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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎 @sleepingvillage.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

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Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One of my favourite World Cup things is all the videos Zlatan is posting of him and Henry dicking around in suits with footballs between games.

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It matters what we deem acceptable in mainstream political discourse. It matters what our political leaders deem to be “legitimate concerns”. It matter when we replace judgement with opinion polls. bsky.app/profile/toma...

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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A thing I enjoy at this time of year in a World Cup cycle are all of the adverts that are World Cup themed and feature players who have not, in fact, been selected for the World Cup

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Ten years ago the UK government issued a travel advisory for LGBTQIA+ individuals about risks of going to the US partly because of trans bathroom bans. Now we have those bans in UK. This is what I mean by Labour being worse on trans rights than the previous government.

UK warns gay travellers about US anti-LGBT laws

21 April 2016

Protesters called for governors of both states to repeal the laws

The UK government has warned gay and transgender travellers to be careful in the US due to legislation in North Carolina and Mississippi.

In North Carolina, legislation passed by Governor Pat McCrory invalidates previously passed legislation from Charlotte, that state's largest city, that enacted LGBT protections.

His new law states that transgender people must use public bathrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates. Mississippi's law has a similar bathroom provision and also protects dozens of forms of businesses and services from being prosecuted by the government for refusing to serve LGBT people.

It is "both frightening and embarrassing that one of our nation's staunchest allies has warned its citizens of the risks" of travelling to the US, said Ty Cobb of the Human Rights Campaign.

"It is now more clear than ever that these terrible measures are not only harming individuals and taking an economic toll on the states, but are also causing serious damage to our nation's reputation, and the perceived safety of LGBT people who travel here."

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/05/2026

none of those articles about US v European income per capita mentioned that Americans don't have Eurovision?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today’s column: some initial thoughts on what a “whole of society” approach to tackling antisemitism in the United Kingdom would have to do:

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How not to defeat antisemitism

The only way to overcome this scourge is to see it for what it is: racism

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/04/2026

Again, the media should be hitting him hard on this. It is not supported by the evidence, and is just a way of deligitimating both opposition to Reform, and the participation of non-white people in politics. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

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Sects on the Brain

A post-Gorton narrative which is dramatic, seductive, and wrong

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Revealing that the Guardian apparently couldn't actually find any examples of the ruling having "changed lives" positively. Those quoted in support simply express political agreement with it rather than being able to point to any tangible life benefit, in contrast to those quoted in opposition.

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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Not for the first time, I've had a scam WhatsApp from someone who was able to obtain my phone number, the name of a hotel I'm staying in, and the date I'm staying there from my account at @bookingcom.bsky.social. in fact, this is starting to happen with pretty much every trip I book through them

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I don't know Gemma, Aimee or Zara but I just gave £20 to this because the Union St fire is a horrific nightmare and while I can't help everyone who's been wrecked by it I can help one person a little bit. If you can, you might also want to, whether it's this or someone else who's been affected

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Headline from both the 16th Century and tonight's Spurs game: Questions For Tudor Following Palace Catastrophe

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Cozy and Comforting Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 14/01/2026

Our population of invasive feral parakeets is one of my favourite London facts to surprise visitors with

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/01/2026

Very much all of this. The many Brits bashing the capital are very useful idiots for overseas efforts to undermine the country imho. As I've said before, it's time to push back at the nonsense

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden

Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 22/12/2025

An example of how individuals can shape spelling (that I wish I'd included in my book) is 'ache'. It was historically spelled 'ake', but because Dr Johnson and others thought (reasonably but incorrectly) that it came from Greek, its spelling shifted to a Greek CH (like 'chronic', 'school') instead.

A screenshot of the text of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, for the entry for "to ake"

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 13/12/2025

good grief, this superb, heartbreaking piece. Not all heroes wear capes, eh. www.ft.com/content/cd59...

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‘It’s just a bomb’

The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲 If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with: - pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!) - a link or details on how people can buy I will boost you! Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I think these guys make the most joyous podcast around. If you ever need cheering up just get stuck in... The absolutely unfeigned pleasure they take in the movie, and in the podcast banter, it's the best. You could start here though the Starship Troopers is amazing too

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/12/2025

Strays Christmas at the Chaos House: official invitation thread! Do you want to spend Christmas Day with people but have nowhere to go? Can you get to Oxford (England)? Come to ours.

