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I have a time thing (mainly: I understand time exists but we don’t really talk) and thus have trouble conceiving of the new year as a thing that matters, but obviously it *does* matter to people who are not me, so!
Happy New Year and may it be better than the last.
Happy New Year and may it be better than the last.
January 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I have a time thing (mainly: I understand time exists but we don’t really talk) and thus have trouble conceiving of the new year as a thing that matters, but obviously it *does* matter to people who are not me, so!
Happy New Year and may it be better than the last.
Happy New Year and may it be better than the last.
As Is Tradition.
(Also I can HIGHLY recommend the Official Plushie.)
(Also I can HIGHLY recommend the Official Plushie.)
NEW – Sweden: Storm knocks down Gävle Goat
www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
December 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
As Is Tradition.
(Also I can HIGHLY recommend the Official Plushie.)
(Also I can HIGHLY recommend the Official Plushie.)
I have honestly never seen an example of hearsay as clear as this. This anecdotal evidence was not even provided to the author by the subject! Assuming the guy even *existed* to tell unlikely tales (someone asked you if you were black? Suuure.) it’s still gone through layers of Telephone.
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I have honestly never seen an example of hearsay as clear as this. This anecdotal evidence was not even provided to the author by the subject! Assuming the guy even *existed* to tell unlikely tales (someone asked you if you were black? Suuure.) it’s still gone through layers of Telephone.
They do excellent work, so if you’ve got some money earmarked for donation and haven’t picked a recipient yet…
There’s still time to donate as part of @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge
help us to raise vital funds to support our youth folk activities.
Young folk musicians will get what could be a life-changing
opportunity.
Donate by midday today, for the future of folk.
bit.ly/4pT7C6V
help us to raise vital funds to support our youth folk activities.
Young folk musicians will get what could be a life-changing
opportunity.
Donate by midday today, for the future of folk.
bit.ly/4pT7C6V
December 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
They do excellent work, so if you’ve got some money earmarked for donation and haven’t picked a recipient yet…
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We’re nearly at the end of our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge. Thanks to your incredible support, we’re 77% of the way to our target.
Please help us to raise a final £2,710, with all donations going directly towards supporting our youth folk activities.
Donate now: bit.ly/4pT7C6V
Please help us to raise a final £2,710, with all donations going directly towards supporting our youth folk activities.
Donate now: bit.ly/4pT7C6V
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We’re nearly at the end of our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge. Thanks to your incredible support, we’re 77% of the way to our target.
Please help us to raise a final £2,710, with all donations going directly towards supporting our youth folk activities.
Donate now: bit.ly/4pT7C6V
Please help us to raise a final £2,710, with all donations going directly towards supporting our youth folk activities.
Donate now: bit.ly/4pT7C6V
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Bluesky has a scold issue, people bursting into hobby posts to scream that the OP should be DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT.
I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
August 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Bluesky has a scold issue, people bursting into hobby posts to scream that the OP should be DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT.
I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
Personally I think they should hire Tig Notaro to say all his lines and cgi her into the show in his place
It is after all the traditional way of coping with such things
It is after all the traditional way of coping with such things
BBC deciding what to do with new series of MasterChef fronted by Gregg Wallace
Latest episodes were filmed before Wallace was sacked and more co-workers made allegations against him
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Personally I think they should hire Tig Notaro to say all his lines and cgi her into the show in his place
It is after all the traditional way of coping with such things
It is after all the traditional way of coping with such things
Please write to your MPs and ask them to vote against these cruel cuts. I do not think anyone voted Labour to get more austerity.
The “welfare reform bill” is out and let’s be clear: this is not reform - it is devastating cuts. Disabled people will be made poorer, sicker, and more isolated as a result. That it is a Labour government causing this misery will be a mark of shame on the party for years to come.
June 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Please write to your MPs and ask them to vote against these cruel cuts. I do not think anyone voted Labour to get more austerity.
So… Austerity, then. We’re really going with trying to fix all the problems austerity has caused by doing more of it.
Great. That’ll work.
(It will not work.)
Great. That’ll work.
(It will not work.)
Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement
Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key services
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So… Austerity, then. We’re really going with trying to fix all the problems austerity has caused by doing more of it.
Great. That’ll work.
(It will not work.)
Great. That’ll work.
(It will not work.)
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Even now I'm half wondering if this is some softening-up exercise for a more limited (but still dreadful) set of final proposals, but just to be clear - this would be an act of outright barbarity without precedent: not copying the Tories, worse than the Tories.
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
March 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Even now I'm half wondering if this is some softening-up exercise for a more limited (but still dreadful) set of final proposals, but just to be clear - this would be an act of outright barbarity without precedent: not copying the Tories, worse than the Tories.
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
www.itv.com/news/2025-03...
Scroll down, click “no” in answer to “was this page helpful?”, explain how wrong they are.
I figure anything from the very brief (“restore the information about transgender and queer people, it is factually inaccurate without it”) to the elaborately loquacious will work just fine.
I figure anything from the very brief (“restore the information about transgender and queer people, it is factually inaccurate without it”) to the elaborately loquacious will work just fine.
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
(Scroll down.)
(Scroll down.)
Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Scroll down, click “no” in answer to “was this page helpful?”, explain how wrong they are.
