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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 4m

Thank you, it was very tasty. I'm always mildly surprised when cakes turn out more or less as they should.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 21m

Coffee and walnut is my favourite! We're out tomorrow but next Saturday, we're going to be making brownies.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 38m

I just noticed that you can kind of read Alex and Freddy’s t-shirts as part of the title lettering, which would make the full name of the book HOW TO MAKE AWESOME COMICS?!

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 25m

Fucking hell, sometimes I hate living here.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 30m

The NHS Guidance on trans people in hospital will protect zero women but will badly harm trans people. What a hateful disgrace and will be remembered by future generations as a stain on us all.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 29m

More cake shenanigans. It turned out well. It's felt like a long week but I'm going to be visiting my best mates tomorrow - it's been far too long.

A coffee and walnut cake and two slices of it in the foreground.

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@With1v @with1v.bsky.social · 3h

Connecting Wall. 4 groups of 4 are hidden in the grid. Only a FEW walls left. Send me your 4 groups plus a connection for each group. This is just for fun! There's no time limit but solutions will be revealed 6pm (UK time) each day. THERE ARE NO PRIZES! Here's grid No.350/365 The final countdown

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 22h

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 39m

A Few Dollars More For Tax Purposes

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 2h

Three Very Short Songs. (A little bit of very British humour for a Friday morning)

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 2h

"Aquelarre de Gatos Brujos" (Coven of Witch Cats) (2025) Art by Fer Martinez Goodnight Blue ones Stay witchy #SpookySeason #BlackCatAppreciationMonth #MenWithCats

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 16h

like let's start on humanizing marginalized people first

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 54m

Of course your surname isn't Muttering! I knew that, but seeing you had a full name was a bit of a surprise.

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Jack will show you to your room. I have given you the room in th @timescarcass.bsky.social · 12h

Also, Spiked is a lying reactionary propaganda rag, so...

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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social · 15h

Loki makes another contribution to our #BayeuxTapestry archiving project. It's going to be brimming with mischief... 😀🙌 Share your story at tinyurl.com/UoLTapestry, or post on here using #UoLTapestry (and giving your first name and postcode).

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 15h

With its own needs and desires

A calculator, turned upside down so that the number 5318008 looks similar enough to the word, "boobies" for the joke to work.

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 21h

Dear god, it's conscious!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I recently found out that my latest novel has been chosen by The Bookseller magazine as paperback of the year for 2026. To say it had an inauspicious start in life would be putting things mildly… tomcox.substack.com/p/how-a-nove...

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How A Novel Came Back From The Dead

A Story In 20 Photographs

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’d love to know what you all think of strange, Paganised versions of folk-Christianity. Where you have Jesus, but also fairies. Where God might answer a prayer to the Moon. Where the local vicar is also the Cunning Man. Because this seems to have been most people’s Christianity, for centuries.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Having recently revisited the Del Toro Hellsboy, I would love this.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

FUCK IT. Let's give away 2 more signed paperbacks of my latest novel. Repost/reply to enter! You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated. PS YOU GET A FREE LINOCUT OWL BOOKMARK TOO IF YOU WIN!

My latest novel , Everything Will Swallow You, next to the sea, where it it largely set.

psychedelic owl bookmarks made by my mum, Jo

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Loki is feeling salty on the anniversary of the battle of hastings #UoLTapestry

A four panel comic strip in a simple doodly style featuring Loki from the A Bad God's Guide series that I write and draw. He's getting increasingly angry about his omission from the tapestry.

PANEL ONE: Loki, drawn in a shade of red that recalls the tapestry itself, says, "I was actually at the Battle of Hastings".

PANEL TWO: Loki goes on to say, "But did they put me in the tapestry?"

PANEL THREE: Loki screws up his eyes and yells, "NO!"

PANEL FOUR: Loki, against the backdrop of a quickly drawn British museum with a queue outside, says, "I can't even get tickets to see it at the British Museum!"

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When questioned by our tapestrians, the fresh-from-hiding Norse god replied, “That’s a Baldur-faced lie.” before turning into a goose and waddling away.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Of all the guys who could’ve gotten the future right, why’d it have to be Frank Miller and why’d it have to be Give Me Liberty?

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Was the arrow made of mistletoe?

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

How to pay for parking.

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 14/10/2026

I love this so much, but also you MUST read the whole thread. Archive joy is some of the best joy!

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I was worried for a moment, but realised my daughter's recently turned ten.

Breaking news: a nine year old girl has disappeared after using moisturiser that makes you look ten years younger.

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sorting out the mess somebody else made of loading the dishwasher gives me a chance to put everything else in too.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A Hero? Wyth a Thousande Faces? Yn thys economye?

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thank you, these are some great tips.

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is a thread of hard-won tips and tricks for preventing the brain from falling over - or, at the very least, mitigating any falling over that may still occur, despite best efforts. Please do add yours to the list

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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If I offer pet portraits in this style for £60, would anyone want one? 🤔 Cheap for a bespoke little pet portrait but you got to frame it yourself, so.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If anyone else would like a free owl with a signed book (cover price £9.99) please drop me an email titled "PSYCHEDELIC OWL" at hello@tom-cox.com, letting me know where you'd like them both sent. Advisory: just UK. Overseas postage VERY expensive.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 14/10/2026

I know that timidity and outright cowardice are the defining characteristics of the UK Labour these days but maybe, just maybe, they might like to do something about politicians calling for the mass killings of refugees in the Channel. (They won't because "legitimate concerns" trump everything")

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/10/2026

I mean look at this. Slide 1: "technological benefits" vs "the environmental, social, societal, economic, democratic and ethical impacts for humans and the planet" call me a luddite but I'm struggling to see in what possible way the former could outweigh the *entire shopping list* of the latter.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No she hasn’t. I’m standing on it.

Flyer for an event: Mary Shelley's Hidden Scotland.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Well, over all the controversy, at least the Norman conquest of England is settled. I wonder what's in the newspaper today... Oh.

Death notice for Harold Godwinson in a recent newspaper.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Marc Haynes’ story: As a 7 year old in about 1983, … I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore Sitting at the departure gate, ... told my granddad i'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. …so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and signs the back of my plane ticket... I'm ecstatic, but …I glance down at the signature. … it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. ...I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, … so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore...
"he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. …he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone …and thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said.
I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now. Many years later, I was working on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him the story. He …had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely. And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Dating tip: Trying to ingratiate yourself to her parents by saying "This must be your sister?" only works if you say it about her mum.

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So sad. Charity shopping is one of the joys of my life. I buy a lot - and donate a lot (I never sell online): all part of the circular beauty. Beyond the charities they fund, these shops are keeping many high streets alive. Please support your local charity shop! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

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‘People sell their best stuff on Vinted’ – how charity shops became a dumping ground for unsellable clothes

Swamped with ‘daily avalanches’ of soiled items and poor-quality fast fashion, secondhand stores are in crisis. What went wrong with people’s good intentions? And is it possible to donate more effecti...

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Damnit! "...*off* the top of my head..."

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Tim Hardy @timbobaggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ellis Peters, PD James, Ruth Rendell - just three female authors, of the top of my head, who I loved growing up. And Anne Rice and Patricia Cornwell a little bit later on...

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wow!!! What a Fabulous birthday card!! So happy to get this. I am so happy to connect with so many people who grew up watching Mr Benn. He was the best, wasn't he?

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