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Bex Luther

@superbreeze.bsky.social

2.6K followers 670 following 3.6K posts

Gender blurrer, lover of Watership Down, Howards' Way, and Twin Peaks. Please don't tell me how I should do Bluesky

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · Oct 17

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 6h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 5h

I've also discovered that on the template, some of the fields we're asked to complete are set to white text on a white background. Why? Why?

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 5h

Why would you do it this way around? Why?

A customer feedback form with a Likert scale running from 1 to 5 where 1 is good and 5 is bad

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 6h

I AM GOING TO MARGATE TODAY

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 5d

The piss tank on the Megabus to Margate is 145% full

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 7h

See also 7-Zark-7 and that unicorn in Dungeons and Dragons

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 7h

I'm going by Dots Halloween

Packaging for Dots Halloween (vanilla flavoured filling)

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 7h

You'd have needed a tin helmet

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 7h

I would love to do this v much (but I'm not sure this is showgirl enough for that)

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 8h

I'm sorry but how many more examples do people need before they stop trusting and naively using this technology? It's like people have switched off their brains!

www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic...

The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 16h

Well done

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 17h

Willy Fogg and Littlest Hobo are what I sing on pretty much a daily basis but there is nothing, nothing, that hits me harder in the madeleines than Grandstand

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 17h

Let's go to Cahoots!

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 18h

I want to buy this dress on Vinted but I fear I have nowhere to wear it

A red halterneck asymmetric hem party dress

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 17h

I'm watching True Haunting, and it's quite good and scary. It's no Ghostwatch of course, but it's pretty okay

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 18h

Like Marge when she gets invited to the country club

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 18h

I want to buy this dress on Vinted but I fear I have nowhere to wear it

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 19h

Three Ring Circus by Erasure, but only because I bought it on cassette and it was a long album and the tape would go baggy and it was a pain

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 19h

😔 I really liked it. I love You Can Have It All

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 23h

A post so hedgy that a blackbird nested in it

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · Mar 3

I don't like it when racehorses have names like they've been invented for an ITV drama. Like, Ruby's Dream or Fancy Dan. I like it when they're called something inexplicable like Envopak Token or River Mandate. Martin Clunes isn't putting a fiver on those

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · Dec 9

My suggestion for best ever racehorse name is...

A picture of the 18th century British race horse called Potoooooooo. This is pronounced "potatoes" as it has eight o's

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

Why are men like this?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

❤️

Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

[Paul Hollywood] I get what you've tried to do here, I get the haunting cry of horror and injustice, but the flavour combination really isn't working for me

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 1d

Some scented moisturiser for the pads on your paws