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Breffni, girly swot 🕷️🍃🇺🇦
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Interested in brands and marketing. Love history, art deco, cricket, opera. Busy creating a garden. #deeds not words. Loved the old Twitter and stayed too long...mea culpa.
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"Never Copy & Paste text if a pop-up or browser window asks you to, no matter what website tells you to - it will give access to your account. Its never legitimate."

Now you don't need to read the story.
December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Look, at some point the universe is going to start smacking us over the head with the symbolism.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Now that's a story that should be told...
So, I get that the real-life USS Enterprise was a bigass warship who was great for morale and all but I wanna know why we aren’t naming everything in sight after the RMS Carpathia. And why isn’t there a gd movie??? (Thread about a heroic ship.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Car...
RMS Carpathia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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I just saw this on Insta posted by @readymeal5 I don’t follow them so I don’t know what they’re like but this made me simultaneously laugh & cry 🤣😭😭 #🏏 #TheAshes #Ashes
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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“The creatures outside looked from Tory to Reform, and from Reform to Tory, and from Tory to Reform again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
December 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A lovely review for my book #cricketchangedmylife published by @fairfieldbooks.bsky.social in the latest fantastic @thecricketsociety.bsky.social journal.
(Thank you to Guy Curry) - there’s lots more great articles & reviews to read.

To order my book - fairfieldbooks.co.uk/authors/anni...
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.

Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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11 Dec 1669: A woman openly plays on a #London stage #otd as Desdemona in #Othello - she was probably Peg Hughes (Folger)
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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This sounds quite difficult to administer.
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.

news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Wait, so you DON'T hold the Ark of the Covenant?
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"

Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Most households subject to the two-child limit already have at least one adult in work.

Of the minority of households that are not in work, more than nine-in-ten have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market challenging.
December 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over.
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Thinking of studying for a PhD? I'd be happy to hear from anyone considering research into British or Irish prehistory, monuments, radiocarbon dating, heritage. Part-time, distance options. There are funding schemes here at @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social - but be quick, deadlines are in Jan/Feb!
PhD funding | PhD and Research Degrees | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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For anyone interested in vikings: a symposium on the impact of the viking Great Army, to be held at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge on 24 April 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Just unwrapped the "free gift" (when you spend £10) from Lakeland. A battery operated storm candle. The design means the fake flame stands proud of the holder 😬 and there's enough non recyclable material to make you weep. 🤦🏻‍♀️
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Farage himself is currently in Abu Dhabi, representing his constituents at the Formula One...
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The Annals of Ulster records the onset of a three-month snowfall #OTD in 1047, leading to the deaths of many people and animals. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a winter ‘more severe than any living man could remember’. 📸Rosa-Maria Rinkl #medievalsky
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Fascinating stuff on Start the Week this morning: The Peasants War, the last known victims of the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the neurology of selfhood, all in the words of prize-winning authors. Join Lyndal Roper, Hannah Durkin @masudhusain.bsky.social and me just after 9:00 on Radio Four.
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Another very good reason to get your shingles vaccine
A new study out earlier this week in Cell suggests the shingles vaccine may slow the progression of dementia. That’s after large-scale studies have shown it may also reduce the risk of developing dementia. This is a very cool science story! Here’s more about how they conducted these studies. +
New research shows the shingles vaccine may prevent the progression of dementia!!
YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD
m.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Paging Chris Mason...
Here I am with Reform councillor Andrew Harrison, who was one of a group of people fined over £1m for employing illegal workers. Like all good patriots, he hates immigrants, apart from the ones he can exploit for profit.
December 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM