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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Please follow this entire thread: it’s fabulous

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Brazil starts us off inoffensively enough with a fairly boring suit but my goodness he's selling it with that walk. He does get a bonus point for the suit clearly fitting though, because as you will see that is not always a given...

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 1d

Diane Keaton by Annie Leibovitz, 1986

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while a group of 10-15 tourists vanish without a trace in the Paris Catacombs and then afterward the Eiffel Tower is a few feet taller

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Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social · 2d

Happy world mental health day

A photo of a skeleton (who is on fire) holding a sword. Text on the image says:
state of the world? bad
mental health? also bad
but still, we charge forward

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, it’s so good. I think I know what you mean: I watched it for the first time last year and wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but I kept thinking about it ALL the time so I watched it again - and since then it’s become a real favourite (and a comfort film too)

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Weirdly, I needed to read this exact thing at this exact moment so thank you

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Now only £22! 🤞

Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 3d

Excitingly we are only £42 away from being 50% funded. Hopefully we will get there before I wake up tomorrow morning.
www.kickstarter.com/...

The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 3d

You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

The family name angle aside, though, that’s a really good story about rehabilitation and giving people in prison opportunities and support - and how positively transformative that can be

Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

The biggest hint I’m under the weather after my flu jab: it took me a full minute staring at this headline (without the subhead: I’m not quite that bad), thinking “Why is that name familiar…?” before the ‘McAvoy’ bit clicked

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The armed robber who went straight: John McAvoy was born into the criminal life. Here’s how he escaped it

His stepfather was a serious criminal. His uncle was one of the Brink’s-Mat heist gang. McAvoy followed them into crime – and into prison. Then one day in the gym he discovered the talent, drive, supp...

www.theguardian.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

Obvs, if it was just a case of being able to say “I got really good seats to see Keanu Reeves on stage in this ridiculously anticipated show and it cost me $$$ look at me look at me” then my sympathy is… limited

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t decide whether they’ve earned the dunking they’re getting by just assuming they know what they’re getting because it’s Broadway and they KNOW Broadway, or if we ought to be a bit more sympathetic because here’s someone who just wanted to see some stuff they didn’t know and support the arts.

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 4d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 4d

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 4d

I think you’re completely right, obviously, but it still makes me grumpy (not at you!)

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 4d

I guess - but it feels like trying to crunch down the ideas in a book and consume them with no real context or process is a bit of an exercise in defeat. (It’s gobbets, she says, going full History Boys. Gobbets.) And it’s why so many people misquote Caroline Bingley from Pride & Prejudice.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 5d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t get stuff like this. If the point of reading a book is reading the book, then what’s the purpose of it? It’s not like we’re all cramming for exams or having to wade through stuff teachers have chosen. If you don’t want to read a particular book… just don’t. There’s no gotcha if you haven’t!

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KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 7d

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

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Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, applause

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