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Ms Gubbins
@msgubbins.bsky.social
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Meanderer, ex-mermaid, occasional hedgewitch.

Suffolk, UK.

She/ her.
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domconlon.bsky.social
As it is international moon day, I’d like to share this little book which means, well - the world to me. It’s full of me and my life as seen through the perspective of the moon. I’d love it if you bought a copy or even shared it
July 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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adhdjesse.com
[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”

[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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scientits.bsky.social
The world needs this
stephencollins.bsky.social Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · Jul 20
Sometimes, I long for him
Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.
July 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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shrinkatlarge.bsky.social
As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP
thecanaryuk.bsky.social The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · Jul 18
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work

Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.

So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall believes people on benefits are incentivised not to work - yet a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants
www.thecanary.co
July 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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saskiadanielceramics.com
Just digesting the fact that I sold one (1) mug last month in the gallery I usually do quite well at in the summer. So if anyone needs to find any gifts, my online shop is always open. Prices from £10.
Products
Browse all products from Saskia Daniel Ceramics.
www.saskiadanielceramics.com
July 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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quadraminstitute.bsky.social
Would you like to have your own kitchen garden? 🌿

If you’re a vegan or vegetarian, with regular periods, living within 40 miles of #Norwich you can take part in our HARVEST study growing biofortified greens in kitchen garden🌱

Find out more➡️ buff.ly/49xToBz
A HARVEST hydroponic unit growing mizuna and pak choi being harvested by hand
July 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
It's #buyastrangerabook day!

People buy books for each other.
Yes, really.

LOOK.

Here’s an offer from @notmoro.bsky.social, who'll buy someone the book of their choice, up to £20!

Check it out and get in touch if there's something you'd like!

UK only.
notmoro.bsky.social Jess 🌰🍂🦔 @notmoro.bsky.social · Jul 16
Sir! I was wrangling a barberry but now I'm here and if it's not too late I would like to BUY A STRANGER A BOOK UP TO £20 please
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
Sea holly; beach ladybird.
#SmallBeauties
Flowering sea holly just growing right out of the sand. Bonkers. It is spiky and has blue-tinged pineconey sort of flowers. It's a desert-lizard sort of a plant, but it's hanging out on the east coast of the UK like a badass A single, orange, 7-spot ladybird on a speckled grey and white pebble, in the sand
July 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
Found my first ever jay feather.
Churchyard sheep.
My homegrown lentil harvest
Perennial sunflowers flowering.
Please read my alt text.
#SmallBeauties
A feather, plainish brown on one side but with startling electric-blue bar stripes on the other Four sheep in a churchyard. One is a whitish sort of a sheep with a black face. The others are a chocolatey brown and look a bit more rangy and goatlike. One has its paler bum towards the camera. The goaty sheep have horns. I'm not really up on sheep types. You may have noticed. A sprinkle of green, speckled lentils in a white enamel cup. You can't tell, but the cup is a Celestine and the Hare mug. Tall, leggy plants with bright yellow flowers which are all facing away from me and towards my neighbour's house wall. Still, they are very cheery beings and flower for ages and bees & hoverflies love them
July 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
Roses, roses, roses.
A tiny bee.
A bonus d
The hedges are glorious just now.
#SmallBeautiesHour
A robin's pincushion in a bloominh wild rose Wild roses with deep pink petals, a hoverfly in the centre of one A tiny bee in a pale pink wild rose An electric-blue damselfly resting on a leaf
June 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
Lovely, exhausting day.
Lots of laughing.
Met @helendrinkstea.bsky.social after being a #rubbishbirdpics fan. It was so lovely to meet you, Helen.
Caught up with @electrarhodes.bsky.social, always a joy.
celestineandthehare.com Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · Jun 9
This weekend we had a gathering of some of the the tribe at Compton Verney. It was the most lovely day full of laughter silliness kindness and joy! Here’s most of us!
There was also a gathering of Bert and his allotment buddies too
My heart is full. Thanks for being the best tribe!
Lots of felted very voles discussing shovels in a meadow. They all have flat caps and knitted tank tops A group of people standing outside a stately home in roughly rainbow order or clothing!
June 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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farleigh.bsky.social
This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵
Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”
June 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
Popped in here & blocked a new follower whose bio said "self confessed Harry Potter nerd".

For years I read & enjoyed the books, but Rowling using their vast wealth & profile to fund transphobic legal actions & stoke hate, fear & misinformation means I will not separate the art from the artist.
June 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
SIGNED BOOK NEWS!

I'm gonna be getting SIGNED copies of "Stone and Sky" the new "Rivers of London" novel by the awesome @benaaronovitch.bsky.social

'This isn’t London. The rules are different up here.'

Published in July.

Order a copy HERE!

biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Front cover of "Stone and Sky" the new Rivers of London novel by Ben Aaronovitch.
May 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
Look at my lovely new coffee scoop (slightly coffee-covered) made by @andywoodturner.bsky.social from Nottinghamshire sweet chestnut
A wooden coffee scoop. The bowl is rounded and has a slight sheen. The handle arcs pleasingly, then splays out to an open triangle, handy for gripping or hanging. It sits on a striped bamboo worktop in front of a glass jar of ground coffee
May 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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saskiadanielceramics.com
Four views of one little bud vase I made and a rose that I cut by accident because I'm an idiot.
A heavily flecked clay bud vase standing on a pine surface against a grey wall. It contains a single fully open yellow rose and a couple of leaves. It's from a bush that's over 35 years old and smells amazing. A heavily flecked clay bud vase standing on a pine surface against a grey wall. It contains a single fully open yellow rose and a couple of leaves. It's from a bush that's over 35 years old and smells amazing. A heavily flecked clay bud vase standing on a pine surface against a grey wall. It contains a single fully open yellow rose and a couple of leaves. It's from a bush that's over 35 years old and smells amazing. A heavily flecked clay bud vase standing on a pine surface against a grey wall. It contains a single fully open yellow rose and a couple of leaves. It's from a bush that's over 35 years old and smells amazing.
May 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Inside you are two bacteria. No, four. Wait, eight. Sixteen. Thirty-two. Shit, sixty-four. Yikes.
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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rhi.bsky.social
THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics to come.)

www.32auctions.com/organization...
Monstrous Regiment (Signed 1st edition)
Auction item 'Monstrous Regiment (Signed 1st edition)' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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saskiadanielceramics.com
I'll be at Churchfield Road makers' market in Acton W3 6AY with my pots tomorrow from 10-5.
A blue and white striped coffee mug standing on a pine surface. The alternate bands are a worn blue denim glaze and bare clay. You can drink other things from it too. Poster in mainly yellow and green for Acton makers market. It has far too much text on it and I've covered it in my post.
April 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
Another #buyastrangerabook day offer.

@paolaoeste.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.
April 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
msgubbins.bsky.social
The cuckoo pint is flowering - so many flower spikes along the edge of the footpath
Cuckoo pint in flower Cuckoo pint in flower
April 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
It's #buyastrangerabook day and @tizziesuxx.bsky.social is offering to buy someone any book they like authored by a trans person.

Elizabeth gave a couple of ace suggestions (attached), but if there's something specific you'd like, let us know!

UK only.
tizziesuxx.bsky.social Elizabeth Moore @tizziesuxx.bsky.social · Apr 16
I might be too late now @biggreenbooks.bsky.social but I’d like to #buyastrangerabook - something by @junodawson.bsky.social or @torreypeters.bsky.social or any other super cool trans person! (Also happy for this to roll into next week if I am too late!)
April 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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celestineandthehare.com
We love and support all our trans friends. Sharing a post on social media is great, but sometimes we need to do more and I would love you to do a little more
Please write to your MP
Consider donating to a fundraiser
Buy books from trans authors rather than funding hate.
Show love and support🏳️‍⚧️feel
felted mouse and weasels with trans coloured flags on and a non binary pin badge
April 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
Round of applause for this social media person
maryrosemuseum.bsky.social The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM