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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if @moudhy.bsky.social knows?

Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 1h

YESSS, and things which don't have lights and ruin the room you're trying to sleep in.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 2h

Bring back dumb appliances.

Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 2h

I don't want to talk to my phone. I don't want to talk to my laptop. I don't want to talk to my TV. I very definitely do not want to talk to my appliances. Hell, I don't even want all those things to have blinking lights (why must EVERYTHING have lights now).

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 2h

You are crummy, Adam 🤣

May I suggest The Wheatsheafs by Roald Dahl
Hovis's Moving Castle
Scone with the Wind
Yeast o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
Crime and Bunishment

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 5h

My top suggestions of books to read this World Bread Day...

- The Focaccia in the Rye
- Yeast of Eden
- Flours for Algernon
- The Lion, the Witch and the Warburtons
- Pannetonement
- The Naan in the High Castle
- Leaven Las Vegas
- Pitta Rabbit

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 3h

Sheesh. Wish someone had.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 8h

I drew an ICE guy.

#ICE #FuckICE #Fascist #Art #Resist #NoKings

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 9h

Calling all Irish weather and climate enthusiasts!

Just a quick post to share an opportunity to get involved in a bit of Citizen Science. The inestimable Zooniverse has teamed up with Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, in a project called Irish Weather Rescue. Your mission,…

Calling all Irish weather and climate enthusiasts!

Just a quick post to share an opportunity to get involved in a bit of Citizen Science. The inestimable Zooniverse has teamed up with Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, in a project called Irish Weather Rescue. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help digitize historical weather records that currently only exist on paper.

telescoper.blog

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 5h

Let me have my fun and absurdities, Edd

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 5h

I should run the space telescopes organisation.

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 5h

Can we build another 25 JWSTs? Or maybe make the JWST stand "still" in the Universe so its time goes much faster and everybody can have a 2 minute time slot that relativity will cause to last ages from JWST's perspective?

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Andy Jenkins @bojenk.bsky.social · 19h

Checking with the hospital to make sure my upcoming colonoscopy is being performed by the local discount plumber and not some totalitarian with a medical degree

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 8h

How to get toddler access to the cats' water bowls I should imagine.

Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 8h

Cats haven't told me what they think about that, which I find a little strange.

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 8h

Toddler decided to go and sit in a cat bed. She fits in it perfectly and it is exceptionally cute.

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 9h

For the love of everything, please could people give it a rest with "let that sink in". We don't need strangers to tell us what to think & feel. I guarantee you that 5 minutes after I see your post, I'll have trouble remembering your Big Fact, but I won't yet have forgotten your irritating pomposity

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Oh my gosh! So sorry to hear this - I hope you/whoever it is will be OK.

And that would be amazing, please tell me more! xxx

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 11h

13 hours left - six families and a displcement camp of fifteen more, that’s 21 families, all depending on us. Do the math about support evaporating, because it has. They need:

- Food
- Shelter / tents
- Winter items
- Newborn supplies
- Transport north

Currently 407/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

That's fantastic news! Huge congratulations and also, no horrid stuff happening in the world or to me personally makes me resentful to see this, so I'm glad you posted it.

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Seconded

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 11h

FFS, use headphones, you absolute fucking feral arseholes. (Yeah, I'm on the tube.)

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely! Choosing your kid's name is not done lightly!

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Believe it or not ... scientists and experts DO often know what they're talking about.

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

a man is holding a stuffed lion cub in his arms .

Alt: A lion cub approaches a man in a black T-shirt and they hug each other!

media.tenor.com

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

Ugh, over 20 years ago I sat in lecture theatres listening to professors predicting this would happen.

umsonst.bsky.social @umsonst.bsky.social · 13h

Important principle: sink do not just decline, they switch into sources with the whole terrestrial carbon sink soon to follow.

One more temperature jump to go...

#earth #climate #sinks

Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source

Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 11h

I'm slightly confused by the implication that the Philippines is in Sweden. However, it is an excellent rowan tree picture in here, and many more gorgeous red and yellow tree pics www.thelocal.se/20251016/in-...

IN PICTURES: Readers capture Sweden’s autumn in all its glory

From city parks to rural wilderness, these pictures, all taken by The Local's readers, will make you fall in love with Sweden all over again this autumn.

www.thelocal.se

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Alice Sheppard @penguingalaxy.bsky.social · 12h

And you made me into a bit of a published author too ☺️

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