Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 6h

Rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv]
(adj.)
- Causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent.
- Unattractive and objectionable.
- Fearsome; forbidding.

Use:
“Harold’s rebarbative disposition lingered in the air like mothballs and melancholy; even the dusty old taxidermy seemed to recoil.”

2 20 75

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Dan Savage @dansavage.bsky.social · 14h

Not the obituary I wanted to read today.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie....

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning Star of ‘Annie Hall,’ Dies at 79

She also portrayed Kay Adams in the three ‘Godfather’ films and starred in ‘The First Wives Club’ and ‘Book Club’ movies.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

10 15 290

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 13h

From Box to Table: The Simplest Silken Tofu Dish You’ll Love ❤️
Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/silken-tofu-...

2 10

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

270 7.3K 22K

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

In the contest for best scrapple sculpture in Philadelphia on Friday it was the “Mush Push” fashioned from the regionally popular pork breakfast meat that got Patrick Moser’s entry over the goal line.

Scrapple sculpture contest winner prevailed in Eagles country by putting the pig into pigskin

In the contest for best scrapple sculpture in Philadelphia on Friday it was the “Mush Push” fashioned from the regionally popular pork breakfast meat that got Patrick Moser’s entry over the goal line.

bit.ly

3 7 41

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 1d

Feast of St Kenneth, I literally had a dream last night where I was on a big ship and it came apart and I was shipwrecked

observethedate.bsky.social @observethedate.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Saturday 11 October 2025

It is International Day of the Girl Child 👧🏽

also

🌈 National Coming Out Day

✝️ Feast of St Kenneth (Shipwrecked people)

🏹 King Harold Day

🍕 Sausage Pizza Day

French Republican Calendar: WINE PRESS

Roman Festival: Meditrinalia

1

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of The Moody Blues, has died at 82.

John Lodge, singer and bassist of Moody Blues during classic era, dies at 82

John Lodge, the singer and bassist of The Moody Blues, has died at 82. His family announced Friday that Lodge died suddenly and unexpectedly.

bit.ly

14 37 140

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Simon @simonxix.com · 1d

My hope is that Ash Regan starts her own party and subsequently loses a leadership contest for it.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Ash Regan has quit the Alba Party

2 5 44

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 1d

Poor bastards

1

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 2d

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Awful Taste But Great Execution @awfulbutgreat.bsky.social · 3d

3 100 380

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Luath Press @luathpress.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky season is here! 👻 Explore Luath Press’ top Halloween reads: historical crime, Scottish folklore & witchy tales. Perfect for dark nights & cosy reading. 🕯️📖

Full blog: buff.ly/rfnWNRu
#HalloweenReads #BookLovers

1

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 3d

Keir Starmer can take a long run and jump off a short pier. Absolute bellend. Can’t control what I say!

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

Keir Starmer has threatened to crack down on the chants used at pro-Palestine protests in England

Keir Starmer threatens crackdown on pro-Palestine protest chants

www.thenational.scot

1

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 3d

Poetry 😍

2

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 4d

Marilyn Monroe I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever (double page headpiece, pages 112 and 113) from 1¢ Life, 1964
https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1142806

Gift of the author, Walasse Ting, the editor, Sam Francis, and the publisher, E. W. Kornfeld

6 16

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

49 1.2K 980

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 5d

Dinner tonight -> Chicken and Broccoli 😍
Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/chicken-broc...

4 18

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 6d

Sizzling Korean Chicken
recipe: cookingwithlei.com/sizzling-goc...

1 8 16

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 6d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

7 94 310

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 8d

Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/spicy-pork-r...
Garlic Pork Ribs

1 3 9

Reposted by Kirsty Kittens

Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 8d

Given today’s news, I was recently introduced to this piece by Patricia Routledge, and i always found it really moving.

**"I'll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry - worry that I wasn't quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn't live up to my mother's hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude."**
My life didn't quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily - on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions - but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn't quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with - Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people's living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks.
It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian - not for work, but so l could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage - something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I'm learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter - though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
**I'm writing this to tell you something simple:**
**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter - if you let yourself bloom again.**
Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.
You don't need to be famous. Y…

8 90 280

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 9d

Dipping in and out haha

1

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 9d

“What taxes they pay and what services they consume”

They pay all the same taxes as everyone else PLUS they pay to use the NHS. All while paying bills, rent, buying their messages, putting all their hard earned cash back in to the economy.

Fuck The Times.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10d

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay.

The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism

archive.ph/TFZY9

There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in the dark.

1 1 3

Kirsty Kittens @kirstykittens.bsky.social · 26d

Anyone have any tips on saving their old photos they entrusted to Facebook? I want to delete all my social media but I have so many old pics of my 13 year old kid on there. I miss the old days of getting film developed!

1 1