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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 7m

Except she wasn't playing.

Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 11m

You were lucky there, England, saved by the rain. Not good enough, as Nat S-B said. Pakistan were robbed. #Cricket #WomensCricket #CWC2025 🏏

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 1h

Tit. "He is also going to continue putting flags up - despite the council asking him to stop."

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 1h

"He also says he used AI to research the laws of where he could hang flags." I've just rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 1h

Dolphins and whales both have blow holes and no gills. Sharks have gills.
I mean, it's also got legs and feet, so I'm over thinking this to some degree. 😊

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 1h

That's a shark, it's got gills 😁

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no! I'm so sorry for your loss, he was an excellent cat.

Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 3h

Amphetamines and Valium sorted them right out.

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 4h

Right. Choir/classical music nerds, this is for you. Everyone else, you’re dismissed.

A very deep cut: Do any of you know of a recording of Haydn’s Creation that uses as the text the Michael Pilkington Novello edition (i.e New Novello, not old Novello). For the life of me I cannot find one.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 4h

I'm so sorry for your loss.

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Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social · 7h

This is a lovely thread by my very dear friend about my uncle who died yesterday. The ‘teaching an actor what Eastenders is before he got a part in it’ anecdote is a very cherished memory.

John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social · 17h

This is very sad news. I think Tony’s appearance as Ensor in Blake’s 7 was the first time I became aware of him, and then a few years later he was really excellent as one of the main characters in the first series of Geoff McQueen’s Big Deal.

Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 20h

RIP Tony Caunter, seen here in Blakes 7 "Deliverance"

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 5h

As always, it's about the erosion and removal of consent, isn't it?
It doesn't matter that the real life woman you want to have sex with doesn't want to have sex with you, this is a way for men to override "no".

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 7h

That is neither ridiculous nor not useful, though.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, it's one of the reasons I try to be restrained with my use of emoji. If you put a 👏 between every word in a sentence it gets read out as "[word] clapping hands [word] clapping hands [word] clapping hands" etc. Impossible.

Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 8h

Screen readers read a description of every emoji. So a wordle post could read something like
Green square black square black square orange square green square green square green square orange square [I give up, I've lost count, but you get the picture].

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 8h

One of the many blessings of the mute function here is that you can mute emoji.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 8h

Morning wombat.

a small furry animal standing on a beach near the ocean

Alt: GIF. A wombat scratching its back hip with a front paw. It is standing on some sandy grassland and has the sea behind it.

media.tenor.com

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 8h

I'm glad someone enjoys him 😊

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 9h

Once again, the argument against road safety + pollution improvements consists of what people 'feel', their 'views' and 'feedback'.

No actual evidence, because that would show that LTNs work.

Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 9h

This is absolutely bizarre. These LTNs, which from the start always had majority local support, & which were paid for by TfL, are now uncontroversial in practice. Removal of £2million OBGR improvements would be an unprecedented act of social vandalism & financial waste. Shameful stuff.

Letter from Lutfur Rahman and Aspire Councillors promising they’re still planning to rip out the LTNs as soon as possible.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 9h

Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wildlife Photographer of the Year: snapping the world's rarest hyena

Photographer Wim van den Heever got the winning shot beside an abandoned diamond mining settlement.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nicola @scrapegroat.bsky.social · 23h

DINNERS: Where can you get a nice vegan dinner in or near the Marlybone area? (Just needs good vegan options, does not have to be exclusively vegan. Must serve alcohol.)

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 20h

Whether you want to be on it or not.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22h

There is no "joking" way to say Nazi shit.
They say it because they mean it.
And we should stop letting them pretend its "just a joke"

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 21h

It also helps to emphasise that Portland is not some burning hellhole. You can't show footage of dancing unicorns while you're trying to convince people that somewhere is a crime-ridden nightmare.

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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 22h

This is about removing consent. Like the AI Marilyn Monroe, it's a way to get people who don't or can't consent to having sex with you to do it anyway.

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