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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 22h

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 1d

Those of you who followed me at the Bad Place probably remember when this happened in my backyard. I was so upset and brought a waxwing inside thinking she had hit the window and injured herself. Yeah she sobered up eventually and wasn’t happy www.instagram.com/p/DOqpByADIZ...

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday?🎈

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What's On Reading @rdgwhatson.bsky.social · 3d

Nowt as choir as folk!
And our list of choral (and, indeed, carol) concerts is slowly building up as our local choirs prepare for autumn and Christmas concerts.

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Painting of Mozart and info about Reading Bach Choir's Mozart Mass in C Minor Come and Sing workshop

Poster for Reading Phoenix Choir's Singing For Autism concert, with an image of Douai Abbey

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

Other work by the Ladybird artists
Forestry Commission booklet, 1968
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

A scene in a park in autumn is viewed through a frame of broad-leaf autumn leaves

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 3d

So is ICE just going to pick them up on Day 1 or Day 2, given its cavalier attitude to an individual’s legal status, these people aren’t going to be any different.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 4d

Yes ‘cos having small/no government worked so well for Grafton, didn’t it? “A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)” by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling - 2020 article by Patrick Blanchfield newrepublic.com/article/1596...

The Town That Went Feral

When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

newrepublic.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 4d

Is the AG investigating himself?

Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe they didn’t recognise him because they were expecting to see this person? bsky.app/profile/geor...

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 5d

This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure I would have gone with headline - unless I actually wanted people to laugh out loud....

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 22d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 7d

Least I can do after that lovely bureau thread

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 7d

Lovely thread/comments here about options for use bsky.app/profile/gavi...

Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 21d

Every year around this time I get some wonderful quinces from my friend Lizzie. And every year I think that peeling them is like peeling rocks … but I’ve just cooked a bundle and the taste is so lovely and so unusual - as always … thank you Lizzie. What a treat.

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 7d

I bet the smell in that room is amazing

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Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 7d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 8d

Try this? bsky.app/profile/hype...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 8d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 8d

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 9d

Adam, this is/was awful - I can’t begin to imagine how you are feeling so I shan’t make facile comments about solidarity or sharing grief, just not the day for that

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 9d

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 9d

Any archeologists available to help with an archeology joke?

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 9d

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community

cst.org.uk

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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 10d

To be honest, there was an aura of Alexei Navalny to Myles Taylor. Such bravery and clarity of vision

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome to #October
🍂🍁☀️🍁🍂

Robert Frost 🖎

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