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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 11h

If you haven't performed it yet, we must be able to get enough of us together for a meet-up in a private room for you to trail it in front of a kink friendly audience.

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Left Of Center Orange Hater @henshinhal.bsky.social · 1d

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣😂😅😂

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 19h

Enjoy the ride.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

"‘I shall deal with the matter momentarily,’ he said. It was a good word. It always made people hesitate. They were never quite sure whether he meant he’d deal with it now, or just deal with it briefly. And no-one ever dared ask."

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

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'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 🔜 Can*Con 2025 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 1d

Remember your "first me!" moment? That time you bumped into a character who you connected with—who felt (even in part) like you? How awesome it was?

You might never know it, but you’ve probably written one of those for someone else.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 19h

Victoria Drummond 1st UK woman #MarineEngineer. Colleague wrote "Most courageous woman I ever saw...without fear or nerves, is very good at her job & has an uncanny power over engines for which I once thanked God" Early @wes1919.bsky.social member b. #OTD 14 Oct 1894 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori...

Victoria Drummond in apprenticeship uniform c. 1920

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 21h

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

C-GZPT Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

Flight status, tracking, and historical data for C-GZPT including scheduled, estimated, and actual departure and arrival times.

www.flightaware.com

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 21h

See also "refitting is the reverse of removal" at 5 past 4 on Sunday afternoon

Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 1d

No scarier thing to see in a recipe than “Working quickly,”

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23h

RIP Drew Struzan. His posters are a huge part of my childhood. Iconic images and what a range! From Black Sabbath to the Muppets. I really recommend the Art of Drew Struzan book. The anecdotes about the creation of each poster are fascinating.

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Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 23h

Cultural convergence: despite growing up on different sides of the Atlantic my wife and I both learned parodies of On Top Of Old Smokey on the playground.

Cultural diversity: the one my wife learned was about spaghetti. The one I learned was about an eagle masturbating.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 23h

Unironically this.

Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 1d

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 21h

If Vimes and Moist can find love, I can.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 3d

We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 1d

Lee Child has written one book 26 times. I'll still buy the 27th.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20d

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it’s damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell I'm hard coded British, I thought this was a protest about Blue Peter for a moment.

Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Oct 13

"12th of October, Nothing to Celebrate!”
Anti-Columbus Day stencil seen in Madrid, Spain

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 2d

Three different children simultaneously, from different rooms: “DAAAAD!” Only a nationwide Vodafone outage can get me such simultaneous attention from my kids.

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A Valiant Tart @janusxuk.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't Jeffery Archers place is it?

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 6d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

as always, Terry had an infinite supply of compassion for those on the bottom of any given hierarchy and an increasingly large amount of contempt as you go up the ladder, especially for folks who use words like “glory”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment

“Keep out of the way of officers, ‘cos they ain’t healthy. That’s what you learn in the army. The enemy dun’t really want to fight you, ‘cos the enemy is mostly blokes like you who want to go home with all their bits still on. But officers’ll get you killed.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather