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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 7h

Apparently I have to give the EU my fingerprints and facial biometric data just to go and see my parents now too. How long before that gets hacked and stolen.

Him Over There, Now Over Here @snathe.bsky.social · 13h

Realised today that our trip to France on Saturday will be our first post-Brexit trip to Europe.

Still, blue passports, eh?

*side glance to camera*

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 7h

You're never going to let me live that down are you?

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 13h

I've got to stop checking BlueSky first thing in the morning. God it's depressing.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure that feeing your porn preferences and your government ID into this will be absolutely fine and won't go horribly wrong.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?”

Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fucking hell. I can't understand how the NHS manages to be quite that incompetent and still actually function.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

Very happy with my anniversary present from @snathe.bsky.social! We played Flamecraft at Goodtime Games in Manchester earlier this year and I absolutely fell in love with it. It's a game about crafting and adorable dragons, basically my ideal game 😁

The box of the board game Flamecraft. The box art shows a fantasy village scene with three cute dragons in the foreground.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

"Many [autistic] young people report higher degrees and frequency of loneliness than the general population. However, that does not necessarily mean that people with autism want to be stuck in rooms full of other people."

scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org/loneliness-n... #neurodiversity #autism

Loneliness Not the Same as Being Alone - Research Horizons

scienceblog.cincinnatichildrens.org

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 2d

This one really hurts. The collapse of social media means its practically impossible to get any attention as a small creator. I know I sound like a pledge drive for PBS Channel 262731 but if you as individual don't support non-corporate, non-mainstream work though, who will?

From The Sublime… Magazine @fromthesublime.bsky.social · 2d

Well, we tried. But it's clear we don't have enough to come close to the line, let alone make it across.

So we're going to pull the plug. Everyone who backed Issue Four has been issued with a refund.

Thanks all for your support and encouragement. Clearly, this time, it just wasn't meant to be.

We Are Not Going to Make It

YouTube video by The Presidents of the United States of America - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Next week is time to plant garlic for those who are planting garlic.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently 7 years is the wool anniversary. I missed a trick, I should have crocheted something for you @snathe.bsky.social !

7 years married, and 18 together! Thank you for sticking with me, I love you 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Him Over There, Now Over Here @snathe.bsky.social · 2d

7 years ago today, this happened.

Happy anniversary @littlegreyboat.bsky.social.

Rwy'n dy garu di am byth.

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Him Over There, Now Over Here @snathe.bsky.social · 2d

7 years ago today, this happened.

Happy anniversary @littlegreyboat.bsky.social.

Rwy'n dy garu di am byth.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 2d

Happy anniversary @snathe.bsky.social. I'm so glad you are my person 😘

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday morning - Doodle in the margins of this 12th century manuscript, Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College - 101, fol. 97v

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 4d

Very pissed off that I don't qualify given that I have ME and Covid is one of the things that are known to trigger it or make it worse!

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 4d

Unsolicited wick pic

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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 4d

Both Cream and The Jam were going to reunite for gigs in Devon and Cornwall this year, but the venues couldn't agree about who should go on first.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 4d

Why the hell have they changed it so the criteria are more restrictive than the flu jab when Covid is more likely to be damaging???

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 4d

Awww, I can't join in because you've disabled quote tweets

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 4d

When you come at inclusion via the early years idea of creating an 'enabling environment' then what happens is that you adapt the setting to suit the children rather than trying to adapt the children to suit the setting.

'The child is not for the school; the school is for the child." #EduSky

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 4d

It won't matter and it isn't the point - transphobia is the point and that's all it is - but if we're going to define rape as gaining sexual consent by deception, that opens up an awful lot of totally normal situations to prosecution. Lots of people lie to get someone into bed.

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