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The whole point of the story is that despite being a group of people who aren't especially adventurous and mostly love good food, drink, and leaf and quiet lives at home, that they have a hidden strength and are especially resilient at resisting the evil of the ring!
I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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With alt text. This is AMAZING!

Solidarity is everything.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Is politics weighing on you? Does it ever make you feel alone, like "everyone" is on board with awful things and "no one" cares (or close)?

Then you should go to a No Kings protest. That feeling isn't uncommon, but it's a trick. Go be around some of the many people who agree with you. You'll see.
October 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Local No Kings rally was lovely, chill in spirit and temperature, loads of signs, cute dogs and frogs, doughnuts from the best doughnut shop ever. It was great to see how many of us there are. Highly recommend if you’re on the fence about whether to attend yours.
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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When I'm not building websites one of my favourite things I do is designing The Dartmoor Collective books and zines. I'm *really* proud of 'Flow'. If you love art / photography / landscapes / poetry and want to support Dartmoor artists, please grab a copy from dartmoorcollective.org/product/flow...
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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We're delighted to announce the publication of our new zine, Flow.
It's by far our best and biggest publication yet, featuring 60 pages of work from 35 Dartmoor visual artists exploring the theme of flow across a diversity of styles and mediums, interweaved with the words of writer, Kirsteen McNish.
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I don’t have anything new to say about what to do in these times but I can recommend books:
Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social is perfect cozy sci fi 🤖 and The Payback by @kashana.bsky.social is a great heist (?), the Debt Police are genius and not so far fetched?
September 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This makes me laugh every time
August 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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This evening I have discovered Wiio’s Laws of human communication, and they are perfect!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27...
Wiio's laws - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Things I worry about at my new job: using an emoji that has a meaning of which I’m unaware
July 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The gym where my husband trains! He’s in here. bgwlc.co.uk/save-bgwlc/
m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcOA...
Training at the World's Oldest Gym
YouTube video by Will Tennyson
m.youtube.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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At Trans Pride Brighton yesterday the awesome Kate Nash mentioned the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition for cis women against state transphobia, which has now exceeded 38,000.

Please sign and share….

www.change.org/p/not-in-our...
July 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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My friend @tna.sh is releasing the first module of his #WordPress security course on Thursday.

Register before the end of tomorrow (Wed 9th) you should get a £50 discount.

Tim is that rare combination of deeply knowledgeable/experienced AND a great teacher/communicator.

wpsecurity101.com
WP Security 101 with Professional Doomspeaker Tim Nash
Join Tim as he teaches you and many others the WordPress Security Fundementals in this brand new WP Security Course.
wpsecurity101.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity

make them shut down the hotline

use all your best Borg jokes
July 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
My small, personal good news of the day is that I’m finally back in a headspace where I can get into a flow doing work like things.
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The ebook edition is currently $5.99 on iBooks and Kindle 📚💐
There are still a few more days left in Pride, so I just want to take a moment to let everyone know that my book about lingerie, In Intimate Detail, is gender-neutral and contains intimate apparel advice for trans folks, disabled folks, and other communities. Available wherever books are sold! 🌈
June 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A gorgeous reference book I keep going back to is In Intimate Detail by @cora.bsky.social www.thelingerieaddict.com/in-intimate-...

It is for everyone who wants to wear lingerie, all bodies, all types, all genders.

And it is beautiful, get the hardcover.
In Intimate Detail | The Lingerie Addict - Everything To Know About Lingerie
“Beautiful lingerie… is a signal that you love yourself enough to take out the good stuff and feel special even on the most mundane of days.”—Dita Von Teese, from the foreword Amazon Barnes & Noble iB...
www.thelingerieaddict.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Just used Claude Code to analyse screenshots of a series of Slack messages and had it create a markdown file with the summary along with links to the screenshots used.

I trust it about as much as I’d trust a 10 year old’s summary of their school day but it is better organised than before.
June 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Feeling properly English with my homegrown sweet peas
June 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Running through my head on a loop

“The baby bat
Screamed out in fright
‘Turn on the dark
I’m afraid of the light’”

Shel Silverstein
June 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Do you know how long I’ve been looking for this little guy? Still running web.archive.org/web/20001011...
June 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Heads up! @transactualuk.bsky.social are looking for brilliant trans & non-binary people for a very important photoshoot TOMORROW, for an amazing pro-trans campaign.
The shoot will be TOMORROW, 2.00pm, London SE1.
Please DM me for full details (it's hush-hush) & 🙏please🙏 take part if you can!
a man in a blue and red striped suit and tie stands on a street
Alt: a man (mike myers in the spy who shagged me) holds up a camera to take pictures, saying, "work with me people, all right!"
media.tenor.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM