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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have a new goal for French fluency: to be able to faultlessly answer mansplaining with sarcasm.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Honestly some days, I just want to stare into a hole in the ground too.

A pigeon standing in the street, facing left with its tail in the air as it leans forward and stares into a little hole between the cobbles. The pigeon is a mix of dark grey (on its head), a muddy pale russet (body and wings), and white (tail). The cobbles are grey and sandy colours.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Moment robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m record in China” … is a stupid headline (BBC). That’s like saying Concorde beat the World Land Speed record 🙄

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Since a couple of posts today in which Piddington has been autocorrected to Paddington. Not sure what to conclude from that.

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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 11/09/2026

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? 38d.gs/jpcf #petition #RNLI

38d.gs

An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Also, I wonder if Badenoch realises the financial value of having an established support-network, in terms of savings to both the economy and to healthcare services. Does she not realise that you lose that network when you move?

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kemi Badenoch says if you can’t afford your rent (because they’ve cut your housing benefit), you should just “move somewhere cheaper”. Didn’t some politician once tell us to sell our pearls if we were struggling? (I can’t find a reference now, and am wondering if I’m gaslighting myself… anyone?)

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wood pigeons. Still shagging in my neighbour’s tree. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours #UKBirding

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nepal-Tibet flash flood: Two workers pulled alive from hydropower tunnel nine days after disaster: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

In the centre of the image is a mud-covered man, wrapped in an orange flexible stretcher, which is carried by a host of rescue workers (wearing orange hi-vis vests and red, yellow, or orange helmets). The man in the stretcher has his hands raised in a gesture of prayer.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Today’s poem is called ‘Fall’.

Fall

she loved to catch
the falling leaves in autumn

she would sit

and
wait
beneath

the
trees

until

she’d

cautumn

Brian Bilston

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Riddler

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 02/09/2026

Me, typing: ‘Well done’ Word: Are you sure you don’t want a comma after ‘Well’ Me: Well, this is ironic

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Formatting is so wildly important. Please follow submission guidelines about formatting to the letter. Reading 400+ stories is hard enough without scanning through tiny fonts, terrible line spacing, weird justification etc. Help my old eyes read you more easily.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Just seen a Christmas ad on the TV 😕

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I have never before felt so inclined to worship a breeze #UKweather

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Even with an exposure time of 1/4000th of a second, less than 8% of the sun’s light is still too much for my camera – only the lens flare gives it away! #OctoEclipse @OctopusEnergy

In the far bottom-right corner is the silhouette of a treetop. in the lower-right-centre is the sun, much overexposed and looking a bit ragged and uneven, with star bursts radiating from it, but no other detail. Top centre is a lens flare, showing just how thin a crescent the sun was showing at the time. The background is actually a weird sepia colour (a light yellow/brown), getting darker towards the edges away from the sun.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I know a joke about Zeus, but it’s (man)whoreful

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 18/07/2026

Me, out here expertly reconstructing the discourse like some kind of forensic scientist. If only this was a marketable skill 😅

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Toyota: “No one needs a spare tyre these days. We’ve given you a reinflation kit!” My car:

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Check out my breakfast spot ☕️ 😍

I’m sitting at a table of a French street cafe. In front of me (bottom) is my breakfast – pain au chocolate, orange juice, and an espresso, together with the sports news about yesterday’s Tour de France. Ahead (centre) are more tables and chairs, and a little further is another cafe (with large umbrellas) in this cobbled square, and beyond that (top centre) are medieval buildings (I’m in Carcassonne). Top left is blue sky, and top right is the foliage of a tree.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Do I win the prize for best reading spot ever?

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I bloody love being at sea 💙 Morning!

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Jobs I have been putting off in the heat: Nice, easy, computer-based work, in the shade by an open window. Jobs I have NOT been putting off in the heat: shovelling eight barrow loads of wet sand from the front to the back of my house, in full sun. TF is wrong with me?

