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Auntie Jellyfish

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · Jun 1

#30DaysWild A Book A Day, Day 1: The Good Slug Guide by Jo Kirby.
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Sunday book review – The Good Slug Guide by Jo Kirby – Mark Avery

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you, it is a loss for us but she wished it had happened a good few years before. Trifle and a determination to enjoy what you can only takes you so far in achieving quality of life, particularly with our present care arrangements.

Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 7h

Today is the funeral of the subject of my most liked post on the previous place, my very elderly aunt who was having trifle for Christmas dinner.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 8h

New qualitative (health services research) post with my old pal @gemhughes.bsky.social in Leicester. Good team, fun project
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Research Associate in Health Services Research in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment Team

View details and apply for this Research Associate in Health Services Research vacancy in Leicester. We are seeking a Research Associate to our School of Management and contribute to the NIHR-funded ...

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 9h

Surprisingly fun thread

Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 19h

Literary fiction went downhill once they found a cure for consumption

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 21h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 20h

Please subscribe to my substack Free Charles Church open.substack.com/pub/transpor...

Free Charles Church

There is an imprisoned church in the middle of Plymouth

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Richard T Taylor @richardttaylor.bsky.social · 1d

A grey morning at Middleton Top, however highlight was a very vocal Willow Tit & 250 Redwing over SW in three flocks 12 Skylark & a handful of Meadow Pipit #Vizmig with Blackbirds in the berries , Chiffchaff Goldcrest #Derbyshirebirds @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @belperbirder.bsky.social

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 1d

All of Jean Sprackland's events at Manchester Poetry Library are ONLINE & in person!
Book here for this week's launch, 1st/3 in Jean's curated series - Andrew Hurley & Jacob Polley in conversation
#Manchester @dcahf-met.bsky.social @manchesterreview.bsky.social
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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 23h

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The emails Bristol Beacon didn't want people to see on zoo campaign

Beacon bosses have paid thousands in compensation

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Dementia Researcher @dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 1d

Postdoctoral Research Associate Vacancy, Sheffield. Join Kurt De Vos and Matthew Livesey investigating synaptic dysfunction in ALS and FTD using iPSC models. Closing date: 9th November

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Research Associate: Synaptic Dysfunction in Neurodegeneration

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Sheffield. Join Kurt De Vos and Matthew Livesey investigating synaptic dysfunction in ALS and FTD using iPSC models.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you stumble upon something. Someone shared its latest post on friendship as one of the best things they’d read. Honestly read it along - it’s just brilliant, insightful, humane and really funny too theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existen...

An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 1d

Well, all that catwoman stuff may not have helped...

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 2d

One of the entertainments is how each of us, with our own book preferences, works the theme. And of course it is very exciting when two people have chosen the same book (because rare)

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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 2d

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the one I go to is themed.

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 2d

JFGI 😉

Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 2d

Splutters in 'Northern'

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent to see the musings of cultural commentator/historian/comedian Stewart Lee, gone from the pages of the Observer, have now reappeared on @thenerve.news. Bravo to the Nervers (nervous?) for giving him a platform. Lees' latest piece on burning flags is here www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think you might be being a bit ungenerous there, and also failing to recognise that you may have been concentrating on the birds rather than the birders? (Although that back to back posed photo is very hackneyed, I agree)

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 2d

You know how hard it can be to clean out a pan that has contained mashed potatoes? Not any more! You can hire the Daphne Spudagone 1000 for a mere £10.00 and say goodbye to your grainy pan nightmares. It’s what a cat’s tongue’s for.

A cat enthusiastically licking out a pan of mashed potatoes

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 5d

I suspected that the most annoying part of getting home from Graz today would be the 57 miles between Manchester airport and Leeds railway station and that has turned out to be correct. Going to take nearly 3 hours, with 2 changes. Remember the Northern Powerhouse?

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 4d

'What will the songs at the end of the world sound like?

Perhaps we’re singing them? Perhaps we won’t hear them.'

Hayden Thorpe pens a letter to Orford Ness — the mistake-riddled landscape which birthed his latest record www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/orfo...

Image: Gordon Joly

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Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social · 3d

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 4d

Aaaargh...

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 4d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

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England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

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