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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

People: Why do women mask so much? Huh, it's a mystery *One (1) very clearly autistic, unapologetic woman is on TV for two episodes* People: Look at this twat, God she's awful, pretending to be quirky for attention, fuck that one broad in particular, Christ, nobody'd better act like that round me

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 15h

Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 8h

Managed to see the sunshine today? ☀️ Here's the latest satellite image, showing the far north and south of the country experiencing the cloudiest conditions at present, with sunnier skies in between ☁️

A satellite image of the UK showing the cloudiest skies across southern England and parts of Scotland.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 12h

Artsy folk: I’m going to start making some handmade sketchbooks, I think (various people have asked about the possibility). What’s your minimum weight for paper for your use case (proper acid free stuff obviously)? 300gsm watercolour stock or is something lighter ok?

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i might need career help from people in the icy moons/astrobiology communities on here!! please reply/message me if this applies to you!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 22h

Kittycat is HELPING!

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Amy (not spooky yet, but hopefully getting there) @spooloflies.bsky.social · 15h

I know it get says a lot, but "revenge is a dish best served once you have a working understanding of your magic powers" is a cliche for a reason.

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Matthew Purchase @thecyberdevil.bsky.social · 16h

The Savages animation is now available on iPlayer. Although they’ve got the order wrong and interspersed the episodes between The Gunfighters.

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 14h

Cloud inversion over the Mawddach or, as my nain would say, it’s the hen wyr - the old man (refering to his beard stretching down the river and out to sea). We never found out who he was…

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sophiahelix @helixsophia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

aw man and Yuletide noms already closed

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Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this might genuinely be the hottest anyone has looked on TV. #CelebrityTraitors

Claudia Winkleman hosting The Traitors in a bomber-style parker with a statement zip

Claudia in a red velvet waistcoat, combat trousters and boots. A strand of pearls loops on her hip.

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I watched a recorded zoom quilt guild talk earlier which was pretty interesting but got me wondering what I did with my hands when I was at uni and had 6 hours of lectures a day - notes, of course. I took pages and pages of notes. Folders upon notebooks upon reams of notes. And where are they now?

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#CelebrityTraitors #Traitors I'm listening to #Uncloaked and it occurs to me that Richard thought he was in the green room when he made his reveal and just forgot that the game doesn't stop

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Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fiasco was here FIRST Wy is babby TRYIN TO FIT Clearly cannot fit!!!! ALSO IS TOUCHING FIASCO'S MOUSIE TOY!!!!!!!!! Big Friend do something Big Friend Big Friend do something do something

me, fiasco, a fluffy grey tabby, lying sideways on a pretty big rectangular cat bed covered with a blanket (because the heaty pad underneath needs to have something over it). next to me, barely visible, facing forwards, is my horrible horrible interloper babby sister, a fluffy black cat. between us is MY MOUSIE TOY, a white fabric toy with a witch's hat.

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cats, witches and cat witches 🐈‍⬛🧡

drawing of a black cat with a witch hat stirring a cauldron of some bubbly green concoction with a wooden spoon she's holding with her teeth. she's surrounded by various labeled ingredients like giant toad's eye, vampire tooth, mandrake root, ectoplasm, dragon's or wyvern's blood and spider's eggs (to sprinkle on top). It's a spooky redrawing of my pumpkin soup illustration.

drawing of a dark grey cat with orange eyes. she's wearing a witch hat, a bag with a skull clasp, a dagger in a sheath and a glowing orange pendant. wisps of smoke or mist are curling around the pendant - some of them have ghost faces.

A tiny witch is standing on their tiptoes on a back of a big black cat to reach a glowing fruit on an alien looking plant. They're surrounded by the start and a moon and other weird looking plants.

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the record, I was NOT startled by the air freshener. That was a highly controlled demonstration of my lightning-fast reflexes. * routine reflex test. Passed. Please amend your report accordingly

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sleepy. I'm sure it has nothing to do with watching Traitors live and then hearing an hour and a half of my audiobook before I fell asleep

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

I would like to see an eco rating for gardens and outdoor spaces as part of property valuation surveys. Paved front spaces rate poorly, spaces which are nature friendly (fruiting trees, gaps below fences for hedgehogs, etc.) rate highly. Normalise Nature having worth.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having enviously watched everyone reporting The Vestal from their traps, one finally made it to our Peterborough garden last night - at last!!! #mothsmatter #teammoth

The Vestal, a moth with triangular pale yellow fore-wings with a diagonal pink line across the base and a thin line of pink on the leading edge

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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💀your friend corrigan.🥀 @hereliescorri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.

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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pakistan and India have been drawn in the same group for 11 consecutive ICC tournaments. The odds of this happening by chance are 1 in 2,048 (0.05%).

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tis Lincolnshire Day today. It commemorates the Lincolnshire uprising of 1536 when catholics in the north of the county revolted against Henry VIIIs reforms. Didn’t affect the south of the county, so 🤷🏼‍♀️ Eat sausages! Probably best not to start a revolution today

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#CelebrityTraitors #Traitors mute these if you don't want to read me wanging on about Celeb Traitors

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/10/2026

IT'S DOING THE THING AGAIN (sorry for yelling, but anyway) I have a lot of Kindle books, I started buying them in like 2014 when I got my first Kindle, sometimes i need to look something up, but THIS NEVER WORKS ANY MORE WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU IDIOT PROGRAM

two screenshots of mervyn peake poetry. CLEARLY the search box says 'fire.' in the first shot, it has selected as having found the word 'sane.' in the second, 'like.'

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Reem Abulleil @reemabulleil.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WTA announcement for 2027: All combined WTA 1000s will award equal prize money for the first time. Changes introduced, like lowering WTA 500 player commitment based on Tour Architecture Council input Introduction of targeted Tournament Investment Fund www.thenationalnews.com/sport/tennis...

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Middle East swing of Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai all in place on WTA 2027 calendar | The National

Trio of tournaments set for February as tour also reveals that all combined WTA 1000 tournaments will award equal prize money for first time

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somebody please get this shop a twix

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Colette Lewis @zootennis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to Kei Nishikori as he concludes his stellar professional career with a loss to Tiafoe in Tokyo. #tbt to 2007, when he won the Luxilon Cup, a junior invitational held during the Miami Open (Cirstea, a another 2026 retiree, won the girls event):

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Told you it was too hot (yesterday was 24°)

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our new project in #Lincolnshire on the town of #Spalding is supporting a workshop on an essential historical skill #Palaeography (reading old handwriting). Led by @gabbystorey.bsky.social, this workshop is open to all. #Skystorians #LocalHistory.

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I told my sister last week that we were putting the county commentators in their straw boxes under the stairs so they could hibernate and she suggested they have other jobs they do in the off-season?! Ludicrous, everyone knows they're subsistence commentators whose raison d'etre is county champs

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having been "influenced" by a bookshop to listen to Radio 3 I discover Pachelbel isn't pronounced how I thought it was pronounced (in part because I always thought it was Pachabel)

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's the final of the 2026 Mineral Cup and it's Cuprite (boo) vs Quartz (yay!) I won't tell you which to vote for (quartz) but here is the link (to vote for quartz)

mineralcup.org

Mineral Cup 2026 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Vote and check results for Mineral Cup 2026

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you get off the bus it's customary to say to the driver "You appeared to me in my dream as a shimmering resplendent tower of light and in that moment I knew that everything was going to be okay"

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Johnny McBob (Maigret arc) @wolfmanramirez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

zwolf is the coolest sounding number in any language - inside you there are 12 wolves and they all think it is superb

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Okay okay here is a void (with stripes) to scream into

Cally, a tortoiseshell cat, lying curled on a human bed with her head on a blanket. Due to low light and her dark colouration she is half void, some ginger stripes

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Look I try not to post or repost angry/reactionary stuff but sometimes I fail and wtf do you mean, how is Orban allowed into the UK at all, let alone to meet with far right agitators?! Surely he is on a watch list??

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this:

Kim Addonizio
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY
IN THE NEXT STALL
If you ever woke in your dress at 4 A.M. ever
closed your legs to a man you loved opened
them for one you didn't moved against
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled
into the back seat for lack of a tampon
if you swam across a river under rain sang
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire
ripped out the stitches in your heart
because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is coming

Tattoo on my arm that reads “listen I love you joy is coming”

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are they gonna refund train tickets and hotels as well?

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AnnieBannie (She/Her🧶📚🌈) @madhmstr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

8 years ago, Ginny earned her Miss Malevolence nickname over the state of her empty food dishes.

An extremely fluffy pale ginger cat glaring beside food dishes with food in them.

An extremely fluffy pale ginger cat glaring beside food dishes with food in them.
She is looking extremely quizzical.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Sasha Feather @sasha-feather.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These people will say "you've heard of spoon theory right?" but then keep you for two hours in a room with a big light and uncomfortable chairs. they are not proving that THEY know anything at all

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Rachel (ish) @rachelish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have not forgotten that Kelis said that Nas was physically abusive to her during their relationship even if everyone else has

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Being an SA survivor right now means coming on the internet and taking 7000 points of psychic damage everyday just for some dipshit to say “not all men”

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