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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 23m

was sat at a cafe reading @chanda.blacksky.app The Edge of Space-Time and became aware of a 3yr old watching me quietly. so I started reading out loud and they seemed quite content. I hope one day they'll be in school physics class and think "wait have i heard about wave function before?!"

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1h

really you just have to learn to cope with being uncomfortable sometimes. all those times people say "don't coddle children" that "life isn't fair" that you have to prepare them for the "real world": this is it. this is The Real World and sometimes, as adults, we're uncomfortable. cope.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 1h

we really need, as a population, to get over this idea that "discomfort" equals "i'm in danger". does being a visible minority in a place, exorcism when you're used to not being a minority, cause discomfort. yes. OK. let's take some time to reflect on that and learn and not just say "Unsafe!"

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 18h

does nothing more effectual than give a hard stare?

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 22h

oh no! why do I feel all achey and like I'm getting ill?! ...oh yeah

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 23h

I had the opposite when I would go to Australia (Sydney area) in their summer: how could it be midsummer and going dark that early?

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When @aknighton.bsky.social’s publisher announced its closure, it could have—should have—spelled the end of his fantasy adventure series still in progress. But never say never in the world of fantasy! britishfantasysociety.org/bringing-a-b...

The background image shows a hand rising from under the ground, like a zombie

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

also maybe it's just my subset of acquaintances. but year round all I ever hear is "I know everybody prefers summer but I actually prefer autumn/winter" I rarely hear people say that they prefer summer. (except for other people with SAD)

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I get pretty severe seasonal depression so no amount of cosy clothing and hot drinks will make me like this time of year more than summer. sorry. doesn't mean I don't like those autumnal and wintery things. but the lack of daylight can do one.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Flu jab done. now to try and convince the GP to give me a covid vaccine too.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

well bloody hell. published in 2000. and here we are. #booksky

excerpt from House of Leaves. text reads:
"In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well aware that hey can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated. Even if news photographers and editors resist the temptations of electronic manipulation as they are likely to do, the credibility of all reproduced images will be dimin- ished by a climate of reduced expecta- tions. In short, photographs will not seem as real as they once did."

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

you don't have to turn everything into a performance metric. sometimes you can just join in, be crap, laugh at/with your mates/ colleagues who are more invested in it (with kindness).

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I sort of get it, especially if it's a "mandatory fun" thing in a workplace and if you don't join in you're "not a team player". but it's just so tragically sad that people can't just be bad at something, approach it in a stupid fashion, not care. they have to "optimise it".

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm now 100% more interested in Star Wars than previously

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HammamHilles @hopelife0.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I urgently need €30 to buy an injection that will help improve my mother’s oxygen supply. Her condition is very critical, and I’m desperately asking for your help. Please help me before it’s too late😔

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

can you help Hammam? he and his family just want to survive

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

on the one hand I can tell I'm over this two day migraine because I'm now feeling well enough to be fidgety and bored. on the other hand I'm now fidgety and bored.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Welcome to #TransTuesday! Don't know the trouble with JK Rowling? Think she's just said some insensitive things? Or do you just pretend to not know? Well! Now you'll know. You'll KNOW. Send this to every cis person in your life who doesn't get it Here's all the receipts: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF

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TERFs, PART 2: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF - Tilly's Trans Tuesdays

Welcome to Trans Tuesday! Let me tell you, the last thing I want to be doing is an entire essay about this, but so many people don’t know, or claim to not know, or pretend it’s not the huge problem th...

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Grape nuts were a next tiertreat when I was a kid for some reason. haven't seen them for years but now I want them (I'm in the UK so if anybody has any sources, lmk)

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this post brought to you by @tpwky.bsky.social and their guest author having a pet vendetta against alzheimer's researchers as a group. (OK vendetta might be a strong word but he clearly has Opinions).

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love it when researchers develop a particular bee in their bonnet about some aspect of the subject they're researching. they go into it just willing to learn all about the topic and come out going "ok but that guy. that one guy!" and now they just want us all to join them in their vendetta.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lingthusiasm has been a favourite of mine since 2019. I'm not a linguist but I love learning more about how languages and communication work and I really like how Gretchen and Lauren give a global perspective of linguistics including sign language. definitly worth a listen

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

little do they know she's the adopted daughter of an employee they let go cruelly 25 years ago

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

somebody is ill advisadly travelling with a rare and priceless emerald and it is about to be stolen

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

some foreshore activity during low tide? some sort of shellfish or seaweed harvest perhaps? (no actual knowledge just throwing out ideas)

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

fittingly, most of my "knowledge" of companions is from Agatha Christie. which doesn't bode well for anybody within 20ft of them

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm so fascinated by this! where did the plates come from? the tray? is she a paid companion? some sort of high end nursing care? does she provide her own twinset

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh oh! you're the author of Elatsoe! it's so good ❤️

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still can't figure out what "violent and inquisitive" was supposed to be

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

my stupid handsome cat looks like he's advertising designer cologne

black and white caphotgraph of a black and white cat. he's luxuriously fluffy, lounging, looking moodily off to the side.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the number of online vegan groups I've left because a small handful of people are absolutely ludicrous

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

also vegan who prefers to see my cat properly fed!

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

coke and (lots of) booze probably shouldn't be a part of a family afternoon out. especially not if you're supposed to be supervising a toddler at a train station.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it's half past six on a Sunday why are half the people on this train so drunk they can't figure out how a train toilet works?! ok maybe not half, but I've had to shut the door for two separate guys who couldn't figure out the door close and were ready to just stay pissing wildly.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm reading this now too. nice to see somebody else enjoying it

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it is! and yes, I'm enjoying her narration, especially her regional accents. As a northerner it's very satisfying.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

good morning! still eeking my way through House of Leaves. There's a reason I've given myself until the end of October to read this! and I've got Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson (HMRC book 2) on audio. I enjoy these but they are sometimes a little on the nose in terms of theme.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm progressing so slowly through this. partly my concentration had been atrocious recently, but also it is not designed to allow for rapid reading and smooth process. I'm at page 118* and it's starting to get a bit "choose your own advertising adventure" in terms of flow. *ish

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

went to the alternative market today. I try not to buy stuff for the sake of having stuff. but I do like seeing what people are creating. I did buy a tiny cute comic and a bottle of hot sauce. (and a mint chocolate sandwich cookie, consumed). yes good. (comic artist is @simonjcurd.bsky.social )

A small comic with an illustration of tiny creature hands holding earbuds surrounded by leaves, I'm shades of orange and, a bottle of dark hot sauce from the company Balefire called Chupacabra. "tonka bean and stout mole sauce". both on a mustard yellow background.

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Robin Bird @robinxbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

right that's it! time to put on The Comfy Trousers.

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