Dr Penelope
@redfiddler.bsky.social
Social researcher, novelist, violinist, painter, neurodiverse, redhead. 🇵🇬🇹🇱🇳🇱🇦🇺
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November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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5 or 6 times a year, someone throws a moose head into the normal bin, in Oslo
(removing the preview image on this purely for your benefit)
www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/fa...
(removing the preview image on this purely for your benefit)
www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/fa...
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
5 or 6 times a year, someone throws a moose head into the normal bin, in Oslo
(removing the preview image on this purely for your benefit)
www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/fa...
(removing the preview image on this purely for your benefit)
www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/fa...
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I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
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Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.
September 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Yes I'm sure taking loads of drugs must be great but what is also quite exciting is going for a walk in remote woodland and stumbling across a lone inexplicable brutalist pillar.
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There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
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Midweek treat: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Over the years, I’ve made many different cakes for my children’s birthdays, but for some time now this has been the chosen one, the cake of cakes, elected to celebrate many special occasions, and with...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Midweek treat: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
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Simon - I’d like to buy someone *any* book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox please.
Whichever they choose.
#BuyAStrangerABook #booksky
Whichever they choose.
#BuyAStrangerABook #booksky
IT'S WEDNESDAY!
It's #buyastrangerabook day.
The grooviest of all the days.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
It's #buyastrangerabook day.
The grooviest of all the days.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
www.biggreenbookshop.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Simon - I’d like to buy someone *any* book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox please.
Whichever they choose.
#BuyAStrangerABook #booksky
Whichever they choose.
#BuyAStrangerABook #booksky
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This is so lovely!
Simon - I’d like to buy someone *any* book by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox please.
Whichever they choose.
#BuyAStrangerABook #booksky
Whichever they choose.
#BuyAStrangerABook #booksky
IT'S WEDNESDAY!
It's #buyastrangerabook day.
The grooviest of all the days.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
It's #buyastrangerabook day.
The grooviest of all the days.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This is so lovely!
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
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All shares of this much-appreciated. Sorry if it's boring. Just another instance of me attempting to rehabilitate one of my books after my ex-publisher Unbound failed to pay me a large chunk of earnings from it, went into administration and took it temporarily out of print.
I'm giving away two signed copies of my (recently republished) book 21st-Century Yokel, with two postcards of this fab otters linocut by my mum, Jo.
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
Just repost this & pop a comment below to enter.
You might like it if you like:
Walking
Wildlife
Folklore
Bees
Ghosts
The Sea
Social history
Badgers
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
All shares of this much-appreciated. Sorry if it's boring. Just another instance of me attempting to rehabilitate one of my books after my ex-publisher Unbound failed to pay me a large chunk of earnings from it, went into administration and took it temporarily out of print.
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'Quiet, piggy'
[moments later]
[moments later]
kermit the frog kissing a stuffed animal with the words hi-ya
ALT: kermit the frog kissing a stuffed animal with the words hi-ya
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November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
'Quiet, piggy'
[moments later]
[moments later]
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Yep, 100%... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Becoming an AI-detective is a job I never wanted and wish I could quit | Samantha Floreani
My social media feed is now a hellish stream of puerile AI slop. Am I stubborn to want to hang on to reality?
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Yep, 100%... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from the southern edge of a moor at sunset as a vehicle progresses downhill towards me and the cold winter sky gathers its Byzantine thoughts.
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from the southern edge of a moor at sunset as a vehicle progresses downhill towards me and the cold winter sky gathers its Byzantine thoughts.
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Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
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If you think Heathcliff is the epitome of a romantic hero, you need to reread the book.
That man violently abuses his wife, locks up a teenager away from her dying father and forces her into a bad marriage so he get her money, hangs a dog, abuses his own son, delierately degrades Hareton...
That man violently abuses his wife, locks up a teenager away from her dying father and forces her into a bad marriage so he get her money, hangs a dog, abuses his own son, delierately degrades Hareton...
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If you think Heathcliff is the epitome of a romantic hero, you need to reread the book.
That man violently abuses his wife, locks up a teenager away from her dying father and forces her into a bad marriage so he get her money, hangs a dog, abuses his own son, delierately degrades Hareton...
That man violently abuses his wife, locks up a teenager away from her dying father and forces her into a bad marriage so he get her money, hangs a dog, abuses his own son, delierately degrades Hareton...
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Where to start, with a statement like this?
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Where to start, with a statement like this?
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
I still love chicken Twisties 🥹
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I still love chicken Twisties 🥹
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just finished watching the film Whiplash. It's on Netflix if you want to see and yes, in answer to a colleague, while the characters are fictional, it's every bit as real as studying music can be. Be warned. It's a really tough watch. Bloody hell that was timely 😞
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Just finished watching the film Whiplash. It's on Netflix if you want to see and yes, in answer to a colleague, while the characters are fictional, it's every bit as real as studying music can be. Be warned. It's a really tough watch. Bloody hell that was timely 😞
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Epilepsy brain implant trial gives 'bit of hope.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
North East epilepsy brain implant trial gives ‘bit of hope’
Adam Atkinson has an implant in his brain which is tracking the seizures he experiences.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Epilepsy brain implant trial gives 'bit of hope.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I went to the Museum of Somerset yesterday and saw the wonderful floor mosaic of Dido and Aeneas. It gave me feelings.
November 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I went to the Museum of Somerset yesterday and saw the wonderful floor mosaic of Dido and Aeneas. It gave me feelings.