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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · 22d

A monkey with absolutely no time for Dirty Three (from here apple.news/AaswATsN8Qce...)

Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Sep 9

Actually, Dermot O'Leary talking about his (beautiful!) cats is prob all you should bother reading today apple.news/A6sJfQ-56Q2m...

Dermot O’Leary: ‘Toto the cat is blind but has lightning-fast reactions’ — The Times and The Sunday Times

Dermot O’Leary met Toto, the inspiration for his Ninja Cat stories, when a stray gave birth to kittens in his pillowcase. Then Socksie came along, a tabby that he took in as “an eight-week-old psychop...

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 28

haha. I do like the concluding point that you can seek out little windows of nature in London too though – I've seen woodpeckers in SE London! – least we can take that.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is very good. England, by comparison, seems like it is probably not apple.news/AEN3caxdkTZ2...

It’s the Happiest Country in the World. I Spent a Week There. I Wish I Could Unlearn Its Secret. — Slate

The truth is both simpler and more complicated than it seems.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 27

Just don't understand why they didn't simply bury the really not very old Diana time capsule elsewhere

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 15

Perfect summary of everything that's besmirched Sex and the City's good name www.thecut.com/article/and-...

Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 7

Would you need a selfie stick in heaven? Fair to expect divine floating phone imo. Yet another AI fail.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 5

Really good new album alert. Sounds like if Patti Smith spent a summer on the 1970s British folk scene.

open.spotify.com/album/3Eg0fx...

The New Eve Is Rising

The New Eves · Album · 2025 · 9 songs

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 4

I've admittedly not been keeping up with zoo news, but are zoos... OK? Baboons being fed to lions in Germany?? www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
'Unwanted' pets on the menu in Denmark??? apple.news/AMsAIis73RDu...

‘Baboon massacre’: German zoo feeds culled primates to the lions

While other zoos defended the ‘unavoidable’ killings, protesters have rallied against the move in Nuremberg, which was intended to alleviate enclosure overcrowding

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yeah same with my cat. I had a terrible rat problem in old house, and she would just look at me like, 'don't you expect me to fucking deal with that' and saunter off.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 4

cat-sized rat

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 4

Who'd win in a fight, rat or cat?

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Aug 4

Rat the size of cat is a classic of the bollocks that won't wash in newsrooms genre, but that, well... really is a rat the size of a cat apple.news/APkr70gFXT7a...

‘Cat-sized’ rat found in Teesside town puts focus on pest control cuts — The Guardian

Rodent said to be 22in (56cm) long from nose to tail found in Normanby, where rat problem is said to be worsening

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 25

Distinctly remember being furious not to be at this (I was 11) www.thetimes.com/culture/phot...

Oasis at Knebworth during the Britpop summer of 1996 — in pictures

Noel and Liam Gallagher’s unwavering confidence and sense of mischief was on full display during their record-breaking concerts in Hertfordshire to 250,000 fans

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 22

Tell me this happened in the late 90s without mentioning the year.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 21

Think they're picking up on online chatter tbf, but yes, everyone is wrong.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 21

Deeply sorry to defend anything about AJLT but I think a load of shit beauty products is pitch-perfect Carrie: she of messy hair and chain smoking. High fashion people often cba with beauty and vice versa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The very worst thing about And Just Like That? The contents of Carrie Bradshaw’s bathroom cabinet| Emma Beddington

Cheap sunscreen, sponges, old soap … it’s laughably off-brand. And I’m not the only one who has noticed, writes Emma Beddington

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 17

Went off to make money in the US leading an international aid org.

Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 17

Burnham for PM discourse comes around earlier every year, it's getting so commercial. (really good piece though!) apple.news/AkfY3tvKsQhm...

'The only one who can save Labour': How King of the North Burnham could become PM — The i Paper

Mayor of Greater Manchester has been critical of his own party's government

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 11

One can always rely on @robfordmancs.bsky.social for a belter of a quote apple.news/AnBLwd3hQQ6S...

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 10

Honestly, anything to end the scourge of cargo shorts man apple.news/AXgqFbMd-Txq...

As M&S banks on short shorts, are you ready for a ‘thigh guy summer’? — The Telegraph

Men, channel your inner Paul Mescal with this season’s wardrobe essential that’s turning heads (and raising hems)

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 8

What a brilliant, forensic, unforgiving-yet-thoroughly-celebratory book this is! Highly recommend, for fans or otherwise www.waterstones.com/book/travell...

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jul 4

I reckon Cast No Shadow is the thinking person's Champagne Supernova (obv CS still bangs)

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jun 24

Is it too much to ask that we could stop saying 'bunker buster'? Sounds like an apocalyptic Hungry Horse special.

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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social · Jun 18

I really hope so, he was always my fav one.

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