A Christmas tree with lights but no baubles yet because I have two toddlers

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't. Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 15/11/2025

Quick quiz: In which year did the a report say: "The longer the essential work is left, the greater the risk becomes that the building might suffer a sudden, catastrophic failure, or that small, incremental failures might make the building uninhabitable."?

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pelagornithid @pelagornithid.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

ʼTwas Ozy, and the legs of stone Did gyre and gimble in decay: Half sunk was the visageʼs frown And the sands stretch away. “Beware the pedestal, my son! The hand that mocked, the heart that fed! Beware the antique land, and shun A sculptor who's well read!”

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 21/10/2025

Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Jack is 30, a barrister's clerk, newly engaged to Chloe and has taken part in research at UCL to turn his diagnosis into a positive." "But he'd always known he was destined to share his father's fate, until today." Wow.

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Rowena S @rowenas.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Really enjoyed visiting Container City today as part of the Open House Festival - the tour of the SS Robin steam ship alone was worth the trip to Canning Town programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/2205

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Of course the other big effect of slash and burn deregulation is to make anyone who invested in good business practices feel like an idiot as they get out competed by lower cost cowboy operators

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I think this is it. Despair is easy and you get to feel wise, and it doesn't really place any obligations on you or force you to speak out or do anything, really.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

if you want to observe LIz Truss being intellectually owned, this is worth your time via @tobyn.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/30e5...

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Liz explains the coup

An Odd Lot

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Without giving this thing any more publicity than necessary, no the old Intervision was not ‘held between 1965 and 1980 in communist Czechoslovakia’. Now come weeks of this fluff instead of media exposing how 🇷🇺 positions itself as anti-🏳️‍🌈 world leader by hosting a song contest like this.

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We did not suffer through Baz Luhrmann at No.1 for this

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Danny KoooOooOoodicek @dannykodicek.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I’ve watched this about eight times and I still feel like it is going to go in.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The Mail invariably referred to young women as "flappers". "Flappers" were party girls, who dashed about in motor cars and danced all night to jazz bands. The Mirror - also, in those days, a right-wing paper - ran a series of cartoons, imagining the flapper running for Parliament.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/07/2025

Hey ding-dongs, let’s have a chit-chat about 'Ablaut reduplication.' If you have three words, the order usually goes 'I-A-O.' -tic-tac-toe If there are only two words, ‘I’ is the first and the second is either ‘A’ or ‘O.’ -click-clack -King-Kong

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Pension funds 💔 gilts: looking at the OBR's assessment for demand for bonds. www.ft.com/content/261f...

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Pension funds 💔 gilts

For whom the bell tolls

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 29/06/2025

It's your last chance to respond to the EHRC consultation. It closes at 11.59pm tomorrow. Get it done tonight. Tell them about the personal impact. Better to do something short and quick than not at all. Don't let them claim we didn't tell them.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The book proposal I'm currently working on is about a general theory of crises. So far my research is pointing toward the conclusion that the most important thing to do is to **understand that you are in a crisis** and that the normal rules which serve well in normal conditions may not apply.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Also do check out the photos - they're pretty amazing. Run my home city of York close for "unexpected items outside the window"

View from the dining room window as the owner stares at a massive ship aground in the garden

View from Plonkers wine bar of the river Ouse. Which is halfway up the window, which is itself being cleaned quite nonchalantly. Youth does funny things to your concept of flooding...

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Kevin the ridiculous toffee coloured puffball of a dog has just bibbidy bibbidy bibbidied past wearing a new collar and lead. It's blue and glittery and it's got a bell on it. Not to worry, Kevin, you're still ferocious.

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a small brown dog says i 'm ferocious

Alt: a ridiculous puffball of a dog is trying to look fierce. The caption is "I'm ferocious". He is not ferocious.

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Wow sure would be worried if I lived in *checks notes* the world.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.

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Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · 01/03/2025

Another thing that struck me about yesterday’s Oval Office disaster is the place of language. 🧵

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Rowena S @rowenas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Always love these travel threads of Jo's and this one is a particular joy, taking me back to the semester I spent in Brno as a student

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