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Camille @rationalnerd.bsky.social · 19h

Me: "I'm tired of podcasting, I need a break".
Also me: "... But I really really really want to chat about #kpdh though".

Anyway, we talked about queerness in that movie, and a bunch of other stuff too, you should check it out.

Queers of Time Podcast @queersoftime.bsky.social · 19h

New episode is out, wherever you listen to podcasts!

In which Camille has a new obsession (yes, KPop Demon Hunters), but since none of their co-hosts got to watch it, they brought @biologicalriley.bsky.social to chat about how queer that movie felt. Enjoy!

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 21h

I hope I get observation points for seeing you and saying "your hair is curling nicely" without having seen these posts!

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 21h

it is unseemly seeing Winnie the Pooh have a Diana moment

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 21h

Just release Bridgerton weekly you cowards

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

These are the utterly heaven-sent people who publish the historical A-Zs of London, so if you write London-set historicals, you want to follow!

London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 1d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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Fagatha Ghostie @joelnb.bsky.social · 23h

Don't make me tap the Robert Pattinson quote, Leto.

“I always say about people who do method acting, you only ever see people do the method when they’re playing an assholes,” Pattinson said in an interiew with Variety in November. “You never see someone being lovely to everyone while they’re really deep in character.”

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

I have done it!

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Made a Victoria sponge that already looks sad and squished so I have no idea how it's going to look after I haul out across London on Tuesday, I remember why I mostly make solid loaf cakes.
Also these which I hope will travel better

Little round biscuits on a cooling rack with dark and white chocolate drizzled over them

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Hannah Cooper @hannahcooper.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected rabbit hole today is discovering that "Phwoar!" was first recorded by the dictionary in 1976, and 1972's Carry On Matron may be its first film appearance.

I thought I'd found an earlier 60s TV use, but it seems "Phwoar!" is firmly a 70s phenomenon.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

It's a list day today
🐥 Wash towels
🐣 Wash clothes
🐔 Wash bed covers
🥚 REMAKE BED (before bedtime!)
🍲 Make stew
🥚 Tidy kitchen
🎂 Bake for work bake off
🥚 Unpack/test new hoover
🥚 Old hoover to recycling?
🥚 Watch Kpop demon hunters
🥚 Some crochet
🐦 Clean windows (badly, not all of them)

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to make pizza with a what?

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 1d

Two

Blue plant pot on top of wooden dresser, now with two crochet hanging plant strands

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

It's a list day today
🐣 Wash towels
🥚 Wash clothes
🥚 Wash bed covers
🥚 REMAKE BED (before bedtime!)
🥚 Make stew
🥚 Tidy kitchen
🥚 Bake for work bake off
🥚 Unpack/test new hoover
🥚 Old hoover to recycling?
🥚 Watch Kpop demon hunters
🥚 Some crochet

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

He CAN'T REMEMBER he fried his brain!

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

Aaaaaa that was ME I got mentioned!

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 2d

That man loves a pun.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2d

Shakespeare’s Glowbe

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, with bright white lights on either side that makes it look like it’s glowing

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2d

Shakespeare’s Glowbe

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a good point. I can't afford £100 for a covid booster. I could and would cheerfully pay £15 for one as I do flu. I also don't understand why so many aren't eligible for an NHS booster this year considering it didn't miraculously stop being covid over the summer

Gabby @gabliotecaria.bsky.social · 3d

This makes me want to break things. If it's such a no-big (it actually is a big that fucking disabled me), and you're equating it to flu (again, not remotely like), then why aren't the prices comparable?

(They should be free but given that's not going to happen, well)

Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 3d

It’s dispiriting that this is what getting a COVID vaccination now looks like to this chronic asthmatic.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 3d

I went to see this film because Gavia explained the despite the posters (and this preview image) it would definitely be more interesting than "here is a famous man holding a gun".
She was right.

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 3d

Out now on Overinvested: Our review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/one...

Ep. 326: One Battle After Another — OVERINVESTED

Steffan and Gavia review One Battle After Another, widely hailed as the best film of 2025. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this comedic thriller displays startlingly bold politics for a Hollywood st...

www.overinvestedpodcast.com

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 3d

Out now on Overinvested: Our review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/one...

Ep. 326: One Battle After Another — OVERINVESTED

Steffan and Gavia review One Battle After Another, widely hailed as the best film of 2025. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, this comedic thriller displays startlingly bold politics for a Hollywood st...

www.overinvestedpodcast.com

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 3d

Eh, I guess I'm fine with an American dictionary talking about American spellings and pronunciations without specifying that they're American.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

I reject this.
This is not how it works in my accent.
If nobody else agrees that's fine, maybe I have a very specific accent.

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Charlie @charlieedmunds.bsky.social · 4d

I might also want to use my machine to wash towels or bed linens or whatever, before I have a full load of clothes ready to go.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway I wrote an article back in 2013 analyzing permutations on Benedict Cumberbatch which you may read and sub in Timothée Chalamet should you so desire
web.archive.org/web/20250322...

A Linguist Explains the Rules of Summoning Benedict Cumberbatch -The Toast

A willing foe, and sea room.

web.archive.org

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