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Cursed-y (Kirsty)

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Legal Editor. Alto at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir (on loan from BBC Symphony Chorus). Prommer. Brownie leader. Knitter. Reader. Loves to travel. 🐧=❤️ she/her

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 11m

Been experiencing achy eyes since the summer, when I started anxiety meds.
I have to take my glasses off to relieve the ache, but that does not make my screen more in focus (to the contrary it's always blurrier).

Coincidence or correlation? Sigh.

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 7h

I was a little bored earlier. ⚓️✝️

A picture of John Henry Newman in a cardinal’s red cassock, with the caption “and introducing John Henry Newman as The Doctor.”

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

The driver "managed to contact the control
centre at Network Rail and get the train
diverted onto the slow line", Calder says.

"That was absolutely crucial because this
train was scheduled to be travelling through
Huntingdon station on the tracks with no
platform at 125mph."

"It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere,
which would have been very difficult."

Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest
possible way" thanks to the "incredible
professionalism from the driver and the
police". Train drivers are trained on how to
take appropriate action, he adds,

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Gawen Jenkin @gawenjenkin.bsky.social · 13h

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating.

My thoughts with all involved

Text describing swift and professional response by train staff to bring the train to an emergency stop at Huntingdon station where armed police were waiting

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

The crew have to make the driver aware, the driver confirm a plan with the signallers, we know the emergency response was being organised too...

The time lost is almost all braking (first to transfer to the slow line, then stop at the station).

Astounding work that almost certainly saved lives.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11h

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team.

Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

Snippet from Real Time Trains showing the Azuma was one minute up from Fletton Junction onwards, and arrived at Huntington 3 minutes after it was originally due to pass.

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 20h

No "advice", just solidarity ♥️

Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 23h

OMG 😲

Ed Quoththeraven @edquoththeraven.bsky.social · 1d

@remembrancewatch.bsky.social this is from a local Facebook group, I sent this to you on Twitter a few years ago and this is the first time they've done it since.

Still of a video showing a house with electronic displays of poppies, some animated. And a scrolling display reading "we will remember them"

Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it didn't start until December?

Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 1d

The tinsel wreath!

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 1d

😂
I have read that some people with long-haired dogs spin their fur into yarn 🤔

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing!!

Plus, if it's not *too* tangled, it can be wound up during naptime/after bed for reusable giggly fun 🧶

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 1d

oh no :'(

that's another product off the shopping list, then!

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Law Paw Calendar (Billable Hour) @lawpawcalendar.bsky.social · 1d

CALL FOR OUTTAKES!
As usual, please do share your outtakes from your Law Paw photo shoots.
We'll get you started with the (usually more) refined Rafferty

A cat with their face in a box of treats

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, it just means plenty of chocolates to be devoured over the weekend!!

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 2d

Halow'een in 18th century Scotland. "Guisers Performing in a Cottage" by Alexander Carse. In this case it is the adults who are dressed up and making merry, while the children watch on.

Georgian illustration, ink and grey was over brown chalk on paper. The interior of a late 18th or early 19th century cottage, with a crowd of guisers dancing to the music of a fiddle infront of the fire. National Galleries of Scotland collection.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 2d

Today is Reformation Day in parts of 🇩🇪.

In 1517 theologian Martin Luther is said to have nailed his theses to the doors of Wittenberg Church. This is considered the start of Protestantism.

The 500th anniversary of Reformation in 2017 was marked with a Playmobil figure of Luther.

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Miriam Kimber @miriamkimber.bsky.social · 2d

Niche. @quiresandplaces.com

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

Three @theguardian.com books cartoons from previous halloweens: 1. Haunted Bookshop

Reasons to visit your local haunted bookshop:

Open Until Very Late (image: moonlit bookshop)
Staff with nine hundred years experience (image: skeleton bookseller)
Home delivery by Headless Hoseman or flying fiend (image: deliveries being made)
Readings from famous authors (Image: Shakespeare zombie)
Stay and browse forever (Image ghost in a bookshop)

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no! Feel better soon.

Hubby uses marmite as a sort of veggy Bovril drink, but I don't think it'd go with coffee at all...

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Toxteth O'Grady 🍀 💚🍀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @rockgod1970.bsky.social · 2d

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

All that I ask is that the culture secretary not ask questions which reveal she couldn’t tell you who *this year*’s Bafta shortlistees and winners were.

James Kettle @jameskettle.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

The mystery of “what culture is she interested in?”. She did not go to a single Prom. She has no interest in who actually wins Baftas. She is not interested in the Mercury Prize.

Tamar @heartinamber.bsky.social · 2d

The last Mercury Prize went to a lad from North Shields, you'd think she'd be all over that but nope, zero interest

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Cursed-y (Kirsty) @snowythepyro.bsky.social · 3d

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