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hark! Is that thunder I hear? 😃🙏🏻⛈️🌧️⛈️🙏🏻😃 No… it’s someone putting the bin out 😕

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yep, this is worth being awake for. Morning all 😃

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So card payments (including Apple Pay) have gone down in my local Tesco. Cash only. A few people have dashed out to the ATM, the rest of us are standing around like the helpless technophiles we are 😕

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The cat and I have been awake since 3.30am. One of us happier about this than the other.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is my third attempt at an undergraduate degree, and this week I have successful completed my first year, aged 55 #NeverTooLate

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

UK's first rooftop intensive care ward opens at King's College Hospital - BBC News

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kitchen sponges like these release microplastics which end up in the sea, harming ocean creatures. And they can't be recycled, so they sit in landfill for hundreds of years. Eco-friendly, compostable sponges are available - for a 25% discount, see: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/seep...

Two yellow and green plastic kitchen sponges

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I went to see Project Hail Mary last night. First cinema trip since before Covid. Totally worth it. Best book-to-film adaptation I have ever seen. Also, I LOVE ROCKY!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon where I’m seeing the first mirror view since last year 😊

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 21/04/2026

I would very much like this to be a thing that really happened 😄

Screenshot:

r/ClaudeCode AR
u/lusuallydrop
We just did an "Al layoff" due to rising costs

Turns out Al is getting way too expensive. We just canceled 5 of our Al subscriptions and hired 2 mid-level devs instead.
We tested them with that famous car wash prompt, and their response was literally: "Bro, you don't walk to a car wash, don't be ridiculous. You'll get tired on the way back, just drive the car."

Hey, at least they don't hallucinate. The only downside is their coffee compute costs are a bit high right now, but we're planning to fine-tune that in the next sprint.
10/10 recommended.

Edit: They answered every single question we threw at them today without hitting us with a "7.5x token usage" warning. Plus, they actually crack jokes and liven up the office. Honestly, their price-to-performance ratio is off the charts.

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay

A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.

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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"Yes, Mr Spider. That one's yours."

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I found a lithographic museum!! 😍 #Cadiz

A block of white-ish stone, very smooth on top, and engraved with a map of the southern part of Spain.

A museum display, showing various tools used to engrave lithographic plates (none of which I can name or explain, sorry!)

A huge litho press, probably made of iron, 2-3m long, which various cogs and wheels and a path for the paper to follow through the process.

A litho-stone (tautological, I know), which some Spanish words and logos engraved and inked on its super-smooth top surface.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

“I’ll be back.” —Arnie, 14:2-3

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My view right now… sailing into Cadiz 😍

A sunrise at sea. In the foreground is dark sea, with gentle waves just visible. In the middle is a line of black mountains, with the sun (yellow) about to rise over in the centre. The sky along the horizon is deep orange, with a mix of light and dark stratus clouds and blue sky above, fading to grey/blue at the very top

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’ve discovered so many beautiful flowers in Portugal. I think this one is my favourite. INaturalist tells me it’s a Fern-leaved Beggarticks (bidens aurea). I understand they’re invasive, but this was the only one I saw. #flowers

A green grassy background (with a darker green hairbrush, top left), mostly out-of focus). In the foreground is a tall stem with widows, longish leaves. At the top is a single flower is six rounded and slight overlapping petals that are white to the edges and bright yellow in the central 60%. Very striking!

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’m in Porto, and I’m reading Proto. It’s confusing.

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Even on holiday, I’m training for the @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social Trek26! It’s a 26-mile hike with nearly 5,000’ climbing 😬 in Wales in June. Please see my story here (2-minute read): www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

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Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I am half way through Project Hail Mary. Despite rarely reading fiction, and not having read sci-fi since my teens, this is already one of my favourite books of the *century*!

A book cover: a white sand-serif don’t top and bottom gives the author’s name (Andy Weir) and the book title (Project Hail Mary) in the middle a 30-something white man with short dirty-blond hair and a white t-shirt, floats mostly upside down, with spaceship-type multicoloured lighting panels in the background. We can only really see his head and torso, cut off at an angle from his right shoulder to left midriff. He looks a little anxious.

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