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Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social · 13h

I have just been helping to read bedtime stories in both French and English to a small child, and the French one is literally: Now learn your cheeses, while the English one is: Paddington is put in a stressful situation and doesn't say anything because one can't possibly.

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok, so i wont repost the massive Sandie Peggie V RCN tribunal thread again, i'll just add a few choice nuggets from GC Lawfarepalooza here. The last couple of days brought the actual RCN rep out for evidence. It was clear, concise and simple to follow.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON

This cartoon has four panels.

PANEL 1

On a city sidewalk, a balding man in a shirt and tie is talking insistently to a purple-haired passerby with glasses and tattoos.

MAN: Hey, pal, guess what? They’re letting millions of illegals into the country to vote for Democrats!

PANEL 2

In a kitchen, the same man has stuck his head and shoulders through a window into the kitchen, shaking a finger emphatically as he lectures a startled woman.

MAN: The Democrats’ dirty vote machine is so diabolical it’s impossible to “prove,” but everybody knows it stinks!

PANEL 3

In a park, the same man has grabbed another person by the shoulder and is shouting in their face.

MAN: Never mind “proof.” Your elections are stolen! It’s all rigged! Democracy is dead!!

PANEL 4

Close-up of a hand holding a phone. On the screen, the same man—now smiling and calm—is speaking on Fox News.

MAN: Of course there’s proof elections are crooked! Because if they aren’t, why do so many Americans think they are?

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's heron just stood, watchfully, instead of flying off... @everyheron.bsky.social

A grey heron standing on the grass, next to a footpath

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Karen VH @designinginward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

gentle reminder: the void is for screaming, the abyss is for staring, please don't mix that up and ruin the experience for the rest of us

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just saw a van for the "Universal Meat Company"...

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 28/09/2026

To assert that any contemporary AI can think or is conscious represents a particularly emaciated meaning of those words, and suggests that any author of such assertions has a profound misunderstanding of the exquisite nature of what it means to be human.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Alexa, give me an example of 'skill issue'..."

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Link without the paywall archive.ph/https://www....

archive.ph

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

This has to be the weirdest one yet... 😂

Screenshot of a notification telling me I've been added to a "Taskmaster (TV Show) Fans" block list...

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

What? No Taskmaster...?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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max graves @maximumgraves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as a transgender person i have to admit i hold journalists in a very low level of esteem bc as a class they kind of did all hop on board with manufacturing consent for the project of exterminating the minority group im a part of

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

The tuna and onion rings are not fucking around...

Two plates, an enormous tuna steak 8n the foreground and a platter of giant onion rings beyond

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

just bottled up my latest concoction: a plum liqueur (with a little bit of nutmeg).

a Clydeside malt bottle containing a strange pink liquid...

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Dr Helen Webberley @www.helenwebberley.com · 17/09/2026

Gender-identity law and court challenges: the conversation usually starts in the wrong place. People ask 'what if someone misuses this?' before they ask 'what is it like to live without it?' Trans people have been navigating a system designed around other people's comfort for decades. The risk of…

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Would gender identity in law lead to court challenges? | Dr Helen Webberley

Court challenges are how rights frameworks mature, not proof a law is wrong. Gender identity protections have been upheld repeatedly.

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 15/09/2026

stop telling me about how you top and bottom for your vampire boyfriend, we get it, youre a dead man's switch

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

So, I just got gifted Elden Ring... this is going to hurt, isn't it...

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Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org · 14/09/2026

10 LGBTQ+ organisations across Wales have written to Llais, the statutory patient watchdog, demanding action be taken to restore gender-affirming surgeries in Wales. cwiar.org/en/2026/09/1...

