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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rats are capable of complex problem-solving, they can use tools, and they will actively choose to rescue a trapped companion even if it means sacrificing food for themselves. They communicate through ultrasonic giggles when happy, and experience deep bonds with their family units.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They're not vermin, and they're not pests either. Rats are empathetic, highly intelligent animals who possess social dynamics surprisingly similar to our own.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, I’ve just remembered, the mate who worked on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium also said Blessed would come in and say he was GOING TO MARS WITH NASA, and she’d say “Oh, when are you doing that, Brian?” And the reply would be something like “NEXT MONTH!”

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have a crap anecdote about not meeting Blessed, and fuck it, here it is (with a clarification: Hildegard Neil was not at school with my mother but a friend of my Dad’s for a while apparently)

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No, sorry, that hasn’t quite done it. I’ll try again

Happy 90th birthday, Brian Blessed, in big letters

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy 90th birthday, Brian Blessed Sorry, that should read: HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, BRIAN BLESSED

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Norwich Apex's ecologist says wildlife by Marston Marshes is "habituated" to light. Yet its own landscape report says there's little light there now and the data centre would have a "major-moderate adverse" night-time effect. At the same time, no bat surveys were done. Which is it?

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, then... happy 363rd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, in which the saga of his constipation continues

9th. And did keep my bed most of this morning, my body I find being still bound and little wind, and so my pain returned again, though not so bad, but keeping my body with warm clothes very hot I made shift to endure it, and at noon sent word to Mr. Hollyard of my condition, that I could neither have a natural stool nor break wind, and by that means still in pain and fre-quent offering to make water. So he sent me two bottles of drink and some syrup, one bottle to take now and the other tomorrow morning. So in the evening, after Commissioner Pett, who came to visit me, and was going to Chatham, but methinks do talk to me in quite another manner, doubtfully and shyly, and like a stranger, to what he did heretofore. After I saw he was gone I did drink one of them, but it was a most loathsome draught, and did keep myself warm after it, and had that afternoon still a stool or two, but in no plenty, nor any wind almost carried away, and so to bed. In no great pain, but do not think myself likely to be well till I have a freedom of stool and wind. Most of this day and afternoon my wife and I did spend together in setting things now up and in order in her closet, which indeed is, and will be, when I can get her some more things to put in it, a very pleasant place, and is at present very pretty, and such as she, I hope, will find great content in. So to bed.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

Also contains this image. She “loathes” being called a national treasure, but she is a blessing on us

Judi Dench posing with a lot of shredded paper on her head. Caption: "Whenever a parcel arrives, I can never resist fashioning a new hat from the packaging"

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

Judi Dench on working with Frances Barber

As for Frankie's gift ... The play, among other things, is a discussion about unconventional sexual acts and so Frankie Barber, as a first-night present, bought me a double-ended dildo. It was about two metres long and all bendy - you could wear it as a scarf, which I did once when the company gathered for director's notes. But I had no idea where to keep it. I couldn't take it home, where my young grandson often came to stay, so in the end I hung it over Diana Rigg's portrait in my dressing room. My reasoning being that any visitors would be so arrested by the beautiful image of Diana, they wouldn't notice this massive penis dangling down each side of the frame.
But then one day I knew the cleaner had spotted it because when I arrived in my dressing room for that evening's performance, it was coiled up on my make-up table like a Cumberland sausage.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 22h

Check out the local petition here: www.change.org/p/menai-data...

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Sign the Petition

Menai Data Centre - SAY NO!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 22h

They will be protesting tomorrow in Caernarfon, starting at the town square at 11am. A local petition has gathered over 22,000 signatures.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 22h

The Menai data centre will have devastating impacts on local wildlife including destroying a colony of gulls as well as a bat and barn owl roost. It is right next to the beautiful menai strait. Local people are saying no.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 22h

[1979] M - Unusual Top of The Pops performance of "Pop Music", introduced by Peter Powell and Kid Jensen.

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 21h

The “Beats off” Chronicles day one hundred and fifty-four: Just your everyday goings-on in Celebrity Land.

Megan Barton Hanson beats off smutty James Arthur and bonds with Amy Schumer.

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Peter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 21h

Toiletry or existential plea?

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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He’s now a local tourist attraction.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 20h

The Two Ronnies (9th October 1976). The hunt for the Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town continues.

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 19h

TAKE CARE WITH CIGARETTES (1982): Doom-laden PIF about one woman's final bedtime. And the cat's too, unless it got lucky.

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Basically: Brian Blessed doesn’t put *that* on when on camera. He’s genuinely unhinged and has his CAPS LOCK PERMANENTLY ON And hurrah for that

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

One day, her very prim mother came to see the show and went backstage. Met Blessed. SHE’S DOING A MARVELLOUS JOB EVEN THOUGH I’M A FUCKING NIGHTMARE HAHAHAHAHA Yes, Brian, she’s my *mother*? BLESS HER SHE TRIES TO KEEP ME UNDER CONTROL BUT I’M AN ABSOLUTE CUNT

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

So one of my friend’s tasks was to intercept him and explain that they had carefully sourced/manufactured props that looked like they belonged in the period setting, and Blessed would say OF COURSE OF COURSE I QUITE UNDERSTAND IT WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN and he’d be back the next day with Buzz Lightyear

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

I have another Brian Blessed story, which is second hand, but… a friend of mine worked on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium, in which BB played Baron Bomburst. Apparently, he kept buying extra props from Hamleys on his way in to the theatre…

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

So, that was my crap anecdote, which was still better than this Anyway, Teenager 1 has just come in and said “Is this the closing ceremony? Oh. They opened gay and closed straight. Boring”, and I think that really is the last word on it

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

And I would have spent years afterwards either (a) nervously asking my mother “are we ever going back to that house with the madman in who bellowed so loud I shat myself?”, or (b) wanting to go back to the house where the huge man who taught me to say ‘fuck’ lived

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

I told my best mate this clearly terrible anecdote once, and we agreed that if Blessed had been at home at the time, (1) I would absolutely have been allowed to play with the balloon, and (2) one of two other scenarios would have happened

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

My mum went to school with someone called Hildegard Neil, who somehow managed to be married to Brian Blessed for 45 years, despite not being profoundly deaf. So, one day we went there and the only thing I remember is there was a big balloon behind the telly that I wasn’t allowed to play with

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Seeing as this ceremony isn’t *entirely* gripping, this has reminded me that I went to Brian Blessed’s house when I was about seven. It’s one of those crap-claim-to-fame stories, because he wasn’t there, but I shall tell you anyway because [see opening phrase]

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 20h

It shows many similarities with the coat of arms of Death in Hans Holbein's famous 'Dance of Death' series'. What would your Halloween coat of arms include?

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 20h

It also includes a wide selection of fictitious arms of legendary figures, including this full-page allegorical representation of the arms of Death. The arms are supported by a skeleton and a female figure, surmounted by a helm, hourglass and clock as crest, over which two arm bones hold a rock.

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 20h

Is there a coat of arms more suited to the Halloween season than this one?! This image comes from a German manuscript made up of a collection of coats of arms which relate mainly to the Holy Roman Empire. It was probably written in southwest Germany or Switzerland, around the early 16th century.

Full-page allegorical representation of the arms of Death. The arms are supported by a skeleton and a female figure, surmounted by a helm, hourglass and clock as crest, over which two arm bones hold a rock.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 17h

Multiple other catapult attacks have targeted ducks and other birds over the past few years, leaving orphans across the country. Please sign the government petition, demanding that catapult crime on wildlife becomes a standalone criminal offence. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

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Petition: Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence

Introduce legislation in England to make it a specific, standalone criminal offence to intentionally or recklessly use, discharge or attempt to discharge a catapult or slingshot at or towards any…

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 17h

In 2024, these ducklings successfully hatched after their mother was killed in a catapult attack in Kent. Despite being found stone cold and splashed with blood, the eggs were rescued by Columbines Wildlife Care.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 17h

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear - Part Two (9th October 1976). "Goodbye. And kiss the children for me, will you?"

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 20h

🎄 FREE CHRISTMAS LIVE STREAM! 🎁 Christopher Eccleston and Carole Ann Ford star in a seasonal spectacular, The Ninth Doctor Adventures: The Wash to be streamed live on the official Doctor Who YouTube channel this December. Click bgfn.sh/washls to find out more.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 19h

Thousands of chicks killed. Decades of suffering. It’s time we showed Gannets the compassion they deserve and ban the Guga hunt for good.

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 15h

Its interesting to see that cruel and abusive behaviour towards AI is taken more seriously than that directed at real life individuals

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 22h

In the 1985 Doctor Who serial Vengeance on Varos, an authoritarian regime run by a weak man keeps the downtrodden population in line by broadcasting public executions to distract from the fact that it has tanked the economy through a combination of incompetence, arrogance and institutional cruelty.

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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 13h

"Your manner appeals only to the homicidal side of my nature..." "Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet" part 2 (1978). #DoctorWho

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 15h

Petrichor [PET-rih-kor] (n.) - The pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. Use: "The petrichor of a sudden summer shower, mingled with the golden light of the setting sun, transported me straight back to my boyhood on an Iowa farm.”

A "Grandiloquent Word of the Day" meme featuring “Petrichor,” defined as the pleasant smell accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. On the right, a black-and-white illustration depicts two figures caught in a heavy rainstorm, shielding their faces beneath their hats. On the left, ornate typography presents the word, its pronunciation, definition, and an example sentence recalling a summer shower and childhood on an Iowa farm.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 14h

They're called a nuisance just for adapting to the habitat we forced upon them. Give us a follow if you agree that ALL wildlife deserves love!

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 19h

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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