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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today, I avoided being a weirdo twice, once when a group of teens were confused by the names of different train tickets and then when a different group encountered a book by Tom Holland and I didn't gleefully tell them that the historian had interviewed the actor See, info dumping *can* be deferred

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

GOOD NEWS!

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Charles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is Ihor Malchevskyi, a 69-year-old scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, escaping the flames after a Russian attack. I could also write, "the whole world watched this live," but we can see that news from Ukraine has long been out of focus. 📹: DW

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I looked up the cast list for Reacher season 3 to find out who the Guy Bigger Than Reacher was (in replies elsewhere, but I decided not to hijack the original thread more) The guy who played the dad had looked faintly familiar. It was Anthony Michael Hall

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am starting to really hate it when you look up something and it's illustrated with something egregiously inaccurate In this case, films that used Kedleston Hall, text says Jane Eyre, image is of Princess Bride

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 28/09/2026

We have something very cute to share with you today 🦉 This summer, a pair of barn owls successfully reared four owlets at Kedleston Hall, marking Kedleston's first known breeding success in over two decades.

Four young barn owls jostle onto the small wooden ledge of their nest box, fixed to a huge oak tree behind them

A young barn owl in flight, its wings stretched up above it against a blurry green background, its white heart-shaped face facing the camera

A young barn own in flight, a blurry oak tree behind it, its huge white and brown wings beating downwards as it looks at the camera

A barn owl swooping down with its wings fanned wide across a field of long purplish grass

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thank you for my morning laugh

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Rain's Cats @catssurname.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The first time Passport actually swam, it was an accident. A very happy accident. #CatsOfBluesky

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Re: last repost, this one is definitely a trope to avoid, but I also see it in discussions of real life, most recently people talking about disabilities caused by measles The real people affected by that can see it when you present their lives as a terrible consequence of not vaccinating

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Disabled people do not exist as life lessons for your nondisabled characters/readers. Plenty of people believe that’s what we’re for IRL. I am not your teaching tool to remind you to be grateful or whatever. I am a human being with rights and dignity and needs. So must your disabled character be.

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Misa on Wheels @misaonwheels.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🩷💚🧡👩‍🦼🧡💙💜

Image description: an accessibility-related infographic with a lined note paper background. There are five lines/points related to accessibility. From the top:

The first line contains a minimalist image of a manual wheelchair user with different shades of pink. Pink text to the right of them reads, ““It’s accessible once you get up the stairs” is not accessible.”

The second line contains a minimalist image of a manual wheelchair user with different shades of green. Green text to the right of them reads, ““It’s accessible if you have someone to help you” is not accessible.”

The third line contains a minimalist image of a manual wheelchair user with different shades of orange. Orange text to the right of them reads, ““It’s accessible if you can leave your mobility aid behind” is not accessible.”

The fourth line contains a minimalist image of a manual wheelchair user with different shades of blue. Blue text to the right of them reads, ““It’s accessible, but you can’t access the restroom” is not accessible.”

The fifth line contains a minimalist image of a manual wheelchair user with different shades of purple. Purple text to the right of them reads, ““It’s accessible just because we call it accessible” is not accessible.”

Centered at the bottom of the image is the handle “@MisaOnWheels” in light pink text.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 27/09/2026

Wow Google trained its sarcasm detector on Bluesky

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People living on easy mode with respect to executive function are so resentful that another group is breaking away from being a target for their contempt An ADHD diagnosis reframes your whole life. And it is so wonderful to break the cycle by giving the next generation that information early

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not in the UK, but US people who have yet to get it, go grab it now

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On Amazing Spaces, a couple built a retirement home which has a spiral staircase with no handrail on the outside and a box thing you can sort of hold in the middle Like, it's a nice one-bed, but the kitchen is upstairs. Living there ends where balance/mobility issues start

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's clear many of these cases wouldn't be happening without the seemingly unlimited funds of the anonymous donor who is determined to push transphobia into every corner of Scottish life. This looks less and less like a grassroots women's rights campaign and more and more like a personal vendetta.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reposting with alt text because I had to go check whether it was real (twice because it's long)

Post on X by Steve Deace

Yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error, if you’re in a +10 district you’re underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006.

