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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-w... fascinating bird behaviour fact about the white winged chough. kidnapping fledglings from other groups so they'll help make your own group more successful. wild

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 20h

there were a decent amount of trans women there and they did do a trans rights speech on stage and that got a very very loud positive reaction which was nice

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 20h

i saw team dresch on wednesday and someone recognised me from online and talked to me for a while and i got introduced to someone else and i was like wow thats so nice i was happy people sometimes recognise me from online. they even offered me some estrogen

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 20h

not the one in Glasgow, which was founded by the London ones elder brother interestingly enough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William... (Glasgow William hunter, London john. they were both in medicine and from east Kilbride)

en.wikipedia.org

William Hunter (anatomist) - Wikipedia

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 21h

visited the hunterian museum (medical and natural history specimen collection at the royal college of surgeons) a few days ago

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 21h

oh yeah dude Korean comfort food which looks like it's made of bugs mmmm yeah I'm totally visiting

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

where on earth are you that they have regular Saturday parades lmao

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

generally it seems to be that this means the salt is demonic and if you eat it you become more demonic or something. which the people who believe it seem to think is bad for some reason

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Darya Noghani (Small Saga now on the Switch!) @sketchylogic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My older game, Aviary Attorney, is 75% off in the Steam Autumn sale! (If you’re waiting for Small Saga on PC/Switch to be discounted, that will come soon.)

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also I've not looked it up to be sure but the Grendel's mother bit feels very haphazard in composition, you can sort of tell it was written in as an extra incident to another more coherent story

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

like the fight against Grendel's mother he just goes underwater in full armour and there's nothing special about being underwater he's just swinging his sword about and moving normally. not even a slight hint of breathing or anything

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

kind of fascinated by the Beowulf poet having "fighting underwater" as such a big thing while also seemingly never actually having been underwater

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

incontrovertible truth: they're literally called "Him a Layin". "him" is obviously a giant. qed

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

like this is one where one conspiracy strand (giants) dovetails with another (food adulteration). people get convinced all the meat they buy is "lab grown" or their vegetables are plastic even tho it doesn't make sense and it leads in bizarre directions

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I find conspiracy theories like this "interesting" precisely because it's clearly not actually describing anything real. you can pick up Himalayan pink salt and realise it's just salt 100%. but people seem more drawn to conspiracies that don't actually make sense for some reason

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there's tons of weird conspiracy theories around the belief in giants, none of them make any sense but the ideas are really popular. and people consider them biblical!

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

just got a peek into the world of conspiracy tiktoks where people believe that Himalayan pink salt is in fact the preserved meat of giants called nephilim (from the bible) and they get like 25k likes on these videos

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I LOVE natsume yuujinchou but not seen the rest, thank you for the recs!!

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

any recs for anime that's plot heavy. if it's not too depressing and has cute elements that's good too

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just passed a mobile repair shop that had installed TWO big screens outside that each showed a different stream of incoherent ai generated videos vaguely about repairing phones

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

do I know anyone who'll be at team dresch London on Wednesday

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ive had bad depression for a long long time but the periods when I just don't care about anything more than immediate needs and don't even remember what I've been doing have been getting longer and more frequent over time

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I went to a doctor last Monday and they upped my dose of citalopram to the max and said to book an appointment in a month to review. which is something I guess

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lots of things are frustrating but most of the stuff isn't why I'm depressed but it's easier to get mad at stupid shit that feels more within reach and blame that even though it doesn't help and just makes things worse

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's hard not falling into self destructive nasty constant bitterness when depression is bad for long time

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not sure how (rotten gases) clarifies that. think she got lost in the sauce

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

here's me with mallard (holds the world record for steam locomotive speed, 125mph), evening star (last steam locomotive built by British railways in 1960) and replica and semi-original rocket (early steam locomotive that successfully demonstrated it could work as a way of hauling passengers)

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I went to the national railway museum last week and I don't think I posted any photos????

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just saw someone claiming they've seen "plenty of wild guinea pigs in the UK" and can't tell if they're joking

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_... just found out about a cult whose main corporate thing is a chain of vegan restaurants

en.wikipedia.org

Loving Hut - Wikipedia

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

an IG mutual commented on a restaurants post like "I wanted to visit but I'm disappointed by the ai use, can you not just photograph your food" and the owner went on a massive rant calling them out specifically and how they must hate small businesses lol it's so. weird

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

those restaurants which advertise using ai generated food pictures: how do they look at them and not feel slightly queasy. there's one image generator that always makes food that looks like it's made of maggots and it's genuinely disgusting

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

like because very dramatic outbursts are incentivised in that environment, either as a sign of faith and fervour or a chance to prove the power of jesus, people just do it, sometimes subconsciously. social pressure is kind of incredible

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

like on one level it's a socially constructed experience - I remember reading a thread about "demonic possession" there where most people were like. it's absurdly rare if it exists. then 1 guy is like. actually people get possessed by demons all the time at my Pentecostal church lol

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think to a certain extent I can understand lots of religious stuff but when people talk like that I feel there is some kind of numinous human experience I don't have access to

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was looking at the Christianity subreddit and someone goes like "I like the idea of Christianity but don't fully believe. help" and the advice is like "talk to jesus". and I wonder what they consider talking to jesus and what experiences they have had that makes them think that makes sense

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

soooo beautiful I love them thank you!!

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

omg yeah the wagtail tattoo is amazing (also I already said but congrats and you look amazing!)

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I saw a betting shop closed and I was like woah even they can't survive? but turns out they'd just moved to a different area because every other place on that street was empty

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's with the recent move of restaurants into "the small plates concept" where you're told to order 2-3 for a meal but EACH one is like £15 and it's not like a super high end restaurant

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

he's my favourite Lebanese politician. (I don't know any others)

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tara 🏳️‍⚧️ @tarabomp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

think it's identical to most UK towns now but god visiting Ashford feels so depressing I felt my life drained out of me. half the shop fronts boarded up, everyone looks miserable and glares at you like they hate you

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ADA ROOK @adarook666.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

pov ur a funny post and im abt to "like" u

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