Doodlebugisblueru
@digitaldorkette.bsky.social
🧶spinner. 👻lover. Kindness is🗝️. Wilde about profoundly trivial stuff & nonsense. Middle grade reader/writer of tall tales for wee people. If you're a writer/reader of MG fiction please follow me. Same name on bird site. #IrishTwitter #Dublin is my❤️
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IN HISTORY: The 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre, considered as one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, involved white mobs attacking the well-off Black American community in Greenwood District in Tulsa.
The Black Wall Street Massacre - Profolus
The Black Wall Street Massacre, also known as the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, is one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history
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June 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
IN HISTORY: The 1921 Black Wall Street Massacre, considered as one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, involved white mobs attacking the well-off Black American community in Greenwood District in Tulsa.
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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
Government | Harvard University
Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.
pll.harvard.edu
May 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more.
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...
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A piece by our co-founder and writer @elsawilliams.bsky.social
The new series of The Assembly dropped on ITVX at the weekend, starring David Tennant and Danny Dyer.
Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen.
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Here’s an article I wrote last year about the show’s format and portrayals of autism on screen.
medium.com/@elsalwillia...
Telly is weird. As an autistic person, I’ve never felt wholesome
The microphone is passed to a young man sat along the row. He laughs a little, avoiding all eye contact, and suddenly struggles to speak…
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May 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A piece by our co-founder and writer @elsawilliams.bsky.social
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Take That (specifically 92-95), so much so that during my autism assessment I was asked about it and I just went into how the date was Howard’s birthday and he was 57.
Episode 2 of Autistic Women Oversharing is now available wherever you get your podcasts! This week, we're talking about childhood special interests. Whether you spent your childhood deciding on a Spice Girl name, terrifying librarians or looking for eligible Stone Age bachelors, you're not alone:
S01E02 - Childhood Special Interests
Autistic Women Oversharing · Episode
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May 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Take That (specifically 92-95), so much so that during my autism assessment I was asked about it and I just went into how the date was Howard’s birthday and he was 57.
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In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
May 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
In the days of lovely Twitter I often put out a call for help with research in writing my books. So here goes, Bluskiers.
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
I'm looking for a social worker (adoption/fostering preferably) and a probation officer who worked between 2008 and 2012, the more senior the better.
Please share :)
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Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
The Real Horror of 'Sinners' Isn’t Supernatural
The constraints of the Jim Crow economy drive every event in the film.
www.theatlantic.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sinners is a horror film in which almost all of the key events are driven by the constraints of the Jim Crow economy (spoilery) www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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This is "Clinton's private mail server" times, like, 20. This is a people go to prison sort of security failure if Trump people went to prison.
New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.
www.404media.co
May 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This is "Clinton's private mail server" times, like, 20. This is a people go to prison sort of security failure if Trump people went to prison.
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“The tracks are a mix of original compositions and covers with the lyrics changed to make them about Marmaduke. For example, the theme of TV game show Blankety Blank becomes ‘Sausagey Cat.’”
Cat records chart-topping album of autistic owner’s little songs
A cat has become one of the world’s best-selling musical artists overnight, after secretly recording his owner while she sang about him. Marmaduke, six, is reported to have been the subject of near co...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“The tracks are a mix of original compositions and covers with the lyrics changed to make them about Marmaduke. For example, the theme of TV game show Blankety Blank becomes ‘Sausagey Cat.’”
