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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 9h

You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.

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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

About a year ago I dug into the story of James Shearer, a corporal in a field hospital in WWI who thought he'd invented a revolutionary new medical device. He hadn't. But ... things got a little out of hand. Finally wrote it up: www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2026/ja...

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James Shearer and the “delineator” – Andrew Gray

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it is now WEEKEND for me, hurrah. i am feeling very Done and very like i need a nap and maybe a snack.

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Jennifer Matarese @trollprincess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the first fifteen minutes of every episode of @disasterarea.bsky.social I've ever done about a building fire that killed 100-300 people.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026

This concept is still occupying my brain, btw. Over lunch I have concluded: a) he's an assassin who uses a thin high-tensile wire retractable skipping rope as combined nunchucks/garotte/bolas b) I want Blumineck to play him in the surely inevitable hit TV show.

Searle drawing of fotherington tomas, a small weedy curly haired schoolboy, skipping

the athlete/pole dancer/arrow bard Blumineck, drawing a bow while holding himself on a pole by his legs

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The dudes shouting on this train are sure explaining the "you're going WHERE?" face on the guy who sold me the tickets

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Never hit subscribe so fast in my life omg

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

– good lord, Parikian, what on earth is that? – well, sir, it’s rather complicated – yes, I can see – it’s an arboreal conglomeration of small Spanish dishes such as you might find in a slow-moving creek or stream – oh fuck – yes, it’s my… – please don’t – bayou tapas tree – get out

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

this does NOT need to go as hard as it does

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

if you have Conclave feelings, you really wanna read this omg

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

there are many serious reasons to follow scientists on here but also for “it glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks”

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

omg omg omg half of fandom circa 2004 just shrieked in unison

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a genuinely incredible piece.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Re last RT: For real, why on earth does anyone think we need evil capitalist apologia... OHHHH yup that's why. Good grief.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Victorian author: In my book I invented Ebenezer Scrooge as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created— Sci-Fi Author: Told you, Chuck.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

mine was my sister, who was young at the time, earnestly telling the my dad and me that "Princess Anne's dead!"

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

my fave thing about this is realising this must be what the Coldstream Guards practice just for fun and they finally got to bust it out. incredible.

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

no one has ever had, or will ever have, a better creative day than Dolly Parton writing Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Damn, most people will be doing well if we manage to bring even a billionth of the joy into the world that Dolly Parton did. Wherever she is now, it had better be great.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton passed. I was a fan of her music, but also a fan of her as a person. Particularly her kindness. And her work on literacy. And her stance on vaccination. And animal rights. And... She used her powers for good. She wasn't perfect, but she damn sure tried to be. RIP, Dolly.

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Sweet Cháa: Playful Sip

Alt: Dolly Parton sipping tea

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Andrew @generalising.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some former colleagues of mine did this, and then discovered they had forgotten to enquire about the seal's holiday plans.

When the elephant seal was tagged on Signy Island, it was hoped that this animal would range deeply into the ice-covered Weddell Sea in winter, thereby providing data from a region inaccessible to ships and from which very few hydrographic measurements have been collected. Unfortunately, the specific elephant seal that was tagged (Fig. 2) was not quite the enthusiastic adventurer that we had hoped for, choosing instead to spend the following months very close to the South Orkneys, and venturing only briefly beyond the shelf slope adjacent to these islands. This behaviour seems to

A very fat and happy seal with a transmitter on its head, "not the intrepid adventurer that we had hoped for"

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/08/2026

#OtD 22 Aug 1893 Dorothy Parker, US writer and victim of Hollywood blacklisting, was born. Radicalised by the executions of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, she later founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and helped Spanish civil war orphans. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9447...

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good news: I have found a proper fun karaoke place near me! Bad news: it does a VERY good offer on free drinks including my personal favourites

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love this person so much, such goals

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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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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I just started Baldurs Gate 3, unless my friends are there too i am toast within... three, maybe four minutes?

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

i am British and i assumed the fact that i can only sing it was part of that (and possibly @justip.bsky.social 's fault?), quite reassured that this appears to be a general thing!

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today i saw a nearly total partial eclipse, while in a lake with 16 of my best people. There isnt much better than that.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 12/08/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: All our sundials will be out of order this evening between about 6pm and 8pm, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Normal service will resume tomorrow. In unrelated news, enjoy the eclipse later... Photos: Mike Selby, Annapurna Mellor, Chris Davies, John Millar

A wall-mounted sundial inside a walled garden. Text on the sundial reads: "fear god, obey ye king"

A traditional sundial on a plinth, formal gardens surround it

The sun beams down on a traditional sundial, with heather visible in the background

A shot of a sundial from above. It's mounted on a stone plinth. Text on the side reads "KEW BRIDGE"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

still feel this way about pi tbh

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i don't know why this makes me as happy as it does, but it really really does

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I also would enjoy this! Book recs welcome!

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I'm weirdly happy People decided to publish this article. this lady got very close to the peak and decided to turn back because she wasn't totally confident in her technical ability. That's praiseworthy wisdom, and a good example for others. share.google/d8Xi4aZ8aKkW...

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Hiker Forced to Make Impossible Decision Just 405 Feet from Grand Teton’s Summit. Now She’s Issuing a Warning to Fellow Climbers (Exclusive)

After stopping just 405 feet below Grand Teton’s summit, a 25-year-old climber whose emotional TikTok struck a chord with millions tells PEOPLE why she chose safety over the summit and why she’d make ...

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Okay one more odyssey post. Really loved the movie. But I for one am willing to stop rescuing Matt Damon. At some point we’re just going to have to collectively agree that if Matt Damon gets lost again we just have to let him go.

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Reading SERVUS by @emmasouthon.bsky.social and damn, is this a good book. The most compelling history I've read in ages. And somehow fun even while being very clear it is talking about terrible atrocities on a huge scale?!

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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

do you need Shetland fic with big swoony feelings and also daemons and witches? I THINK YOU DO.

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