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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 15m

The Secret Life of Water Availabity.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 34m

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 18h

I haven't had COVID. Not available in the UK unless you hit a narrow clinical definition or can find one of the few places doing it privately. But flu, typhoid, tetanus and hep A together are a cocktail.

Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 23h

Not sure whether it's the sudden onslaught of vaccinations for going to India, the shrinking amount of daylight, or something else entirely, but it's been a long time since I've been exhausted right down to my bones like this. Very much looking forward to a long flight with absolutely nothing to do.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 1d

The UK has a tradition of camp comedians/comedy actors, so I would have been 7 or 8 years old in the mid-late 70s watching John Inman in 'Are You Being Served', Larry Grayson on 'The Generation Game', or Melvyn Hayes in 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum'. All mainstream Saturday evening family shows.

Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 2d

Serious question, when did you find out a sexuality other than heterosexual existed?

Media, year, situation is what I'm getting at.

I'm so genuinely curious about this

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 1d

Pattern from thestitchpatterns.shop

The Stitch patterns

Cross stitch patterns, Mini art patterns, modern cross stitch charts hand embroidery patterns,

thestitchpatterns.shop

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 1d

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 1d

Join me!!! www.cunard.com/en-gb/find-a...

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 1d

Van Gogh's The Scary Night.

A very small cross stitch resembling Van Gogh's Starry Night, but the swirls in the sky have been replaced by ghosts, and the town replaced by pumpkins

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 1d

I figured my UK passport was expiring soon, so I might as well replace it with a better one. Positively looking forward to passport control in Brussels in a few weeks!

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

The #Taskmaster impromptu therapy session had me crying with laughter.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 2d

Zero day exploit.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 3d

When I'm on Strictly, I'm going to dance the Charleston to the numa numa yay song.

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · Dec 17

Right, it's #TWANG* day, so we're going to twang a load of stuff with our mini-catapult. Pay attention it's science.

First, a tennis ball. By way of calibration, if you will.

But we know what you're all asking... What would happen if we filled that tennis ball with concrete?

*Not a thing.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 3d

NOOOOOOO!!!! I have my pitchfork and flaming torch, and will join you on the barricades.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 3d

Enough spicy to be tasty without making your eyes water.

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 4d

"My grandma's cake recipe - combine two different pre-made cake mixes, and add half a teaspoon of cinnamon."

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 4d

(I was an extra in one episode, but I don't think I made it on screen. It was filmed at my school.)

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 4d

Brett is the only portrayal of Holmes as a top.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 5d

703) Midnightbot. Appears in the corner of the room at midnight and stands motionless, staring at you for exactly 47 seconds before vanishing again. We don't know why. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A wedge-shaped robot with banded legs, standing expressionlessly in the corner of a room, dimly illuminated from the front and slightly below its eyeline.

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 5d

One day I'll go to a mental health at work meeting that addresses how the work can be made less stressful rather than how staff can be made more resilient

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 4d

I love my city.

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Lena Lucretia Lamont @derryderrydown.bsky.social · 4d

I've found a pharmacy in my town that will be doing COVID jags privately! Not until I'm back from America (which is a shame because I'd like it before eight hours on a plane and seven days on a ship) but BOOSTER!

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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