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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🦔 Do you have a hedgehog visiting your garden? Sadly, hedgehogs are facing increasing challenges, but there are simple things we can all do to give them a helping hand 🧡 Our blog will help you make your garden a hedgehog haven 👉️ buff.ly/1mwvioN #Hedgehogs #HedgehogFriendly #GardenWildlife

Small hedgehog peering out from leaf litter and tree roots, snout and dark eyes visible as it shelters on the forest floor. Credit: Anne-Marie Klaus/WTML

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

periodic reminder: I want to hear about your 2026/2027 horror/horror-adjacent books so I can include them on my huge running new releases list! tell me about them here: forms.gle/BBYwJCtziLkR...

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2026/2027 Horror Master List Book Submissions

Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/08/2026

god if you'd told me that one day I'd witness people coming out of shops to take a proper look at the rain falling out of the sky, in ENGLAND

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 17/08/2026

can we just accept this summer is shit and have another one when it's nicer

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Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wow, this really sucks. Seems to be especially an issue in their TV shows.

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Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

4 days and less than £400 to go! if you’ve been waiting for dramatic purposes now’s the time to make your move 👇

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day to all the papas out there. May you be as joyful as my father looks with two starlings perched upon his head. Miss you, Dad. ❤️

Terry Pratchett, dressed in a black coat and black bowler hat, laughing as two starlings perch on his head.

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 07/06/2026

People in the UK who care about the rights of creators to try to make a living from their work, here's a petition to parliament. Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data. Please sign and share widely. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

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Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you’ve seen Backrooms and want to spend more time behind the rooms of the world, then May I humbly suggest grabbing a copy of Crawl Space journalstone.com/bookstore/cr...

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Crawl Space - JournalStone

CRAWL SPACE “Steve Toase is an immensely skilled storyteller” –Laura Mauro, British Fantasy Award-winning author of Sing Your Sadness Deep While recording abandoned vacuum postal systems in a small G...

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

thank you Anthony Stewart Head - we’re gonna miss you dude. youtu.be/IKgVln8XmuE?...

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Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Tribute Show 2006 - Anthony Head

YouTube video by Groucho226458

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Jen (they/them) says Free Link @knifeboots.xyz · 05/06/2026

One of Anthony Head's lesser-known roles was a guest role on the BBC Radio comedy Cabin Pressure, where he played smooth-talking airline pilot Hercules Shipwright. I highly recommend checking out this show. Here's a clip from the episode "Rotterdam". youtu.be/pvNtxmcqyFc

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Cabin Pressure s3 - Rotterdam

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Cabin Pressure is honestly one of the best British sitcoms of the 21st Century so far - if you haven't heard any of it yet, treat yerself

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Such awful, awful news. Marjane Satrapi, the author of the four volumes of "Persepolis", one of the greatest of all graphic novels, has "died of sadness" at the age of 56, one year after the death of her beloved husband Mattias Ripa.

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Vanessa (Ness) Thompsett @thixotropic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Those paws! He really has become a king of kings 😍

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I've spent hours today worrying because he was nowhere to be found. Then Peter found him. Fast asleep in a sink.

Smug looking grey cat, who is impervious to the anxiety he had caused.

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Vanessa (Ness) Thompsett @thixotropic.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Went to see 'The Sheep Detectives' and, I confess, I wasn't ready to be quite so emotionally compromised by a silly whodunnit. Cried at least three times ❤️

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Galapagos Octopus O what a Joye to us! Galapagos Octopus Do what you do! Raucous and Bumptious, Galapagos Octopus! Azure and Splendorous -- Tinye and blue!

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Fuss @fusspot.rip · 20/05/2026

If you were looking for an extra-good reason to go to the small bookshops still clinging to life in the margins where you live, here it is.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 01/05/2026

A blessed Beltane to you all! May your summer be full of warmth and growth and may you be fairly compensated for your labour. Up the May!

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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Becky Pinnington @beckypinnington.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I've spent the past three weeks speaking to residents on a housing estate in Richmond. In February they were told that because the Renters' Rights Act is coming in, their landlord was going to have to raise the rent. The smallest increase I've seen is about £500. The largest is £800.

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Dan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 01/03/2026

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day Here’s to Cymru! The nation’s language, traditions, culture, and the heritage that connects us. From dragons to daffodils, Wales’ story is told through the places we look after. Photos: Powis Castle, Bodnant Gardens, Dyffryn Gardens, Chirk Castle.

Powis Castle stands talll on top of a hill, daffodils grow in the garden below

The house at Bodnant Garden viewed across a large expanse of grass with daffodils blooming

Dyfryn Gardens with the house and daffodils bathed in sunshine

A child is stood on top of hay bales with the Welsh flag placed in them

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My cats are totally fine but I've read about some devastating losses for others today. Hold your kitties. Celebrate them. Soak up every moment because our time with them is far too short. 💔

Black and white photo of a white woman in a dark checkered coat, smiling at the camera and pointing to the beautiful medium haired tabby cat she cradles in her arms. The cat also looks at the camera.

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

One of my favourite things about my dad and I is that I'll show him videos like this and he'll be like "wouldn't that be a glorious pet" "yeah" "absolutely terrible beast to have in the house though" "absolutely" "we'd regret it" "totally" *pause* "Still want one" "Me too"

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

A new series of the Kitchen Cabinet kicks off at 10.30am on BBC Radio 4, the start of an (almost) unbroken 13 week run, and we begin at Zoe Lauglin’s institute of Making at UCL. Here she is with a display of her TKC experiments.

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Vanessa (Ness) Thompsett @thixotropic.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Someone's added flags for peace and pride to one of the Oxford roundabout lampposts 🥰

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 01/02/2026

"What's your proposed business model?" "Oh, I figured we'd catch people at the absolutely most despairing, lonely, vulnerable and deranged point in their life, and monetise the fuck out of protracting that state. Using AI." "I'm in."

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Happy #NationalHedgehogDay 🥺 This little Egyptian faience model of a hedgehog is from a tomb at Abydos, and was made around 1,500–1,300 BCE. Hedgehogs had a favourable reputation in ancient Egypt, and were often seen as a symbol of rebirth and renewal of life.

An ancient Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog blue in colour with dark blue or black bumps to represent the spikes

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS: Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring. Here's a weird starting point: There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr. Cats that roar = genus Panthera Cats that purr = genus Felis

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Vanessa (Ness) Thompsett @thixotropic.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Went to see 'Mercy' the other evening and, yeah, it was a decent action-thriller movie with sci-fi and the element of a protagonist who's mostly sitting down, great soundtrack, liked it, would watch again, etc. However. Couldn't get "He's NOT Judge Judy and executioner!" out of my head, could I.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 25/01/2026

Badger, from Bodger & Badger (a puppet badger), with a speech bubble to make it look like he’s saying the post below

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

that inkradio guy is such an annoying guy, he does this loads and does it SHAMELESSLY. awful character

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We have an update on Charlie’s newfound love of printing.

Charlie the orange cat lying on his side next to a black laser printer looking innocent while of paper are spilling out of the printer onto the floor.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 12/01/2026

Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Inside this isolated rural church is a magnificent and potentially unique medieval treasure. This is St Peulan's, Llanbeulan on Anglesey, which was founded in the 7th century. 1/8

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Vanessa (Ness) Thompsett @thixotropic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

2026 thread of books read - I've missed doing this the last few years, so starting it up again :) 1. 'The Chrysalids', John Wyndham.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

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Awkward Egg @sleepwalkingdog.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 21/12/2025

‘Ask any curator, particularly if they work in an old building, and they often have strange stories to tell.’ And none more than M.R. James who drew deeply on his work as a medievalist and as director of the Fitzwilliam Museum for his ghostly tales, writes @cjfaraday.bsky.social

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The ghostly world of M.R. James

Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects, writes Christina J. Faraday

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?

Grey fluffy cat fast asleep in a basin on his back, legs in the air.

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