Bethan
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Bethan
@bethanar.bsky.social
"Reassuringly normal"
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I saw a random reddit comment where someone theorized that Pennywise and Mary Poppins were the same species of primordial psychic entity, but Pennywise feeds on fear while Poppins feeds on joy. both of them eat kid emotions because fear and joy are more intense in kids. This is Canon for me now.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
October 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Lads! Today I get to go in the big spinny tube to get pictures taken of my *actual brain*! Really hope I get to see them afterwards (I'm picturing an Alton Towers type booth in the exit area)
October 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Chartership now involves toerings
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just had a filling, and Sweet Caroline on the radio mixed with the dentist's drills felt very Starmer's Britain
October 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

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October 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
So my noise-cancelling headphones successfully drowned out the sound of a neighbour's roofer falling off the roof* which I guess is a great advert for them fulfilling their promise but also feels weirdly on point for our current dystopia

*Looks like he's going to be ok!
September 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
We used to be a *profession*
In the late 17th century, the librarian of the Vatican wrote a treatise on how Jesus' foreskin ascended to become the rings of Saturn.
September 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Fern got into a pack of flour and licked so vigorously and so wetly she made face dough
September 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Queen
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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No words.
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
September 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.
September 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Just had to peel a slug that had been through a wash/dry cycle off the drum of my washing machine. If you need me I'll be in a corner, shaking and retching.
September 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Omg, capers mixed with the rice for a coconut-based curry is INCREDIBLE. Little bursts of savoury juice 😍
September 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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First they came for Bill Clinton, and I said, yes, that man is a sex pest, get him
September 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
It happened! I Lack The Vitamin!
September 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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September 4, 2025 at 7:48 AM