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Manic pixie dream crone

@whitehart.bsky.social
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Middle-aged queer lefty feminist (intersectional). Reader, walker, swimmer, knitter, sewer, geek. #ActuallyAutistic. They/she.

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The state of it
Dazed cat who has stuffed his face with fish and can barely move. Tiny front legs like a T Rex.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026
GOD BLESS NIGELLA “I don’t approve of talking about food as naughty” I have been needing bake off to say that for YEARS. Food is a pleasure, not a guilty pleasure!
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suddenly "You're nicked, sunshine!" shout Gloucestershire's finest anti-terrorist coppers
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 26/09/2026
Friends - we are soft launching our It’s a Superpower?? season 2 Crowdfunder on here before we release it into the wild next week so our most dedicated listeners have a chance to make us look a lil popular first. If you have the means, we can’t overstate how helpful your pledges are.
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It's a Superpower?? Season Two
To fund season 2 of It's a Superpower?? the first audio sitcom by & for autistic people - & pay our amazing team an industry rate
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Assuming Eggers is not actually planning to translate the play into Old English, does this in fact simply mean that he will be making a film of Romeo and Juliet using...the text of Romeo and Juliet? Like every other Shakespeare film adaptation ever?
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is a great joy in hearing Clive Myrie enunciate the name of J. Peasmould Gruntfuttock.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A pretty field scabious in the fields near my house for #WildflowerHour
A lilac flower with lots of small narrow petals and pink-tipped stamens.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Poached eggs: Raffles
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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Oh, The Problem of Susan!" said Jill. "It was interested in nothing except cheap shocks and a sex scene. Neil was always a jolly sight too keen on seeming grown-up." "Grown-up indeed," said the Lady Polly. "I wish it _had_ been grown-up."
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watching the Prince Charming video on #TotP. Me: this is such a good video. 30 seconds pass. Me, again: Of course, it's also batshit as fuck.
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Elizabeth Zelle @kohizeri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"the assessment did not consider the crocodiles" is my new metaphor for people choosing to just ignore the data point that doesn't agree with them
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
new cat! new cat!
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Things I was frightened of as a child: Nuclear war Volcanoes Meteors (this and the previous are a cautionary tale about buying science books for your children) Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds The dark Doing something wrong and getting in trouble
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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repost with your home river.
A calm tree-lined river reflecting a blue sky streaked with mackerel-scale clouds towards the top of the frame.
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
When your train is delayed with no option displayed That's Avanti...
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Maia @maiaf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I always thought it was weird in the Potter books that magical ability was the result of an immutable biological characteristic rather than wait sorry hang on there's a Russian gentleman here trying to draw my attention to a wall-mounted firearm of some sort
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the most genius funding idea ever. (Alas that I do not have a pet!)
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 02/09/2026
Well, I was wrong about Bad Girl Books as.ft.com/r/ab93e7d2-4...
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I was wrong about Bad Girl Books
Another bookshop in Oxford was doomed from the start — or so I predicted
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have spent today listening to this while making a pair of trousers and it's extremely good.
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 30/08/2026
Autism and ADHD have many things in common, among them is this: Both are defined not by how people who have them experience them, but by the features of them that annoy neurotypicals. So of course research is focused on eradication, because who wouldn't want to be rid of annoyingness?
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reposting this again for the morning crowd. (Our new building has plenty of gender-neutral toilets, for which I'm grateful, and anyone who tries to gender police anyone else in my hearing is going to get reported for harassment, but. It shouldn't just be up to individuals to do what they can.)
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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
OXFORD UNI STAFF & STUDENTS!!! Oxford has officially implemented the transphobic EHRC Code of Practice. PLEASE sign this open letter to commit to resisting it and supporting your trans colleagues, students, and peers. And please also share with Oxford acquaintances! www.oulgbtq.org/open-letter....
the words "Open Letter: Resisting the EHRC's Code of Practice in Oxford" on top of a trans flag, accompanied by the logos of Oxford for Trans Rights and Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I always felt a little bit more optimistic about humanity knowing there was at least one person who was super-rich and not evil. RIP, Dolly, you were quite the human and the world is much poorer without you.
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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Colleague didn't join a call but I had Gemini Notes switched on and it the transcript caught me talking to the cat.
Summary

Meeting logistics review addressed attendance verification and confirmed denial of additional catering requests.

Addressing Catering Request
Denial of secondary meal requests was finalized for shouting individuals. It was confirmed that participants had already consumed dinner.