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+++ May Day +++
Summer is icumen in
loudly sing cuckoo
grows the seed and blows the mead
and springs the wood anew.
sing cuckoo!
ewe bleats harshly after lamb
cows after calves make moo
bullock stamps and deer champs
now shrilly sing cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
wild bird are you be never still cuckoo
Summer is icumen in
loudly sing cuckoo
grows the seed and blows the mead
and springs the wood anew.
sing cuckoo!
ewe bleats harshly after lamb
cows after calves make moo
bullock stamps and deer champs
now shrilly sing cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
wild bird are you be never still cuckoo
May 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
+++ May Day +++
Summer is icumen in
loudly sing cuckoo
grows the seed and blows the mead
and springs the wood anew.
sing cuckoo!
ewe bleats harshly after lamb
cows after calves make moo
bullock stamps and deer champs
now shrilly sing cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
wild bird are you be never still cuckoo
Summer is icumen in
loudly sing cuckoo
grows the seed and blows the mead
and springs the wood anew.
sing cuckoo!
ewe bleats harshly after lamb
cows after calves make moo
bullock stamps and deer champs
now shrilly sing cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo
wild bird are you be never still cuckoo
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Skeptic Richard Wiseman and his parapsychologist wife Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve in psychological research.
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www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
Missing a trick: How Psychology could benefit more from the paranormal | BPS
Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve.
www.bps.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Skeptic Richard Wiseman and his parapsychologist wife Caroline Watt look at three areas where parapsychologists have been ahead of the curve in psychological research.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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Fascinating interview with the brilliant Pat Barker. I’m a huge fan of her brilliant, insightful novels.
"I didn't like winning the Booker at all. Success can be a lot more challenging than failure. I was used to failure, like most writers are. I did failure beautifully, believe me. I didn’t do success quite so well."
I spoke to Pat Barker about her @thebookerprizes.bsky.social-winning The Ghost Road:
I spoke to Pat Barker about her @thebookerprizes.bsky.social-winning The Ghost Road:
Pat Barker interview: ‘Success can be more challenging than failure’ | The Booker Prizes
Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices
thebookerprizes.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Fascinating interview with the brilliant Pat Barker. I’m a huge fan of her brilliant, insightful novels.
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One of our #LocalStudies treasures is a copy of Joseph Strutt’s 'Sports and Pastimes of the people of England', 1801. It has beautiful illustrations and includes games we’ve all heard of like skittles, billiards and dominos, but Strutt was puzzled by these. Any ideas??
#EYAFunAndGames #history
#EYAFunAndGames #history
May 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
One of our #LocalStudies treasures is a copy of Joseph Strutt’s 'Sports and Pastimes of the people of England', 1801. It has beautiful illustrations and includes games we’ve all heard of like skittles, billiards and dominos, but Strutt was puzzled by these. Any ideas??
#EYAFunAndGames #history
#EYAFunAndGames #history
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From the creators of the Pleasant Green Universe and the Lovecraft Investigations comes Crowley, a 5 part audio series on the man behind much of the occult history of the last century. #PleasantGreen #Crowley www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...
Lovecraft Investigations: Crowley
A Lovecraft Investigations audio series delving into the (true) life and works of Aleister Crowley
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May 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
From the creators of the Pleasant Green Universe and the Lovecraft Investigations comes Crowley, a 5 part audio series on the man behind much of the occult history of the last century. #PleasantGreen #Crowley www.kickstarter.com/projects/cro...
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Take a peek at a miniature Great Exhibition, first open on this day in 1851! This diorama, ‘Lane’s telescopic view…’ was published the same year, and folds out accordion style so we can look through the mini window.
[Great Exhibition 07/13]
[Great Exhibition 07/13]
May 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Take a peek at a miniature Great Exhibition, first open on this day in 1851! This diorama, ‘Lane’s telescopic view…’ was published the same year, and folds out accordion style so we can look through the mini window.
[Great Exhibition 07/13]
[Great Exhibition 07/13]
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The streets of Victorian England were stalked by a shadowy menace: Spring-Heeled Jack, with his glowing eyes, blue flames, claws, and springs in his heels. You can listen (or watch on YouTube) me discuss the folklore of this figure on the HistoryHit podcast pod.link/1705694900/e...
After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.Join histori...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The streets of Victorian England were stalked by a shadowy menace: Spring-Heeled Jack, with his glowing eyes, blue flames, claws, and springs in his heels. You can listen (or watch on YouTube) me discuss the folklore of this figure on the HistoryHit podcast pod.link/1705694900/e...
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I think one of my mom’s little genius moves when we were young was to wake us up for school by singing-narrating that it was time to get up, bothering us enough we woke up, and then sort of dancing out of the room while singing. How are you gonna get a complaining word in to that Broadway show?
April 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I think one of my mom’s little genius moves when we were young was to wake us up for school by singing-narrating that it was time to get up, bothering us enough we woke up, and then sort of dancing out of the room while singing. How are you gonna get a complaining word in to that Broadway show?
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They’re saying it’s suicide.
But highly suspicious.
She said just a few months ago, if I’m found dead you’ll know why. She expressed concern for her physical safety.
apnews.com/article/virg...
But highly suspicious.
She said just a few months ago, if I’m found dead you’ll know why. She expressed concern for her physical safety.
apnews.com/article/virg...
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Britain's Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal, has died
The woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by financier Jeffrey Epstein has died. Virginia Giuffre was 41.
apnews.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
They’re saying it’s suicide.
But highly suspicious.
She said just a few months ago, if I’m found dead you’ll know why. She expressed concern for her physical safety.
apnews.com/article/virg...
But highly suspicious.
She said just a few months ago, if I’m found dead you’ll know why. She expressed concern for her physical safety.
apnews.com/article/virg...
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Artist Yves Klein was born #OnThisDay in 1928.
🔵 We're celebrating his birthday by looking at the history of blue in art 👉 buff.ly/Mzpdo0y
'The Virgin and Child with Angels' by Quinten Massys (1466–1530) 📸 @TheCourtauld
🔵 We're celebrating his birthday by looking at the history of blue in art 👉 buff.ly/Mzpdo0y
'The Virgin and Child with Angels' by Quinten Massys (1466–1530) 📸 @TheCourtauld
Colour in art: a brief history of blue pigment | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Artist Yves Klein was born #OnThisDay in 1928.
🔵 We're celebrating his birthday by looking at the history of blue in art 👉 buff.ly/Mzpdo0y
'The Virgin and Child with Angels' by Quinten Massys (1466–1530) 📸 @TheCourtauld
🔵 We're celebrating his birthday by looking at the history of blue in art 👉 buff.ly/Mzpdo0y
'The Virgin and Child with Angels' by Quinten Massys (1466–1530) 📸 @TheCourtauld
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Can think of fewer better matches of writer and subject here www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners”
The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Can think of fewer better matches of writer and subject here www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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After the Trump administration deported three U.S. citizen children, including one with cancer, Marco Rubio claimed their mothers chose to bring them. Lawyers for the families say that’s a lie.
Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were 'Coerced' Into Taking Them
Marco Rubio claimed two deported Louisiana mothers voluntarily brought their children with them. Attorneys for the families say that’s a lie.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
After the Trump administration deported three U.S. citizen children, including one with cancer, Marco Rubio claimed their mothers chose to bring them. Lawyers for the families say that’s a lie.
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February: Why are you protesting in front of Tesla dealerships? That seems like at best a waste of time, at worst a big mistake.
April:
#GiftArticle
April:
#GiftArticle
Public sours on Musk’s role, is skeptical that government is cutting waste
A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finding negative reactions to some cuts made by Musks’s U.S. DOGE service.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
February: Why are you protesting in front of Tesla dealerships? That seems like at best a waste of time, at worst a big mistake.
April:
#GiftArticle
April:
#GiftArticle
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#ICYMI: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…
www.propublica.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#ICYMI: GlobalX flight attendants were told they would fly rock bands, sports teams and sun-seekers.
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
Then the company started expanding into deportation flights.
“They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled, wrists to fucking ankles.”
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The Other by Thomas Tryon from 1971 for my book group. Pretty good so far
April 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The Other by Thomas Tryon from 1971 for my book group. Pretty good so far