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Spooky Snigdha

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Food, music, politics. Views mine, don't threaten to email my boss. (She/her). Mini blog http://snigskitchen.tumblr.com Main blog https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17d

My September 2025 favourites list is here, focussing on recipe inspiration. Hope you enjoy it!
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September 2025 favourites list

Welcome to this month’s collection, focussing on recipes. The change in season has brought with it a change to what I want to cook and eat. ...

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 2h

"Russia’s exit from the anti-torture convention is a stark declaration: the Russian state will act as it pleases and reject the oversight that might restrain its worst impulses," writes lawyer and serviceman Nestor Barchuk in his recent op-ed.

Russia has tortured Ukrainian POWs for years. Now they're even more vulnerable

On Sept. 29, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, symbolically making Russia the first country in history to aban...

kyivindependent.com

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 2h

Really appreciate your help here!

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 2h

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/little-...

Dark past of city's forgotten 'Little Hell' on brothel streets

Walking down these streets today you'd never know they used to be hotbeds of vice

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 8h

959 years ago, on the 14th of October 1066, the Battle of Hastings took place. Harold Godwinson (king of England for 282 days) died in the battle that would turn William from Bastard to Conqueror. Battle Abbey's high altar is said to be in the exact location of Harold II's death. #otd #history 🗃️

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting an English soldier in combat with Norman cavalry during the Battle of Hastings, wool on linen, 11th-century; in the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, France.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

As much as £1bn? Lisa Nandy had said £400m. Please can you tell me where you found this new costing? It seems like a shocking waste.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

Which would explain why the parents didn't want Cathy and Heathcliff getting too close. Gosh, Miss Wheeler never mentioned any of this! 😯

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

Half siblings? So you don't buy the story old man Earnshaw found him?

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

Such a wholesome thread. The feeding squirrels one is so sweet.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

Lots of the big accounts are about broadcasting rather than interacting. It was the same on Twitter.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 4h

Living their best life. Love it. 😍

Patriciajaydee @patriciajaydee.bsky.social · 11h

The rikishi are taking-in the town and doing what we all do when in London.
Seeing the sights, admiring the parks, shopping on High Street, taking tea at Fortnum's, using the olde phonebox, eating Chinese, and having a terrific time.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 6h

Pierluigi Collina, the former football referee

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 6h

The current infection spike should tell the government to widen the current eligibility criteria for Covid vaccination. If they're paying attention.

Weekly hospital Covid admissions per 100,000 population since September 2023, UKHSA data to 29 September 2025

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 8h

This is the inevitable outcome of relentless anti-immigration political rhetoric and a media environment which disproportionately amplifies the voices of racists, giving the indication that they are the "voice of the public" rather than the minority they are.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 7h

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 8h

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you for saying this, Patrick.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry, what? There is no “race debate”. There is racism, there are racists.

This isn’t a legitimate political polemic, this is hate speech and hate crime.

Can we stop trying to wedge the bigotry of fragile white men in to public discourse? Doing so is hate-washing and we need to stop it.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 6h

Why are you using the phrase "race debates", when what you mean is racism and racist behaviour from racists? Why so coy to call out what is staring everyone in the face?

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 7h

I found someone's school edition of Romeo and Juliet in the street a few years ago, all tabbed up, and annotated with careful, colour coded notes. I had to rescue it, as it seemed a shame for it to go in the trash.

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Amanda Jeyaretnam 🔸 (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 15h

Why are you still all on Twitter? Explain it to me like I’m five years old. @libdems.org.uk

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18h

Tommy Ten Names Robinson (a British national who travels on an Irish passport but rails against non-white UK migrants) is supported for his legal proceedings financially by Elon Musk (a South African born migrant to the USA), but that's all totally normal, right?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry I missed your joke. I've deleted my post.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18h

Lol, my A level Shakespeare annotations were in brightly coloured biro.

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks so much Jez. My Mum was very sceptical about me writing in my English A level texts. Books in Hinduism are a manifestation of the Goddess of Learning. So I feel the need to say annotations are learning. I think they honour Saraswati.

a painting of a woman sitting on a flower holding a guitar

Alt: Saraswati the Goddess of Learning, language and music.

media.tenor.com

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18h

If it is *your* copy of the music score and it helps you with expression, or timing, or tone, I say go for it!

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18h

Fantastic to see this, Otto!

Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 18h

Writing your own marginal notes in a book as you read is not a bad thing. Don't restrict yourself to Post-its. Your marginal notes help you make sense as you read, they're participation in the text. Stop telling people they can't write in their own books.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat