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Pat N
@patnay.bsky.social
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Bringing colour to the world.
Love a good map and currently deep into #genealogy
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chadbourn.bsky.social
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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marshfamilysongs.bsky.social
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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marshfamilysongs.bsky.social
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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Artist Helga Stentzel's fun clothesline creatures #WomensArt #Monday
Three images, a fox, a bird and a T-Rex all created with itens of clothes on a clothesline
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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redrebel.bsky.social
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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igrs1936.bsky.social
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
patnay.bsky.social
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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
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
Photo of a very long thin rectangular piece of material with sewn text which strethes across a floor towards the viewer, with a kneeling person at the far end, all in an interior space
March 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
patnay.bsky.social
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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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
UK textie artist Rachel Wright who creates textile art using machine embroidery on calico with fabrics and Madeira rayons #womensart
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a windmill in silhouette, side view, to the right in a meadow at dusk with grasses in the foreground and a stripey purple pink sky above
February 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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awhand13.bsky.social
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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georebekah.bsky.social
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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chiddickstree.bsky.social
Something thought provoking for you about the psyche of why we research out family tree Do You Know Who You Are?

chiddicksfamilytree.com/2023/04/16/d...

#Genealogy #FamilyTree #psyche #BloggersTribe #Blog #Ancestry #FamilyHistory #psychology #Ancestors
Do You Know Who You Are?
Can you really truly know who you are, if you don’t know where you came from? It’s a simple enough question and one that I am sure that many family historians and probably many psycholo…
chiddicksfamilytree.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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frankamari.bsky.social
"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
patnay.bsky.social
"Viva Madame Pelicot. May your name forever be remembered not with pity or sorrow, but with absolute awe, respect and gratitude."
jamieklingler.bsky.social Jamie Klingler @jamieklingler.bsky.social · Dec 10
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...
Cover of Thursday’s issue which I wrote the cover story for about Gisèle Pelicot as person of the year 2024
December 19, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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maitlis.bsky.social
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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soverybritish.bsky.social
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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louisathelast.bsky.social
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
spavel.bsky.social Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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chcowgirl.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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whatsfsaid.bsky.social
"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
Letter from Isaac Asimov to some school children, congratulating them on their new library, comparing it to a space ship, a time machine, a teacher, a friend, and a gateway to a better life
December 9, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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calltoactivism.bsky.social
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
patnay.bsky.social
@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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leastactionhero.bsky.social
nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish
lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket. Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's" Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.
November 22, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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whatsfsaid.bsky.social
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