Claire
@jugglingapples.bsky.social
What beauty is, I know not, though it holds fast to many things.
I DM’d for the second time and it went kind of OK! Now decompressing…by watching Critical Role on YouTube.
November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I DM’d for the second time and it went kind of OK! Now decompressing…by watching Critical Role on YouTube.
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
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I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I like how the caption on this photo reads as if he's making a claim that could not be independently verified.
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microsoft: before you sign in we need to send you a code
also microsoft: omg was that you that requested a code
also microsoft: omg someone just signed in to your account
also microsoft: omg was that you that requested a code
also microsoft: omg someone just signed in to your account
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
microsoft: before you sign in we need to send you a code
also microsoft: omg was that you that requested a code
also microsoft: omg someone just signed in to your account
also microsoft: omg was that you that requested a code
also microsoft: omg someone just signed in to your account
Having house stuff done this week, which means builders and scaffolding. And anxiousness, oh boy, the anxiousness.
November 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Having house stuff done this week, which means builders and scaffolding. And anxiousness, oh boy, the anxiousness.
I was not prepared for the sheer number of trick-or-treaters tonight. Had to leg it to the shops as the sweets barely lasted 10 minutes!
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I was not prepared for the sheer number of trick-or-treaters tonight. Had to leg it to the shops as the sweets barely lasted 10 minutes!
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I write middle-grade whodunnits, so you might want to dismiss my opinion out of hand. But I think cosy games/crime sometimes miss the fact that blankets are only cosy when it's cold outside. A world without conflict / a story without stakes isn't cosy, it's just safe.
We need to talk about the cozyfication of games because it’s a serious disease, possibly as bad as the edgyfication of the 90s and the grittyfication of the 00s.
October 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I write middle-grade whodunnits, so you might want to dismiss my opinion out of hand. But I think cosy games/crime sometimes miss the fact that blankets are only cosy when it's cold outside. A world without conflict / a story without stakes isn't cosy, it's just safe.
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”
What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”
What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
The number of people who look at the rapacious hatred of the far right and think it’s possible to placate it.
September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The number of people who look at the rapacious hatred of the far right and think it’s possible to placate it.
The news is so deeply depressing today. I’m not feeling the most robust right now but things feel pretty awful.
September 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The news is so deeply depressing today. I’m not feeling the most robust right now but things feel pretty awful.
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plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel
September 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel
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Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice
November 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice
I don’t know when it happened but I’m now at the age where I get excited when I see a collared dove on the bird feeder in my garden.
September 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I don’t know when it happened but I’m now at the age where I get excited when I see a collared dove on the bird feeder in my garden.
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think the reason why this feels both frightening and maddening, as opposed to merely the former, is that it doesn't even feel like we're in a losing battle, somehow we're engaged in a battle where most alleged good guys don't seem to care or notice what's going on, so yeah, it keeps getting worse
What’s really depressing about how bad everything is right now is looking forward to how much worse it’ll be in a couple of years.
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
think the reason why this feels both frightening and maddening, as opposed to merely the former, is that it doesn't even feel like we're in a losing battle, somehow we're engaged in a battle where most alleged good guys don't seem to care or notice what's going on, so yeah, it keeps getting worse
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Wheeeen theee
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
August 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wheeeen theee
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
M&S pretzel, salted caramel and nougat chocolate is heaven.
August 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
M&S pretzel, salted caramel and nougat chocolate is heaven.
Bee houses that should be narrated by Matt Berry.
August 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Bee houses that should be narrated by Matt Berry.