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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 2d

I know my audience 😆

Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 2d

Muwahahahahah

a man with a pumpkin on his head is dancing in a cemetery with the words * spooky noises.com *

Alt: a man with a pumpkin on his head is dancing in a cemetery with the words * spooky noises.com *

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 2d

Chartership now involves toerings

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 2d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 4d

Just had a filling, and Sweet Caroline on the radio mixed with the dentist's drills felt very Starmer's Britain

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 11d

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 11d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 15d

Cowards and fools, all

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 15d

So my noise-cancelling headphones successfully drowned out the sound of a neighbour's roofer falling off the roof* which I guess is a great advert for them fulfilling their promise but also feels weirdly on point for our current dystopia

*Looks like he's going to be ok!

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 16d

We used to be a *profession*

Quite Interesting @qi.com · 16d

In the late 17th century, the librarian of the Vatican wrote a treatise on how Jesus' foreskin ascended to become the rings of Saturn.

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · 25d

Fern got into a pack of flour and licked so vigorously and so wetly she made face dough

Chocolate lab looking not at all repentant, muzzle and whiskers white

A closer shot showing the texture of the white stuff. It is no longer flour. It possesses goop.

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 28d

Queen

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 27d

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · Sep 13

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Rue

Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, a street sign in Burgundy reads, Assassinée pour ses convictions.

No British road is named after her, I found on returning home, for fear it could have proved controversial.

I remembered in Shakespeare rue even for ruth, called 'herb of grace' because it was used in exorcisms,

by the angel to clean Adam's eyes, and Gulliver back home for his nose against the smell of his countrymen.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · Sep 13

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

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Bethan @bethanar.bsky.social · Sep 14

Just had to peel a slug that had been through a wash/dry cycle off the drum of my washing machine. If you need me I'll be in a corner, shaking and retching.

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