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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg

@siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social

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Freelance creative, project manager, and business development person. Previously in HE. Currently, all over the place. Lover of books, ceramics, snacks, silliness, exploring, foul language, visual/material culture. (And sometimes tennis and hospitality.)

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Professor John Charmley obituary: controversial Churchill biographer

Cheerful revisionist historian who also ruffled academic feathers with his admiration for Thatcher, dies aged 69

www.thetimes.com

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Valentine @valent6228.bsky.social · 5h

Among the Sierra Nevada, California (1868) - Albert Bierstadt #luminism #landscape

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 14h

Ah, you're so welcome.

Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 16h

I will never not find it funny that the strings in Sisqo's Thong Song were inspired by Eleanor Rigby.

Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 16h

The echolalia is strong today.
I saw the name Aleister Crowley, earlier, and have had it knocking around my head all day to the tune of Eleanor Rigby.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 16h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 19h

Can I ask what utility is there in a government that is able to shut down at will, massively disadvantaged the very people it is supposed to serve, for what appears to be no reason?
How are there not checks and balances to prevent something so damaging?

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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 20h

Agatha Christie was an avid surfer. Loved it. My parents went to a lecture about her recently, and it came up. There is no joke here. I just wanted you to have it to think about this afternoon.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d

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www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 2d

Being a bibliophile is fun because I get to say things like “I’m reading” when I’m actually dissociating in silence.

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 22h

I never assume it's a mental deficiency unless it's patently obvious. 😆

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 22h

Today I learned there’s a penguin called Jane Goodall and she’s travelled 5000km since April.

A map of the east coast of South America, with several tracking lines, each representing a penguin. Jane Goodall’s line is highlighted in pale pink. There is also an inset with her facts and figures: body weight 4600g, tagged 25th April 2025, distance travelled 4769.3 km, average speed 2 kmh.

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 23h

Does anyone else have a particular word that they've been unable to scrub from their minds for most of their life because it just feels right?

Mine is "subito".

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 23h

Although, I gave up caring some time ago, since the origin of most of them is autocorrect.

Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 23h

(The irony will never escape me that I work in an area where typos are sacrilege and yet in my private life I am a mess of them.)

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 23h

*satisfued lipsmack*

Bright pink dahlia flowers in front of a brick wall.

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes. The observe. The tea slurp.

Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a mustache and a name tag that says mal

ALT: a man with a mustache and a name tag that says mal

media.tenor.com

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Siobhan Hoffmann Sønderborg @siobhanhoffmann.bsky.social · 1d

That's a lot to ask, isn't it? I never saw them live but was a big fan of their music. I think, ultimately, shifting the blame from Watkins and onto people who were very young at the time, and who found joy in the music/had zero knowledge of his depravity is a weird thing to suggest.