Dr Penelope
@redfiddler.bsky.social
Social researcher, novelist, violinist, painter, neurodiverse, redhead. 🇵🇬🇹🇱🇳🇱🇦🇺
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This is one of my favourite bits of short fiction I've written lately. I'm taking the paywall off it for 24 hours only, as preview of the collection of short stories I'm self-publishing this year, and to hopefully lure a few more of you into subscribing to my website: www.tom-cox.com/my-ex-husban...
My Ex-Husband's Landlady
This is one of my favourite bits of short fiction I wrote last year. I'm posting it here, unpaywalled, for 24 hours, in an effort to lure a few people into subscribing and as a taster for the collecti...
www.tom-cox.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
This is one of my favourite bits of short fiction I've written lately. I'm taking the paywall off it for 24 hours only, as preview of the collection of short stories I'm self-publishing this year, and to hopefully lure a few more of you into subscribing to my website: www.tom-cox.com/my-ex-husban...
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I love that Timor-Leste, that new, small country so badly treated by Australia, has taken such a radical, yet logical stand against human rights abuses and crimes agains humanity committed by the vaious military juntas in Myanmar.
With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own
As violence escalates around the world, victims are increasingly looking for justice in domestic courts, rather than international ones.
theconversation.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:49 AM
I love that Timor-Leste, that new, small country so badly treated by Australia, has taken such a radical, yet logical stand against human rights abuses and crimes agains humanity committed by the vaious military juntas in Myanmar.
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This was yesterday's story, which brought me about 50 new free subscribers, which I was chuffed about: www.tom-cox.com/old-litkinov...
Old Litkinov
New writing by bestselling author Tom Cox.
www.tom-cox.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:49 AM
This was yesterday's story, which brought me about 50 new free subscribers, which I was chuffed about: www.tom-cox.com/old-litkinov...
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Me: Sorry, can't make it. I caught corvid
Them: ... You mean COVID?
Crows in my handbag: "No sHE EffING DOESN'T"
Them: ... You mean COVID?
Crows in my handbag: "No sHE EffING DOESN'T"
February 8, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Me: Sorry, can't make it. I caught corvid
Them: ... You mean COVID?
Crows in my handbag: "No sHE EffING DOESN'T"
Them: ... You mean COVID?
Crows in my handbag: "No sHE EffING DOESN'T"
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Billionaires: "Cost of living crisis is complicated."
Also billionaires: putting anti-theft stickers on pork like it’s a Rolex because food now needs security guards.
Nothing says healthy society like protecting meat from hungry people.
#SocialistSunday
Also billionaires: putting anti-theft stickers on pork like it’s a Rolex because food now needs security guards.
Nothing says healthy society like protecting meat from hungry people.
#SocialistSunday
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Billionaires: "Cost of living crisis is complicated."
Also billionaires: putting anti-theft stickers on pork like it’s a Rolex because food now needs security guards.
Nothing says healthy society like protecting meat from hungry people.
#SocialistSunday
Also billionaires: putting anti-theft stickers on pork like it’s a Rolex because food now needs security guards.
Nothing says healthy society like protecting meat from hungry people.
#SocialistSunday
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A great egret at Bald Hill Beach yesterday.
February 8, 2026 at 9:18 AM
A great egret at Bald Hill Beach yesterday.
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Congratulations to Sociology.
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Congratulations to Sociology.
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My birding buddy, Simon, at dawn with shorebirds zooming around.
Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.
Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.
February 7, 2026 at 6:06 AM
My birding buddy, Simon, at dawn with shorebirds zooming around.
Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.
Bald Hill Beach, South Australia.
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Ex-Catholic church lawyer who warned US bishops of systemic clergy abuse dies at 78 | New Orleans clergy abuse | The Guardian share.google/i5XQtQeq1HNX...
Ex-Catholic church lawyer who warned US bishops of systemic clergy abuse dies at 78
Ray Mouton was one of the earliest and most influential figures in exposing sexual abuse inside the church
share.google
February 7, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Ex-Catholic church lawyer who warned US bishops of systemic clergy abuse dies at 78 | New Orleans clergy abuse | The Guardian share.google/i5XQtQeq1HNX...
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I hate the arrogance of salted caramel
“Oh I’ve made caramel better”
Have you fuck?
“Oh I’ve made caramel better”
Have you fuck?
February 7, 2026 at 7:59 AM
I hate the arrogance of salted caramel
“Oh I’ve made caramel better”
Have you fuck?
“Oh I’ve made caramel better”
Have you fuck?
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Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt
February 7, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt
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February 4, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Horror films with creepy posh children.
What "core British values" has "the left" not defended? Can someone ask this sentient fucking saucepan what he means?
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Horror films with creepy posh children.
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I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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Tender writing:
“it’s this that seems possibly the most quaint and vintage thing of all: the philosophy of going away on your own and doing something well and not telling anybody about it.
Some people called it The Me Decade… But for us it was more like The Don’t Mind Me Decade.”
“it’s this that seems possibly the most quaint and vintage thing of all: the philosophy of going away on your own and doing something well and not telling anybody about it.
Some people called it The Me Decade… But for us it was more like The Don’t Mind Me Decade.”
February 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Tender writing:
“it’s this that seems possibly the most quaint and vintage thing of all: the philosophy of going away on your own and doing something well and not telling anybody about it.
Some people called it The Me Decade… But for us it was more like The Don’t Mind Me Decade.”
“it’s this that seems possibly the most quaint and vintage thing of all: the philosophy of going away on your own and doing something well and not telling anybody about it.
Some people called it The Me Decade… But for us it was more like The Don’t Mind Me Decade.”
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Corriearklet: the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognise each other and immediately pretend they haven’t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognising each other the whole length of the corridor (The Meaning of Liff)
What "core British values" has "the left" not defended? Can someone ask this sentient fucking saucepan what he means?
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Corriearklet: the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognise each other and immediately pretend they haven’t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognising each other the whole length of the corridor (The Meaning of Liff)
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It is time we just put all power in the hands of Dolly Parton
Somebody needs to start a list of powerful people not in the Epstein files. Shorter.
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM
It is time we just put all power in the hands of Dolly Parton
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Who is in the Epstein files:
Rich, white billionaire men
Who isn’t in the Epstein Files
Immigrants (except gross creepy Elon Musk 🤢)
First Nations people
Refugees
Muslims
Trans people
Drag queens
Rich, white billionaire men
Who isn’t in the Epstein Files
Immigrants (except gross creepy Elon Musk 🤢)
First Nations people
Refugees
Muslims
Trans people
Drag queens
February 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Who is in the Epstein files:
Rich, white billionaire men
Who isn’t in the Epstein Files
Immigrants (except gross creepy Elon Musk 🤢)
First Nations people
Refugees
Muslims
Trans people
Drag queens
Rich, white billionaire men
Who isn’t in the Epstein Files
Immigrants (except gross creepy Elon Musk 🤢)
First Nations people
Refugees
Muslims
Trans people
Drag queens
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A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
![Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udzkh2jubo3w6ei42ftanhhj/bafkreic3fp5yp3asvebljrnnzovrw5a5nljp57bgxoyzh6z33m3qczpn4u@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.