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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 6h

Been doing a lot of reading on the shoe industry. Interesting fact, a Skiver as in the trade of thinning leather down on seams etc, is from the OE/ON ‘skifa’ ‘to cut or split’. The term skiver to avoid work is from the Middle French ‘esquiver’ to escape.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 12h

If I was less dirty minded I might see ET’s finger, but, nah, it’s a peepee

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 21h

this was on my wife’s timeline and she said to me, how long did it take you to realize it was a paw? and I said it is what

A FB post about a new tattoo that has a hand reading for a paw but the paw just straight up looks like a penis idk

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h

okay so if Pepe is chaotic evil and Portland frog is chaotic good, where are our other frogs

Kermit is lawful good obviously

I think Frog and Toad are true neutral. they do them and that’s it

Michigan J. Frog is chaotic neutral

Tiana, Naveen and Keroppi I’m uncertain

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 14h

11. Catsian spinach

#botober #botober2025

An illustration of a spinach leaf, the top of which has cat ears. The stem forms a tail

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 10d

"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!"

By Humbert Wolfe

#October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂

🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896

Painting of a shocked looking lady dressed in black standing in an autumnal woodland while the wind whirls gusts of orange leaves all around her.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

10. 1/4 can cool soup

#botober #botober2025

Illustration of a tin of gazpacho with a glass jug beside it a quarter full of soup

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful and disturbing documentary, but with hope because of the librarians who are standing up against the book bans. Everyone shoild watch this! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 2d

9. Small sweet pipes
#botober #botober2025

An illustration of Truly Scrumptious from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang playing a tune on a Toot Sweet

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 2d

Behold onion!

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d

Ki-tan the helpful but clumsy onion is the mascot for Kitami City in Hokkaido.

An onion-headed mascot in a light green T-shirt stands in a crowded courtyard.

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, the ceiling sauce reminds me of the time that I was trying to put a lid on a plastic tub of baked beans… and they ended up on *every* possible surface!

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 3d

8. Ground mayonnaise

#botober #botober2025

An illustration of a jar of mayonnaise, Hellman’s style, lying on the ground with mayo spilling out. The yellow, blue and white label reads “oh, hell”

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 4d

This helped me a lot when I needed it. Also mefenamic acid which helped with the pain

Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 4d

7. Behold onion

#botober #botober2025

A glowing onion hovering over outstretched hands, like some sort of religious icon

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 5d

Me: Jilly Cooper has died 😢
Boss: Has he?!
Me: JILLY Cooper
Boss: Oh, I thought you said Charlie Brooker!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 5d

6. Sozerfrapple
It’s an apologetic frog-apple drinking a frappe!
#botober #botober2025

Circular green frog with red streaks and brown spots, drinking through a brown bendy straw, holding a placard that says “APOLS” under which is a small group of green apples

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

I only ever saw the first 5 minutes of each episode, before heading back to school for the afternoon, and the recap of the previous episode meant I pretty much knew the whole storyline!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

5. Heated baking rings

#botober #botober2025

Illustration of a cast-iron frying pan, with 3 metal scone-cutting rings, two with eggs already frying in them, and a cracked egg releasing its contents into the third

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

Highland cows and midgie bites… surprised to hear you have those so far from Scotland! 😆

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

Yes - I have no idea why someone thought of making them from bread, it’s one of the most bizarre ideas I’ve ever come across!

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

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Symmetries of Light

I was heading to Edinburgh anyway, and knew I'd be in the area of this exhibition of kaleidoscopes, so I thought I'd pop in for a look. I...

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 6d

Fascinating guy. I went to an exhibition of kaleidoscopes in one of the buildings in the old quad, and it had lots of Brewster related info, but I was fascinated with him even before that.

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 7d

(Usually it’s the bus that breaks down, but sometimes me!)

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 7d

Just me bonding with @tanitatikaram.bsky.social over a love of tea!

Tanita with dark French bobbed hair, black and white scarf, red top, black jacket. Me with longer brown hair, yellow jacket, holding signed print saying Liar: love isn’t a right

Tanita signing the print with me watching

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 7d

I am doomed to never get a bus that takes me all the way between Glenrothes and Glasgow without breaking down 😂

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Emma Reid @emusingemma.bsky.social · 7d

4. Crushed cold water
We do make crushed ice like this at work, although the bottle is cut off so it doesn’t narrow at the top, and we put a fabric sleeve over it to stop ice falling out as we bash it. We run it under hot water first, which causes it to crack satisfyingly!
#botober #botober2025

An illustration of a water bottle full of ice lying on snow. An extremely large mallet hangs ominously in the air above it

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