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Jenny Skene @jennyskene.bsky.social · Apr 6
I am very very convinced that the phrase “creative person” is completely tautologous. My evidence is only that I have met quite a lot of people.
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Ceefax Unwrapped telling me the five pages I’ve used most this year:
1) Top 40, numbers 40-31
2) Subtitles for Scooby Doo to see how they spell his dialogue
3) Pic of Len Murray made out of pound signs
4) Subtitles for New Shmoo (see 2)
5) Pic of Norman Willis made out of ampersands
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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something so surreal and popular culture about finding out that Gil Scott-Heron was the voice of “You know when you’ve been Tango’d”

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘People still blame me for their perforated eardrums’: how we made the Tango ads
‘Gil Scott-Heron did the closing voiceover. He was giggling away, saying, “You English guys are crazy!”’
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Language colonisation is sometimes very literal
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Absolutely cracking blog post from @simonxix.com calling for collective investment in staff and community-owned, open-source infrastructures in place of costly proprietary systems, based on the BL incident. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences
Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Steve Cropper, Booker T. And MG’s guitarist has passed away. Cropper co-wrote classics such as Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay, In the Midnight Hour and Knock on Wood.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQE...
(1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - Booker T. and MG's
YouTube video by LeeEstradaMusic
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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The crabs
They destroyed their packages
Yes
YES
The crabs are out
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Screenshot of tweet showing photo of large red-orange crabs escaped from polystyrene trays covered in plastic wrap in a supermarket counter, with the message, "The crabs break out of the plastic wrap. We'll sort it out if you let us know."
December 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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That time in 2014 when the BBC daytime soap 'Doctors' adapted M.R. James's short story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQO...
BBC Doctors: Whistle... (adapted from M.R. James' Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad)
YouTube video by JR Southall
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Is your opinion really yours, tho
December 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Frida in her imperial phase.

I will take no argument.

#totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Thankful ABBA sent a video in or we would have had Legs & Co given an interpretation of a Swedish dance #TOTP
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Come back Jamie and Kate, sorry we were mean #TOTP
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
jennyskene.bsky.social
Cher gives the impression she’s been dancing on that little stage continuously for a week #TOTP Give the woman her mandated breaks
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I always had the sense Another Level were old enough to know better #TOTP
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I realise now in the late 90s I still had no mature concept of Canadians #TOTP
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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#TOTP
a man in a green shirt is smiling with the words what 's the blandest thing on the menu behind him
ALT: a man in a green shirt is smiling with the words what 's the blandest thing on the menu behind him
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
jennyskene.bsky.social
It must have been 1998 that the Boy George Pictionary Granddad incident happened, neatly ending my childhood. That hat featured #TOTP
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Seriously, Apple, have you broken Spotlight search? Seriously
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social Word Family Friday @wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 8d
The world met Ferdinand de Saussure on a night like this (in 1857)

A presumed European substrate word *salik-/*selik-/*welik-: "willow" -> salicylic, Saussay/Saussure, sargasso, sallow, willow

#WorldLinguisticsDay
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November 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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We can neither confirm nor deny.
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I’m sparing the Leader of the Opposition the embarrassment of me having heard another of her GCSE performances. I‘m sure she’ll thank me one day
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Why didn’t they call the knitting programme The Great British Cast Off?
(I’m not watching it I don’t think time peril is a good addition to working with your hands)
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉

Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/02/01/p...

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...

#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay
"Dans la langue, il n'y a que des différences sans termes positifs [=In a language, there are only differences and no positive terms.]" (Ferdinand de Saussure: Cours de linnguistique générale, p. 166)
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM