast I hosted about him with comedian Elis James and Prof Kathryn Hurlock podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

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Owain Glyndŵr

Podcast Episode · You're Dead to Me · 22 October 2021 · 53min

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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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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Kristian van der Vliet @vanders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Conservatism is losing your mind at having to give £3 a year to feed 2 million children at school. It's a very rational position, actually.

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heather bussing @heatherbussing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And no babies were saved. This is bad policy, bad medicine, and a direct attack on women's rights of privacy and bodily autonomy.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Lady of Elche. This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain. From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a famous Iberian limestone sculpture known as ‘La Dama de Elche’ / The Lady of Elche, on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. Here is a description by the museum:

“Female bust that features a lady's face with very perfect features and that preserves traces of polychromy on the lips and specific areas of face and clothing. The lady is richly dressed: on her head she wears a headdress formed by a pointed tiara covered by a veil and on top of it a strap that joins the two side “cases" that frame the face, where the hairstyle and a headband would be collected on the forehead; the back and shoulders are covered with a mantle that forms folds on the front and exposes three necklaces with amphoras and amulet holders; the earrings of plates and infulas that hang on the sides of the face, and a small fibula that closes the tunic on the neckline. At the back, it has a hole whose function has given rise to numerous interpretations. It was richly painted with red, blue and yellow tones and application of gold sheets, of which hardly any traces remain.

Technically and stylistically it is considered a work of strong Greek influence, possibly made by an artist of this origin, perhaps linked to the nearby town of Santa Pola, after receiving the commission of a high-ranking Iberian character.

It has been speculated about its function but with a posterior opening it suggests a use as a funerary vessel, just like the Lady of Baza. At the same time, it has been interpreted as the representation of a goddess, a priestess, or some royal character or of the aristocracy adorned for a special ceremony and dressed in her best clothes that could constitute her wedding dress composed of three necklaces, diadem and fibula, comparable to those found in several treasures”.

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Jed @jedandwhite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How I feel after my recent shift into a senior-ish position

Panel 1: Geese flying in a V, with the lead goose saying "so where are we going?"
Panel 2: A goose behind the leas saying "we're following you"
Panel 3: Lead goose looking behind and concerned
Panel 4: Lead goose looking forward, eyes wide like he's in the shit

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 06/09/2026

I saw someone wearing an "I Don't Date NPCs" t-shirt, which was a brave move for someone carrying a Primark bag while on the 29 Bus from Wood Green with their mum.

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SpecialKimtamine™ 🚩🏴‍☠️🇮🇹🇺🇸🦈 @lorazekim.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

No matter what’s going on in your life there is a form of potato that will make it better

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@eops.bsky.social Am here, which I think means it’s obligatory to send you a photo 🍻

Photo. Two pints of beer on a wooden table. Howling Hops is printed on the pint glasses in black flowing font.

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Bram Stoker
1847-1912
A PENGUIN SINCE 1979

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The two main Scandinavian tribes, as attested in Beowulf & the Sagas.

One shop sells VIKING REPTILES, the next-door shop VIKING AQUATICS

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

the thing about Curry and Dolly they had in common was taking their art completely seriously but not taking themselves too seriously and that is why they were such a joy

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fucksake. This is all shit.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Jenny O @msyellowhat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I mean “find out who you are and do it on purpose” - can’t think of better life advice

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This. Legend. Icon. Adorable brilliant talented fabulous woman ❤️

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 25/08/2026

In a world of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks, be a Dolly Parton.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

She helped kids read and donated $1 million so the Moderna vaccine could be produced. Dolly literally saved lives. Imagine being as talented a musician as her and it still wasn’t the best thing about you.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I read somewhere that personally and through her foundations, Dolly Parton gave around $700 million to good causes.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Never mind the music, Dolly Parton was an incredibly decent and generous person. Bless her heart.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My post-punk playlist has obliquely reminded me that I won an in-house competition for best bookseller anthem with the suggestion “(When I Think About You) I Dust My Shelf”

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I genuinely think one of the most important things we can teach young women is that proportional escalation is actually fine if someone continues to harm you and the power structures around you can't or won't stop them

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Stephanie Rodgers 🍉 @bootstheory.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Okay girls, in today's self defence class we're going to cover smacking that shit cleanly off his face while loudly and clearly stating his full name and home address"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/08/2026

First known depiction of The Macarena in sculpture

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Social media, especially ex Twitter and those that have chatted for years, is mad & amazing. We go through relationships & children & graduations & deaths & heartbreak. We hold these people, most of whom we have never physically met, so close in our hearts. It’s wonderful & extraordinary ❤️

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Last vestiges of my 50th birthday; a 1976 bottle of port and £50’s worth of cheese and accoutrements (not all cheese pictured here). I have the best friends and am so bloody lucky… ❤️ #Cheese #Port #Love #Friendship

Photo. Wooden coffee table with wine, port, cheese, crackers, tomatoes, croquettes, a red rose in a sherry glass, and a small pink fan with LED lights.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 03/08/2026

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

*Schwarzenegger voice* I'll be Vac

BBC News headline: Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If someone asks you “What is your sex?” In a toilet, they are the weirdo. If they ask you “What sex were you assigned at birth?” They want to know what your genitals looked like when you were a baby. I would look at anyone doing this in the same I would look at Rod Liddle talking about porn.

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"These aren't the druids you're looking for"

Welsh Language dub of Star Wars to air on S4C

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Veep @princesssofvp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

People who don’t want to pay taxes for the benefit of all society are psychopaths. And probably own horses* *only one of you will get this reference. The rest of you and the horse-owning folk can continue about your days.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Scientists confirm the human body is 70% water, 30% unopened emails.

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Jed @jedandwhite.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Have the people squealing about not talking Ill of the dead ever considered that maybe, just maybe, not being a massive arsehole would mean that people wouldn't speak Ill of you. Don't beat women. Don't groom fucking kids. Don't bully minorities And you'll probably be fiiiiiine.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yes, his family, like his daughter whose mother he assaulted when she was 20 weeks pregnant with her.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 03/08/2026

look, if fear of having everyone on the internet celebrate your death by bringing up every bad thing you’ve done is what it takes to stop people being cunts while they’re alive, i say let’s give it a go

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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The tuning fork, as everyone knows, was chanced upon in the early 18th century by Lord Slotted-Spoon of Runcible as an offshoot of his lifelong quest to develop the perfect gardening trowel.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

til that herb butter was named after its inventor, Sir Herbert Butter-Knife in 1851. That it coincidentally contains both herbs and butter is just one of those wonderful happy accidents.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The neighbour’s cat, cunningly hidden in the luxuriant undergrowth…

A large tabby, not at all hidden behind a sprig of lavender…

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you’re thinking of killing a god you should probably put a day aside.

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