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PhD in something you will never need or want to know about. Bad and wrong in all the best ways.

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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I keep seeing eviscerated pigeons. Are there hawks on the loose? Or have the foxes got jetpacks?
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 70,000 men in a Telegram group chat exchanging tips about how to drug and rape women. How did it get to 70,000 men without other men shutting it down? www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/e...
cnn.com
Police uncover international networks of men using online chat groups to drug and rape women | CNN
An international police operation spanning seven countries has uncovered highly organized networks of offenders who drug and rape their partners and use online chat groups to aid and encourage their “...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 32,000 men in an Italian Facebook group devoted to drugging your wife and taking nonconsensual explicit photos of her and sharing them. It didn’t get shut down until a woman discovered and exposed it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Anger in Italy over non-consensual photos of women shared online
The My Wife Facebook group had 32,000 members before it was shut down for violating adult sexual exploitation policies.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shepherds' delight
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There was a long queue to see the Bayeux tapestry last night but totally worth it. A friend and I may have had a sword fight in the gift shop after which added authenticity to the experience. Then to the pub to see the Beer Tapestry.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I've had so many leaflets through my door either by post or from canvassers, often multiples from the same party to elect my MP's replacement. Politics kills trees.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm not a fan of any sport but I'd watch this www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...
bbc.co.uk
River that is home to 500 crocodiles chosen to host 2032 Olympic rowing and canoe events
A river that is home to about 500 saltwater crocodiles is given the OK to host Olympic and Paralympic rowing and canoeing events at the 2032 Brisbane Games.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There's a local election in my area to replace Kier Starmer as MP. This is why I will not be voting for the Green candidate www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Zack Polanski stood by breast enlargment hypnosis claim
A newly unearthed interview from 2013 casts doubt on the Green Party leader's claim to have apologised.
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The sky is darkening like a stain, Something is going to fall like rain And it won't be flowers. (Auden)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good writing in my view - while some commentary on here has framed Sheeran's justification as a demonstration of the hollowness of "neutrality", as a professional moral philosopher it is also what we in the business refer to as a "lie" and it may be helpful to refer to it as such
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The graph is rubbish if you read the small print: serving sizes vary wildly so latte looks disproportionately strong www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 16/09/2026
If anyone needs a commentator on novelty secessionist movements, I am available. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/londepende...
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I probably had a weirder referendum week than you
Reflections on ten years of #Londependence.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Of all the remakes, "racist Passport to Pimlico" was not on my bingo card www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Why is Piddington in Oxfordshire holding a referendum on leaving the UK?
Residents of Piddington, near Bicester, will vote in a symbolic referendum on Tuesday.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To all you buggers who consider (ineptly) mocking the accent of my forebears on Talk Like A Pirate Day on the 19th: be advised that pirates were just as likely to come from Wales or London. It was Robert Newton's hammy performance in Treasure Island (1950) that started the 'Aarr Jim lad' nonsense.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's conker time!
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What a piece of shit. How many more are hiding in positions of power, quietly ruining lives for no reason other than their irrational hatred.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Playing with moody filters. Rosslyn Chapel, Hampstead
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
It's always a good time to share this.
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Paul Connell @paulcconnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New anti racist badge dropped ✊🏼 shop.rnli.org/products/rs2...
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RNLI Flag Sparkly Badge
Support the lifesavers (and add a bit of sparkle to your outfit!) with this RNLI flag pin badge.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today is official Star Trek Day and the 60th anniversary since the first episode was broadcast on September 8th 1966
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
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Danny Nicholson @dannynic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When I hear someone say "water has memory" I have an uncontrollable urge to quote Tim Minchin back to them. "And if it's memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it."
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This very odd plate at the Wallace Collection
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Mark Burnley @drmarkburnley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Stewart Lee interview is as interesting as you think it should be. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
theguardian.com
‘I was miserable for a lot of this century’: Stewart Lee on divorce, his adoption and the twisted children’s poem that explains his life
After a rocky few decades, the standup is nearing 60 – and finding contentment at last. But what does his grotesque retelling of The Owl and the Pussy-cat tell us about his inability to connect with p...
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️
Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
She saved lives. Thats her legacy - in so many charities and purposes, Dolly Parton saved lives. She never hoarded anything. She came from poverty, and knew to care for community. She is fundamentally - and fortunately for all of us - the opposite of what we see today. She was the best of us.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
rollingstone.com
Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There should be a comma after Charles III or it looks like they're both facing extinction.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Always keep your guard up...
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Duck news! The best kind of news! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Local news is so cute. (Plus I may well have sat on that bench) www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/glouces...
gloucestershirelive.co.uk
Man who reviews UK benches finds his first 10/10 in Gloucestershire
The 'Rate This Bench' reviewer has never given full marks before
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
There was an angry ranty man in the street earlier, all incoherent except the word 'singularity' kept coming up. Did aliens implant an urgent message for us in his head?
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In the Guardian’s review of ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’, Lucy Mangan writes that the mother of a boy featured in the documentary “decides to keep him off the drugs”. In the end credit sequence of the programme, it says she put him back on the medication “after poor exam results”.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Will these be handed out to white British men too? The vast majority of attacks on, and abuse of, women and children are by white men. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet
The nine-page booklet covers issues including respect in public, sex and consent, and gender equality.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:
3d rendering of a geosmin molecule
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is not a new finding, it's been known for some time and should have been sorted by now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Emergency alert put domestic abuse victims at risk, campaigners say
The alert took many by surprise when it was sent to millions of phones on Friday night - but it may have also put vulnerable people at risk.
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Tom Hirons @hironstom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Golden light in Camden
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Fuck. Just ...fuck. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Booksellers are reporting mysterious bulk orders. It's thought the books are being used to train AI - and ending up pulped.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Both Mildmay and Windrush lines shut down last night, heat related. I don't know South London well and it turns out it's a really long way by bus from Vauxhall to New Cross. Sorry to the man on the 436 I talked at all the way.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 13/08/2026
Looking forward to the commentators and politicians who complain that too many kids go to university expressing disappointment that their own kids have got into university today.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Spoke to someone in the field and apparently this was the first eclipse grid operators have had to plan for, given the extent of solar capacity these days.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I did science with a hole in a bit of card and watched the sky weasel eat the golden biscuit.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you want to read something beautifully written, tender, smart and funny, I am currently loving Everything Will Swallow You by Tom Cox.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's a hell hound kind of day. Too hot for proper drawing.
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tessakendall.bsky.social @tessakendall.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I won't be watching the eclipse, I'll be too busy sacrificing goats to make the sky weasel cough up the sun it is trying to eat.
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Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.
A green, shiny bird wearing fluffy white trousers.
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