I figure anything from the very brief (“restore the information about transgender and queer people, it is factually inaccurate without it”) to the elaborately loquacious will work just fine.
I figure anything from the very brief (“restore the information about transgender and queer people, it is factually inaccurate without it”) to the elaborately loquacious will work just fine.
I am *very* excited by this new chonky plesiosaur development. Obviously the charm of snakey loch ness plesiosaur is immense, but this has a relationship with our current seascape and its denizens that has a charm of its own.
🚨 Big plesiosaur news🚨
I'm delighted to finally reveal the illustration I produced for the paper "Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur"!
Paper at the end of the🧵
#paleoart #sciart #plesiosaur
I'm delighted to finally reveal the illustration I produced for the paper "Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur"!
Paper at the end of the🧵
#paleoart #sciart #plesiosaur
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I am *very* excited by this new chonky plesiosaur development. Obviously the charm of snakey loch ness plesiosaur is immense, but this has a relationship with our current seascape and its denizens that has a charm of its own.
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The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
August 6, 2024 at 12:36 PM
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
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I found myself starting to doomscroll, but instead of doing that I have decided to stop scrolling and tell you about communal shower traditions in Iceland and why I love them. And no, it‘s not sexual. It‘s because of mental health.
Yes, this will be a 🧵 1/?
Yes, this will be a 🧵 1/?
February 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I found myself starting to doomscroll, but instead of doing that I have decided to stop scrolling and tell you about communal shower traditions in Iceland and why I love them. And no, it‘s not sexual. It‘s because of mental health.
Yes, this will be a 🧵 1/?
Yes, this will be a 🧵 1/?
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We can say this with confidence because we have diagrams! Popular Mechanics did a piece on the film and published a stage plan to show how it was accomplished.
Vitagraph films tended to be among the most innovative of the 1900s and this is a fun look behind the curtain.
Vitagraph films tended to be among the most innovative of the 1900s and this is a fun look behind the curtain.
February 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
We can say this with confidence because we have diagrams! Popular Mechanics did a piece on the film and published a stage plan to show how it was accomplished.
Vitagraph films tended to be among the most innovative of the 1900s and this is a fun look behind the curtain.
Vitagraph films tended to be among the most innovative of the 1900s and this is a fun look behind the curtain.
Most excellent thread giving a brief run through of the methods for making colour films in the silent era.
Quick! Let's review the different colors of the silent era!
Hand-applied Color: Just what it says! A tiny brush applied color to evert single frame by hand. Most colorists were French women and very well-paid.
Hand-applied Color: Just what it says! A tiny brush applied color to evert single frame by hand. Most colorists were French women and very well-paid.
February 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Most excellent thread giving a brief run through of the methods for making colour films in the silent era.
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This is a thoroughly wonderful thread.
Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are.
Give me your weirdest animal facts.
My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.
February 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is a thoroughly wonderful thread.
I don’t know what I expected a baby tapir to sound like, but I would not have predicted “adorable peeping” and I’m delighted.
Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.
February 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I don’t know what I expected a baby tapir to sound like, but I would not have predicted “adorable peeping” and I’m delighted.
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I am locked into Microsoft at work but I can do anything I like at home, so Libreoffice is back in the works, baby! Crush the oppressor! Let's bring back all the browser wars Microsith propaganda!
February 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I am locked into Microsoft at work but I can do anything I like at home, so Libreoffice is back in the works, baby! Crush the oppressor! Let's bring back all the browser wars Microsith propaganda!
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The thing is, if enough people cancel their subscriptions and tell them why on the exit form, they will start panicking. It doesn't take that many of us to move the needle.
February 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The thing is, if enough people cancel their subscriptions and tell them why on the exit form, they will start panicking. It doesn't take that many of us to move the needle.
Find one hobby you love that involves regularly talking to people (dancing, tabletop, volunteering, etc) and one hobby you love that you can do completely by yourself (embroidery, reading, whittling, etc) and nourish yourself with them consistently and regularly. Many hobbies can do both! Still two.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 31, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Find one hobby you love that involves regularly talking to people (dancing, tabletop, volunteering, etc) and one hobby you love that you can do completely by yourself (embroidery, reading, whittling, etc) and nourish yourself with them consistently and regularly. Many hobbies can do both! Still two.
This is v charming, and there is video!
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
January 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is v charming, and there is video!
I got my mandatory migration notice letter from ESA to UC and I’m… well. If there is a level of cope that would be ideal, it is not where I’m at.
I would infinitely prefer being left alone to eke out my subsistence in peace.
I would infinitely prefer being left alone to eke out my subsistence in peace.
January 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I got my mandatory migration notice letter from ESA to UC and I’m… well. If there is a level of cope that would be ideal, it is not where I’m at.
I would infinitely prefer being left alone to eke out my subsistence in peace.
I would infinitely prefer being left alone to eke out my subsistence in peace.
Deeply charming thread.
I will now illustrate, in GIF form, the mood of national cinemas during the silent era.
France:
France:
a cartoon character with a helmet on is holding a green gun
ALT: a cartoon character with a helmet on is holding a green gun
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Deeply charming thread.
I have reorganised my nail polishes, which, in my opinion, very nearly resembles being useful.
December 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
I have reorganised my nail polishes, which, in my opinion, very nearly resembles being useful.