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Mrs Cosmopilite
@whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
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Just learning stuff - don't know where I'm heading
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realdaveedwards.bsky.social
#SundayPix
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Danger Mouse’s headquarters near Baker Street.
February 14, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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rachb23.bsky.social
Your lovely words made me think of this poem. I'm so sorry for your loss. ❤️
February 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Here’s a poem called ‘Talking Down’.
Talking Down   After having listened to Richard for twenty-five minutes, Stifling her yawns as he Enlightened Her on the origins Of the term ‘mansplaining’, Lisa was finally able to get a word in Edgeways. Brian Bilston
February 11, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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andjamwar.uk
Outstanding from the Eye.
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKIN ‘ELL
Mark Kermode reviews Melania
YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take
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February 5, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
Am reminded of @oldenoughtosay.com spice drawer challenge

#1 son making loaded fries

#1: l need cajun seasoning

Me, out loud: I thiiiiinnk...yep, here you go

Me inside: he won't notice, I'm sure it's still fine

It went out of date 7 years before he was born but smells gooood!
Nearly empty bottle of cajun seasoning that expired in 2003
February 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
So. Life first underway. #1 son 'in town' after school.

Agreed 4pm pick-up. Now approaching 4.30 and he's walking in the wrong direction.

Now, very clearly, see the stalking apps as a mixed blessing

So tempted to drive by and pick him up but, y'know, learning to be independent..
January 30, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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xkcd.com
Early Arthropods

xkcd.com/3199/
3-panel comic. (1) [Three small arthropods on ocean floor.] ARTHROPOD 1: Now that we’re multicellular, what are your plans? I’m gonna evolve little legs and swim around with them! ARTHROPOD 2: I’m gonna evolve sharp pincers and use them to crunch stuff! ARTHROPOD 3: I’m gonna evolve glands to make string from my butt and use it to construct elaborate geometric nets hundreds of times my size to catch other animals. (2) [Silence] (3) ARTHROPOD 1: *Dude.* ARTHROPOD 2: Can you *please* just be normal about this? ARTHROPOD 3: *What??!*
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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bookshop.org
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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humanists.uk
In 1988, the BBC paid tribute to the heroic work of the humanist Nicholas Winton, an English stockbroker who saved more than 650 Jewish children ahead of WWII on the Kindertransport. Winton, sitting in the audience, was not aware he was sitting among the very same people he saved. Beautiful.
January 27, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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mollyploofkins.bsky.social
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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christine520.bsky.social
The heartbreakingly beauty of Amanda Gorman’s words for humanity. Be the light. Save a soul.
For Alex Jeffrey Pretti Murdered by I.C.E January 24, 2026 by Amanda Gorman We wake with no words, just woe & wound. Our own country shoot ing us in the back is not just brutal ity; it's jarring betrayal; not enforcement, but execution. A message: Love your people e you will die. Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within. Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience. Know that to care intensively, united, is to carry both pain-dark horror for today & a profound, daring hope for tomorrow. We can feel we have nothing to give, & still belove this world wait ing, trembling to change. If we cannot find words, may we find the will; if we ever lose hope, may we never lose our humanity. The only undying thing is mercy, the courage to open ourselves like doors, hug our neighbor, & save one more bright, impossible life.
January 26, 2026 at 1:33 PM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
Anyone else feel like they're living inside a ping pong ball?

At this rate, I'm going to forget where the sun's supposed to be
January 26, 2026 at 9:07 AM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
What shall we eat tonight?

Even with this lot, I am utterly uninspired
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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helenebismarck.bsky.social
A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional".

Ladies, it was a breakthrough.

I should have done this years ago.
January 24, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
Lookalike: Podcast panel and Jedi High Council

From the new Private Eye, out now.

And a reminder, the Eye’s YouTube channel, to subscribe, you must (you’re fired - Ed)
➡️ www.youtube.com/PrivateEyeNews
January 23, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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spahn711.bsky.social
I just discovered that this bird - the Gloster Canary - exits and it has changed me.
A photo of a gloster canary on a wood perch. The bird is a light yellow color and have a brown, voluminous bowl cut head of hair. A bowl filled with some twigs and five gloster canaries with bowl cut hairdos. Two photos of a gloster canary. The bird is a yellow to yellow-green color with voluminous bowl cut head of hair.
January 21, 2026 at 10:50 PM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
Also a really good NPR podcast on this

I'm listening to Planet Money | How much money President Trump and his family have made on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-bwsmc...
January 20, 2026 at 10:09 PM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
Hello, I am a person driving in a TV show and I will look at my passenger for many, many seconds while talking to them
glennyrodge.bsky.social Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · Jul 27
Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I never use the toilet.
January 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Hedy Lamarr died #OTD in 2000 at 85.

In the 1940s, in an attempt to help the war effort, she quietly invented what would become the precursor to many wireless technologies we use today including Bluetooth, GPS, cellphone networks & more: frequency hopping. #WomenInSTEM
A glamorous black-and-white studio portrait of Hedy Lamarr, the legendary Austrian-born Hollywood actress and co-inventor of the frequency-hopping patent US 2,292,387. She is posed reclining slightly in an elegant chair, gazing upwards with a poised, captivating expression—softly lit to accentuate her striking features, including large expressive eyes with dramatic makeup, perfectly arched eyebrows, full lips, and flawless skin. Her dark, voluminous wavy hair is styled in soft Hollywood waves framing her face. She wears a polka-dot blouse or dress with a sheer overlay, adorned with a multi-strand pearl choker necklace and pearl earrings, evoking classic 1940s Golden Age glamour and sophistication. Black-and-white technical drawing from U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387, titled "Secret Communication System," granted on August 11, 1942, to inventors Hedy Kiesler Markey (Hedy Lamarr) and George Antheil. This is Sheet 1 of the patent figures, showing a schematic diagram of the frequency-hopping invention (a precursor to modern spread-spectrum technology used in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS). Key labeled components include: a variable frequency carrier oscillator (with piano-key-like switches 31a–31h connected to a notched paper roll mechanism for synchronization), two oscillators (100kc and 500kc), a modulator, an amplifier, an antenna (23), a ground connection, and a piano-roll reader (with reels 37–41 and motor drive). The diagram illustrates how synchronized frequency changes between transmitter and receiver enable secure, jam-resistant radio communication, such as for torpedo guidance during World War II. Handwritten-style annotations and figure labels (e.g., Fig. 1) are visible, with the patent header noting the filing date of June 10, 1941.
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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heardislandgov.bsky.social
Europe: we reject the sentiment that…

Heard Island Military: “loads ammo”
January 19, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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bwianair.bsky.social
Friday.
A white wall with big black lettering saying. "Be the best you can be bothered to be".
January 16, 2026 at 7:07 AM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
@thebugle.bsky.social

Enjoying listening to the bleep being randomly thrown at Nish's f-bombs, and missing

Perfect 2026 vibe
January 15, 2026 at 3:44 PM
whowhatwhywhen.bsky.social
2 interesting conversations this wk have helped explain to me why everything feels so shit

1st. fab AA man fixed my tyre. Said they're run ragged w breakdowns. Not just tyres & batteries but obvs poor maintenance

2nd. Builder who has done 20 emergency new boilers this winter vs 1 last winter
January 14, 2026 at 9:13 AM