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Dr Tess Machling

@tessmachling.bsky.social

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Archaeologist, gold & torc researcher, chocolate artefact maker & mum. Often post about cats who aren't mine... Views all my own 😊 Green party 💚 She/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Work on torcs & gold: https://bigbookoftorcs.com Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/tess317409

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 3d

I made these for friends last year, but seeing if anyone else would be interested for xmas? They're painted plaster of paris, modelled from real arrowheads.

£35 a set incl. gift box, gift tag & 24hr SignedFor postage (sorry, can only do UK).

(... & there's more artefacts to come!)

#Archaeology 🏺

Rainbow coloured arrowheads on rainbow coloured ribbons.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 3m

We'll see...

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 15m

Woooooohoooooo!! 100k! 👏👏👏

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 34m

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, I am his servant...

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 13h

Ohhhhh! Sally Wainwright has done it again. ♥️💪

Riot Women... grrrr!!

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 16h

🤣🤣♥️

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 17h

They really are! 🤣

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 17h

Awww... Bruce lives 3 doors down but has decided I'm an easy mark!! 🤣

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 17h

Oh exactly that! 🤣

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 17h

... and, yes, he can channel Puss in Boots like a pro...

Bruce looking plaintive while I unlock the door

Puss in Boots looking similarly plaintive

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 17h

Btw for those who've been wondering about the cats who aren't mine...

Bruschetta moved house with her owners 😭😭 but with Bruce I am now so well trained that all he has to do is shout at the back door and I'm there!! 🤣🤣🤣

My little buddy Bruce, who's learnt to stand on the recycling box by the back door and yowl until I come running...

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 17h

Tidying the garden with my sidekick...

... who kept attacking my feet until I stopped to play with him!! 🤣🤣

#Bruce
#CatWhoIsNotMyCat
#Sunday

Bruce, who's a grey cat with orange eyes, just getting ready to pounce on me!!

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 18h

Yes exactly... it'll be a nuanced reasoning and understanding but, oh no, that ain't click-baity enough!

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely. He didn't want to hear anything just get a Gotcha Moment.

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 19h

It's worth digging out the whole interview - he really doesn't let Morgan get away with trapping him into Culture Wars soundbites...

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 20h

They really are - so very pretty too.

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 20h

It's *so* bloody refreshing to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social stand by his principles & not play up to this week's focus group findings or Farage's latest utterance.

I really cannot see how YourParty will ever be able to achieve this level of clarity, so...

#JoinTheGreens

join.greenparty.org.uk

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 20h

Yup...

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 21h

Yes same here - they are very much passers through.

Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 21h

Yup. Yet another sign the world truly has gone mad.

Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem