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Yorkshirewoman pestered by a guardian devil! Read my adventures: #ThePriceOfTime #TheEveningLands #TheTwistedGrain #Fiction #Fantasy #SciFi #Prosopagnosia #Tea

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Anon Opin
@anonopin.bsky.social

Nearly half of people who apply for PIP are in work and use the funds to enable themselves to stay in work. Cutting PIP will add to the welfare budget as those people will no longer be able to stay in the work force.

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The rise and rise of #RenewableEnergy! Also #SafetyAtWork legislation and practice. Still far from perfect, but a *lot* better than 50 years ago.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Good morning 🌞! There's a metaphor in there somewhere... (There's also literally a cartoon, drawn by Norwegians iirc and dating from about 2016, of trump in a soiled nappy being just about to break a globe)

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Chaucer Doth Tweet
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Shadowes fall And hope hath fled Steel thy hearte The dawne will come The nighte ys long And the path ys darke Looke to the skye For oon daye soon The dawne will come

Verity Imelda Player
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Anyone else ever notice how "new clampdown on money laundering!" translates as "our little community org cheque signatories suddenly have screeds of online forms to fill in, complete with uploaded docs, under threat of having our ac closed" while all the super-rich crims swan on regardless?

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The *other* cost of coal:

Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social

‘I can still see him in my arms’ - A brother’s memories of Aberfan Viv Jones was just 15 when 144 people were killed in the Aberfan disaster, including his younger brother. On the 60th anniversary of the tragedy, he tells Andy Davies his own story of that day. Read our latest newsletter:

channel4news.substack.com‘I can still see him in my arms’ - A brother’s memories of AberfanViv Jones was just 15 when 144 people were killed in the Aberfan disaster, including his younger brother. On the 60th anniversary of the tragedy, he tells Andy Davies his own story of that day.
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#AI latest: plan your trip!

Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)@markonthemaps.bsky.social

Err...NO! #Madrid (fairly landlocked last time we checked) is in the #BayOfBiscay (#Barcelona now inland). #London appears to be on an island where #Scotland is. #Rome has moved to #Sicily, miraculously closing the #MessinaStrait. #Amsterdam heads north. Plus: the return of #Doggerland! #AIGoesWrong

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The Whimsical Muse
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I was once again asked to "please stop" with my posts about the Oxford comma. After careful consideration, I’ve determined that I’m unable to abide by such an unreasonable, discourteous, and ill-mannered request.

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Darth Putin
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OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born. "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

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Good morning 🌞! Here is an excellent thread about #energy prices:

Ellie Mae O'Hagan@elliemaeohagan.bsky.social

you can read our letter here which contains those types of figures. We've revised the figures since but I can't share those as we haven't published yet www.e3g.org/news/over-12...

e3g.orgOver 120 organisations call for hidden taxes to come off electricity billsOver 120 organisations from across business and civil society have signed a letter to government warning high electricity costs risk driving business closures and job losses, and exacerbating cost of ...
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#AI latest:

High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com

by all means, AI evangelists: leave me behind, off with you, godspeed, don’t let the door hit you news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Anon Opin
@anonopin.bsky.social

I think we should have a holiday called "power outage day" where you switch off all the breakers in the home for one full day like its a power outage. For the brave ones, it can be "power outage week"

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Good morning 🌞! #TheRentsTooHigh - full explanation:

Beth Stratford@bethstratford.bsky.social

Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high

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David Ho
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I just went downstairs, walked three minutes to a boulangerie, and got a warm baguette. Tell me again why 15-minute cities are bad.

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Behold this brilliant very short story, which is absolutely not #fantasy

Exhumated 🧟 unDead@slothlydad.bsky.social

I'm not disputing your numbers, it's awful and tragic. Guessing you're not familiar with the reference - it's a short story by Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Out of print for years now AFAIK, but I've got a (not great quality, unfortunately) transcription here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

docs.google.comThe Flying King by Terry JonesThe Flying King Terry Jones There was once a devil in Hell named Carnifex, who liked to eat small children. Sometimes he would take them alive and crush all the bones in their bodies. Sometimes he wo...
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Good morning 🌞! #TheNorthRemembers

North Ages@northages.bsky.social

Harold II, king of the English, slew brother Tostig and Haraldr Harðráði, king of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge #OTD in 1066. A lone Norwegian held the bridge for some time in one tale. Of the 300 ships that had descended upon Northumbria 24 returned. 📸Angus McBride