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Pat N
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Bringing colour to the world.
Love a good map and currently deep into #genealogy
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I think we’ve found the most British crime:

Four people have been arrested after custard and apple crumble were flung at a display case containing part of the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London.
Four arrested after Tower of London display case containing State Crown defaced
The group Take Back Power says its members poured custard and apple crumble on the Crown Jewels display.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Here's "Trump'll Nail Ya" - a song about the #BBC legal crisis (set to the tune of the shanty "Drunken Sailor") which created a big internal debate about what's a gremlin and what's a mogwai. 🎶⚓️

... fingers crossed for an apology but not a daft and unnecessary settlement ...

youtu.be/VeIF4leMaes
"Trump'll Nail Ya" - Marsh Family parody adaptation of sea shanty "Drunken Sailor" about BBC crisis
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Here's a short happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".

youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U

It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
"Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard" - Marsh Family parody of Paul Simon "Me and Julio" on RFK
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
September 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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I LOVE this family!

🥰🥰🥰

True humanists through & through!

This song of theirs is truly heartbreaking! 💔

#FreePalestine
#EndTheGenocide

@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social
"Gaza" - adaptation by the Marsh Family of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls, on the occupation of Gaza
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
August 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Copies of 175,000 historical records lost during a fire at the Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922 are being made available online, including 60,000 names from the Irish 19th century census returns. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
'New lease of life' - Project digitises archive documents
175,000 new historical records lost during a fire at the Four Courts during the Civil War in 1922 are being made available online, including 60,000 names from the Irish 19th century censuses.
www.rte.ie
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Have they thought about how much tariffs will increase the cost of #maga hats?
April 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Lorina Bulwer, needle-worker incarcerated in the 'lunatic ward' of Great Yarmouth Workhouse, UK, in 1894, created large scale samplers as a way to voice her experience, highlighting her treatment and grim conditions #womensart
March 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Came across this long and fascinating epitaph written about George Cruikshank (1715-1765)by his wife, Finetta. She painted a very full picture of the man but I haven't found any more records about either of them #genealogy #Hitcham
March 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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UK textie artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #womensart
February 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦

Life Expectancy:
🇨🇦 82.6
🇺🇸: 78.4

Infant Deaths/1,000:
🇨🇦 3.7
🇺🇸: 5.2

Deaths from No Insurance:
🇨🇦 0
🇺🇸: 68,000

Ozempic Price:
🇨🇦 $155
🇺🇸: $998

Uninsured:
🇨🇦 0
🇺🇸: 85M

Admin Costs:
🇨🇦 $196
🇺🇸: $1,055

Education:
🇨🇦 57% post-sec
🇺🇸: 45%

Canada Forever!
January 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest."

-- Lady Bird Johnson, born #OTD 1912
December 22, 2024 at 11:12 AM
"Viva Madame Pelicot. May your name forever be remembered not with pity or sorrow, but with absolute awe, respect and gratitude."
On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault
It is my proudest writing.
app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...
December 19, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Youngest suspect was just 22 years old at the time- went to the Pelicots house on the night his own daughter was born. He abused a drugged woman - Gisele - and has just been given 12 year sentence.
December 19, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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Some five-word horror stories for Friday the 13th:

Running out of tea bags
Someone talking in a lift
Unexpected knock on the door
Biscuit falling into your brew
Stuck on rail replacement bus
Forgetting to take an umbrella
Missing bin day before Christmas
Say a bit about yourself
December 13, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
Well this is grim
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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"Nobody uses libraries." Except for the MILLIONS & MILLIONS OF US WHO STILL LOVE LIBRARIES, including every single writer I've ever met! All of us are profoundly grateful for the existence of libraries & the vital work of librarians. And here are some reasons why... #SaveLibraries #libraries
December 9, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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So when we remove birthright citizenship can we go by the mother? Because:

Don Jr was born in 1977
Ivanka was born in 1981
Eric was born in 1984

Ivana became a US citizen in 1988.

Barron was born in March 2006

Melania became a US citizen in July 2006.

Trump’s entire family would be deported.
December 9, 2024 at 4:27 PM
@indesit.bsky.social took the top of our dryer (IDV75UK) this morning and found this. We clean the filter after every load without fail. This must be a fire hazard! Might be worth warning your customers
December 5, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians
November 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM