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Sarah Strong
@opiumia.bsky.social
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Bikes, old stuff, MH peer support, HRT, shoes, cats, and carbohydrates. Moving leftwards with age. UK.
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opiumia.bsky.social
I, also, dislike the changes to the @metoffice.gov.uk app. I wish I'd prevented the update. Ugh.
January 16, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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cultarchaeo.bsky.social
von Däniken relied on the JAQ (just asking questions) method to promote racist ideas through pseudoarchaeological narratives. These ideas permeated all of his books, were broadcast to and normalized through enormous audiences over decades, and have even found homes in far-right places.
annamerlan.bsky.social Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 6d
This is a fun read but it doesn’t really reckon with the fact that these theories are inherently racist, rooted in the idea that ancient non-western civilizations *couldn’t* make these structures. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/o...
Erich von Däniken, Who Claimed Aliens Visited Earth, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:23 PM
opiumia.bsky.social
It is snowing in SE Ldn. It's hinting at settling.

Slightly excited.
January 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
Nooooooooooooo!
Platoon poster of a soldier on his knees with his arms in the air with two wheelie bins behind him and “it was bins” written above
January 6, 2026 at 9:41 AM
opiumia.bsky.social
Happy New Year and all that! Here's some blurry footage of fireworks dahn in Lundun taaaan.
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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lauraehall.bsky.social
Stay safe out there y'all
An illustration showing cute fat rabbits piling into an underground burrow. There is text, part of which has been edited. The original text says "There are tunnels underground where bunnies are safe — safe" and the edited text adds "from emails"
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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danielwcarlson.bsky.social
When they ask me what radicalized me
The family of mice singing “No cheeses for us meeces” in the opening song (“Scrooge”) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinion—but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickens’s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since ’92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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tgannawade.bsky.social
We all need cheering up, so here's Kylie's Can't Get You Out of my Head on an old Dutch mechanical fairground organ. Worked for me! 🎶😃
youtu.be/iWqEKcWpqKg?...
I Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue on a Mechanical Organ
YouTube video by The Mechanical Music Man
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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swoonganz.medsky.social
Searching for a new litterbox and dying laughing at this cat who looks like a toilet astronaut.
A white long-haired cat sitting proudly in a litterbox that looks like a space shuttle.
December 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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scientistmel.bsky.social
Just gonna lighten the mood up a bit.

IMAGINE TEENY ELEPHANTS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvrW...
A social media post spokenitalics Jun 20, 2021 First-ever DNA recovered from extinct miniature elephants of Sicily By Josh Davis First published 18 June 2021 jurassic park but it's tiny elephants and nothing goes wrong cipheramnesia Jun 24, 2021 same score but played entirely on kazoos
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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finchfrii.bsky.social
This is why I pay for the World Wide Web.

Because it delivers ART!
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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trouteyes.bsky.social
I love you so much I have eaten nine photos of you. Call me ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
We're going to run away together tonight, after we steal some of Fanny's fruit cake and mug a big burly policeman with twinkling eyes.
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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mgearsolidarity.bsky.social
Everyday you wake up and the news is even worse, but don't worry because today there's going to be a budget today at some point, so there will be an extra round of bad news at around lunch time.

You will forget the morning's bad news.

Except the jury thing. Fucking hell, the jury thing.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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themerl.bsky.social
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Two students look at objects in the reading room at The Museum of English Rural Life.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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kattsdogma.bsky.social
OH. COME. ON.
NASA just got a rare look inside Uranus oh ffs c’mon 🤨
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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mondomascots.bsky.social
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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batkaren.bsky.social
The restaurant lights dim. My date lifts an eyebrow and asks, “Did it just get sexier in here?”

ME: I CAN'T SEE MY MENU
September 28, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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mikebarthelauthor.com
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Credit card fraud Black neon tetras committed credit card fraud during a 2023 livestream by "Mutekimaru Channel" on YouTube. The owner was using motion-tracking software to turn the fish's movements into Nintendo Switch inputs, letting them "play" video games. 8 In 2020, the fish beat Pokemon Sapphire after 3,195 hours, a feat that takes about 30 hours for a typical human. 9/ 181 On January 14, 2023, Pokémon Violet crashed at 1,144 hours, giving the fish free access to the main menu. They entered inputs that opened Nintendo eShop, added 500 yen ($3.85 USD) to their owner's account, and exposed his credit card details on the livestream. 10) 11) Mutekimaru later requested a refund of the 500 yen from Nintendo. l12) "Fish eagerly read the terms and conditions. Many of us humans don't read the terms of service, but fish are smarter than we are" - caption from Mutekimaru in a video about the incident 12) The fish also downloaded an N64 emulator, set up PayPal, used reward points to buy an avatar, and changed Mutekimaru's Nintendo account name to "ROWAWAWA*". 13, After about seven hours, their movements shut down the Switch. 14)
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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thehyyyype.bsky.social
Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
opiumia.bsky.social
HOT WATER HAS BEEN DEPLOYED! I REPEAT, HOT WATER BOTTLE HAS BEEN DEPLOYED!
a globe is surrounded by the letters r and h
ALT: a globe is surrounded by the letters r and h
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November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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alistaircoleman.bsky.social
🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶
A portable toilet in the Scottish Borders provided by a company called Bordaloo.
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
opiumia.bsky.social
It has stopped snowing in SE London. Bah.
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
opiumia.bsky.social
Snow in S.E London now. ☃️
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM