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Persiflage
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😶 not a girl 🍓 birbs 💘 blogging from deep into the woods 🌳 (bio from not a pornbot: https://perchance.org/botdescript)
Reader; writer; lover of great acting & storytelling; fannish; word nerd; semi-cripple; non-binary. pfp - Red Kite photo by me.
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Enter code FREEPOSTAGE at checkout for you guessed it, free postage! Valid on all orders, originals and prints. claireleach.com/shop
December 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The wind is really noisily battering against my bay window.
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Hi #BookSky 💙📚
I've finished reading Rescuing Christmas by A.J. Marchant
Rescuing Christmas: A Sapphic Firefighter Christmas Rom…
So far, Maggie’s morning has been a roller coaster. She…
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December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Look at this cutie floofster! 🦉💙
burrowingowl.bsky.social Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet standing on a hay bale.
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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My Charity auction ends tonight at 9pm UK time. Wren has reached £420 and mouse has reached £600. If you want to bid please do so in the comments below or by dm. Thanks to everyone who has placed bids so far. This is rapidly becoming my favourite start to Christmas/Advent & makes me super happy
A wren on gold singing A mouse in the thorns on gold looking at you
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Daily #BirdWatch (1/4)
Heard: Robin, Goldfinch, Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Dunnock, Wren, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, Greenfinch, Nuthatch, Siskin, House Sparrow, Starling, Crossbill, Redwing, Black Redstart, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird,

#UKBirding
December 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Very clever! 😜
tomgauld.bsky.social Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11h
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A small child approaches his scientist father who is working at a large, strange, contraption. His face pressed to a viewing tube. “Are you looking forward to Christmas, papa?” Asks the child. “Yes,” replies the scientist“ turning round, “that is exactly what I am doing” then he adds “Thank you for the socks.” We can now see that the viewing tube breaks the border of the comics panel, passes through complicated machinery and allows the scientist to see into the next comic panel: Caption: December 25th A Christmas scene. The child and father-scientist open presents before a Christmas tree. The father has just unwrapped some socks.
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Hi #BookSky 💙📚
I've started reading Rescuing Christmas by A.J. Marchant
Rescuing Christmas: A Sapphic Firefighter Christmas Rom…
So far, Maggie’s morning has been a roller coaster. She…
www.goodreads.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Sweet Jenny Wren absolutely going off out there this morning!

#UKBirding
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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I can guarantee that your life will not be made one iota happier, richer or safer by being beastly to trans people.
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Ha! I thought I'd kept it when I culled my book collection before moving 2 years ago!

34 years old!
A green Faber & Faber paperback edition of Edward Thomas' Collected Poems. It has a photo of Thomas in the centre of the cover.
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Saddens me that Oxfordshire's libraries hold far fewer books than they did 20+ years ago when I came here. Just been trying to borrow books by the diff Dymock Poets, since I don't have spare cash to buy them, and I came up almost empty handed. (Only one.)
Fucking govts who cut library funding.
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I was 16 when I discovered Edward Thomas. An older woman on whom I had a crush introduced me to him.
I once stood in a corridor in Oxford's JR Hospital and searched a map of Oxfordshire that was on the wall until I located Adlestrop while I waited for news of my landlady's potential heart attack.
Adlestrop By Edward Thomas Yes. I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop—only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Source: Poems (1917)
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Dec 6: my card for the festive time this year. Happy Holidays!

#watercolour #watercolor #snow #holiday #Christmas #ArtAdventCalendar
Card that says "Happy Holidays". And old cabin (front-facing), with a chimney, nestled in a clump of trees with snow against and in front of it.
December 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Fucking assholes.
December 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Another birb on a branch for #ArtAdventCalendar
watercolor painting of a crow perched in a tree in autumn colors. The crow is holding a gemstone pendant in its claws.
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
persiflage.bsky.social
That is one ugly piece of crap and therefore entirely suited to its recipient, whose mind is ugly with hate.
nickharkaway.com Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d
Detail from AP’s photo of the FIFA Apocalypse Prize.
The FIFA Peace Prize: a gold Earth with hands reaching up to support or possibly claw at it. The hands are for some reason disintegrating or rotting in places and the globe is partly jagged like the wreckage of a bombed city or a drained, dessicated ocean. Winner: Trump Photo: Associated Press
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Not me, waiting for the new @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social podcast...
a person is wearing a casio watch that shows the time as 2:46
Alt: Gif of someone's wrist that is wearing a Casio watch which shows the time as 2:46. You can see the red and white checked shirt cuff above the watch and their hand is clenched into a fist.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Look at this cutie!!
Robin Redbreast, my best beloved! 💙😍
helenbennett.bsky.social Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 1d
A #HolidayRobin to brighten up the timelines and to wish you all a good weekend. 📷 🪶

#Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ArtAdventCalendar
#EastCoastKin #Nature
A photograph of a European Robin that is facing forward showing off his bright orange chest. His head is turned to the right as viewed as he clings on to a thin branch. The background is festive that shows blurry shadows of surrounding fir tree branches and light snow falling.
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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You ridiculous floofster! 🦉💙
burrowingowl.bsky.social Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 1d
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl tilting his head more than 90 degrees to the side.
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Hi #BookSky 💙📚
I've finished re-reading Christmas at Applemore by Rachael Lucas
Christmas at Applemore
Harry Robertson is determined to make the Applemore Hot…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Daily #BirdWatch (1/3)
Heard: Robin, Goldfinch, Goldcrest, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Wren, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Blackcap, House Sparrow, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Starling, Redwing, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Collared Dove, Rock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Magpie,

#UKBirding
December 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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#SignalBoost
lizaadamczewski.bsky.social Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 1d
I’m doing a second auction for Patch, a local charity that provides food, cloths and toys for people in poverty. At Christmas time they gift toys to kids who’ve had a referral. What could be more in the spirit of Christmas? This little wren is up for auction to raise money for toys. Please dig deep
A wren on a gold triptych
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Of course he did!
I love him, your honour. 💙😍
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I signed up to WordDaily and today's word is my username. I snorted very loudly!
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM