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Vicky Griffiths

@vic-griffiths.bsky.social
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All-round good egg. She/her

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pervert glasses now brand your temples so people know you’re a pervert even when you’re off duty.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Improving your Monday morning with this Bearded Tit. You are welcome. 📷️ @ronpon22.bsky.social
A Bearded Tit stands on a mossy branch, its feathers puffed up into a perfectly round ball. Its warm buff-coloured plumage, pale face and tiny orange bill give it an irresistibly fluffy appearance, while one foot is lifted mid-step as though it's waddling along.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Contains a picture of baby Alexei Sayle that is exactly what you'd want a picture of baby Alexei Sayle to be. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Ullo John got a new Rover.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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DaB @oursobouros.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
C'est David l'iench !
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
he says fuck the wizard books
Tony Soprano saying "read your kids some Dickens. maybe they'll grow up to be a pickpocket. maybe they'll learn a skill"
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan

@piersmorgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“How will we ever replace them?” FUND. THE. ARTS.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And that’s how you do wealth, billionaires out there.
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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It should be career ending to say one race is inferior to another race. For fucks sake!! These people should be pariahs!
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 20/08/2026
Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread
A Mid Century Modern ad for tableware, quirky hanging laps, weird wood paneled kitchen bar, oh yeah it's MCM as hell up in here (kinda love it)
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I hope George’s ghost haunts whatever hair and makeup person okay’d this
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Well, first of all, I'm dead."
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Generative AI is the tool and aesthetic of fascism, and that aesthetic only appeals to middle aged divorced sex predators, billionaires, guys who drive cybertrucks, and guys who don't tip. It's the aesthetic of losers, miserable assholes, and guys with a sexual allegations section in their wiki.
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 14/08/2026
I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
How on earth is the framing for this about dopamine and not the expansion of mining for behavioral data to those who cannot afford to buy the things they want? restofworld.org/2026/south-k...
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The online shopping trend where you buy nothing
On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Whoever was in charge of the PR for this…well fucking done. I hope they get a raise because this is the reddest of herrings I have ever seen. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
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These ‘dopamine sites’ deliver the thrill of shopping without the cost
We asked therapists what they think about the viral alternative to online shopping out of South Korea.
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Wigan Museum @wiganmuseum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Do you have a story for Past Forward Magazine? Articles must focus on a local history topic within the geographical boundaries of Wigan Borough, and we prefer a maximum length of 1,000 words. Submissions are accepted via email or post, all details are on the poster below and in the image alt text.
Upcoming deadline for submission for Past Forward Magazine. 

Articles must focus on a local history topic within the geographical boundaries of Wigan Borough. We prefer articles to have a maximum length of 1,000 words but please contact us if you would like to submit an article of greater length.

If you have any questions, please contact us at the email address below 

Submissions are accepted via email at pastforward@wigan.gov.uk 

OR via post (address to 'The Editor' at Past Forward, Archives: Wigan & Leigh, Leigh Town Hall, Market Street, Leigh, WN7 1DY)

We look forward to seeing what you write! Deadline is Monday 7th September, happy writing!
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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The evolution is Count Wheelie-Bin and he goes everywhere on a customised Segway
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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter!!
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Clara La Flore @claralaflore.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The man truly was ahead of his time.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/08/2026
Holding WorldPride in a country with a trans bathroom ban is a bad idea
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life."
do you ever feel that you're a joke

all these years, the people thought the joke was on me, but the joke's actually been on the public

i'm sure of myself as a person, I'm sure of my talent and I'm sure of my love for life. I like the person I am, so I can afford to around with makeup and clothes because i'm secure with myself.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again
Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
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I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.
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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
People who don't wash their hands after they use the toilet are a bigger threat to public safety than trans people
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Vicky Griffiths @vic-griffiths.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Behold, my magnificent courgette -Jack Russell for scale
A hand holding a large yellow courgette alongside a tan and white Jack Russell terrier, viewed from above. The courgette is roughly the same length as the dog’s body and almost as wide at its thickest point
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
Malm whale in Sweden
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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh no, not your mom’s pied-a-terre!!!!!!!
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The Rt Hon Jess Phillips MP @supermickychow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A picture of a man on a beach looking very happy

There is red text which reads "Cringe is a lie made up by big normal to stop you having fun"
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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
this is what peak performance looks like
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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
STOP GIVING THIS MAN TOP HATS TO WEAR
The “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” film poster, with Johnny Depp wearing a top hat as Willy WonkaThe “Alice in Wonderland” poster with Johnny Depp ALSO wearing a top hat as the Mad Hatter
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Vicky Griffiths @vic-griffiths.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Death Thumbs Up
Alt: Death from Horrible Histories “Stupid Deaths” giving a double thumbs-up
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Bionic Laura @bioniclaura.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Look plebs don't water your few meagre flowers the data centres need that water...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
PSA.
Count Binface Appreciatio... • Join
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If anyone is thinking to do actual campaigning in Clacton, it is ESSENTIAL that you get agreement from Count Binface. This is not a joke. We do not want to get him into trouble.
All expenditure in support of a candidate MUST be accounted for by the candidate even if they didnt pay it out themselves. Otherwise he would be breaking the law for not declaring the expenditure in his post-election expenses return to the authorities.
Also any leaflets have to say who printed and published them, even if not produced by CBf himself. And the costs (even if donated by supporters) MUST be agreed by CBf so he can include them in his expenses return.
I should add that I do know what I am talking about - I was a member of the Greens and stood for election for many years, sometimes even successfully! CBf needs to be squeaky clean on this sort of thing, compared to Frogface.
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Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win
A tote bag depicting the three lions of the England team crest but one is Henry’s Cat and one is Bagpuss
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James Cook @jamesecook.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Combing through humanities students, while combing over STEM students, while closing Humanities programmes and making Humanities academics redundant as surplus to the employability agenda. The market, in 2026.
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The award for alt text should go to…
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