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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 12h

Not the only one!

Pencil sketch of a rat reclining on a chair next to a table with an umbrella, on his patio.

Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 18h

Day 20: "Abstract Rat". #rattober2025

Abstract colourful geometric rat drawing done with felt pens.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 18h

What about taking away car lanes to provide more cycling space - always seems unpopular but think about how many more bikes you can fit in that space than cars!

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 5d

Garden update - leave leaves

HuffPost UK @huffpost.co.uk · 5d

It's got more benefits than you might expect.

4 Reasons UK Gardeners Should Leave Autumn Leaves On The Ground

It's got more benefits than you might expect.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 13d

Rats eat up to 11% of their poos... lovely.

Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 13d

Day 6: "Ratio". #rattober2025

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 18d

Day 2: "Accu-rat" #rattober2025

Cartoon sketch of a rat being the Olympic pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec

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Reposted by Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜

The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 19d

#OnThisDay, 1989, Technotronic's hit single "Pump Up the Jam" reached No. 2 in the UK charts.

Luckily, the bilge pump on the Mary Rose had an inspection hatch, so you could see what was jamming it and clear it out.

No, hang on, that's "Jam up the pump"...

A long cylindrical wooden pole, with a hollow end, lying on the floor next to the Mary Rose

A section of the wooden cylinder, with a rectangular hole in it

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 19d

Day 1: "Friend-shaped" #rattober2025

Pencil sketch of two rats snuggling. One is using the other as a pillow.

Photo of two rats snuggling. One is using the other as a pillow.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 19d

Love learning about these female artists and scientists etc who have been largely ignored by history. :-)

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 20d

@artbyemilytull.bsky.social I saw this was on at the museum here (an exhibition about Mary Linwood) and I thought of you - I had never heard of thread painting until I saw your work! www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood

Event Details – Leicester Museums

Details for Leicester Museums & Galleries events and exhibitions programme.

www.leicestermuseums.org

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 24d

Since having pet rats, every time I see a post about rats taking over cities etc. I just think "oh look at the little cuties!". I never thought I'd fall for them this hard...

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 25d

Ah so that's what Pete Liddle wanted it for?! He's totally the man when it comes to getting people fieldwalking.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 27d

Made a map showing all the archaeological fieldwalking recorded on the Historic Environment Record, thought I might as well stick it on here. #Leicestershire #Rutland #Archaeology

Map of Leicestershire and Rutland with blue dots showing where archaeological fieldwalking has been carried out

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 28d

Haha

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 28d

1978 - Kate Bush Vaseline innuendo in "Wow".

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · Sep 18

A pointless endeavour...

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · Sep 18

@thebonuspoints.com science!!

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · Sep 18

Five years ago I wrote an article asking the question: why do some gamers invert their controls. The piece led to scientific research and now a paper has been published! I spoke to the researchers responsible…

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers

www.theguardian.com

Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · Sep 18

As someone who always inverts I'd love to try a test to see how quickly I overcome the Simon Effect compared to other people. Do people who perceive objects in 3D space differently have other common characteristics? For instance I'm female and autistic (I have prosopagnosia).

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · Sep 18

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · Sep 17

Woo hoo!

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Reposted by Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · Sep 17

If #archaeology is not political and relevant to the politics of today, then why the need to destroy it?????

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs.