Word_Geek
@word-geek.bsky.social
I read and I stitch, but more often, I go down ADHD rabbit holes. UK based
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http://word-geek.dreamwidth.org
@word_geeking on Insta
Introduce yourself with five bands you have seen in concert:
- New Model Army
- Sisters of Mercy
- Aimee Mann
- Nine Inch Nails with Jane's Addiction supporting (this one was known as the Ninja gig)
- Oysterband
This is no good, it misses out The Cure, Karl Jenkins and Beautiful South
- New Model Army
- Sisters of Mercy
- Aimee Mann
- Nine Inch Nails with Jane's Addiction supporting (this one was known as the Ninja gig)
- Oysterband
This is no good, it misses out The Cure, Karl Jenkins and Beautiful South
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
The Bangles (I was 14 & ECSTATIC!)
Yo-Yo Ma (twice, and the two best live performances I have EVER seen)
The Cleveland Orchestra (many times)
Peggy Seeger
Iron Maiden (surprisingly often, since I married @patricksamphire.bsky.social !)
The Bangles (I was 14 & ECSTATIC!)
Yo-Yo Ma (twice, and the two best live performances I have EVER seen)
The Cleveland Orchestra (many times)
Peggy Seeger
Iron Maiden (surprisingly often, since I married @patricksamphire.bsky.social !)
Introduce your self with five concerts you’ve seen
Polar Bear Club supporting Rise Against at Rock City
Polar Bear Club playing an acoustic set in my mate’s living room later that evening
The Silver Ginger 5 gig that set Rock City’s ceiling on fire
New Junk City
Pendulum
Polar Bear Club supporting Rise Against at Rock City
Polar Bear Club playing an acoustic set in my mate’s living room later that evening
The Silver Ginger 5 gig that set Rock City’s ceiling on fire
New Junk City
Pendulum
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Introduce yourself with five bands you have seen in concert:
- New Model Army
- Sisters of Mercy
- Aimee Mann
- Nine Inch Nails with Jane's Addiction supporting (this one was known as the Ninja gig)
- Oysterband
This is no good, it misses out The Cure, Karl Jenkins and Beautiful South
- New Model Army
- Sisters of Mercy
- Aimee Mann
- Nine Inch Nails with Jane's Addiction supporting (this one was known as the Ninja gig)
- Oysterband
This is no good, it misses out The Cure, Karl Jenkins and Beautiful South
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Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Novel scientific method proves pit circle near Stonehenge was man-made, say researchers
Archaeologists use multiple types of geophysics equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary structure’
The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.
While the architects of Stonehenge had the heavens in mind when they built the great stone monument in Wiltshire, the team believes the makers of the Durrington pit circle may have been more interested in an underworld. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Repeat after me: artificial, made by humans, human-made, not natural
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
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We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
One year, the annual request for us to make a shoebox for the Salvation Army came around just after someone on the Old Place had mentioned a different org that did something similar without the preachy exclusionary shit.
So I filled the school in on both orgs, and they switched over
So I filled the school in on both orgs, and they switched over
There are many other great organizations we can donate to that DON'T discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community!
remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One year, the annual request for us to make a shoebox for the Salvation Army came around just after someone on the Old Place had mentioned a different org that did something similar without the preachy exclusionary shit.
So I filled the school in on both orgs, and they switched over
So I filled the school in on both orgs, and they switched over
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I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
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There are currently at least 7 automated bots on the network, posting the same fundraising link. They've posted the same link well over 100 times today. Yesterday it was 4 with over 300 posts to the same link in a single day
Nearly every single one has "✅Verified by #Molly_Shah" in the bio.
Nearly every single one has "✅Verified by #Molly_Shah" in the bio.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There are currently at least 7 automated bots on the network, posting the same fundraising link. They've posted the same link well over 100 times today. Yesterday it was 4 with over 300 posts to the same link in a single day
Nearly every single one has "✅Verified by #Molly_Shah" in the bio.
Nearly every single one has "✅Verified by #Molly_Shah" in the bio.
Pikachu surprised face
There are currently at least 7 automated bots on the network, posting the same fundraising link. They've posted the same link well over 100 times today. Yesterday it was 4 with over 300 posts to the same link in a single day
Nearly every single one has "✅Verified by #Molly_Shah" in the bio.
Nearly every single one has "✅Verified by #Molly_Shah" in the bio.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Pikachu surprised face
That thing about Twitter exposing where accounts are posting from is illuminating, in that it proves they could have killed off the disinformation at any point. That location info must have been available to the mods
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That thing about Twitter exposing where accounts are posting from is illuminating, in that it proves they could have killed off the disinformation at any point. That location info must have been available to the mods
Although I also oscillate between the two in my repost, the fact that I had forgotten I even had this image might make it an even more accurate representation of dating/knowing me at the moment
Thank you, PastMe, for retaining proper attribution
Thank you, PastMe, for retaining proper attribution
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Although I also oscillate between the two in my repost, the fact that I had forgotten I even had this image might make it an even more accurate representation of dating/knowing me at the moment
Thank you, PastMe, for retaining proper attribution
Thank you, PastMe, for retaining proper attribution
Nirvana in 1987? Was this guy time travelling?
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Nirvana in 1987? Was this guy time travelling?
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
November 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Thread but also just don't tell Paypal anything. No "what is this for" you both know what it's for. If you send a friend some money for dinner or something and you say "for friday night", even odds they get banned as a sex worker.
Experiential history continued: I am so glad that someone realised that the tribe would have the expertise needed for this, even if none of them had physically performed the task in generations, and that this would be a respectful to both whale and tribe
Very interesting contrast to the infamous exploding whale story
(gift link)
(gift link)
‘An incredible privilege and a daunting task’: Oregon tribe harvests beached whale for the first time in generations
The Siletz tribe took apart the 20,000 pound humpback after it was euthanized Monday.
www.oregonlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Experiential history continued: I am so glad that someone realised that the tribe would have the expertise needed for this, even if none of them had physically performed the task in generations, and that this would be a respectful to both whale and tribe
Paging @issy.gark.net
This is fascinating!
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Paging @issy.gark.net
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
I'm starting to think we need Clippy Mark 2
Hi, it looks like you are writing a crank letter. Would you like a reality check on that?
Hi, it looks like you are writing a crank letter. Would you like a reality check on that?
This thread freaked me out in part because I recognized it as a real social phenomenon in my own life. A member of our extended circle is writing a book because ChatGPT told him it was a brilliant and novel idea. Friends, it is neither but he is absolutely convinced and nobody knows what to do.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I'm starting to think we need Clippy Mark 2
Hi, it looks like you are writing a crank letter. Would you like a reality check on that?
Hi, it looks like you are writing a crank letter. Would you like a reality check on that?
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in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.
Also the label maker experience
Bought an immersion blender for the first time at age 43 and I can finally relate to this tweet
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Also the label maker experience
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
I'm sorry, anyone who has a passing acquaintance with marketing knows this is bollocks
Shampoos are not sold on price. Some of them, yes. There's money to be made with crap products sold cheap
Others trumpet their all natural essential oils and charge more
Others are only sold in fancy salons
Shampoos are not sold on price. Some of them, yes. There's money to be made with crap products sold cheap
Others trumpet their all natural essential oils and charge more
Others are only sold in fancy salons
If only there were some sort of marketplace, perhaps online, where people could compare insurance plans and choose one for themselves. Perhaps with some financial assistance for those who need it….
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm sorry, anyone who has a passing acquaintance with marketing knows this is bollocks
Shampoos are not sold on price. Some of them, yes. There's money to be made with crap products sold cheap
Others trumpet their all natural essential oils and charge more
Others are only sold in fancy salons
Shampoos are not sold on price. Some of them, yes. There's money to be made with crap products sold cheap
Others trumpet their all natural essential oils and charge more
Others are only sold in fancy salons
What's really weird is that every hotel in the universe has a section of their website that offers meeting rooms of different sizes.
Mind you, I remember them advertising corporate spaces with internet access, fax machines, and printers that you could plug your laptop into
Mind you, I remember them advertising corporate spaces with internet access, fax machines, and printers that you could plug your laptop into
Can confirm. It took Covid to end this practice. It’s not ancient history.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What's really weird is that every hotel in the universe has a section of their website that offers meeting rooms of different sizes.
Mind you, I remember them advertising corporate spaces with internet access, fax machines, and printers that you could plug your laptop into
Mind you, I remember them advertising corporate spaces with internet access, fax machines, and printers that you could plug your laptop into