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🏳️‍🌈 Vicky J 🇺🇦

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I'm Vick • she/her Aged leftist British vegetarian, who just wishes people would be kinder to the planet and each other. Interests: writing #fanfiction doing #jigsaws #trees #birds #cats #guineapigs #hares #capybaras #BrokebackMountain 🤠❤️🤠

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PLEASE NOTIFY FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA! ICE is conducting a surge in Southern CA AND The Central Valley including Fresno, Madera, Visalia, Selma, Dinuba, Sanger, Los Baños and surrounding cities! Stay vigilant and stay safe!
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 08/10/2026
The availability of treatment, rapid testing and contact tracing mean the outlook of plague is very different today.
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Russian plague scare: an expert explains what we know so far – and why there’s no need to panic
The availability of treatment, rapid testing and contact tracing mean the outlook of plague is very different today.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This beautiful amethyst-tinted serving bottle is made from a type of glass developed during the 1670s that contained a high percentage of lead. This so-called ‘lead-glass’ or ‘crystal’ was much heavier, less fragile and more brilliant than that produced previously in either England or Europe.
A glass purple decanter bottle.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A few old favourites.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.
A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Writing on the back of this reads “Daddy and our Baby”. 🥰 Photo from my collection, no date.
Black and white photo of a white man standing outside of a brick house, looking down at a shorthaired kitten he holds gently in his hands.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Clare Youngs is a UK based artist, designer/maker who works with paper and fabric #WomensArt
Fun collage resembling a standing cat facing left looking outwards smiling created with differently patterned pieces against a dark background
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/10/2026
We have the best-named machinery ever.
The back of a wheeled trailer with a red sign saying "Trailer Swift"The back of a wheeled trailer with overhanging leaves and a green sign saying "Elizabeth Trailer"The back of a low trailer with a plastic water container on top and a plastic tap. The sticker across the bumper reads "Splash Gordon"A bright orange wheelie trolley with the name "Jack Sparrow the Sack Barrow" printed in white on the side
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2077 years ago, on the 3rd of October 52 BCE, Vercingetorix, the leader of an alliance of Gallic tribes, surrendered to Julius Caesar, ending the Siege of Alesia. It was the culmination of Caesar’s Gallic campaign and the last major confrontation between Romans and Gallic tribes. #otd #history 🗃️
Stater bearing the name of Vercingetorix. Obverse: VERCINGETORIXS – stylised head facing left. Electrum, 7.45 g, diameter 18.50 mm. Arverni, circa 60 BC. BnF Collection: 3774 (Ancient collection) (GAU-3989)
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Işıl Arıcan @isilarican.com · 02/10/2026
Quick and easy guide on how to prevent sexual assault. You are welcome.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Cosmic Lighthouse Comics @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk · 26/09/2026
System Reliability: 93% & climbing. Murderbot—the world's favourite security unit (who'd much rather be streaming its favourite shows)—is coming in an all new graphic novel format! Sign up for details of the Kickstarter & enjoy exclusive discounts! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos... Please share
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3444 practiced their scales
A small bunny stands on a piano bench by a small piano. She reaches their paws up to the keys, which she can just barely reach. A teacher bunny, wearing glasses, holds a book of sheet music open from the top of the piano
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Politics for Sale Reform UK received a second £36m donation in as many days, as Thailand-based crypto billionaire matches £36m from another billionaire. Billionaires with criminal record or living abroad buying influence. Normal people people can't compete. Get ready for Farage propaganda blitz.
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Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
The party says the money will allow it to fight the next election on a "level playing field", while rivals have renewed calls for donations from individuals to be capped.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
'Morning conversation', linocut by Olesya Dzhurayeva, contemporary Ukrainian printmaker #WomensArt ( one of the many hugely talented iinterviewees in the latest womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers')
Print in black and white of two tea cups on saucers next to two teaspoons on a surface
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is I. Have never even been to the website, for the same reason that I wouldn't eat an arsenic sandwich.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/2026
40% more kids are eating breakfast and 15% more are eating lunch since we launched free school meals in Minnesota. Now we’re making sure 100% of kids eat their broccoli.
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Ryuutsu 💫 @ryuutsu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To add to this, here's another great resource for finding only human artists! hirehumanartists.com
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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A video statement from the RNLI chief exec about recent events and about the RNLI’s unchanging and single mission, to save lives at sea. rnli.org/news-and-med...
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Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes
Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes regarding Channel activity.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This fabulous object is a 17th-century Persian shoe. Made of cream cloth and brown suede with a brown leather sole. It has been decorated in silk floral embroidery with a yellow silk tassel at the toe. Man's shoe of cream cloth and-brown suede, 1601–1700. 27 x 7.8 x 9.5cm. Persia. AN1685.B.305
Mans shoe of cream cloth and brown suede with a yellow tassel at the toes.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Battle of Holbeck Moor took place in Leeds on 27 September 1936, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists attempted a march through the city. Their original route through the Jewish quarter was blocked, but they regrouped and headed for Holbeck Moor, daubing swastikas in the Leylands 1/3
Plaque on St Matthew's Church, facing Holbeck Moor Road. It commemorates a violent incident on 27 September 1936 when crowds disrupted an attempted rally by fascists. Leeds Civic Trust plaque funded by Stand Up to Racism. Image Chemical Engineer CC !.0
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/09/2026
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars.
Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Does this look like a familiar scene to you? A fluffy shadow following you as you go about your day-to-day. This watercolour was painted by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale in 1915 as an illustration to 'The Wish' by Abraham Cowley. It beautifully captures an idyllic day in early summer.
A watercolour of a young man walking through a floral-filled garden. Behind him on the ground is a cat.
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pharaoh house crash @phchq.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The pay off at the end is a thing of beauty
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." —  @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
this takes an incredible amount of character, not just to give it up, but to admit all of this. This guy has more guts than any AI fuck by a mile, and maybe more than us too. People who've managed to escape AI usage are invaluable towards convincing others to do the same.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Marlene Dietrich, who "shockingly" wore a tux with top hat and white tie while also kissing another woman in Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film 'Morocco' #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman in tuxedo and top hat facing forwards
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“by a celebrity 💅” fuck her god she’s SO MAD someone else besides her is being lauded as the patron saint of child literacy. you had your chance and blew it, lady! that’s not who you are anymore! gotta force HBO to reboot your movies just to feel something smh
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bicycles brought unprecedented freedom to many women, creating a change in restrictive clothing, independence of movement and were an iconic symbol of early feminism. #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring two white women in late 19th century attire relaxing together on grass by a tree against which two bikes are propped
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cat, c.1904, by Welsh painter Gwen John #WomensArt
Cat with white face and chest lying down facing forwards
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/08/2026
Some of London’s detractors are determined to paint a picture of a city becoming less safe. The facts tell a different story. These crimes are down ⬇️
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 29/08/2026
John Mase Smith probably holds the record for the briefest second marriage, heading back to his first wife at 5am the morning after his bigamous wedding in 1849.
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The strange history of bigamy in England: fake tears, secret weddings and double lives
John Mase Smith probably holds the record for the briefest second marriage, heading back to his first wife at 5am the morning after his bigamous wedding in 1849.
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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 27/08/2026
My kingdom for a sad witch boi 💙🔥 #witchhatatelier
Fanart portrait illustration of Olruggio from Witch Hat Atelier.
He is staring right at the viewer, with intense and sad eyes.
The palette is dark and moody, and he his gently lit on one side by an orange light, as if from a fire. Sparkles fly in from that direction too.
A point of bright orange light is also reflected in his eyes.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Working on a piece for the newsletter, this is a data point - smart people keep shrugging and saying “communities don’t like data centers because of ‘vibes’” etc when it’s really that people are in fact smart enough to know they are bad faith neighbors. It is *entirely rational* not to trust them.
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Bruce Springsteen on surviving depression and his strategy for warding off the visitations of the darkness www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/20/b...
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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
“If you can acknowledge it and you can relax with it a little bit, very often it shortens its duration.”
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For those who might have forgotten, Dolly was always punk as fuck
"I made jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know who she was, just this woman who was blonde and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I've ever seen. Mama used to say, 'Aw, she's just trash,' and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash."
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