Michelle
@perfectcircle77.bsky.social
ND wife & mum to autistic teens. Knitter, reader, podcast junkie, slow Parkrunner, occasional baker, Blackburn Rovers fan, freelance transcriber.
I would love to talk to my gran again but this isn’t that. This is AI slop masquerading as your loved one. This is a terrible timeline and tech bros can fuck all the way off. JFC.
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I would love to talk to my gran again but this isn’t that. This is AI slop masquerading as your loved one. This is a terrible timeline and tech bros can fuck all the way off. JFC.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Now I can get back to work! Thanks to the clue providers on the hashtag, I definitely would have gone insane otherwise. 🤣 #HiddenBooksGame @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Now I can get back to work! Thanks to the clue providers on the hashtag, I definitely would have gone insane otherwise. 🤣 #HiddenBooksGame @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social
Now at the point where I shout at the screen when I get another one because how can I have not got it sooner? Three to go #HiddenBooksGame @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Now at the point where I shout at the screen when I get another one because how can I have not got it sooner? Three to go #HiddenBooksGame @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social
Four to go - three lots of books and the woman’s hair. #HiddenBooksGame
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Four to go - three lots of books and the woman’s hair. #HiddenBooksGame
8 to go in #HiddenBooksGame (although I still can’t find one clue.) I need the girl, her bun, the mug, the star, 3 of the book clues and whatever the last one that I can’t find is. I can try and provide clues for all others.
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
8 to go in #HiddenBooksGame (although I still can’t find one clue.) I need the girl, her bun, the mug, the star, 3 of the book clues and whatever the last one that I can’t find is. I can try and provide clues for all others.
I have 8 so far, I can’t find one clue and I can’t remember the name of any book ever.
It’s going really well. #HiddenBooksGame
It’s going really well. #HiddenBooksGame
Booklovers, your favourite game is back! 📚🔎
Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
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Guess all 20 books in the #HiddenBooksGame and you could win a £500/€500 National Book Token to spend in your local bookshop (the best gift ever, in our opinion).
Play now: buff.ly/460M0aR
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I have 8 so far, I can’t find one clue and I can’t remember the name of any book ever.
It’s going really well. #HiddenBooksGame
It’s going really well. #HiddenBooksGame
We spent so much time here when my girls were little, they still remember some of the exhibits. It is such an important place.
Reading is power, we need to support Seven Stories
| Nick Kemp
| Nick Kemp
Devolution, culture and the case for Seven Stories
Reading is power, we need to support Seven Stories
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November 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
We spent so much time here when my girls were little, they still remember some of the exhibits. It is such an important place.
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This week: one weird trick to combat bias at the BBC! (Clue: it's can Robbie Gibb.)
Inform, Educate, Implode
This week: one weird trick to combat bias at the BBC! Also: what’s the largest local authority in England; and the ballad of Nim Chimpsky.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This week: one weird trick to combat bias at the BBC! (Clue: it's can Robbie Gibb.)
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Join the dots
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join the dots
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scheduled my work around this so I can scream at the laptop screen and mutter, “Bees?” under my breath until my partner becomes concerned.
And then have the enormous satisfaction of completing it over lunch. #HiddenBooksGame
And then have the enormous satisfaction of completing it over lunch. #HiddenBooksGame
It's (almost) the most wonderful time of the year! 🥳🎶 #HiddenBooksGame
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Scheduled my work around this so I can scream at the laptop screen and mutter, “Bees?” under my breath until my partner becomes concerned.
And then have the enormous satisfaction of completing it over lunch. #HiddenBooksGame
And then have the enormous satisfaction of completing it over lunch. #HiddenBooksGame
As someone who doesn’t always enjoy an international football weekend, I have fallen back in love with the England team after seeing Dear England tonight. Such a great performance
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As someone who doesn’t always enjoy an international football weekend, I have fallen back in love with the England team after seeing Dear England tonight. Such a great performance
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Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
How many trans people have the BBC had on this week discussing the BBC's pro-trans bias?
Zero.
Zero.
Wtaf?
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Wtaf?
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
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Very important to note that benefits weren’t stopped because of evidence of fraud, but because HMRC thought it saw something that *might have been* evidence of fraud. They didn’t check. They just stopped paying.
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
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November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Very important to note that benefits weren’t stopped because of evidence of fraud, but because HMRC thought it saw something that *might have been* evidence of fraud. They didn’t check. They just stopped paying.
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Absolute contempt for their victims.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Little wander through the tunnel across the river to collect my very first project for @looseendsproject.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Little wander through the tunnel across the river to collect my very first project for @looseendsproject.bsky.social
Another Sunday of baking and @quietriotpod.bsky.social keeping me company as I do so. Christmas pudding is now steaming for a few hours.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Another Sunday of baking and @quietriotpod.bsky.social keeping me company as I do so. Christmas pudding is now steaming for a few hours.
I don’t know what has changed in the last month but I took another 30 something seconds off my time this week at #parkrun and now I am only one minute off my all-time PB.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I don’t know what has changed in the last month but I took another 30 something seconds off my time this week at #parkrun and now I am only one minute off my all-time PB.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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