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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

and fifteen quid ebooks which they will never discount

Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

yes, eventually concluded it was probably a juvenile cormorant! i'd not seen a juvenile one before so the light feathers on its front (when it was standing on the bank) threw me off because i'm used to them being dark all over

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

earlier i was trying to work out if my wet beast was a cormorant or a shag so i tried googling "shag uk" and. well. that didn't go well so then i tried "shag birds uk" this was not an improvement.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

update today in the cam i saw a juvenile great cormorant and lots and lots of little fishes so i think it can't be too poisonous

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

they are also a threat on the cam though i think not so much around jesus lock where they hold the cardboard boat race, they're more up around green dragon bridge and the equiano bridge so it's the normal rowers who have to dodge 'em

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

honestly the biggest threat is whatever's living in the cam and like. it's not anything the regular rowers aren't braving every morning. though i guess they're somewhat less likely to end up fully submerged

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl... damn it was 2023. the years start coming and they don't stop coming anyway one year that i watched it they had a full on viking ship made out of cardboard it was great

bbc.co.uk

Cambridge students' cardboard boat race sunk by insurers

The post-exam annual race has seen Cambridge University students take to the river in handmade boats.

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

cambridge has / used to have a cardboard boat race, where students make boats out of recycled materials and attempt to get from one bridge to another without sinking. some get quite elaborate. it got cancelled last year or the year before due to nobody being willing to insure it. can't imagine why

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

i've written fics where this is the case! i've read novels where this is the case! until the last year or two, reading the worst takes on POV known to man (average online books discourse every other week), it never occurred to me that people were self-inserting into everything at all

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

even 2nd person doesn't have to be self-insert! it CAN be, but it isn't automatically!! (speaking as someone who has written several fics in 2nd person that absolutely WEREN'T intended to be the reader insert) do these people also self-insert when their colleagues tell anecdotes about their weekend

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

i also thought that and was just prepared to accept this

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

sometimes i think my anxiety isn't that bad and then i have to travel literally anywhere

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

i really wish i didn't have the kind of brain that requires me to come up with extensive contingency plans in case i miss a bus ... in nearly three months' time NOT TODAY'S PROBLEM!!!

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

ooh and it's in kobo plus, love that for me

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

i haven't; i'll check it out but am def much more looking for ireland at the moment (and indeed there wasn't really irish-language printing in ireland until the 19th century so it would've had minimal impact on the people i'm most interested in reading about currently!)

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

me, wilfully misunderstanding the term 'twelfth century renaissance': the twelfth century can be early modern if we try hard and believe in ourselves

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Néide @seneolas.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

i'm not sure it's available at all at the moment -- looks like it might be out of print :')

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