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Imogen
@tictionary.bsky.social
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Providing sound effects that no-one asked for ✨ (vocal tics) and trying to be the best human I can for other humans. She/her.
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tictionary.bsky.social
I'm so glad I got to join some of this journey. Absolute magic.
norramot.bsky.social Tom Arron @norramot.bsky.social · Jul 2
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023-25 tour ends tomorrow.

I was there when it started, and I needed it. After many stops along the way, I’ll be there at the end.

Not emotionally prepared for the idea that it could be the last one. I hope it isn’t. But what a ride.
Compilation of images from the Springsteen tour
July 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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bertsbooks.bsky.social
Your semi-regular reminder that reading should be fun and that there's actually no pressure or rules that say what you should read, how quickly you should read it, or that you should slog your way through a book you don't enjoy! - Michael
a man applauds in front of a sign that says schitts creek yes on it
ALT: a man applauds in front of a sign that says schitts creek yes on it
media.tenor.com
May 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
When humans look at something we find beautiful it causes dopamine release in our brains & looking at plants shifts our brain activity away from fight or flight & into rest & digest mode.
A field of phacelia, Norfolk:
May 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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scriblit.bsky.social
*Tune to Starman*
There's a conclave
In the vatican
We don't know who's the next pope
But it's probably a man
There's a conclave in the vatican
They've got the smoke all ready so they'll tell us when they can
They'll tell us
Who will speak to nations
Do the incantations
The transubstantiations
May 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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melindahaunton.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is very good. Though not in any way jolly or helping today's bleak mood. Necessary, though, to put authenticity above cliche.
My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock
Our street party tea was a muted celebration, full of uncertainty. Then, as now, we faced a long struggle towards a better world, says actor and writer Sheila Hancock
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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ariadnereviews.bsky.social
You heard the sign!
A posterboard with "Get a silly little treat" written on it.
May 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
tictionary.bsky.social
Absolutely perfect walk before work today 🌞
A swan glides through calm water, with the bright blue sky reflected and greenery and blossom around the edges
April 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
tictionary.bsky.social
Thank you Val McDermid and Patricia Cornwell. Granted, I have re-read about ten of the former's...
ewacat.bsky.social New Year's Ewa @ewacat.bsky.social · Apr 13
I love it when you find an author you love and they have the grace to have published several books so you're not going to run out of their work any time soon. Thank you authors 🙏
April 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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norramot.bsky.social
Cheers to you all and a happy weekend from me and @tictionary.bsky.social x
A selfie taken by my partner Imogen with me and a canal in the background. A picture of me raising a pint
April 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Reminder: You can just…do stuff.

You don’t have to wait for your boss to tell you to. You don’t have to wait to be told you’re good enough.

As long as you’re not hurting anybody, and especially if doing it would help somebody… you can just do it.
March 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
tictionary.bsky.social
If you see this, post your green art 🌱
A cross stitch portrait of Shrek smiling and looking away to the right with brown details and shading in lime and dark green
March 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry
A six panel comic. In panel 1, a yellow warbler says "Hey, so I'm going to go out on a limb here". For the next four panels, it hops down along a branch. In the last panel, at the end of the branch, it sings a little song. I'm sorry.
March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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swilua.bsky.social
I’m crying, this is so funny

WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Mar 17
“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

- Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training
March 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Very welcome to see more attention for endometriosis, so little talked about for a condition affecting one in ten women and those assigned female at birth of reproductive age.

And a great coup for @endometriosisuk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘First-of-a-kind’ daily pill for endometriosis treatment approved for NHS in England
Relugolix-estradiol-norethisterone can be taken at home, eliminating need for trips to clinics for injections
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
tictionary.bsky.social
Today we had a walk in the sunshine, saw lots of spring flowers, catkins and five fluffy goslings 🌞🌷
White blossoms with five petals each and pink centres, on spindly branches with bright blue sky behind
March 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social
Oh to be a happy sheep, chewing her cud in the sun! 🌞 This is good girl Ramona.
Photo of a cute white sheep chewing in a sunny yard.
February 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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goddammitsarah.bsky.social
ten thousand lifetimes have passed since this happened
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · Feb 24
1 year ago today, the infamous 'Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience' took place.
February 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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goodlawproject.org
"The outcomes for stigmatized people who cast their lot with an autocratic force out of 'misguided conviction, or out of fear, or out of the misguided idea that that they can somehow make themselves safe by punching others in the face, historically is very bad.'" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Importantly, though, Miller clarifies, the attacks on trans people are “the front of a flying wedge which is really going after the bodily autonomy of absolutely everybody, cis women included. That doesn’t mean that what’s happening to trans people isn’t, on its own, important, or a distraction from the real fight. That is the real fight right now. Those are real people. These are real lives that are being hurt, and we need to fight for them and with them. But it is to say that all of us have a stake in that fight, because all of us have an interest in having control over the capacities of our bodies and over the decisions that we make about our bodies.” The restriction of reproductive rights is one obvious area of overlap when it comes to the policing of gender identity and sexuality, Miller says. The Nazis developed “a very detailed and very elaborate pseudoscience of race” that “justified the idea of turning the right kind of women into birthing machines for the right kinds of people,” he notes. “The philosophy behind what the Trump administration is doing is more diffuse and less specific, but I think there are some definite echoes when J.D. Vance says we need more babies, meaning we need more of the right kind of babies — as opposed to immigrants.” Miller acknowledges, too, groups like Gays for Trump, with members seeking to distinguish separate from other LGBTQ individuals, and the existence of men in 1920s and 1930s Germany “who thought of themselves as being normal gay guys” and “very much thought that they had nothing to fear for Nazism.” One gay member of the original Nazi paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA), in fact, wrote an anonymous memoir drawing a link between his sexuality and, as Miller describes it, the “homoerotic band of brotherhood of the fascist militia.” “Now, of course, that didn’t go very well,” Miller continues. “When the Nazis came to power, they did a lot of things that the Trump administration is not doing right now. They sent police in to shut down gay bars immediately and started initiating mass arrests for sodomy under an existing anti-sodomy statute.” The outcomes for stigmatized people who cast their lot with an autocratic force out of “misguided conviction, or out of fear, or out of the misguided idea that that they can somehow make themselves safe by punching others in the face, historically is very bad,” he says. “The track record for solidarity is much better.”
February 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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blondehistorian.bsky.social
"Please can you email me I can't read printed letters". It's a simple request but it seems an impossible task for many businesses.

This is why I'm so proud to share a new resource designed to reduce barriers & exclusions faced by disabled customers.

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February 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
tictionary.bsky.social
I see 5am as the point of no return if I wake up in the night and can't get back to sleep.

Looks like it'll just be three hours of sleep for me today!
February 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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lukeknox.me
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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shrekromancer.gay
what's wrong babe, you've hardly touched today's heap of apocalyptic news headlines
February 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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mostlysharks.bsky.social
imagine a frog. good. now imagine a frog wearing a party hat and playin a lil tambourine. even better
February 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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sfdirewolf.bsky.social
All new guest essay for the Disability Visibility Project by @aislingwalsh.bsky.social on disability representation in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo

Rain Man for Millennials and Other Adventures in Ableism with Sally Rooney

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2025/01/31/r...
A photo of a white woman against a grey wall, her head is tilted slightly to the right, looking away from the camera. She has curly hair, dyed magenta, uses greenish glasses and is wearing a black shirt.
February 1, 2025 at 5:04 AM