Nat Guest
@unfortunatalie.bsky.social
"Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology, past lives in journalism & comedy promotion. I write things sometimes. UK based.
Currently working in research & scholarly technology, past lives in journalism & comedy promotion. I write things sometimes. UK based.
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Nat Guest
@unfortunatalie.bsky.social
· Jun 23
"words of affirmation"
"physical touch"
NO the only way I wish to show or receive affection is by sending someone a little picture of something insulting and writing "this is you"
"physical touch"
NO the only way I wish to show or receive affection is by sending someone a little picture of something insulting and writing "this is you"
Please no more of Competitor 98.... somebody crack that big egg head.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Please no more of Competitor 98.... somebody crack that big egg head.
Tough times lads. Pray for me.
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Tough times lads. Pray for me.
NEW ROBYN NOVEMBER 12TH KLAXON
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
NEW ROBYN NOVEMBER 12TH KLAXON
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In Svenska lafvarnas färghistoria: Johan Peter Westring,
Stockholm, 1805
A guide to Swedish lichens & their uses, with charts showing the dyes that they yield. Westring (1753–1833), was the king's physician, a botanist and lichenologist.
Lichen saxatilis: Linnean name, now invalid
Stockholm, 1805
A guide to Swedish lichens & their uses, with charts showing the dyes that they yield. Westring (1753–1833), was the king's physician, a botanist and lichenologist.
Lichen saxatilis: Linnean name, now invalid
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In Svenska lafvarnas färghistoria: Johan Peter Westring,
Stockholm, 1805
A guide to Swedish lichens & their uses, with charts showing the dyes that they yield. Westring (1753–1833), was the king's physician, a botanist and lichenologist.
Lichen saxatilis: Linnean name, now invalid
Stockholm, 1805
A guide to Swedish lichens & their uses, with charts showing the dyes that they yield. Westring (1753–1833), was the king's physician, a botanist and lichenologist.
Lichen saxatilis: Linnean name, now invalid
Now THIS is "performative reading".
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Now THIS is "performative reading".
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I'll show them all! I'll run an ad for the company that summarizes books
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'll show them all! I'll run an ad for the company that summarizes books
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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My family used to have a contest at this time of year where we all chose a leaf from our garden tree and the person whose leaf remained on the tree longest was the winner. One year we discovered Mum had snuck out and sellotaped her leaf to the tree, and I still have so much respect for that.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My family used to have a contest at this time of year where we all chose a leaf from our garden tree and the person whose leaf remained on the tree longest was the winner. One year we discovered Mum had snuck out and sellotaped her leaf to the tree, and I still have so much respect for that.
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![Watchmen comic that reads "It's November 10th now. There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen" [There is a circulatory system walking through the kitchen]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreidyovgnwktoct3rjrqfri6zi4izbzb6jbush2ggsobgadvovskxbe@jpeg)
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The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.
I reckon a shared national popular culture is just as important (if not more important) than a fact based, impartial news service for liberal democracy to work.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The BBC, both as a radio broadcaster, and a TV broadcaster, didn’t start out doing news at all. News is the upstart department. Its job is to act as a national fireplace. And that’s properly vital now, more than ever.
How are there MORE fucking fireworks, I am SICK of this
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
How are there MORE fucking fireworks, I am SICK of this
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me defending all the corniest episodes of TNG:
February 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
me defending all the corniest episodes of TNG:
Glad to see the event anxiety insomnia has got me early this time, I love lying awake until dawn screaming internally 4 days before running a conference.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Glad to see the event anxiety insomnia has got me early this time, I love lying awake until dawn screaming internally 4 days before running a conference.
Smells like gatekeeping to ME
Shetland islanders accuse Tom Daley’s Game of Wool of cultural appropriation
Shetland islanders accuse Tom Daley’s Game of Wool of cultural appropriation
Fair Isle practitioners say Channel 4’s knitting show is littered with errors about their historic craft and demand an apology
The group chat for Shetland knitters was popping off, says one member, as they settled down to watch the first episode of Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter.
But their enthusiasm for the Channel 4 elimination show hosted by former Olympian and crafts enthusiast Tom Daley quickly unravelled. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Smells like gatekeeping to ME
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i am going to write a mystery novel about a woman who posts on bsky that has to become an amateur sleuth so as to figure out what most of her replies mean
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
i am going to write a mystery novel about a woman who posts on bsky that has to become an amateur sleuth so as to figure out what most of her replies mean
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This is also how come techbro grindset types believe so easily that AI can replace artists and creatives. Art and narrative are just meaningless lights and sounds to them.
The biggest tell that someone is a dullard is having no favorite bands or movies or some form of entertainment. It's how you know those "grindset" types are the dumbest fucks on the planet. They have no interests. They are literally the NPCs they bitch about. You're a cog in the shit machine
The JCO post about Elon not liking anything is something I've said before about a lot of politics poisoned posting addicts. People who never once post about a band they like or anything at all. There are so many like that.
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is also how come techbro grindset types believe so easily that AI can replace artists and creatives. Art and narrative are just meaningless lights and sounds to them.
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I like it when the inset of the book has a photo of the author, but I also like it when it doesn't as then I can guess what I think they look like from the writing and then google them to see if my assumptions are correct. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I like it when the inset of the book has a photo of the author, but I also like it when it doesn't as then I can guess what I think they look like from the writing and then google them to see if my assumptions are correct. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.
Alright, pathetic fallacy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Alright, pathetic fallacy.
I like it when the inset of the book has a photo of the author, but I also like it when it doesn't as then I can guess what I think they look like from the writing and then google them to see if my assumptions are correct. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I like it when the inset of the book has a photo of the author, but I also like it when it doesn't as then I can guess what I think they look like from the writing and then google them to see if my assumptions are correct. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't.
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I like his mother too: “Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.”
Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.
Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I like his mother too: “Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.”
Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.
Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.
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Common Heather was still flowering abundantly last Thursday lunchtime on the Cliffe (rhymes with 'life'), an area of lowland heath in the Nesscliffe Hills.
#WildflowerHour #Shropshire 💜
#WildflowerHour #Shropshire 💜
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Common Heather was still flowering abundantly last Thursday lunchtime on the Cliffe (rhymes with 'life'), an area of lowland heath in the Nesscliffe Hills.
#WildflowerHour #Shropshire 💜
#WildflowerHour #Shropshire 💜
Resubscribed to Apple TV to watch Pluribus and forgot that the cunt app won't cast to my TV because it's chromecast. And genuinely feel this type of walled garden behaviour should be illegal. A good reminder of why I've never owned an iPhone or a Mac and never will!
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Resubscribed to Apple TV to watch Pluribus and forgot that the cunt app won't cast to my TV because it's chromecast. And genuinely feel this type of walled garden behaviour should be illegal. A good reminder of why I've never owned an iPhone or a Mac and never will!
This is also how come techbro grindset types believe so easily that AI can replace artists and creatives. Art and narrative are just meaningless lights and sounds to them.
The biggest tell that someone is a dullard is having no favorite bands or movies or some form of entertainment. It's how you know those "grindset" types are the dumbest fucks on the planet. They have no interests. They are literally the NPCs they bitch about. You're a cog in the shit machine
The JCO post about Elon not liking anything is something I've said before about a lot of politics poisoned posting addicts. People who never once post about a band they like or anything at all. There are so many like that.
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is also how come techbro grindset types believe so easily that AI can replace artists and creatives. Art and narrative are just meaningless lights and sounds to them.
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<from the depths of my soul> Bloody. fireworks. should. be. banned.
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
<from the depths of my soul> Bloody. fireworks. should. be. banned.