•• Cwiar
Cymru
By email
Alyson Thomas
Chief Executive
Llais
14 September 2026
Dear Alyson Thomas,
Re: Pause of gender-affirming surgeries in Wales
We are writing jointly as organisations representing and supporting trans people and the wider LGBTQ+ community in Wales, regarding the decision made by the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee to pause referrals for gender-affirming surgeries through the Welsh Gender Service.
We welcome Llais's public statement recognising the significant impact this decision has on trans people across Wales. Gender-affirming surgeries are safe and effective, backed by substantial clinical evidence. For many, gender-affirming surgery is a lifesaving procedure needed to live a normal and fulfilling life.
There has never been a national prohibition of a surgical procedure without clear evidence of harm before now. In such extraordinary circumstances, we believe the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee should have undertaken substantial patient consultation before reaching any decision.
We are calling on Llais as the Citizen Body for Health and Social Care to request an urgent meeting with the Joint Commissioning Committee and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to:
• Raise a formal issue with the Joint Commissioning Committee regarding its decision to pause surgeries and its impacts on patient safety.
• Request that Joint Commissioning Committee agree to surgeries resuming whilst the investigation takes place
We also request that Llais works with us to advocate for a formal investigation into the decision making processes that led up to this current situation.

• • Cwiar
Cymru
We urge Llais to use every avenue available to advocate for trans patients and hold
NHS Wales to account.
We look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Cwiar Cymru
LGBTQ+ Network North Wales
Pride Cymru
Transactual
Trans Aid Cymru
Trans Partnership Cymru
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance
Umbrella Cymru
UNIQUE Transgender Network
We Exist

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blippy @blippy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not sure how many more attacks trans people need to receive from Stancil before people learn that he needs to be blocked in the same as any other transphobe

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just to note: I've migrated to northsky (got an invite code the other day). So, no more "spetsdad.bsky.social" 😀

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Siobhan "Shiv" Craig - DarkEden21 @darkeden21.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yo if anyone follows me on twitter still, can you highlight that I've been hacked, blocked out of my account, and I'm trying to recover it but it's not looking good. The current @darkeden21 on Twitter is a hacker who has stolen my account.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

if you're not caught up on what's just gone down in the uk www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

liberalcurrents.com

The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12/09/2026

My Wife's Lovers. Carl Kahler, 1891 The painting depicts forty-two of American millionaire Kate Birdsall Johnson's Turkish Angora and Persian cats. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Wife...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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Samuel Thomson @samuelthomson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Weird that this doesn't get the same media coverage as a dozen terfs and a champagne bottle outside the Supreme Court.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need to really focus on the fact that OpenAI employees are behind this not sentient software. Like, if a person/company creates a malicious code then they’re responsible. AI does not change that

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've reposted this, even though I can't take advantage of it... ("Not available in your area" 🤷) Maybe US people will find it useful

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The highest court in Australia has once again confirmed that trans women are women. Just in! Sall Grover/Giggle for Girls High Court Special Leave has been refused with costs #TicklevGiggle

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Rik M @r-m.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another lough-side heron

Grey heron, standing sentry on a prominent rock at the verge between sea and shore

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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 09/09/2026

Doomed yaoi. Doomed yaoi? What are you talking about doomed yaoi?! The Coyote and the Roadrunner are EXACTLY where they want to be, there's nothing doomed about it!

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Battle of Holbeck Moor took place in Leeds on 27 September 1936, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists attempted a march through the city. Their original route through the Jewish quarter was blocked, but they regrouped and headed for Holbeck Moor, daubing swastikas in the Leylands 1/3

Plaque on St Matthew's Church, facing Holbeck Moor Road. It commemorates a violent incident on 27 September 1936 when crowds disrupted an attempted rally by fascists. Leeds Civic Trust plaque funded by Stand Up to Racism. Image Chemical Engineer CC !.0

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY BUCKAROOS

cover of THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF MY COWORKERS AND ME DISCUSSING OUR SALARIES EVEN THOUGH OUR BOSS TOLD US NOT TO GETS ME OFF featuring a beautiful ladybuck on the left wearing stripped down business attire she is in a modern office and on there is the physical manifestation of salary discussion lookin like a NICE BIG DOLLAR SIGN with a smiling face

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Charlie Phillips @charliechar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The police deliberately ignored information about a massive fascist gathering in Dover. They’re incapable of taking the far right threat seriously. Why is that? nicklowles.substack.com/p/did-kent-p...

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Did Kent Police ignore a 999 call?

Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information.

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