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Melinda Beatty @melindabeatty.com · 15h

Bear with me, this is a doozy, #kidlit folks. Censorship is alive, even in blue states.

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 10h

I can't make this unfortunately but you should go!

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 19h

Last of the forgotten line.

An overgrown railway line taking a smooth curve out of sight. It is framed by trees, and the line itself is finally free of the undergrowth, running as clear as a newspaper headline, before once again succumbing to a gobbledegook of bracken.

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 10h

The toilets in here are so far away they've put a sofa half way in case you need a breather 🗺️🧭

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Derelict factory awaiting demolition, Stoke-on-Trent, from my new series ‘50 Years On’.

Black and white photo of a collapsed wall leading to a derelict building with the ground covered with rubble and litter

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 11h

Sitting in Wagamama and just happened to look up and out the window to see the keyboard player of the band we're about to see passing by 😂

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 29/09/2026

Hey US friends! Want to read a novel that's kinda Nigerian John Wick meets Arrival by way of The Three Body Problem, Or what you'd get if Carl Sagan's Contact and Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai had a very African baby? I've got you. Win a free copy here: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Fist of Memory by Wole Talabi Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Sep 26-Oct 26, 2026. We're giving away 10 copies of a unique and philosophical sci-fi t...

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here are some lovely Icelandic horses in the snow :) #Iceland #Horses #AwesomeFoursome

Blonde and red horse (not the technical name for the colour). Very white mane blowing in the wind with some soft light coming in from the right. Snow behind.

Brown and red horses with snow on them and snow visibly falling on them.

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Kit Walker @inferiorwit.at.app.wafrn.net · 28/09/2026

preorders are up for the next story in The Casefile of Jay Moriarty! books2read.com/b/bQMVG0

Book cover for "The Safecrackers' Take" by Kit Walker

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's the cover of Leap of Faith, out on Thursday! I seem to have managed to set up pre-orders, so if a low-heat sapphic short story set in a Welsh animal sanctuary with a recalcitrant pig is your thing, I have you covered! books2read.com/leapoffaithlester

A dark green book cover with the silhouette of two leaping hares. Text reads 'Leap of Faith by A L Lester, A Sapphic Short Story.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I saw this sign posted on Tumblr and thought "is that a chainsaw, or is it in fact an extremely hardcore duck?"

A photo of a sign that indicates "no chainsaws allowed", made from a stylized image of a chainsaw surrounded by a red circle with a diagonal line through it. The photo was taken by the person who runs the qualitysigns.tumblr.com blog in Doncaster, UK, in 2025.

A picture of a duck by me. The duck's head is shaped like the chainsaw from the sign in the previous image and the rest of the duck is spiky and studded to match. The caption says "chainsaw duck".

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Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

new newsletter is here! tashasuri.beehiiv.com shiny fresh updates will come out tomorrow

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Home | the flower house

news and updates from author tasha suri

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Pitt Rivers museum is a museum of Anthropology in the U.K. "digital heritage researcher Chanel Coromandel, master weaver Hamuera Manihera & cultural interpretation expert Paora Tibble have been selected as the inaugural Te Māori Fellows at Pitt Rivers Museum, " www.facebook.com/share/p/1GBL...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Appear in the crowd of It's a Superpower! Have a character named after you or your pet! (my S2 character is currently unnamed - I could be named after your goldfish) But mostly If you liked S1, oh boy, I know a lot of what's happening in S2 & it's great! Magic! Romance! Fizzy Lasagne (possibly)

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ready to cheer on Scotland women against Australia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #AsOne

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Legion of the Lambed 🐑 Guarding the earthworks of Maiden Castle hillfort #Dorset today *You shall not Baaaaaasss*

Sheep patrol the ramparts of a grassy hillfort ditch

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am super lucky - partner's colleague brought these mooncakes for me specifically because I had been enthusiastic about how nice they were before 😋

Two mooncakes in a box. One small and white and the other larger and brown with the decorations more visible

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Scottish context is different, but: I began considering ADHD as a thing in 2014, started seeking help from my GP in 2019 and didn’t get *~officially~* put on a waiting list until 2021. It is now 2026. You simply have to live as if you’re not getting help. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3

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Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

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We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 25/09/2026

This is the thing that gets me about that report. I applied for my autism diagnosis in 2015, got it in 2019. Put in for NHS ADHD diagnosis in 2019, still on the waiting list (went private in 2024). There's already functionally no diagnosis.

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Kirsty Isla Thomas @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Folks - Category Is Books has had another window smashed in - please donate if you can!! This is an amazing queer bookshop and community hub in Glasgow, we need to support these spaces more than ever just now!

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Dallas Zoo & Fort Worth Zoo, both wonderful programs, are working with Texas Parks & Wildlife to restore wild populations of Texas horned lizards (Phrynosoma cornutum) via zoo breed & release programs. 2026 is already a RECORD year: > 1000 lizards released, with documented wild-born babies.

A gloved human hand holds a round plastic container like you might put a salad in, but there are teeny-tiny horned lizards all alert looking and fierce inside.

"Aaand off they go!
Yesterday, 116 Texas horned lizards started their exciting journey to be released into the wild. Our team has worked tirelessly since their hatching to ensure these little ones are fully prepped and ready for this big moment. Stay tuned for more details on their release!
Our Texas horned lizard conservation program is a collaborative effort with Texas Parks and Wildlife, Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation, and several of our dedicated zoo partners."

An adult horned toad sitting in sandy dirt in West Texas, with a mix of native shrubs and non-native grasses in the background. They're well camouflaged against the red-brown dirt, covered in spikes and watch the camera warily.
CREDIT: Dallas Zoo

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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…

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Official Derptiles @derptiles.art · 23/09/2026

Its the adorable silky anteater! These guys are small arboreal anteaters found in Southern Mexico down through the upper half of South America

My illustration of a silky anteater sitting in the branches.

A photo of a real silky anteater hanging off a person’s thumb

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Gorbals Vampire day 🧛

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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every year we mark Bi Visibility day on the 23rd of September, to celebrate the wonderful diversity of the bi+ community, and challenge the stigma and erasure that bi+ people can face both within, and outwith, the LGBTQI+ community.

Graphic with a pink to blue gradient background. In the centre there is a picture of a button badge, it has a black background and says "BISEXUAL PRIDE!" on top of two overlapping pink and blue triangles. Below it says "Happy Bi Visibility day!". The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are at the bottom.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This from the parent company on Tapas being shut down. How do you do, fellow low-margin IP utilization engines?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21/09/2026

.@tashasuri.bsky.social 's ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, which is just a masterpiece on stories, fairytales, the Matter of Britain, collapsing colonial empires, immigration and queer loves that aren't doomed to be tragic.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/09/2026

“I found more than 30 anonymous poems. So many of them immediately struck me as being by women, about female themes, & written in a female voice. And I certainly wasn’t expecting to find lesbian love poetry” —Marie Matland’s 16th-century Scottish sapphic verse thecoldmagazine.co.uk/theatre-lite...

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Step aside, Sappho! Meet the Scottish lesbian poet hiding in a 500-year-old manuscript

Explore the life of Marie Maitland, a pioneering Scottish poet of the 1500s who defied societal norms and embraced her identity.

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Came across these little goobers and I adore them. They're replicas of misericord carvings from the Lincoln Cathedral in England

A knight, seemingly sneaking about with his sword and shield at the ready.

A monk in the fetal position, apparently giggling.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass. It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots. This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The amazing “Elk’s Head of Huittinen” comes from a Mesolithic settlement in southern Finland, dating to around 6100 BC. The ~10 cm long steatite (soapstone) head was carefully ground and finished and features a shaft hole for mounting. Because the stone is soft, it is unlikely...🧵1/3 📷 me

A close-up photograph of a grayish-brow stone sculpture of an elk head, shown diagonally against a black background. The elongated muzzle points toward the lower right, with rounded antler-like forms rising at the top.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.

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El @unevendays.northsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today's rugby: Scotland Vs the Black Ferns (world #2). Already going pretty badly, but Scotland kicked for territory in the first few mins into the hands of the Ferns and you just can't gift them the ball like that, they're going to storm off down the pitch and score with it!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Kākāpō numbers pass 300 for the first time in 75 years. New Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal parrot now totals 325 birds, after a record 90 chicks fledged this season, built on the Department of Conservation’s recovery programme, which started with just 51 birds in 1995. DOC buff.ly/7YIOBd9

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Kākāpō population reaches new milestone

The official population of the critically endangered kākāpō has reached a recovery-era high of 325 birds.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you want to imbibe something with Stephanie Cole in (and have already listened to Cabin Pressure 432 times), try her episode of The Cleaner, which is a two-hander with her and Greg Davies as a crime-scene clean-up guy. You don't have to have seen any other episodes: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The Cleaner - Series 1: 4. The Aristocrat

Wicky arrives at a stately home to clean up a burglary gone wrong. But things aren’t what they seem, and Wicky’s morals are tested.

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

here are Stephanie Cole and Anthony Stewart Head, both now no longer with us, being absolutely perfect www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHxX...

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Cabin Pressure -"Vaduz" (s4 episode 3) - "Herc's Holiday"

YouTube video by Pozzitive Comedy

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A very sad farewell to Stephanie Cole, queen of British comedy in every form. May an inexpensive charter jet fly her swiftly to her rest on gilded wings.

A cartoon version of Stephanie Cole as Carolyn in the BBC radio series Cabin Pressure

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