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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Christingles are 100% my favourite piece of religious iconography ever. Just look at that thing. Look at it.

Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sitting in an old man pub drinking an old man pint and listening to old guys at the bar discussing which companies they're now boycotting due to terrible AI adverts 💜

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is how I've chosen to deal with my problems today. (The spider is fine, I've just blocked this gap at the bottom of the bathtub so she can't leap out at me when I'm on the toilet.)

Close up of the base of my bath. There's a wodge of tissue paper blocking a gap between the plastic and the wall, and the word SPIDER written in sharpie on the wall tile.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is great, and also taught me something i didn't know: "When we put a glass down on a table... we feel the table... not the glass in our hand." Brb going to spend the rest of the day putting things on top of other things

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Youngest child is teaching himself to make pasta. I'm helping by staying in the other room, out of the way.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Replaying NO MAN'S SKY and constantly saying, "wow, just arrived on a mysterious alien planet and - ooooooooooh IS THAT A NEW TYPE OF ROCK???"

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Dreamt last night of a wave of bank robberies perpetrated by a new super villain, who turned out to be Dwayne The Rock Johnson's head which had detached from his body and grown to the size of the Indiana Jones boulder. So, um, thanks Subconscious?

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Having spent 6 days figuring out how to check the air filters in my vehicle, I want to express my undying support of people who make videos entitled "how to undo this one weird hose clamp which no one uses anymore".

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I mean yes it does make sense that silicone sealant would be waterproof and therefore quite difficult to wash off if, say, someone was daft enough to accidentally pierce the tube with a fingernail and silicone all their fingers together

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"new dialogue in an extremely obscure circumstance" is such an activation code to the Deltarune community, I love it

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

DELTARUNE is undoubtedly the game I've invested the most hours in despite never actually playing a minute of it myself

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's hardly a reason to cancel Bargain Hunt tho, is it

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I saw this picture 3 times before I realised it was not in fact John Candy in some 80s comedy

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If there's someone else waiting for an elevator, I'll hide round the corner so I can take the next one alone. And today that paid off bc the guy ahead of me went to the top floor of the multistorey to yell at the sky about (I think) chem trails.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

DELTARUNE IN TWO WEEKS LET'S GOOOOOOO

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Aaaand this is how I've just learned Milkshake Duck was not, in fact, a real duck 😅

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Me: (wondering if I should compliment my trans friend on how great her boobs look) My brain: TELL HER SHE HAS A TRULY STONKING SET OF BAZONKAHONKADONKS TODAY

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Procrastinating, so I drew some (hopefully not spoiler-y) fanart for GOD'S JUNK DRAWER by @peterclines.com of my favourite character and my favourite dinosaur

Black and white pen drawing of a person riding on the back of an ankylosaurus

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Today I was blessed and highly favoured by Bagheera, who is 18 years old, quite large, and does not care if you had other plans for this morning

Selfie with an elderly black tomcat who has amazing long white whiskers

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Today, me and the youngest went out into nature so he could sketch landmarks along the trail, like Arthur does in RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2.

Bright, sunny spring day. A medium-sized teenager is intently sketching a brightly painted wooden mushroom that's been carved from a tree stump.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Me at 3pm today: A perfect time to settle down with Michelle Paver's RAINFOREST. I'm sure that, unlike her previous two books, this won't result in me sleeping with the lights on all week. Me at 11pm: ... shit

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hello friends! Just wanted to apologise to literally everyone for ghosting y'all this year. I'm going to come back to life very shortly, I promise!

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Everything is pretty terrible, but yesterday I saw the first bumblebee of the season, which was pretty rad

A slightly out of focus bumble bee with a white bum on a yellow gorse flower

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Similarly, all animals are either cats or dogs. Cows are dogs. Hippos are cats. Horses? Also cats

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

... well now I need to find the playthrough that gives you the excessive makeout scenes, don't I

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Husband's middle name is Frederick, named after his grandad Fred, whose name was Henry 😆

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Adding the phrase "THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET" to my everyday lexicon

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Rowling: [answers phone] hello? Julia Donaldson: hi is there a Ms. NottheUK'sbestsellingauthorbyvolume there Donaldson: first name Ima Rowling: hold on, i'll check

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Vibes are bleak. Try to take a deep breath, and then find something (small or big) that you can do to help someone who needs it

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Me, 2 weeks ago: I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOWERS Me, 2 hours ago: I CAN FORGET I ORDERED FLOWERS SO I GET A LOVELY SURPRISE DELIVERY Me, 2 mins ago: I CAN FORGET THE FLOWERS ARRIVED SO I GET ANOTHER NICE SURPRISE WHEN I FIND THEM STILL IN THE BOX IN THE KITCHEN

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 17/12/2025

I guess what I am saying is in 2026 you should DO STUFF and MAKE STUFF and BE CRINGE and HAVE FUN and FIGHT with all you have got because an awful lot of people do not want you to do any of that. Their profits require that you don’t. Anyway. Time for a cup of tea.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Hello #ArtAdventCalendar friends! I had a very nice evening yesterday at a sip-and-paint event, and produced these mushrooms:

Acrylic painting of two fly agric mushrooms on a turquoise blue background with some grass and leaves at the bottom

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Cropped this screenshot to avoid spoilers, but I am genuinely crying over Brooke Lynn Hytes coming up onto the runway in HER ACTUAL SLIPPERS to comfort an eliminated queen on Canada's Drag Race 💜

A rather blurry screenshot of Brooke Lynn Hytes on the runway wearing actual slippers

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

[phone rings] Rowling: hello? Julia Donaldson: yes is your refrigerator running Rowling: hold on a ssecond, i'll check Donaldson: [blasting vuvuzela] YOU'VE JUST BEEN GRUFFALOED!!

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is absolutely true, however please do not expect me to recall any details about anything I've ever written, since I frequently can't remember stuff I wrote yesterday, let alone several years ago (very much a me-problem 😂)

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Finally got my hands on the gorgeous new book from @peterclines.bsky.social , just in time for me to spend a weekend reading under a warm blanket hiding from the weather 😊

A copy of God's Junk Drawer by Peter Clines, posed with two green plastic dinosaurs. The photo is severely cropped so you can't see how untidy my kitchen is.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

These Christmas Carol skeletons are legit one of my favourite things about December 💜

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Look what arrived!! Thank you @taliskimberley.bsky.social for sending me this friend, I can't wait to start assembling 💜

A little pile of wool, in green, blue, yellow, and orange, including the components elements of a knitted triceratops

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I've been doing #Nudivember but haven't shared my stuff yet because I'm still finding my way back to drawing... But if I don't share now I never will, so here's a selection of my favourites from the first half of the month:

Hypselodoris obscura, a blue nudibranch with yellow highlights, sketched in fine-line pend

Felimida luteorosea, a delicate circular nudibranch which is genuinely the same colour as Mr Blobby. Fine-line pens again

Pencil sketches of: Cerberilla ambonensis (unfinished, looks like it has overlapping armour plates), tritonia myrakeenae (tiny translucent Trapdoor slug), meliba pilosa (scruffy cactus ballsack), doto greenamyeri (this one is so wild, it has soft circular doughnuts on its back and I don't know why)

Double page of pencil sketches: ardeadoris electra (soft, white, looks like a frilly haribo foam gummy), halgerda Theobroma (oval with a tortoiseshell pattern), diaphoradoris mitsurri (like if a tiny bunny was a water Pokémon with a rose instead of a tail), cerebilla tanna (listen for some reason this one looks like it has a massive rack and existential dread), tambja affinis (black stripy neon slug), and two terellia annulata (sentient noodle mass)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Predator: yah I went to Earth and it was *so* authentic, our guide provided us with traditional weaponry and everything. facing humans armed with nothing but a shoulder cannon and a wristblade was a really spiritual experience.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Stayed up past my bedtime because me and my kid were intensively debating the narrative significance of musical motivs in Deltarune and I have exactly zero regrets

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This is just so beautiful! I'm sure I'm not the only one who's looking forward to seeing dozens of posts about this photogenic doofus (complimentary) in the years to come 💜

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality. 📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems. buff.ly/AmWAOQB 🧪 1/

Side by side photos of a person looking at a picture of lichen on an app and comparing it to lichen on a tree trunk

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Finally finished watching ALIEN EARTH and... well, I was going to say SPOILERS but I'm not convinced it counts as a spoiler if absolutely no answers were provided by a season finale

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thought I might do some drawing but apparently that counts as "not paying enough attention to Moses"

A fuzzy little void is sat on my sketchbook, which is on my lap

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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 30/09/2025

WELP the stupidest idiots in history are in charge of the country, but I'm still required to tell you it's exactly SIX WEEKS until the release of GOD'S JUNK DRAWER. And, hey, semi-related, do you need someone fun to interview for your website? Your podcast? Your late-night talk show? Let me know!

The cover for GOD'S JUNK DRAWER by Peter Clines, showing a dinosaur skeleton in a black void, along with a space suit helmet, a human skull, a bionic arm, and a stone-tipped spear.

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Rakie Bennett @rakie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Unexpectedly having to Google if it's ok for cats to eat chickpeas...

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