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rnib.bsky.social
Meet Twitch, our Head of Elf Accessibility. He’s here to make sure every elf can shine at their job with all the right adaptions. ❤️

Just like in Santa’s workshop, we humans can build a more accessible world too. We can listen and adapt so everyone has the opportunity to thrive. 1/2
Accessibility” is written on a plaque below a gold framed picture featuring an illustration of a cartoon elf. Head Elf is dressed in green and red jacket with a red collar, red tights, a pointy hat with its curly ginger hair poking through. Head Elf holds a red present with a blue ribbon. He’s smiling and looking to the left with his eyebrows slightly raised in a delighted mood. A list titled “Accessibility rules in Santa's workshop. - Tactile paths and guide polar bears to help blind and partially sighted elves navigate the ice to each workshop - Sledding is a valid mode of transport. All elves can take taxi sleds to make life more inclusive - Warm milk and cookies daily. We have accessible equipment available, like liquid level indicators and non-spill mugs - All gifts are audio described and come with large print and braille descriptions so all our gift wrapping elves have access to the same information.” The list is separated with gold star bullet points.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
This is tantalisingly close to £3k.
The news moves on, but the lives of Jamaicans are still very difficult. Every bit helps (shares cost nothing but can be incredibly helpful).

www.gofundme.com/f/huricane-m...
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone, Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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boatmancryptics.co.uk
It's the Seasonal Reposting Competition! Repost this over the weekend, and on Sunday one lucky person will win a signed copy of one of my books. For you or the #crossword addict in your life: 50 fiendish @theguardian.com #puzzles and all the stories behind them:
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Boatman - the first 50 reportedly makes a great present or holiday read, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show the story behind the Shipping Forecast puzzle, on display on Brighton beach. Reviewing Boatman - the first 50, Alan Connor (The Guardian's crossword editor and the brains behind many of BBC2’s quiz programs) says: "This is one to savour. Boatman's puzzles are witty and ingenious. It is an extraordinary pleasure to read how his unique mind works. The first 50 is a book I never knew I needed in my life. Gift it to yourself and to the word-lovers in yours". Hugh Stephenson (Alan’s predecessor at The Guardian) says: "This is a unique book of crosswords" and Henry Morris: "a Boatman crossword is like a theme park. Each daunting line is a rollercoaster ... He scares you witless. But you can't wait to do it all over again". Boatman - the second 50 contains another 50 puzzles from The Guardian, with five bonus puzzles previously only available online and including puzzles, solutions and the ideas and stories behind them, exemplified by this image of the book opened to show one of the stories, which is accompanied by a picture of a large cow. Reviewing Boatman - the second 50, Gyles Brandreth says: "If you want a fiendish crossword, you want the best - which means you want Boatman, because he is the best" and Brian Bilston: "Cracking crosswords - each puzzle a delightful daily workout for the brain and a welcome tonic for the soul".
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
vdotedgy.bsky.social
Oh, hello…

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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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solder.party
The wait is finally over, we're happy to announce that the KeebDeck Keyboard and our first product using it, the KeebDeck Basic, are now available for sale from our @lectronz.com store! ⌨️

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A photo of the KeebDeck Keyboard keypad and dome sheet. The dome sheet has many domes visible through the white plastic, and 8 black pieces of tape to cover where the backlight LEDs would be. The Keyboard has 69 keys with the usual PC layout, and a few extra ones color symbols and colors. A photo of a device composed of two PCBs sandwiched together with a silicone keypad in the middle and poking through the front PCB. The keypad has an ortho layout with most keys of a PC keyboard. It also has some extra colorful macro keys at the top. There is a Solder Party logo on the Meta key as well as in the middle of the top row. The silkscreen reads "KeebDeck Basic, arturo182, Solder Party". The two PCBs are held together by four Phillips-head screws.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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levparikian.bsky.social
I know many of you will already have done something to help the people of Jamaica, but if you felt like helping a specific family, this is the GoFundMe set up by my son’s girlfriend for her relatives, who find themselves in dire straits. Every bit helps, shares appreciated. gofund.me/9b5b74984
Donate to Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica, organized by Taylor Mitchell
Hello everyone, Many of you have heard about Hurricane Melis… Taylor Mitchell needs your support for Hurricane Melissa: Please help support our family in Jamaica
gofund.me
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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lowdowncryptic.bsky.social
It's my October #Scrabblegram and I'm going #darkmode for this one! 🎃👻👹 (board in reply below)

#halloween #scrabble #poem
#constrainedwriting #poetry
#undead #zombies #creepy
Illustration of silhouetted zombies in a graveyard. Title: “undead”. Text below: a body exhumed a casket ajar zombies go free howling afar turning on evil insidious plot creepy date night we quiver a lot Scrabblegram (100 tiles) Blanks: G, H
October 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s Halloween poem is called ‘Come, take this hand in yours’.
Come, take this hand in yours   Come, take this hand in yours –   bury it beneath the trees,   while I go and get the rest of him   out of the deep freeze. Brian Bilsto
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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paulsinha.bsky.social
Boxes of Roses and Whiskas for kittens,
Discounts on kettles and M&S mittens
That lovely young man who sang "fried onion rings"
I think non white people can advertise things
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Happy World Pasta Day to all those who celebrate.
Remembrance of Things Pasta She blew her fusilli, my pretty penne, when she found me watching daytime tagliatelle.   Je ne spaghetti rien, I responded in song, but she did not linguini for long,   just walked out without further retort: a hard lesson to be tortellini, orzo I thought.   And so here I am, on my macaroni, and now my days feel cannelloni. Brian Bilston
October 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
vdotedgy.bsky.social
Top tip: after an afternoon of scything remember to dial down the vigour before you next shave.
October 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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ceefaux.bsky.social
21.00 who do you think you arrrrrr? Genealogy programme where famous people find out their ancestors were pirates.
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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rachelish.bsky.social
BBC Sounds is starting a repeat today of Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully, one of my absolute favourite radio sitcoms (written by @eddierobson.bsky.social btw) You should listen to it, it is *funny*.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully - Pilot - BBC Sounds
Sitcom about an alien invasion of a small English village. Starring Katherine Parkinson.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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annasavory.bsky.social
The horror thread continues over on Substack (free - though you can pay to unlock EVEN MORE HORROR) click below to find out my views on La Cabina, Longlegs, and Carry On Screaming. And please retweet, horror fans! #horror #halloween

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The Horror Month of October - Part 2
Potted reviews of the horror films I’ve been watching every night since the last newsletter. Behind the paywall, even more of ‘em!
annasavory.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
vdotedgy.bsky.social
Any excuse to repost anyone having any excuse to repost a bit of JFSP.
bright0nkath.bsky.social Sea Lion in a Hat @bright0nkath.bsky.social · Oct 16
Any excuse to repost a bit of JFSP:
levparikian.bsky.social Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · Oct 16
Listening to the In Our Time about The Time Machine and all I can think about is horseboxes. youtu.be/xjcrpjRDNsQ?...
October 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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fernmonkey.bsky.social
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.

This year’s theme is ‘play’ so here’s a poem which plays with some letters. It’s called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’.
The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees [The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]: a comm n pr ble  whe  writin p ems in the shape of decid o s  trees is t at once t ere ar ives the fir t sti rings of  he new aut mn breeze,  he   oems will begi  to shake  hemselves  ge tly  ntil their letters loos n d  like leaves, an    they  start                                     to  float  down then [The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase] turntomushuponthegroun [The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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lowdowncryptic.bsky.social
Just in time for the end of September, here's my #Scrabblegram tweeted 3 years ago today (Sep 30, 2022)

My first 'gram with poetic meter and rhyme, it alternates iambic hexameter and iambic trimeter, but flipping to trochaic for the first half of line 3

#scrabble #wordplay #poetry #procrastination
Illustration of a melting clock face, with text below: Avoid a Void Procrastination's judged as being lazy, but… Anxiety is real. Conquer it, empower the self, avoid a void… Remaking how you feel. Scrabblegram (100 tiles) Blanks: S, Y
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
Ladybird endpapers
Bedtime Stories (1978)
Artist: James Hodgson
Colourful, stylised design of a fantastical dark night illuminated by colourful creatures such as butterflies, birds and mice - and by a distant manor house
September 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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pimoroni.com
20% off in store this weekend when you use code "CLICK" during checkout! (excludes Raspberry Pi computers and kits): shop.pimoroni.com
September 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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tomcoates.bsky.social
* Broadcast TV is dying anyway - so this is a good opportunity to cancel your cable or satellite TV and switch to on demand only. When you do it be clear that you cannot support network owners censoring political dissent. Download all the apps you want (not Disney ones if you can avoid it).
September 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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jjsanderson.bsky.social
@pimoroni.com are brilliant.

That is all.
September 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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rnib.bsky.social
Normalise writing alt text like you’re narrating a nature documentary. “Here we see… a social media manager… holding a pumpkin spice latte… clicking ‘add alt text’ button on a post about pigeons.
September 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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edmorrish.bsky.social
big news for fans of this year’s edition of john finnemore’s souvenir programme www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists claim they’ve made ‘pivotal step’ in bringing back the dodo for first time in 300 years
Thousands of dodos could return within a decade according to Colossal Biosciences, a ‘de-extinction’ company – but experts warn of ‘moral hazard’
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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anthonyetherin.bsky.social
A RECIPE FOR EVIL (Palindrome)

Evil:

Oats.
Apple.
Kiwi.
Kelp.
Pasta.
Olive.
September 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM