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Kate Pie
@viperpie.bsky.social
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Not a real pie. But who knows what's real now?

Interested in everything esp books, wildlife, science, knitting, dressmaking, history, gardens, ponds, spinning, crochet, quilting (often concurrently) with varying enthusiasm depending on season & arsedness.
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clientearth.bsky.social
Spain’s marine protected areas (MPAs) are still being decimated by bottom trawling.

We took legal action last year but Spain has issued more fishing licenses for bottom trawling inside these MPAs since then.

So we’re going back to court with @oceanaeurope.bsky.social to protect these zones.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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coastisqueerfest.bsky.social
We're so looking forward to this event on March 29th to celebrate the launch of #3000LesbiansGoToYork in #Brighton on March 29th. Come along! tiny.url/3000brighton
March 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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coastisqueerfest.bsky.social
What makes St James’s Street so unique?

Drag icons Alfie Ordinary, Alex Fincher, & Billie Gold have dug deep into the history books & listened to all the gossip, to create a walking tour of the places that make up the beating heart of queer #Brighton & #Hove.

brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xip...
Revealing St James Street / Brighton Festival 2025 - Brighton Festival
What makes St James’s Street so fabulously unique?
brightonfestival.org
March 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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oisinmcgann.bsky.social
“Did you even say thank you?”
Wormtongue from Lord of the Rings, sitting next to a half-dead-looking King Théoden of Rohan.
March 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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ianbremmer.com
some america first beers spotted in denmark:
January 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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stopcambo.bsky.social
BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK.

The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned.

This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.
January 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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kevinmcshane.org
"Masculine Energy"
Panel 1: Mark Zuckerberg stands on the stage at a Meta all-hands meeting, wearing a little chain and a shirt that says "Cool Dude." "I think our company could use more Masculine Energy," he says into a mic. In the crowd, an employee raises their hand. "Excuse me, Mr. Zuckerberg," the person asks. Panel 2: The person stands up, asking, "By "Masculine Energy," do you mean a mature definition where men in power use their relative strength to protect and uplift those less privileged?" Panel 3: The person continues, "…or a more childish definition where men in power are free to be aggressive and harm others without being held accountable?" Panel 4: Zuck stands silent for a beat. Panel 5: "You're all fired," he says.
January 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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robcruickshank.bsky.social
Someone on here said that we've just replaced the four humours with the names of neurotransmitters and that's so right it's not even funny.
'Dopamine detoxes' are a trendy New Year's resolution built on an age-old truism
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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katestrasdin.bsky.social
These are beauties, #1930s evening shoes with carved wooden heels in the Streamline Moderne school of art deco design. They are sculptural in nature and dramatic in style #batashoemuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A pair of red satin shoes with carved wooden gold heels and gold flashes across the top of the foot. Cut outs at the side and a red bow at the ankle
January 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Faith Humphrey Hill, US artist and knitter who creates knitted and mixed media portraits #WomensArt
Textile knitted, sewn and painted artwork featuring the head and shoulders of a young Black woman or girl facing rightband looking outwards smiling, wearing a grey vest top and against a pale green blue background
January 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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hippychick.bsky.social
American Water colour artist
John Salminen. One of my favourite watercolourists
January 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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vickyhaddock.bsky.social
English actress Ruth Wilson was born #OnThisDay in 1982. She wore this Caroline McCall designed embellished blue velvet jacket and lighter blue pencil skirt as Marisa Coulter in the 2019 BBC series, His Dark Materials. V&A collection. #costume #FashionHistory
January 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."
January 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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brewergnome.bsky.social
This. But also, I've always really appreciated her own words on the subject. "“I didn’t make up the problems,” I pointed out. ‘All I did was look around at the problems we’re neglecting now and give them about 30 years to grow into full-fledged disasters.’"
January 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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nicdaisy.bsky.social
🪡 Paris.
Jean-Philippe Worth (1856–1926) for
House of Worth.

Silk evening dress, c.1900.
The coat has a Tudor rose pattern alongside the silhouette of alternative 16th c. negligées in the full sleeves, standing collar & unfitted style.
© & collection the Met Museum

#FashionHistory
January 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The contrast really is striking isn’t it
MacKenzie Scott has given away over $19 billion in the last 5 years and experts say she's 'changed entire fields MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations as 2024 comes to a close. Jeff Bezos to marry fiancée Lauren Sanchez in lavish $600M Aspen wedding next weekend: report Bezos, 60, and his fiancé, 54, have remained mum on their wedding plans
December 22, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bones some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology
The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.
December 18, 2024 at 11:28 AM
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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social
The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd by Welsh poet Vernon Watkins begins: “Mari Lwyd, Horse of Frost, Star Horse and White Horse of the Sea, is carried to us. The Dead return.”
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#knitting #marilwyd #skeletonhorse #welsh #ravelrypattern #cathydobson #knittingpattern 🧶
Reversible cowl with a skeletal horse galloping on one side and an quote in the lining taken from the poem: The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd by the Welsh poet Vernon Watkins. “Mari Lwyd, Horse of Frost, Star Horse and White Horse of the Sea, is carried to us. The Dead return.”
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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meerbuschknitter.bsky.social
I'm often asked where the inspiration for my designs comes from. I was an avid reader as a child and a lot of the images I design are inspired by my old children's books. 🧶🐉🐙🐧

#knitting #bskyknits
A selection of vintage illustrated children's books interspersed with knitted items with motifs of dragons, puffins, octopus...
December 20, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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hausofdecline.bsky.social
A man almost steps on a Banana Peel and says "heh. almost slipped on that banana peel. Classic bit." The Banana peel springs off the ground and latches on to the man's face. A muffled MMPH MMPH can heard. His stomach expands, much to his distress, and a banana bursts out amidst a flurry of intestinal viscera.
December 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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jamieklingler.bsky.social
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 10, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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jonathanfoyle.bsky.social
East Meon church, Hampshire. Marvellous and justly famous C12 font of Tournai marble showing Adam and Eve’s creation, temptation and expulsion.
December 12, 2024 at 8:50 AM