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I accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant?

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explore.org @explore.org · 27/09/2026

Jolly and her Jollies - cuddle puddle.

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explore.org @explore.org · 13h

Introducing your ultimate fighter and champion: Bear 89 Backpack 👑 Thanks for joining us for the biggest Fat Bear Week to date.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 4h

They should come on Bluesky and get most of the FT for free

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Nicolas Berrod @nicolasberrod.bsky.social · 6h

🥵❗ 22,3 °C de température moyenne en France : la journée d'hier a été, à l'échelle nationale, la plus chaude pour une troisième décade de septembre depuis au moins un siècle. Graphique @infoclimat.fr

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 8h

Powell also had a great Magritte-like moment with a floating bowler hat in a snake charmer’s tent! You can watch the sequence here youtu.be/xl0dc5cB-8w?...

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🦔 ErinaceusFrance @erinaceus.fr · 8h

Cet après-midi réunion avec Île-de-France Nature pour apporter notre humble contribution à un projet européen d’observation des déplacements de la petite faune et notamment des hérissons sur le territoire d’Est Ensemble. Les hérissons comptent !

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Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social · 22h

My latest Substack article examines the Georgian origins of tartan as a fashion staple...and of course I had to talk about the Duchess of Gordon! #history #scottishhistory When Did Tartan Become a Fashion Must-Have? historicallybrunette.substack.com/p/when-did-t...

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When Did Tartan Become a Fashion Must-Have?

Time for some Scottish fashion history

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 21h

Having a nice time - saw lots of bears.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 21h

Some observations on the symbolism of successive designs for the Schuman roundabout. The latest was the most ambitious by far. It was orphaned by personnel changes and mostly symbolises impotent disappointment. bsky.app/profile/good...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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🍺Donald Clarke 🎥 @donaldclarke.bsky.social · 22h

DIGGER is utterly insufferable. (How long before — as with DON’T LOOK UP — supporters associate bad reviews with climate change denial) Digger review: Tom Cruise can’t be faulted for effort. But it’s still wasted www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

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Digger review: Tom Cruise can’t be faulted for effort. But it’s still wasted

Cruise throws everything at a character that offers not an iota of nuance

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes, I fell for the "Got your nose" trick, but that shouldn't distract us from the real issue of nose theft in our society

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22h

‘Anthony Burgess may have incubated various germs of guilt but he was definitively without shame. He seemed to take every opportunity to stress his brisk indifference to literary norms.’ Ian Penman on the writer, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south

For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/09/2026

‘Her sharp and nuanced descriptions of eating, preparing and shopping for meals are psychologically and socially revealing, but remarks like “an éclair or two promotes clear thinking” are also their own reward.’ Kasia Boddy on the novels of Laurie Colwin. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Kasia Boddy · Where to Put Your Husband: Laurie Colwin’s Concerns

‘What people eat and how they serve it’ fascinated Colwin, and not only because (as she once noted) she’d learned...

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pascale Ogier et Jacques Derrida au café Le Select à Paris. © Ken McMullen, 1983

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Weaving Bear @smithy63.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I first saw this sign in Antwerpen I thought the hospital offered a monster service (dienst). Calmed down considerably when I worked out it was the sample department @mooseallain.bsky.social

A sign reading monsterdienst at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerpen. It translates to 'sample servide'

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FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 29/09/2026

Jacques Testard is transforming our reading habits, one blue book at a time: ft.trib.al/eGw7FZj

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the literal truth of it is that, even if Anthropic had been able to work out how to annihilate humanity, the compute would cost too much to actually do it bsky.app/profile/pick...

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Either this is true, in which case *what are we doing here*? Shut it down. Or it's bullshit, in which case these are truly silly people unworthy of our money

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/09/2026

I don't mean to brag, but this is one of the best videos I have ever taken, feat. @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to take this video back to 1985 show it to someone and tell them 'this is TV now'

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In two weeks, Russell Brand goes on trial in the UK on rape and sexual assault charges in cases involving six women. Tomorrow in DC, he's appearing at a MAHA gathering to 'moderate' a discussion with Dr Oz about medicare and medicaid. What the hell?

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Les ourses à plumes @oursesaplumes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bonjour à toustes, les Ourses à plumes débarquent sur Bluesky à l'occasion du lancement des précommandes pour le prochain numéro papier! Donnez nous de la force 🫶🏻

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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They escaped their basket Yes YES The snails are out

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is in Copilot, the least sexy chatbot imaginable, and one of the less popular ones, even though it’s packed into Windows. ChatGPT logs have to be a total cesspool

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Note for Americans, “fly-tipping” is *not* cow-tipping on a much smaller scale.

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Royal Observatory of Belgium @orb-ksb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🪙 Le 25 septembre 2026, le SPF Finances a présenté une pièce belge de #2euros en l’honneur des 50 ans de l’Institut Géographique National 🌍 et des 200 ans de l’Observatoire royal de Belgique. www.astro.oma.be/fr/...