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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 5d

Rats eat up to 11% of their poos... lovely.

Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 6d

Day 6: "Ratio". #rattober2025

Pencil sketch of a rat reclining on a chair next to a table with an umbrella, on his patio.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 10d

Day 2: "Accu-rat" #rattober2025

Cartoon sketch of a rat being the Olympic pistol shooter Yusuf Dikec

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 11d

#OnThisDay, 1989, Technotronic's hit single "Pump Up the Jam" reached No. 2 in the UK charts.

Luckily, the bilge pump on the Mary Rose had an inspection hatch, so you could see what was jamming it and clear it out.

No, hang on, that's "Jam up the pump"...

A long cylindrical wooden pole, with a hollow end, lying on the floor next to the Mary Rose

A section of the wooden cylinder, with a rectangular hole in it

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 11d

Day 1: "Friend-shaped" #rattober2025

Pencil sketch of two rats snuggling. One is using the other as a pillow.

Photo of two rats snuggling. One is using the other as a pillow.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 12d

Love learning about these female artists and scientists etc who have been largely ignored by history. :-)

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 12d

@artbyemilytull.bsky.social I saw this was on at the museum here (an exhibition about Mary Linwood) and I thought of you - I had never heard of thread painting until I saw your work! www.leicestermuseums.org/MaryLinwood

Event Details – Leicester Museums

Details for Leicester Museums & Galleries events and exhibitions programme.

www.leicestermuseums.org

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 17d

Since having pet rats, every time I see a post about rats taking over cities etc. I just think "oh look at the little cuties!". I never thought I'd fall for them this hard...

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 17d

Ah so that's what Pete Liddle wanted it for?! He's totally the man when it comes to getting people fieldwalking.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 19d

Made a map showing all the archaeological fieldwalking recorded on the Historic Environment Record, thought I might as well stick it on here. #Leicestershire #Rutland #Archaeology

Map of Leicestershire and Rutland with blue dots showing where archaeological fieldwalking has been carried out

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 20d

Haha

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 21d

1978 - Kate Bush Vaseline innuendo in "Wow".

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 24d

A pointless endeavour...

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 24d

@thebonuspoints.com science!!

Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 25d

Five years ago I wrote an article asking the question: why do some gamers invert their controls. The piece led to scientific research and now a paper has been published! I spoke to the researchers responsible…

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers

www.theguardian.com

Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 24d

As someone who always inverts I'd love to try a test to see how quickly I overcome the Simon Effect compared to other people. Do people who perceive objects in 3D space differently have other common characteristics? For instance I'm female and autistic (I have prosopagnosia).

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 25d

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 26d

Woo hoo!

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 26d

If #archaeology is not political and relevant to the politics of today, then why the need to destroy it?????

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs.

The frantic race to save historic treasures from Israeli bombs - BBC News

Palestinian archaeologists remain dedicated to saving what remains of Gaza's remarkable past as Israel widens its military offensive

www.bbc.co.uk

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 26d

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 27d

My favourite story about town twinning: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

European elections 2019: The village (sort of) twinned with Paris

Whitwell is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Terminally Online Leftist 🥂 @terminallyol.bsky.social · 28d

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · 27d

Aaaah I love that X-Files game!

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 28d

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · Nov 21

Here's an interview I did a while ago with Sam Lake and Marko Saaresto from Poets of the Fall, a.k.a. Old Gods of Asgard, about the origins of their partnership, which began with Max Payne 2's Late Goodbye.

The story behind Late Goodbye, the song that defined Max Payne 2

As told by Sam Lake and Poets of the Fall.

www.pcgamer.com

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Helen Wells 🌈♾️🖤🐘🤍💜 @fieryfredgater.bsky.social · Aug 26

Watched the first part - I knew nothing about this, horrifying, but really well put together documentary.