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911-blondie.bsky.social @911-blondie.bsky.social · 12h

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 4h

That's really lovely!

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 4h

👏👏👏

Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 4d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 4h

Cardiff first to go with a #Wankpanzer parking charge.

Great work Cardiff 👏👏👏

Let's hope more councils follow suit, and quickly.

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 6h

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and fairer

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

nation.cymru

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 14h

A Brief History of Let’s Bring Back The Good Old Days

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 1d

Went to see I Swear with @ouizzi.bsky.social last night.

Robert Aramayo is excellent as Tourettes campaigner John Davidson, whose story definitely deserves to be told.

Sometimes very funny, at others very sad, would thoroughly recommend.

The theatrical poster for the film I Swear.

It has the words
I BLINK
I TWITCH
I JUMP
I CLICK
I WHISTLE
I SHOUT
I SWEAR

The main actor Robert Aramayo stands in the centre of the poster, wearing a blue tracksuit.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Don’t even think about decking! How to create a nature-friendly low-maintenance garden

Garden getting you down? Tempted to just pave or concrete over the whole thing and put your feet up? There are more enjoyable and eco-friendly alternatives, from miniature meadows to giant borders

www.theguardian.com

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 1d

She is *all* the pretty!!!

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 1d

I know some restaurants that would be great for a post show debrief

kermit the frog is wearing a black hoodie and kermit the frog is wearing a black hood .

Alt: kermit the frog is wearing a black hoodie and kermit the frog is wearing a black hood .

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 1d

I was in Edinburgh at the wrong time for this. You have to go back next year.

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, but what a time to be alive! 😘

Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 1d

They look majestically uncalmed.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and the moment his mother came at him with a knife

www.theguardian.com

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Never heard of him......

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, hope the lemsip does it's job and you feel better soon.

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Dreaming of the Olympics in Los Angeles, 2028. It's all you can think of, day and night.....

It would mean so much if your family could help you reach your goal

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Gymnastics equipment. Helping stretch those muscles for doing the splits on the beam

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Missing a baffie.

Need to go in the kitchen to make a cup of tea, but I'm not braving that cold floor with one bare foot.

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Always the way 😂

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Monstrous Jaffa @monstrousjaffa.bsky.social · 2d

Good choices though

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 3d

Ada Lovelace Day has begun! As midnight arrives on Kiritimati Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, our global celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths begins! Join us in celebrating by posting about your fave women in STEM #ALD25!

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 3d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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