Meeting Attendance Verification
Clarification regarding confirmed attendees occurred. Questions were raised about pending arrivals for the session.

Connection Status Check
Technical connection status was assessed. The presence of additional participants on the call remained under review.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Preventing the Y2K bug was heroism, fixing the hole in the ozone layer was heroism, developing the COVID vaccine was heroism. Being an air traffic controller is heroism. Just because humans systematize protecting each other doesn’t make it not an act of care.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Here is Gaslighting PART TWO - about how the anti trans gaslighting gave them victory (though that didn’t mean the end) #gaslighting #translivesmatter #lgbtq #bbcradio4 #psychology www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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To the End - Gaslighting Part Two | Robin Ince
Where were we? Are yes, we’d just got to here. This was when I would start having people come up to me after gigs and say, who is that perso
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is a really good thread, whether you have passive suicidal ideation yourself or just know someone who does. (Tip, if you think you don't know someone who does: you probably do, you're just not a safe person for them to talk to about it.)
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is part one of a blog post about gaslighting - in this case how the anti trans movement aims to break you , but it applies in many other situations and finding increasing number of people who have experienced some version of this www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I have been thinking about Chloe Moffat today, as well as Jason Arday, and about the times in my life when everything has gone sideways so hard and so fast it's felt like there is no way back, and how familiar I am with that feeling that there's only one option remaining.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bluntly the Samaritan’s guidelines exist to try to prevent people in bad situations thinking they have no choice but death, not to allow bullies and abusers to avoid confronting what they did.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Apparently you can send all the loud emergency alerts you like (I got it twice) but it's not going to stop some fucker not far from here setting off fireworks at half past ten.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Well, I have now found where my phone hides "emergency alert history" (Settings -Notifications - Emergency alerts - Emergency alert history) so that will be useful if there's an actual emergency rather than telling me it's barely rained in two very hot months which I had actually noticed already.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just overheard in airport security: "Oi Paul - look! It's another bloody colander!" My work is done.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If you smile at dogs, it makes them happy. Why are you not already smiling at dogs???
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We should smile at our dogs - a new scientific study reveals why
Scientists have worked out what is going on inside a dog's brain when it sees a human smiling or scowling.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I suspect this may explain the slightly acrid smell to the air in Kidlington this morning.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I can't remember exactly when I started listening to @veritypodcast.bsky.social. Probably 2015 or 2016 when my anxiety was so bad I couldn't fall asleep without a comforting podcast to distract my brain, definitely no later than early 2017. So about a decade, plus or minus a bit.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Happy International Owl Awareness Day! Please enjoy this photograph of ornithologist Herbert Brown (r) with an elf owl, the world’s smallest owl
It’s a monochrome photograph. Brown is a moustachioed gentleman wearing a brimmed hat, neckerchief and braces. The owl is perched on his upheld hand. It’s about the size of a sparrow.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
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The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
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Caroline B 👩🏻‍🦼 @sunnystitcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ban the sale of disposable one use barbecues in the UK. BBC news has reported London fire bridgade Assistant commissioner Andy Pennick asking people not to use them after 63 grass fires were tackled just on Wednesday this week (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs
We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just trashing U.K. science and saving peanuts. Vandalism.
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I do feel that knowing that things really are harder for me than NT colleagues has somehow made me less able to push myself into giving everything to work and more inclined to want to demand that I get to have as much *life* as they do, too.
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Some sensible soul has started a petition on banning the sale of disposable BBQs. Given the number of wildfires we've had in the UK and have seen over in Europe, this is an absolutely obvious thing to do.
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Petition: Ban on sale of disposable BBQs
We want the Government to introduce a nationwide ban on the sale of single-use disposable barbecues. Disposable BBQs are increasingly linked to preventable wildfires, which poses a serious risk to pu...
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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
not saying being queer is a choice, more that "is it a choice" should stop being the key question this isn't a criminal trial where we're deciding if you're culpable enough to charge you with first degree gay or if we can knock it down to manslover
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Manic pixie dream crone @whitehart.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So, it turns out that "Christopher Nolan does three hours of epic manpain" is much easier to take when it comes wrapped in an actual epic.
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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
now i have "you cannae throw your granny aff a bus" in my head you cannae play some frisbeee with a naan you cannae play some frisbeee with a naan you cannae play some frisbeee unless the naan is crispy you cannae play some frisbeee with a naan
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