I slept on whether to share this publicly, because I don’t want to cause anyone to black pill. But this morning I ultimately decided the truth should be shared while there is still six weeks left to do something about it for the good of the country.

Because if the environment is this bad in my home state, where Trump has been the most popular political figure over the last decade, I can’t imagine where it is everywhere else.

Whatever we’re doing or not doing in Iran/Hormuz has become a 2020 Covid lockdown level of political albatross. This is approaching TARP bailout levels of unpopular in my home state. We are risking what’s left of the Trump presidency on this, because if Democrats take control the legislative branch the Trump domestic agenda we all voted for will largely cease between what a Democrat Congress will do and the courts have already been doing. Not to mention what it will cost individual states like my own, which we have worked so hard to make so red these last 20 years (with Trump’s help).

This whatever/kinda/sorta/but not really war has become an existential misuse of political capital. Many of us never thought it was worth it, and more and more it appears voters agree. We have to save our own country and our own way of life first before we can save anyone else. We have to save America before we can save the world. If a plane is endangered, you are told to put on your mask first otherwise you’re of no use to help save anyone else.

Second half: I desperately want us to win. I desperately want this presidency to fulfill all the great promise it had coming out of the 2024 election. But whatever this currently is, isn’t it. We don’t have to just sit here and take the L. It doesn’t have to end this way. We can still win. There’s plenty of ammunition to hammer the Democrats with.

We need the president out on the stump asap. We need better and way more aggressive messaging. Stop running fake and gay ads about how often so-and-so shows up for votes, and instead mercilessly hammer Democrats on the wickedness they’re voting for. Articulate specifically what the mission/victory is in Iran/Hormuz, because out here in the cheap seats it feels like another Middle East War quagmire regular folks are paying for on both ends all over again.

And for heaven’s sake, make sure Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are getting the finest healthcare in America.

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 23/09/2026

This is a thread that kinda should end with someone in reindeer skins throwing someone into a volcano while callIng on elder gods.

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Omg, this is hilarious I was unaware that disaster litigation posts were a genre until I joined Bluesky, but they have become a highlight and a source of glee. Happily, they come with lawyersnark notations, for the untutored (ie, me)

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🎉 YES! This is a huge opportunity! Please use this link to write to your MP - and then share, share everywhere! —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a... #Rejoin #UK #Europe #EU

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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

From now until October 7th, my first book SILENT HALL is available on Kindle for just $1.99! Read it already? Maybe you'll like one of the other three books published by @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social that have the same promotion! If you're a Kindle reader, it's a great time to get some quality SFF!

Angry Robot / Amazon Kindle poster titled Amazon Big Deals, with book covers for Silent Hall by N.S. Dolkart (me), The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson, The Ark by Patrick S. Tomlinson, and Gogmagog by Jeff Noon & Steve Beard. Each is selling on Kindle for $1.99/£1.99, a limited-time offer for September 15 to October 7th, 2026.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you missed my debut novel's BookBub deal last week, worry not! @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social has put THE ARK along with three other great titles up for just $2 on Kindle until Oct 7th!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This so reminds me of the conversation we had when we told our lodger that, unfortunately, we were going to need the space and could he move out by year end?

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ewwwww CN rape, Pelicot-style

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 15/09/2026

When it comes to puberty blockers, the anti-trans crowd loves to point to bone density loss as lifelong damage being done to the body, but is it really permanent? @veraeikon.bsky.social digs into a study released in August that examines the actual impacts and how they can be mitigated.

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Irreversible Damage? Debunking the Myths of Puberty Blockers - Assigned Media

Countless myths have been built up about the supposed harms of puberty blockers on youth. Assigned Media looks at a 2026 study that strives to debunk those myths.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 15/09/2026

Jfc this is evil. Stay safe out there, yall

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

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Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's starting to get disturbing how many things are being recalled. In normal years I, as a person living in the UK, would not know about any of these US recalls because the information would mostly be localised. And now nobody in the US trusts local media to do that, so Bluesky is doing it

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This also applies to librarians.

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

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Emathion 📯 @emathion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Excited to see it ! Here’s Chuck Jones’ rules for the original animated show

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