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octopusgallery.bsky.social
Speaking of pretty quilts, I just got this pride flag done!
A quilted progress pride flag made of triangles of different fancy in the various colors hanging longways from a garden arch in a snowy winter garden.
December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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kithrup.bsky.social
Cached UK/IE Kindle giveaway: 5 copies of The Martian by Andy Weir, which I have and have read and have enjoyed a lot. I also really liked the movie; I think it was a very good adaptation. You MUST have an amazon.co.uk account to claim one!

#UKKindleBookGiveaway #KindleBookGiveaway
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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happytoast.co.uk
It’s Santa taking down an AT-AT!
Santa on his sleigh flying round a Star Wars AT-AT, tangling its legs in candy cane coloured ribbon
December 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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diane.dianeduane.com
A #Christmas story from the French supermarket chain Intermarché. The message (as this isn't English-subtitled): "Try eating some vegetables." Check out the fabulous animation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9V...
Intermarché - Conte de Noël
YouTube video by Intermarché
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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www.jrrjokien.com
GANDALF: Can you see anything?

FRODO: There's nothing…Wait. There are markings. It's some form of Elvish. I can't read it.

GANDALF: There are few who can. The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. In the common tongue it says, "Light the lamp, not the rat."
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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tupped.bsky.social
When you drift through some unheralded point in your 40s, you start accumulating actuarial risks.

The odds of illness, heart attack, or the chances losing of a parent go up.

But there is another risk- particularly acute for men.

There is a risk you will lose your capacity for joy.
December 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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virginiam.bsky.social
When I volunteered at the Austin Nature & Science Center 300 years ago, this was phrased to me as "their heads are full of optic nerves & murder. There's no room for anything else."
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d
Me to same owl handler: "Owls are super wise, right? They read loads of highbrow Russian literature and stuff, don't they?"

Owl handler: "No, they actually have very tiny brains, due to the hugeness of their eyes. In reality they are one of the thickest animals you could ever meet."
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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unburntwitch.com
my pokemon is trying to steal my pokemon
December 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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familiarcraftsman.bsky.social
2025 is the year I permit myself to use metallic paints (look at her!) #miniaturepainting #marilwyd #yule #christmas
A printed and painted miniature of a ghostly Mari Lwyd, a folk tradition from South Wales consisting of a decorated horse skull with a sheet body
January 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
5) AI, which is good at bullshit, may thrive because we have made a society run on bullshit. But in the end I cannot believe we will all become nothing but consumers. People MAKE. An not in the Randian "makers and takers" sense, in the yearning, stretching toward the infinite sense.
December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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bschillace.brandyschillace.com
This was such a funny story thread by @neolithicsheep.bsky.social that I had to make it a comic.
A comic of three frames. Top, what looks like the black shape of a two headed monster dog with three sheep in foreground looking scared. Then a panel showing two friendly guard dogs with their collars entangled and the words low-rent Cerberus. Up close of collars—then a large bottom view of the sheep fleeing and dogs following with Q marks over their heads. Two farmer shapes in fire saying ‘farming is stupid’ and ‘collars are stupid’
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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alchemistsstudio.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar and #Caturday 🤔🤔

Here kit-tea, kit-tea...

🙀😸😽😼😻

Look what came through the Stargate!

(yes this is a functional teapot)

#art #pottery #ceramics #space #sciart
A donut shaped teapot with a kitty standing in the hole. There is also another cat sitting on the lid. A close up of the cat in hole of the donut shaped teapot A close up of the kitty on the lid. A rear view of the teapot.
December 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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naomialderman.bsky.social
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
jonkingh.bsky.social Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 9d
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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jjgass.bsky.social
I’ve been talking to people about masculinity & the manosphere bros & trying to figure out how to say what I think, & then she comes along & puts it perfectly.

You can’t skeet better than this.
oneoneder.bsky.social Sara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 9d
They don't want traditional masculine virtues, which is something they give; they want traditional masculine rents, which is something they get.
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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spahn711.bsky.social
This is U N B E L I E V A B L E. #Kilauea
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯

USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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kathyreidknitter.bsky.social
Something different for #showmeyourknits . I knit 🧶 Christmas lights inspired garland for my bannisters.
Hand knitted Christmas lights garland garland in greenery on wood bannister. Lights are red, orange, yellow, blue, white
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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kesalisbury.bsky.social
This has made grin, so I'm sharing it 😍 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools
Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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matgb.uk
Choo choo motherfucker is doing the rounds again!

I've always loved this story
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.

The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.

And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
Question time fans rage defund the BBC after small boat migrants planted in audience.
December 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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kathleengmaz.bsky.social
Ho Ho Ho to your house!
A very stern looking cling on Santa Claus featuring a Jolly hat that has spikes at the end of it. He's also wearing armor with his red suit and carrying a sack full of bat'leths. The meme says Klingon Santa doesn't check the naughty or nice list. He checks if you fought with honor this year.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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wylder.bsky.social
I didnt realize it wasnt obvious until a couple DMs, but folks who need mutual aid to survive ask for gift cards or wishlist items bc:

- low chance of affecting benefits negatively
- can get wants & needs without pulling from desperate survival fund
- alleviates spending while struggling guilt
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego erupting at sunset, shot from camp at 12,000 ft atop the neighboring Acatenango volcano. Incandescent lava is blasted 1,000 ft into the air before cascading down the slopes. The streak of light at the bottom right is from a group of hikers. #photography #ArtAdventCalendar
A photograph of the summit area of Volcán de Fuego in which a powerful eruption sends lava hundreds of meters into the air above the summit just after sunset. This slightly long exposure creates arcing paths of orange and yellow lava as the projectiles rise and fall through the air before cascading down the slopes of the volcano as yellow-orange streaks. The sky behind the volcano is orange with some clouds at the bottom, and bluish-purple at the top with a couple stars just becoming visible after sunset. On the far bottom right of the image is a streak of light created by the headlamps of a group of hikers on the volcano.
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM