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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 1h

Kneecapped. Good grief

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Sound of Arran No9 with Antony Gormley

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 30/09/2026

We probably had to have Starmer to get Burnham. If he delivers on any one of these ambitions, we’ll be better as a nation.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 30/09/2026

Hard stare at one of the pangrams in today’s spelling bee. For all the benign words it blocks, it accepts this one? Sheesh.

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

to whoever at the BBC made the decision to timestamp all the dances on Iplayer, I love you and I hope your cereal always remains crunchy.

the first episode of Strictly on BBC Iplayer, the time bar has been segmented into the different dances - at the moment the cursor is hovering over Bethany and Nancy's routine at 1 hour in.

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Steve Doherty @stevedoherty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A joy forever. Even when you know what’s coming. Maybe *because* you know what’s coming.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 23/09/2026

Ooff. #Ludwig referred to a missing person as a ‘persona non grata’. Disappointing.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 23/09/2026

Yes, remember what your MP’s job is - to represent your views to the PM / government / Parliament. It‘s literally how our democracy works.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Autumn poem just dropped.

[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:

comm n pr ble whe writin p ems
in the shape of decid o s trees
is t at once t ere ar ives
the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then

[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 22/09/2026

Loving watching Nigella Lawson absolutely shovelling hunks of cake in her face. What a woman.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

PSA. Our website has been hacked. Please don't click on any of the ads in the posts. We did not add them. We're waking up our webmaster right now.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 18/09/2026

I’m enjoying the choice of photo here

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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It was Phil Oakey’s sister Carrie who invented the interactive entertainment system where people sing to a backing track. She called it the Singalonga3000

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 16/09/2026

Has anyone ever reported a missing word to the Spelling Bee had found it subsequently accepted? I mean, I can’t believe this hasn’t been reported MANY times. It has several perfectly common meanings.

Screenshot of Spelling Bee puzzle rejecting the word PIPPED

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Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love writing flash fiction? Are you looking for an open-themed competition with good prize money? flash500.com/flash-fiction/ Entries close 30 September Prizes: £300/£200/£100 #flashfiction #writers #writingcommunity

Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 15/09/2026

Marvellous customer service today. Email goes thus: ‘We are sorry you have a problem with your item. You have told us the problem is [QUOTES MY EMAIL BACK TO ME]. Please let us know if we can be of further help. My response: Is the ‘help’ in the room with us now?

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 14/09/2026

They can if it is for THEIR good not the common good. If it’s controlled it can be monetised. At the moment they aren’t making any money out of it. If you have to register, buy traceable tokens etc to use these AI products then it’s kerrching.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 14/09/2026

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 13/09/2026

Feeling conflicted. Don’t want to waste money stocking the El Nino emergency cupboard if we’re all going to be killed by the AI in a few years.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 11/09/2026

We all have that older relative who strikes fear in our hearts every time they start a sentence with: ‘I saw this thing on Facebook…’

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 05/09/2026

Watched The Mandalorian and Grogu which was regrettable for many reasons. I’m most disturbed at how buff the Hutt was. Were we supposed to find him… attractive?

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 05/09/2026

Is it just me? This is a legit word, right? And not even obscure. Is it because it needs the word UP after?

Image of Spelling Bee puzzle grid rejecting MAGICKING

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 05/09/2026

Just me repeatedly putting a valid pangram word into the Spelling 🐝 that it keeps refusing.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"I'm serving all the right bakes, but not necessarily in the right orders." - Greggs Piano Concerto

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 03/09/2026

Arrgh. Richard Ayoade played a couple of chords of a song at the beginning of the song task on #Taskmaster and I KNOW IT BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT IT IS.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘The Enormous Turnip’ Artist: Robert Lumley (1970)

The moment at which the enormous turnip is pulled from the ground is captured at an unusual angle, looking up at the ground as it suddenlycomes free

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Victoria Coren Mitchell @vcorenmitchell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

My little daughter: “Wow! Look! A toddler has won TWO World Records for playing snooker!” My husband: “That’s a foul. You’re supposed to keep one foot on the ground at all times.”

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 31/08/2026

One of the siskins has knocked itself dead hitting the greenhouse. Only other victim this year was also siskin. Are they particularly daft? It was so light I couldn’t feel it in my hand. Have put it aside for the red kites to find. Circle of life and all that.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 29/08/2026

Garden birds are busy this morning. A troupe of siskins playing in the stream. Goldfinches chattering in the trees. Robins and tits of all varieties checking whether I’ve started filling the feeder again. The late August bustle that says autumn is coming.

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Sal Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Let me blow your mind YET further – all muppets are left-handed (because the puppeteers need their dominant hand for the mouth)

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 28/08/2026

There’s an ep in the Uncanny podcast based at Queen’s Elm’s halls of residence in Belfast. My father was a live-in warden there when he was a junior lecturer and recounted how massively into elaborate practical jokes the students were. I did mentioned this to Danny Robbins. I think he’s fully aware.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 28/08/2026

I’ve really been enjoying 6 Music’s Rave Forever Fridays as part of the The Music is Black season. However, we’re up to the 2010s today and either most of the dance music for a decade was exceptionally dull or it‘s just not for me. Except for Little Sims, obviously, the queen.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 26/08/2026

Absolutely loving that Giorgio Locatelli in #CelebrityMasterchef refers to making a ‘fountain’ in your flour when making pasta instead of a ‘well’ and no one has corrected him or edited it out. It’s delightful and being bilingual is hard work.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 26/08/2026

In that Barbra Walters interview, Dolly also laid out her strategy for widening her appeal outside the country audience and becoming extremely rich. She did exactly that. She was so quietly smart and focussed and - importantly - unashamed of her ambition. And then goddamit she used it all for good.

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Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In interviews, Toni Morrison had a way of conveying "You should have known better than to ask that, but since you were not raised right, you're going to get an answer that's an education." Turns out, so did Dolly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgs...

youtube.com

Barbara Walters' memorable interview with Dolly Parton (1978)

YouTube video by ABC News

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In a world full of the destructive kookiness of people like RFK Jr, strive to fill it with a little of the restorative kindness of Dolly Parton.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 25/08/2026

To be clear, I didn’t just write this. I found it in the early pages of my current ‘scraps of ideas’ notebook so probably wrote it a few years. No idea what it means or why I thought it was in any way useful. Any suggestions?

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 25/08/2026

Lanyard Class. So: doctors, nurses, teachers, many retail staff.. This is such nonsense.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 25/08/2026

Do I win the prize for most random thing scribbled in a story ideas notebook?

Page of a notebook on which are written the words Sausages are not the only fruit.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Semi-regular reminder: Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats. 📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿

A small paper nautilus octopus female riding on the top of a pink jellyfish.

A dark orange octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on the top of a four tentacled jellyfish.

A small octopus, possibly a male blanket octopus, riding on an octopus that is only about as large as he is.

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Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com · 22/08/2026

Haven’t posted on Twitter for nearly three years. Left my account there (but locked) to protect my user name. But am now seeing several friends having nightmares with hacked accounts. So I’ve fully deactivated it. And on we go.

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