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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 8h

www.chapter.org/whats-on/the...

Set up in 1971, we're an international centre for contemporary arts and culture | Sefydlwyd Chapter yn 1971, ac mae’n ganolfan rhwngwladol ar gyfer y…

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 9h

Readers of the Hobbit may be familiar with attercop as an old regional English term for spider. This has a slightly interesting trajectory. First, atter is an old word for venom, but that association had been lost so the term applied very generally to spiders...

Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 14h

"Cobweb" comes from an old word for "spider," coming from Old English "coppe." So a cobweb is really just a spider's web.

#etymology

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 8h

Sad news on entries to this year's @womensprize.bsky.social

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15h

No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 15h

Aleister Crowley's 150th today. From my introduction to THE DEAD OF SUMMER...

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 15h

We all got to have a bit of practice recently at understanding that you can believe murder is bad while not being particularly sad at the death of a heinous individual. So let's just apply what we practiced.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 1d

The Toxic Avenger fandom exceeds expectations, helps to erase crushing medical debt for over 10,000 families in need, raising $15 million.

TOXIC AVENGER Fans Raised $15 Million to Erase Medical Debt

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 1d

The analog hell-screams of bytes pumped in and relentlessly converted into sound and light.

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Jonny Deane @jondeane.io · 1d

You know, I think we have a real problem with market research. I don't believe for a second that 42% didn't know this. I'm betting the question was fucking weird.

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 1d

I’m not sure who this is an ‘exclusive’. Local press has been running the story for months. Nor is it a ‘legal loophole’ - the landlord is a private company (albeit owned by the council). The tenancies were always intended to be of limited term, because…

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't realise it was #bookshopday. Inadvertently celebrated with a trip to the indie romance pop up bookshop in Maesteg.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 1d

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 1d

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...

Guillermo Del Toro, Netflix, Gobelins Team On Stop-Motion Studio

The new Paris studio shares a stop-motion spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and honors Mark Gustafson’s legacy.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 2d

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/chic...

It happened.

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 2d

In a time when the powers that be are telling us to fear Quakers and the Fabians, the idea of the gentle absurdity of the Frog Chorus as an anti-fascist anthem pleases me.

Also this is never going to happen, obviously.

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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 2d

My lord, the West is deluged with a plague of frogs... 😂

Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 3d

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

lmao this is how you do it

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 3d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 2d

I obviously haven't watched the "content" put out by the Home Office of this, but it seems that "group flights" may mean they have started using charters?

www.gov.uk/government/n...

First illegal migrants returned under new UK-France agreement

Under the landmark UK-France migration deal, the first groups of small boats arrivals to the UK have been successfully removed on flights to France.

www.gov.uk

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 3d

Quakers in Britain have warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are "not only unnecessary but dangerous".

Quakers warn new protest powers “dangerous and unnecessary”

Quakers in Britain have warned that new government plans to tighten protest laws even further are “not only unnecessary but dangerous”.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Siân Pearce @sianp.bsky.social · 2d

They all stand together...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

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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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 3d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

This isn’t as bad as its headline, but it’d have benefited from reminding readers what the ECHR mainly prevents governments from doing in the immigration field, ie expelling people to face torture or similarly inhuman treatment, and tearing apart families with non-British members for no good reason

Would leaving the ECHR really 'stop the boats'?

The extent to which leaving the Convention would make a difference to immigration has been greatly exaggerated, argues Lord Sumption

www.bbc.co.uk

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Law Paw Calendar (Billable Hour) @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to everyone who has entered - I have now replied to every entry I have received, so if you haven't had an email, please get in touch!

Whilst we're getting everything ready for the voting to begin, please do consider sponsoring everyone's favourite legal-themed pet calendar

Law Paw Calendar (Billable Hour) @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social · 4d

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SPONSORS!
Thank you again to our lovely 2025 sponsors.
To see YOUR logo on our 2026 calendar for the low-low price of £150, contact [email protected]

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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, actual Seventh Doctor actor Sylvester McCoy is on the protest line against DJT and for migration ♥️

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a step change from a party which achieves its malign ends within the traditional conception of our constitution & one which is prepared to lay waste to it, and the Tories have rapidly moved from one to the other. But you’d understand none of that from reading the BBC’s political editor.

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 4d

As you’d expect, Chris is absolutely “fascinated” by the goings-on at the Tory Party conference and what they say about its polling. So much so that he forgot the bits he was going to put in about all the Blackshirt posturing or the party’s trashing of the rule of law

Kemi Badenoch hopes to grab attention with policy blitz

The Tory leader's conference speech included a new pledge to scrap stamp duty on the purchase of main homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

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