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Kerry Burnett Writer
@kerryburnetty.bsky.social
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She/her #Author of pox-and-all #histfic women's fiction, repd by www.greeneheaton.co.uk
Bath Novel Award LL Specialist Tutor in FE and HE. Hypnotherapist. Poet '5of9' Potty-mouthed lover of 📚 🐈‍⬛ #Trekkie 🖖
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If the hate riots were Twitter.
This light parade celebrating the rebuilding of a library after, is Bluesky.
#hope #Humanity
#libraries

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
A parade of lights, stars and bell lanterns light the dark street, in the foreground a giant owl lantern swoops, as people march in celebration to Spellow library. Beneath is a quote, "We always pledged we would be back' Spellow rises again.
December 12, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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If a skeletal horse knocks on your door,
Prepare for a raging rap battle for,
If you lose, so comes true your fear,
Mari Lwyd will drink all your beer.

Welsh Christmas is the best.
www.wales.com/about/histor...
A horse skull is mounted on a stick and dressed in a white sheet and coloured ribbons. © Cas Smith © Llantrisant Mari Lwyd
December 10, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Well, all your impressive trees put mine to shame. Went with one mini, LED tree and little else because, well, I'm a lazy arse.
Big victorian bay windows with white, wooden blinds. In front, a tiny christmas tree, perhaps 1 and a half foot.
December 8, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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A very British rebellion.
#FightTheSystem
Screenshot of online meeting response, saying: I'm not going to incite this meeting to rebellion. But we really should go round and fart in someone's kitchen.
December 8, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Just gave me a heart attack! 🤣
Phone screenshot of Severe alert issued by UK government, a red warning of strong winds.
December 6, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Wow!
Enterprise in lights.

Every year the city of East Peoria, Illinois, puts on a festival of lights for the holiday seasons. The Enterprise float is 57 feet long, 22 feet wide and 14 feet tall with 52,000 lights.

🖖 #StarTrek
The USS Enterprise built onto a float, lit up by 52,000 lights.
December 6, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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This.
List of tips created originally by Sarah Silverman 1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks. 2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone. 3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape her. 4. If you are in an elevator and a woman gets in, don’t rape her. 5. When you encounter a woman who is asleep, the safest course of action is to not rape her. 6. Never creep into a woman’s home through an unlocked door or window, or spring out at her from between parked cars, or rape her. 7. Remember, people go to the laundry room to do their laundry. Do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room. 8. Use the Buddy System! If it is inconvenient for you to stop yourself from raping women, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times. 9. Carry a rape whistle. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you. 10. Don’t forget: Honesty is the best policy. When asking a woman out on a date, don’t pretend that you are interested in her as a person; tell her straight up that you expect to be raping her later. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the woman may take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape her.
December 2, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Currently Rebecca is hanging out with Jane. I feel they'd have a lot to talk about.
Book table has Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte together. Below, Emily Dickinson is hanging out with Wendy Cope. I think they might 'get' each other.
November 24, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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#Writers

Please check your settings. MS Word scrapes your content to train its AI systems.
Opt out:

File > More> Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box for “Turn on optional connected experiences”
Screenshot of Connected Experiences screen on MS Word settings.
November 20, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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Hello, welcome to newer joiners.
#Writer of gritty 18thC fiction.
#Book lover. 📚
#teacher
#hypnotherapist
Nerd 🤓
ND 🤯
Socially awkward. 🙊🙈
Enjoyer of silliness 🤪
#cats
#StarTrek

Please repost anything you like. You are the algorithm.
Weird medieval art. Man fiddles whilst another is bent backwards into a letter O. No, I have no idea... I just thought 'why not'
November 19, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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We have a grammar vigilante called 'The Apostrophiser' in Bristol.
One man, correcting the grammar crimes of a city.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Hooded vigilante up ladder, correcting Bristol's crimes against grammar with his apostrophiser kit.
November 15, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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Stimpy from Ren and Stimpy, spends the episode resisting the urge to push the red button. Here he has his paw raised, stupid joy on his face, about to push.
November 15, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Back to work. Not going to complain though.
This is the view from my face this morning.
View past The Grand Pier, across the Bristol Channel towards Brean Down. The sea is calm, the sky a beautiful blue.
November 15, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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“Come, come, you froward and unable worms!”
The Taming Of The Shrew (Act 5, Scene 2)
#Shakespeare funtime!
Make your own insults kit.

Let's hear yours.

#fun #writing 📚
Sorry, it's a list of words. To make up for my crappiness, here is an insult generator instead. https://codepo8.github.io/shakespeare-insult-generator/
November 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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So lucky to have this little oasis of autumnal calm to spend my lunch hour. #peaceful #parks #UK
Clarence Park in Weston-super-mare, UK. A victorian 3 tiered fountain in centre of pond, surrounded by trees wearing their autumn, firey colours.
November 13, 2024 at 12:42 PM
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Definitely this. 📚
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley A beautiful cover showing a white, cloud like silhouette of a person in profile, surrounded by stars and bright pink and blue nebula.
November 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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#BlueskyTips for newbies.
You are the algorithm.
Engage to build.
MOVING FROM XITTER TO BLUESKY Before you start following people, write your profile. post at least 5 to 10 things. Use # for interests. Tum off NSFW filter. Find your friends using a Sky Follower Bridge. Not perfect, but they find the majority of the people you were following Tweek feeds. Turn on "show posts from my feeds" in Settings Home feed Likes on reposts do not trigger notifications. Block. It works here. Engage, like, repost, comment.
November 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Hello, welcome to new joiners.
Writer of gritty 18thC fiction here. Book lover. 📚
Nerd 🤓
ND 🤯
Socially awkward. 🙊🙈
Enjoyer of silliness 🤪
"When you're socially awkward, but you still give it a shot." Man dressed in 18th century garb, pointing at skull "Do you like skulls?"
November 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Original Bluesky community:
We knew you'd come.
Scene in Indiana Jones. The grail Knight is kneeling at altar having been waiting 2000 years.
November 11, 2024 at 6:46 AM
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So, #book peeps 📚
How do I describe my kind of historical fiction? Downton Abbey it ain't.
Painting from 18th century with royal family in wigs and silks, even the toddlers. A serene scene of high manners and monied domesticity. Gin Lane, 1 February 1751 Hogarth's nightmarish scene is set in the slum known as the Ruins of St Giles and includes a drunken mother dropping her baby to take a pinch of snuff, the burial of a naked woman, mass brawling, and a man and dog fighting over a bone.
November 10, 2024 at 1:11 PM
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I feel the same, house, I feel the same.
#Pareidolia
Horrified face in house detail, formed by architectural detail. Schweizerhaus, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and built 1829-1830 by Albert Dietrich Schadow in an english garden created by Peter Josef Lenné
November 9, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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‘Oh, look at the lovely gammon!’ The National Trust’s new woke trail – the Stephen Collins cartoon
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Cartoon showing family visiting NT and being offered the new autumn 'Gammon Trail' hunting for gammon. They can be heard calling 'Wok! Woke!', are very sensitive' and are drawn out by placing signs about slavery.
October 27, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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Me: how long has this hair been on my chin, why didn't you point it out?

Hubbie: It's barely noticeable, I don't know what you're worried about.

The hair:
Cute puppy with wiry, long whiskers.
October 19, 2024 at 11:14 AM
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So, having got Bonnie Tyler on repeat in my brain, from seeing this local news item, it got me thinking about ap-pop-riation - the art of appropriating a song to match your current situation.
Let's play #appopriation
Article about the deflation of an inflatable art installation in Bridgwater docks. Title 'Partial eclipse for Bridgwater's 'Fallen Moon'
October 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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So, after 4 and a half years covid-free, despite teaching through, it has finally got me. And, I have to say, I am not keen. 🥵🥶🥵🥶🥵🥶🥵🥶🥵
Positive covid test.
September 23, 2024 at 7:14 AM