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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12h

I find the current debate profoundly frightening. If I want to crack a joke about the hate directed my way, maybe fkn let me, rather than lecture that "by justifying myself I stigmatise other migrants". I wasn't doing anything of the sort. Those ARE my circumstances. Should I make up different ones?

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17h

I have never claimed a single benefit in 35 years and have created several jobs. I think I might be doing it wrong.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 17h

Never have I seen such a perfect example of Schrödinger's Migrant.

Zia Yusuf, asked whose PIP Reform would cut, talks about "foreign nationals". Less than a minute later, same "foreign nationals" are taking all the jobs and damning British youth to life on PIP.

🤡 Utter clownshow. ~AA

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Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social · 41m

www.marstonspubs.co.uk/raise-a-glass/

Raise a Glass for Our Veterans | Marston's PLC

We’re summoning all you spooky souls down to your local haunt from 17th October – 1st November for a monster fortnight of devilish events and spooky treats!

www.marstonspubs.co.uk

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Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social · 49m

Yes. Although I may change my habit now we have an induction hob (previously gas)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 5h

An artist has installed some coal dust in front of a roll of paper. She encourages people to walk through it to leave footprints.
Suddenly there's a rush!
People taking off their shoes.
Grinning faces.
Bare feet.
There's creative fun to be had! (5)

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radek @radekllundain.bsky.social · 19h

"this meeting could have been a clay tablet"

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23h

Disappointed a politician won’t make an extreme and hasty decision in the immediate wake of a shockingly unusual event

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 23h

Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, rules out metal detecting arches at stations, pointing out that with the number of stations and entrances to each it's basically impossible. She says that overall, UK trains are a pretty safe place to be.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 22h

Shell-o...is it a Linnean Lens you're looking for?

Tomorrow, Jon Ablett will share some species from our collection – from sex changing seashells, to killer cone shells. We'll hear how molluscs have been used for dyes, clothing, and even musical instruments.

Join online, 2pm, 4 Nov

Linnean Lens | Treasures of the Linnean Shells collection

A shell show-and-tell, with Jon Ablett, Senior Curator of Mollusca at the Natural History Museum, sharing the Linnean shell collection.

buff.ly

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Darren Maughan @darrenm1973.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

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bjørnebær @lilbjornebaer.bsky.social · 1d

time to put away the halloween decorations

A black cat sits in a basket on a shelf.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 1d

Two small humans (5?) are crouched over an air grate in the footpath, waving bubble wands over the outrushing air...
And WHOOOSH.
A giant cloud of bubbles!
Ohh this is fun.
They do it again!
Looking around to see if anyone has noticed their admirable bubbly ingenuity. (3)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Spotted at a Mask Carnivale in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A dreamy young human (7?) is participating in a haka but he's a bit distracted.
But it's okay.
His friend is at his side.
Hip bumping him and reminding him how it goes.
Yes!
He's got it now!
Eyes wide.
Face fierce.
He's in the zone. (1)

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Job alert!

We are looking for a permanent full-time archivist to join our friendly team!

Closing date: 11 December 2025

For full details and to apply see: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

#ArchiveJobs #LibraryJobs #Heritage #ExeterJobs #Exeter #Archives #RareBooks

Collage of 40 images of archives and rare books held at the University of Exeter Special Collections.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2d

These gorgeous cards are now available to buy again!

UK only, free shipping, good discounts for multiple packs.

ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2d

I've spent my whole 'printshop day' preparing these for shipping, rather than actually playing in my workshop, so it would be really fab if you wanted to buy some of my cards? 😉

Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 2d

These gorgeous cards are now available to buy again!

UK only, free shipping, good discounts for multiple packs.

ko-fi.com/s/1af2e209ad

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 2d

It's November so I'm allowed to quietly whisper the word #Christmas, right? Sneaking in between my #Folklore promos I also wanted to point towards a book based on archival research but cosily fictionalised as magical realism - I wrote the book I'd always wanted to read

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Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social · 2d

Saw my last film at the Cambridge Film Festival Victims of Sin

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 3d

2. Culinary Witches

Panel 1:
A blasted moor. Night. Two witches stand by a cauldron. One stirs. one adds ingredients and chants:
"Eye of newt, toe of frog, wing of bat..."

Panel 2
She continues: "Head of garlic, pinch of sumac, glug of walnut oil, leaf of kale, tablespoon of pomegranate molasses, cup of polenta, shake of smoked paprika..."

Panel 3
The witches' pet raven says to their cat: "Things were a lot simpler around here before they got that Ottolenghi cookbook."

p.s. I know that in Shakespeare it is ‘wool of bat’ but I thought ‘wing’ was better visually.

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Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social · 3d

Another excellent film from the Cambridge Film Festival. The Fisherman. Set in Ghana with magical realism touches but so much more #CFF25 #film #Ghana

Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social · 4d

It is lovely

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

Going to a Halloween party tomorrow for the first time in years and have no costume. If I take a prescription and some half finished medical notes could I go as an NHS discharge process?

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 4d

Clearly we need a return to the traditional method of royal succession: strange women lying in ponds distributing swords.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I think we are actually going to get him formally removed from the succession by act of (multiple) parliaments. this would have been such exciting news in 1720

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.

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Jackie Rippeth @tenisonpurple.bsky.social · 4d

Two films today at Cambridge Film Festivak . Pyre this morning which was very slow but moving and Little Amelie this afternoon which was excellent. Tremendous animation and delightful story #CFF25 #film