Abigail
@abigail.bsky.social
Passionate about the power of creativity and connection. Teaching sewing in Belfast. Posts about sewing, cats, dogs and random ramblings. Was @abbyjss at the other place.
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Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing.
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
July 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Take a minute to really absorb the scale of what you're seeing.
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
This is 'Cueva de los Cristales', the Cave of the Crystals, near the city of Naica in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The crystals are selenite, a type of gypsum.
They formed over the last 1 million years.
(📷: Javier Trueba, MSF)
What do you think Viking long boat sails were made from?
This has really surprised me...
This has really surprised me...
February 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
What do you think Viking long boat sails were made from?
This has really surprised me...
This has really surprised me...
This is utter bollocks. Seapark was one of the few places you can exercise dogs off leads and for 8 months of the year the only people there during the day are dog walkers.
Apparently even the dog wardens think it's ridiculous.
Apparently even the dog wardens think it's ridiculous.
February 3, 2026 at 3:54 PM
This is utter bollocks. Seapark was one of the few places you can exercise dogs off leads and for 8 months of the year the only people there during the day are dog walkers.
Apparently even the dog wardens think it's ridiculous.
Apparently even the dog wardens think it's ridiculous.
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I don’t think the human brain is designed to comprehend the magnitude of lies and crimes this stuff is revealing.
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I don’t think the human brain is designed to comprehend the magnitude of lies and crimes this stuff is revealing.
Has the world just quiet quit and everyone is just throwing any old nonsense out there?
This is the AI mock up of the proposed new Scotrail trains with batteries on top.
Now I'm no engineering expert but even I see a number of issues with this.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
This is the AI mock up of the proposed new Scotrail trains with batteries on top.
Now I'm no engineering expert but even I see a number of issues with this.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
February 3, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Has the world just quiet quit and everyone is just throwing any old nonsense out there?
This is the AI mock up of the proposed new Scotrail trains with batteries on top.
Now I'm no engineering expert but even I see a number of issues with this.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
This is the AI mock up of the proposed new Scotrail trains with batteries on top.
Now I'm no engineering expert but even I see a number of issues with this.
www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
There must be some *really* sketchy stuff in the rest of Epstein files that they're fighting to keep under wraps.
If they had been dumped in one go there are so many people implicated that the Trump stuff could have slipped under the radar easier.
Or maybe Trump's team are just that stupid.
If they had been dumped in one go there are so many people implicated that the Trump stuff could have slipped under the radar easier.
Or maybe Trump's team are just that stupid.
February 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM
There must be some *really* sketchy stuff in the rest of Epstein files that they're fighting to keep under wraps.
If they had been dumped in one go there are so many people implicated that the Trump stuff could have slipped under the radar easier.
Or maybe Trump's team are just that stupid.
If they had been dumped in one go there are so many people implicated that the Trump stuff could have slipped under the radar easier.
Or maybe Trump's team are just that stupid.
Unless I'm having a stroke and have forgotten word things...
Mostly adults. So some not adults, otherwise known as children, were available for sex.
So what he's happily admitting is Epstein facilitated other people having sex with children and he knew all about it? 🤨
Mostly adults. So some not adults, otherwise known as children, were available for sex.
So what he's happily admitting is Epstein facilitated other people having sex with children and he knew all about it? 🤨
"[Mandelson] does not believe, despite the conviction for soliciting child prostitutes, and the numerous allegations that surfaced before his death, that Epstein was a paedophile [but hosted] parties [where] young models, mostly adults, were available for sex and would often be well paid."
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Unless I'm having a stroke and have forgotten word things...
Mostly adults. So some not adults, otherwise known as children, were available for sex.
So what he's happily admitting is Epstein facilitated other people having sex with children and he knew all about it? 🤨
Mostly adults. So some not adults, otherwise known as children, were available for sex.
So what he's happily admitting is Epstein facilitated other people having sex with children and he knew all about it? 🤨
It's interesting that the two comedy memes I've seen in response to Mandelson are Father Ted and Little Britain.
I'm beginning to think if people write shady comedy characters we should probably see that as a confession.
I'm beginning to think if people write shady comedy characters we should probably see that as a confession.
February 2, 2026 at 9:34 AM
It's interesting that the two comedy memes I've seen in response to Mandelson are Father Ted and Little Britain.
I'm beginning to think if people write shady comedy characters we should probably see that as a confession.
I'm beginning to think if people write shady comedy characters we should probably see that as a confession.
I'm never not disappointed when I see a photo of Bad Bunny and it's not this guy...
bugs bunny is holding a bowl of carrots in front of a sign that says " e. coyote huis "
Alt: bugs bunny is holding a bowl of carrots with his back to you. He turns head to you with a cheeky expression. I think he's about to do some rascally.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:23 AM
I'm never not disappointed when I see a photo of Bad Bunny and it's not this guy...
I am naive. I always knew it wasn't about protecting girls. But I'm genuinely surprised it is this actively nothing to do with protecting girls.
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I am naive. I always knew it wasn't about protecting girls. But I'm genuinely surprised it is this actively nothing to do with protecting girls.
If I don't fits I still sits.
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 PM
If I don't fits I still sits.
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Can’t believe Labour are briefing such a poor line, when an obvious response is “why is the party who blocked a local candidate from running because he’s midway through his political term calling a London Assembly member ‘chicken’ for not running to be MP of a constituency 160 miles from his home?”
A Labour spokesperson, responding to Zack Polanski’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg, said: "If [he] thought the Greens had a chance in Gorton and Denton he wouldn't have chickened out standing himself."
This is pretty weak IMO - Polanski is a serving London Assembly member and lives in Hackney...
This is pretty weak IMO - Polanski is a serving London Assembly member and lives in Hackney...
February 1, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Can’t believe Labour are briefing such a poor line, when an obvious response is “why is the party who blocked a local candidate from running because he’s midway through his political term calling a London Assembly member ‘chicken’ for not running to be MP of a constituency 160 miles from his home?”
I've never appreciated the art of science communication as much as today when I fell down a rabbit hole of why does the rate of change in day length change throughout the year.
I've given up looking for a straightforward answer.
I've given up looking for a straightforward answer.
February 1, 2026 at 11:55 AM
I've never appreciated the art of science communication as much as today when I fell down a rabbit hole of why does the rate of change in day length change throughout the year.
I've given up looking for a straightforward answer.
I've given up looking for a straightforward answer.
5 classes you took in university:
1. Invertebrate anatomy
2. Environmental biology
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Symbiosis and parasitology
5. Dissertation: Self directed behaviour in the Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque.
1. Invertebrate anatomy
2. Environmental biology
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Symbiosis and parasitology
5. Dissertation: Self directed behaviour in the Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque.
5 classes you took in university:
1. Imperial Leather : GB Empire
2. Foundations of Mdn Historical Thought
3. 20th Cen Fascism
4. Special Subject: France 1848-1852
5. Dissertation on a comparative study between Walter Greenwood’s ‘Love on the Dole’ and Salford/Manchester/UK during the Depression
1. Imperial Leather : GB Empire
2. Foundations of Mdn Historical Thought
3. 20th Cen Fascism
4. Special Subject: France 1848-1852
5. Dissertation on a comparative study between Walter Greenwood’s ‘Love on the Dole’ and Salford/Manchester/UK during the Depression
1. From Plato to Kant: intro to political philosophy
2. 19th century novels
3. Black women’s writing
4. Novels of the Holocaust
5. Nazi Germany
2. 19th century novels
3. Black women’s writing
4. Novels of the Holocaust
5. Nazi Germany
February 1, 2026 at 8:39 AM
5 classes you took in university:
1. Invertebrate anatomy
2. Environmental biology
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Symbiosis and parasitology
5. Dissertation: Self directed behaviour in the Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque.
1. Invertebrate anatomy
2. Environmental biology
3. Evolutionary psychology
4. Symbiosis and parasitology
5. Dissertation: Self directed behaviour in the Sulawesi Black Crested Macaque.
Nerds always have interesting thoughtful points.
And that's the problem, those thoughtful points make him question his rightwing brainwashed reality.
And that's the problem, those thoughtful points make him question his rightwing brainwashed reality.
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Nerds always have interesting thoughtful points.
And that's the problem, those thoughtful points make him question his rightwing brainwashed reality.
And that's the problem, those thoughtful points make him question his rightwing brainwashed reality.
Colour fact of the day: Kandinsky described the colour orange as "[it's] like a man, convinced of his own powers"
Is that why Trump has such an odd skin tone?
Is that why Trump has such an odd skin tone?
January 31, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Colour fact of the day: Kandinsky described the colour orange as "[it's] like a man, convinced of his own powers"
Is that why Trump has such an odd skin tone?
Is that why Trump has such an odd skin tone?
I've been out out. Drinking and eating. Who even am I?
January 30, 2026 at 11:26 PM
I've been out out. Drinking and eating. Who even am I?
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Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.
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Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
Raising a glass to one of the greats tonight.
a woman in a black coat says " if that 's not cause for alcohol "
Alt: Catherine O'Hara in Schitts Creek in a black coat says " if that's not cause for alcohol I don't know what is ".
media.tenor.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Raising a glass to one of the greats tonight.
Having been back in Northern Ireland for 6 years I've been deprogrammed from Big Clotted Cream brainwashing.
A good thick layer of proper butter and jam is all you need.
Who's with me!
A good thick layer of proper butter and jam is all you need.
Who's with me!
Yesterday I glimpsed this Cornish-flag bumper sticker in the wild and leaned forward expecting to read some horrible jingoistic slogan across the middle.
January 30, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Having been back in Northern Ireland for 6 years I've been deprogrammed from Big Clotted Cream brainwashing.
A good thick layer of proper butter and jam is all you need.
Who's with me!
A good thick layer of proper butter and jam is all you need.
Who's with me!
#R4Today had someone on from Mumsnet talking about the dangers of social media and teens.
Which is ironic given the radicalisation of women on that site from I am fed up with girls' clothes being pink to extreme transphobia.
Which is ironic given the radicalisation of women on that site from I am fed up with girls' clothes being pink to extreme transphobia.
January 30, 2026 at 9:32 AM
#R4Today had someone on from Mumsnet talking about the dangers of social media and teens.
Which is ironic given the radicalisation of women on that site from I am fed up with girls' clothes being pink to extreme transphobia.
Which is ironic given the radicalisation of women on that site from I am fed up with girls' clothes being pink to extreme transphobia.
Can someone tell me what show this is from because I feel this gif could come in useful.
a woman in a denim jacket says dude seriously why
ALT: a woman in a denim jacket says dude seriously why
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January 30, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Can someone tell me what show this is from because I feel this gif could come in useful.
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
I am no fan of AI. But I'm also not a fan of people who use your name in a reply to talk to you like you are a small child when you are trying to work out in a nonconfrontational way if something is AI or not.
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I am no fan of AI. But I'm also not a fan of people who use your name in a reply to talk to you like you are a small child when you are trying to work out in a nonconfrontational way if something is AI or not.