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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🧪 probably a long shot, but: has anyone heard of a two-headed trout specimen named Cuthbert the Great? the specimen allegedly went to the AMNH in 1940 but the museum has no record of it. trying to track down Cuthbert. www.nytimes.com/1944/08/13/a...

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

traditionally, executing american soldiers on camera was outsourced overseas, but now it's providing jobs for americans

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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The only ‘no go zones’ in Britain are gated communities, country estates full of, or owned by rich, largely white folk. And don’t get me started on the villages they’ve basically ‘enclosed’ on the north Norfolk coast.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm also a connoisseur of weird or auction lots. A few years ago I spotted this collection of crowns of thorns on sale in Germany. As far as I remember they were going very cheap but, nevertheless, I wasn't tempted.

A collection of crowns of thorns there's about eight of them in total laid on a table they vary quite substantially in size and one of them isn't really thorns at all it's carved out of wood

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't think I've ever seen a shorter tower.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading Michael Dylan Foster's The Book of Yōkai and I'm devastated to have missed the 'so-called tsuchinoko boom' of the 1970s. Imagine being there on the ground when all those chubby snake cryptids popped up.

Printed illuustration of a Nozuchi or Tsuchinoko (a wide snake) from the Shinano-Kishōroku (c. 1834): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doeti_Nozuchi.jpg

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fixed that story about Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the BBC.

Picture of man smiling with tea-mug. Headline reads: "Non-Billionaire who actually lives in the UK and pays its taxes says he has lost confidence in the super-rich", with sub-header: 'One of Britain's taxpayers says he has lost confidence in billionaires, describing them as "on the take"".

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explore.org @explore.org · 18/09/2026

Today at 12 PM PT, the contenders are revealed. Link to join our live: m.youtube.com/watch?v=dhDQ...

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Tennis on telly 🎾📺🇬🇧 @tennisontelly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Great Britain's upcoming Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup ties will be shown live for free on both BBC iPlayer and Tennis Channel Davis Cup: GB vs Ecuador this weekend 19-20 Sep BJK Cup: GB vs Czechia on Tuesday 22 Sep

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Tennis Channel International: How to watch TC for free in your country

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just spotted these being sold on AliExpress. 🦶💩👍 I'm still trying to puzzle out what they were intending to say about these sliders.

Screenshot showing a pair of lilac coloured sliders from AliExpress. At the top of the page it says 'EVA feeling like stepping on shit'

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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 12/09/2026

The post isn't even internally consistent. If the UK "is taxing itself to death", and if Laffer is right that "taxes can become so punitive they reduce revenues", then why would lowering taxes require you to cut spending?

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Really good piece on whether free UK museums should move to charge. Great point on the weird incentives here from Chris Smith - would those who are successful in getting commercial income just open the door to losing state support? www.ft.com/content/f243...

Smith, the former culture secretary, says the push for charging "has come from the Treasury... They thought it would be an easy and attractive way of raising money, given the difficult fiscal picture.
"But of course for the museums that did charge, the Treasury would just claw back a portion of the grant-in-aid that they give them," he adds. "So we would not see a new dawn for the sector, just a fall-off in visitors, reputational strength and soft power."

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Fishy Friday: Bathypterois sp., a tripod fish. Solitary and stationary, these deep-sea denizens perch above the seafloor using specialized fin rays and face into the current. When an unsuspecting copepod or other tiny crustacean drifts by, this animal is set to snack. #Doldrums, 2,040 meters

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I arrived in Abbots Bromley at 07:20 sharp ready for the unshackling of the 1000 year old horns stored all year round in the village church. Some pics from the day of dancing..!

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Martin Rosner @hotpaper.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

comic about bees

two characters on a small hill, a guy in a green cloak carrying a bow and a wizard in a light blue garb holding his staff.
Bow guy: I think that guy is 10 000 bees in a suit of armor

Down the kill is a suit of armor filled with bees, some limbs floating next to the main body and running.

Bees in suit of armor: LET'S GO ON A QUEST TO SAVE THE QUEEN!

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More a voice than a tense, but great name

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just been reminded of this. Newer friends and followers may not know of that type 11 years ago when I was writing for the Guardian and finally snapped at their ludicrous image archive setup and it got published on the actual site. #cake #breakdown

A cake
I Do you know how long l've spent in the Guardian's image archives to find a picture of a bog
standard cake? Bloody ages! Thousands of images and not one thing that you'd recognise as a
normal cake. This weird ice cream thing is the best I could do. Everything else has a sodding fried
egg or a bunch of parsley obscuring it, or has been arranged to resemble a Picasso painting or a
sculpture reflecting the futility of existence. When did this place becore riddled with hipsters?
God, I'm so tired... Photograph: Brian Hagiwara/Getty Images

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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I hope this guy shows up today

Painting of a stegosaur (Tuojiangosaurus?) with large bagels hanging from its spikes. A human helps a mother and child buy some.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've had 🎼 'Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao and his black and white cow' - to the tune of Postman Pat - going round in my head intermittently for about three weeks now. Prior to thisI had no idea how frequently I encountered references to cattle in a typical day.

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The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Mildly alarming blue porcupine of the day 👇 At the Lord Leycester Hospital, home for for former service personne,l Warwick. The porcupine was the emblem of the Sidney family who held the hospital's patronage from the 17th C

Blue porcupine on front of half timbered building

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you were living in Europe in the 1580s and 90s, you would likely have heard a few herring prophecies from Norway. Fishes with words about evil, fighting knights symbolizing the Ottoman conflicts of the Habsburg monarchy etc. appeared, and they all predicted something about the state of the world.

a German broadside with a wondrous fish caught off Norway. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0710-346

6 fishes with words from a small print of 1598 ("Prophetia halieutica nova et admiranda...", Source: https://www.e-rara.ch/zuz/content/titleinfo/1489626

A broadside from 1587 showing a fish with wondrous inscriptions which reads 'Vici Malum' caught off Norway. Source: https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freytag/content/pageview/8433201

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Gary Clark Volunteers feeding sweet potatoes to the resident manatees at the Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park in Florida

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My late mother once had a decapitated pigeon on her front path and *her postman offered to dispose of it* but she turned him down saying 'no thank you, my daughter can deal with that', so the corpse got to fester and incubate maggots for a couple additional days before I encountered it.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/08/2026

Oh, that's Bill from Guess Who

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did

An Edward Lear drawing of the jumblies who are little humanoids and the in about which is a sieve it looks a bit like a riddle with our large white flag and a big pot there's about I guess about eight jumblies some of whom are waving their arms

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If Bicester is ever looking for a twin town...

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'd be genuinely fascinated to know what sort of quantities of this item Next is expecting to shift.

This is an unpleasant ornament depicting a pumpkin sitting on a toilet reading a book called gardening tips and there are some toadstools and autumn leaves strewn around the base of the toilet

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This must be going to result in the highest proportion of lost deposits in any Westminster by-election?

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I've got to say that I'm doubtful that there's really much competition for the title of 'the world's largest floating book fair'.

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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

Two small Egyptian tortoises are positioned on either side of a bright red raspberry on a gravel surface.

A small tortoise is on a sandy surface, next to a plump blueberry

An Egyptian tortoise is close to a blueberry on a sandy surface.

Two small tortoises face a large blackberry on a gravel surface.

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Kevin Sievers @diplotomodon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

From the words of one Charles Sternberg:

I might have sold to showmen or dealers; in fact I have the assurance of one of the largest dealers in America that I made a great mistake in selling directly to museums instead of selling through him. If I had done as he advised, the thousands of fossils I have collected would have cost the museums fifty percent more than they have, and my work would have been measured by the money these dealers would have been pleased to allow me, and I should have never been known as one of those who have devoted their lives to the advancement of paleontology.

Charles Sternberg, The Life of a Fossil Hunter

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Why on earth are these sweets called Drumsticks? Even describing the resemblance as minimal would be an act of charity.

A packet of pink and white sweets called Swizzle squashies drumstick. The sweets themselves are essentially small flat pink and white rectangles and their resemblance to drumsticks doesn't really go much beyond them being solid rather than liquid or gas.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Surprised this doesn't happen more often. It's easy to get spaghetti and spaghetti-fragranced incense sticks mixed up.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Bumhole Grape The look of it is slightly putting me off eating it.

A red grape that's two conjoined berries it resembles an arse complete with hole where the stalk was

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I love how my new suggested “Pet Friends” album on my iphone photos is all extinct taxidermy specimens.

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Matt Friedman @friedmanlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Love the random things that you find in museum storerooms, like this model of a rookery.

Scale plaster model of a cliff with birds and their nests.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The statue of Greyfriars Bobby. It's garden centre quality tat. The local orthodoxy seems to be that if tourists want to rub its nose 'for luck' we have to get our knickers in a twist and insist this "isn't a tradition" . I say: keep rubbing away till the whole damn thing's gone.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Have octopuses turned against the gambling industry? I haven't noticed any of them predicting football results during this World Cup, or do they always lie low until the knockout stages?

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James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So as I mentioned, went on a misty, windblown sun-shower hike in the cloud forest yesterday, and there found the Roundest I'iwi. More pics of this one coming but had to get this out there. :) #birds #borbs 🦉🌿📷

A Very Round I'iwi (small vermillion honeycreeper with a long curved beak and black wings) standing atop an 'ohia tree in the soft light of a misty day at Hosmer Grove

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

FFS Plusnet! It appears that the only way to opt out of this customer satisfaction nagging is to have somehow had lightning reflexes and managed to text back STOP to the first SMS before the second one appeared about two seconds later.

$This is a screenshot of an SMS conversation between myself and Plusnet they contact me and try and paste to me and to taking part in some customer service fractions of a with the option to opt out by texting stop back but then they send me second SMS a couple of seconds after the first one and asking me to give values between zero and ten I text back stop but by this time it's too late apparently to actually stop this and it refuses to accept any response other than the number it really pissed me off this$

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

How many foodstuffs *would* look wholesome and/or appetising if you just poured all the raw ingredients into a beaker? Coq au vin, anyone?

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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Worth it all to get that pic. And I support your suspicions. I am confident that there is a dinosaur camouflaging itself as a tree, in one of our town parks.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Great idea, reminiscent of 'Brown World' on Saturday Night Armistice.

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm enjoying the idea that there's an official gorilla transfer season. BBC News - 'Charismatic' gorilla joins Jersey Zoo troop www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jersey Zoo welcomes gorilla from Bristol Zoo to troop

Afia, a 10-year-old female gorilla, came from Bristol Zoo, where she was born in 2016.

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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What a find - the house of Peter Firmin, the creator of bagpuss, which doubled for Emily’s shop, is for sale www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

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Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳 @scosthrop.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I can't help thinking that these must be very flexible Greek warriors, in another life they could have been magician's assistants.

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